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...]
Russia: Professional and Personal Threat against Lawyer Rustam Matsev
Mr. Vladimir Putin President of the Russian Federation, Llinka Str. 23, Moscow 103132, Moscow, Russian Federation Fax: + 7 495 606 5173/630 2408 Mr. Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Minister of the Interior, Ulitsa Zhitnaya 16 117049, Moscow, Russian Federation Telegram: Rossiia, 117049, … [Read more...]
The Right to Know Our Rights: International law obligations to ensure international human rights education and training
Order your hard copies ($20 each) by emailing info@lrwc.org. The Right to Know Our Rights outlines the international law obligations on States to ensure that everyone has access to education and training about their international human rights so that they develop sufficient facility to use … [Read more...]
Event: Cooperation or Conquest | 17 May 2012
Prior to contact with Europeans, the diverse practices of Indigenous peoples on British Columbia's west coast evolved into highly developed legal traditions regarding governance, the environment and relationships between people. Sarah Morales will explain Coast Salish legal traditions —snuw’uyulh— … [Read more...]