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Legal Centers Supporting Families Struggle to Keep Lawyers

Lawyers representing some of BC’s most vulnerable people say they’re chronically underpaid, leading to high turnover and positions they struggle to fill. Announcements, Events & more from Tyee and select partners Share The Tyee’s Newsletter, Get RewardedA new way to spread the word about good journalism. Legal Aid BC and a union representing 28 of its full-time staff wrote to the Ministry of Justice in January asking the government to increase pay for those lawyers, who mostly represent Indigenous parents whose children have been apprehended by the government. Jeremy Orrego, a Legal Aid BC lawyer, and Scott McCannell, the…Continue Reading

Harvard Law Review Elects Apsara Iyer as 137th President | News

Apsara A. Iyer, a second-year law student at Harvard Law School, was elected the 137th president of the Harvard Law Review, becoming the first Indian American woman to hold the position. The Law Review, founded in 1887, is among the oldest student-run legal scholarship publications. Previous editors of the organization include Supreme Court Justices Stephen Breyer, Ketanji Brown Jackson ’92, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, as well as former President Barack Obama, who served as the review’s 104th leader. In the Law School’s Jan. 30 press release, Priscila E. Coronado, Iyer’s predecessor, said the publication was “extremely lucky” to have Iyer…Continue Reading

Alberta law society votes to keep continuing education rule following petition against Indigenous culture course

The Law Society of Alberta rejected a motion to suspend the group’s ability to require members to undertake continuing education, multiple lawyers told Global News.The decision comes after the Law Society of Alberta held a special meeting on Monday to vote on the motion. Roughly 4,669 active Alberta lawyers registered to attend the special meeting, which was held via Zoom.There were 2,609 votes against the motion, compared to 864 votes in favour. The Law Society of Alberta said 3,473 votes were cast at Monday’s meeting.This means lawyers practicing in Alberta will still have to take mandated continuing education courses.…Continue Reading

Assistant Attorney General Discusses Antitrust Law Enforcement at Harvard Law School Event | News

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Assistant Attorney General Jonathan S. Kanter spoke about his work to modernize antitrust law at a Harvard Law School event on Monday. The discussion, titled “Changing Antitrust Strategy,” was hosted by the HLS Antitrust Association and moderated by HLS professor Einer R. Elhauge ’83. During the conversation, Kanter discussed his work at the Department of Justice to change the way the antitrust law was enforced, citing a system that was “out of touch” with current markets. Kanter, who was confirmed to the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division in 2021 after previously working at the Federal Trade Commission and in the private…Continue Reading

LGBTQ Ugandans live in fear as new law looms

KAMPALA (Reuters) – At a shelter for lesbian women in Uganda’s capital Kampala, gone are the days when the residents, having fled abuse and stigma at home, can breathe easy and be themselves. That came to an end a month ago when parliament passed some of the world’s strictest anti-LGBTQ legislation, which would criminalize the “promotion” of homosexuality and impose the death penalty for certain crimes involving gay sex. President Yoweri Museveni said on Thursday that he supports the legislation but has requested some modifications from parliament, including provisions to “rehabilitate” gay people, before he signs it. Staff at the…Continue Reading

The Senate gave final reading to new law protecting workers’ pensions

Breadcrumb Trail LinksNews Local NewsPublished April 24, 2023 • 3 minute readThe former General Chemical plant in Amherstburg on Wednesday, January 4, 2012. Windsor Star File photo Photo by Tyler Brownbridge /jpgArticle content After contributing 43 years to a company pension plan and setting himself up to retire at 62, the one thing Pete Reid hadn’t budgeted for was his main income stream being significantly slashed with General Chemical’s bankruptcy in 2005.Advertisements 2This advertisement has not been loaded yet, but your article continues below.THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to…Continue Reading

Liberals table legislation to overhaul passenger rights charter

MONTREAL – The Liberals have put forward legislation that aims to make good on their pledge to tighten passenger rights rules after a year marked by travel chaos and a backlog of ballooning complaints. Tabled in the House of Commons as part of a broader budget bill, the new provisions ratchet up penalties on airlines, shore up the complaint process and target luggage and flight disruption loopholes that have allowed airlines to avoid customer compensation. The proposed $250,000 maximum fine for airline violations — a tenfold increase from the existing regulations — encourages compliance, said Sylvie De Bellefeuille, a lawyer…Continue Reading

‘Keira’s Law’ set to educate judges on domestic violence, coercive control

Keira’s Law has officially been passed by the Senate.Bill C-233, more commonly known as ‘Keira’s Law,’ is meant to expand the training of judges to accept on cases surrounding domestic violence, coercive control and the ability to consider risk factors when issuing decisions.Read more: Canada’s Senate passes Keira’s Law aimed at educating decision-makers on domestic violenceThe bill was named after Keira Kagan, a four-year-old girl who was found dead with her father at the bottom of a cliff outside of Toronto in 2022, believed to be the case of a murder-suicide. Jennifer Kagan-Viater, Keira’s mother, describes her…Continue Reading