Online Video of UBC Law Building Demolition

In case you missed the demolition of the old UBC Law Building on February 2nd, students at the UBCLaw1 video channel have posted the video online. Also embedded below:

Fellhauer New Bencher for Okanagan

Two new items from The LSBC What’s New page:

• Tom Fellhauer has been elected the new Bencher for Okanagan district for the remainder of the 2010-2011 term. The by-election was required to replace Meg Shaw, QC, who was appointed a Supreme Court Master in December.
• Anne Giardini, a member of the task force that prepared the 2009 report, Business Case for Retaining and Advancing Women Lawyers in Private Practice (PDF), will be speaking about the business case in her keynote presentation to the 2010 National Spring Conference of the Canadian Corporate Counsel Association.

New Chief Judge for BC Provincial Court

BC Information Bulletin from March 4th:  Attorney General Michael de Jong, QC, announced today that Judge Thomas James Crabtree has been appointed chief judge of the British Columbia Provincial Court.

One noteworthy item from Canadian Press: “For the first time ever, two members of the general public were part of the panel, and included a former city councillor and a criminology professor from the University of the Fraser Valley.”

Welcome to BC Law Watch Blog

Dye & Durham is pleased to announce the launch of the B.C. Law Watch Blog, your one-stop source for information, events and updates pertinent to the legal community in British Columbia.

In introducing the B.C. Law Watch Blog, we hope to offer a rich and comprehensive resource for events, news and online discussion within our province. With the ever expanding number of industry sources available (we’re monitoring more than fifty), keeping track of ‘What’s New’ in BC law has become an increasingly difficult task. We hope to simplify that process, and to highlight relevant local news as we find it.

In addition to the publicly available web log, we hope to offer a new members area featuring our BC industry events calendar and enhanced alerts directly to your inbox (currently our “FYI”), contests and special offers