Clive Ansley has been actively involved with China and Sino-Canadian relations for almost 55 years. He speaks and reads Chinese and holds both undergraduate and graduate degrees in Chinese Studies and Law from Canadian universities, as well as a graduate degree in Chinese Law from the School of … [Read more...]
David F. Sutherland Q.C. | Board of Directors
David F. Sutherland Q.C. has practiced civil litigation with a special interest in freedom of speech since 1980. He has represented media at all levels of court and has provided a full range of media law advice to journalists, editors, publishers, broadcasters, web hosts, and other lawyers including … [Read more...]
Margaret (Peggy) Stanier | Board of Directors
Peggy Stanier retired in July 2020, after 38 years of practice as a civil litigator, litigation solicitor and research lawyer in the areas of motor vehicle accident, personal injury, insurance, corporate/commercial, estates and administrative law. She focused on the research and analysis of complex … [Read more...]
Paul Schabas | Board of Directors
Paul Schabas is a litigation partner at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP in Toronto. He has a wide-ranging trial and appeal practice, with extensive experience in commercial litigation, arbitrations, white collar criminal and regulatory matters, constitutional, media and public law. He frequently … [Read more...]
Renee Racette | Board of Directors
Renee Racette is a Cree First Nation and Métis individual from Cowessess First Nation and the Lebret Métis of Qu’Appelle Valley located in south-eastern Saskatchewan. Renee is a former school teacher having taught in Saskatchewan’s north. This life changing experience led Renee to law school. … [Read more...]
Jane Henderson | Board of Directors
Jane Henderson, Q.C., was born and raised in Vancouver, moving to Victoria in 1975 to attend the University of Victoria Law School. Her law practice has been primarily in the area of Family Law and is now restricted to Mediation, Arbitration, and Parent Coordination. Throughout her career, Jane … [Read more...]
3rd International Caravana of Lawyers 2012 – Lawyers in Colombia need your help
See the report of the visit See the donors who helped make the LRWC delegation possible Sin Abogados, No Hay Justicia! Without Lawyers, there is no Justice! In Colombia, being a lawyer can be a matter of life and death. This is a country where lawyers are the victims - where 334 lawyers … [Read more...]
Turkey: 18 rights and lawyers’ groups express concern to the UN as a trial against 46 lawyers under terrorism charges is due to open on July 16 | Joint press release
Amsterdam-Ankara-Brussels-Geneva-Grenoble-Montpellier-Ottawa-Paris-Rennes, July 13, 2012. 18 rights and lawyers' groups express concern to the UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers and to the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders as a trial under … [Read more...]
Turkey: Ongoing judicial harassment against lawyers, jeopardizing their independence | Joint letter
Joint letter from LRWC and 15 other organisations regarding the "Lawyers' trial" in Turkey, scheduled to take place 16-18 July 2012. "We fear that justice is misused as a weapon to repress, intimidate and punish lawyers, through criminal proceedings that blatantly violate the right to a fair … [Read more...]
Sudan: Detention of Rashida Shams al-Din
HE Omar Hassan Ahmad al-BashirOffice of the PresidentPeople’s PalacePO Box281 Khartoum,Sudan Mohammed Bushara DousaMinistry of JusticePO Box302Al Nil Avenue Khartoum,Sudan Your Excellencies: Re: Detention of Rashida Shams al-Din Lawyers Rights Watch … [Read more...]