Monday, 22 October 2012

Justice reform: imagining a world without nails

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Most justice reform is incremental.  Take even a report as thoughtful and ambitious as Geoff Cowper’s recent BC Justice Reform Initiative r...
Thursday, 18 October 2012

There's a lot of hurt caused in the name of free speech

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I Our reputations are both incalculably precious and yet exquisitely fragile.  A lifetime’s reputation for integrity, h...
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Friday, 27 July 2012

For Ismailis, legal justice is non-adversarial

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In a recent blog posting (July 16) I argued that there are many kinds of legal disputes where courts ought to be seen as a “valued, but la...
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Justice for sale? Market values and the law

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In the concluding passages of his reasons for judgment in Vilardell v.Dunham , the court hearing fees case, BC Supreme Court Justice McEwa...
Thursday, 7 June 2012

A heritage conservation facade

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Oxford Properties, my law firm’s landlord, is building a shiny new 35-story office tower on Hastings Street in a narrow slice of property ...
Tuesday, 29 May 2012

That was not me in the funny hat at the Chelsea Flower Show last week

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It is difficult to know where to start.  The wall of daffodils braving the 27 degree late May heat surprise?  The pitchers full of u...
Friday, 13 April 2012

Housing the homeless, and a word about compassion

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1.  Earlier this week I attended a groundbreaking for a new supportive housing development in downtown Vancouver.  The new project, ...
Wednesday, 11 April 2012

Let's vary the Wills Variation Act

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Awhile ago I posted several pieces on options and approaches to justice system reform that focus on process and structural changes.  Anoth...