Integrative Law: A day with Pauline Tesler

The BC Collaborative Roster Society has announced a day-long seminar presented by Pauline Tesler with the lofty title The Next Step: How Integrative Law is Reclaiming the Healing Heart of Legal Practice at the Wosk Centre for Dialogue in Vancouver. The Roster Society's announcement says this:"A flood of neuroscience and cognitive/behavioral psychology research studies is yielding discoveries daily that challenge core beliefs about human consciousness and rationality imbedded in our legal institutions. This growing body of evidence...

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Supreme Court Announces Assize Project in Vancouver

Chief Justice Bauman has announced (PDF) the implementation of a pilot project to test an assize scheduling system for long civil chambers applications in the Supreme Court's Vancouver registry. The pilot project began on 7 January 2013. The pilot project is only available for cases that do not involve criminal law, family law or judicial reviews.Chambers ApplicationsEvery court day, masters and justices hear applications in chambers. Applications are requests for orders, usually temporary or short-term orders, that are made using...

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CLE Unleashes Family Law Act Training

The training opportunities for the coming into force of the new Family Law Act are about to get rolling. The Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia has taken an outstanding leadership role in packaging courses on the new legislation for lawyers, mediators, arbitrators and support staff. Here's some of what's going on over the next few months...The Family Law Act: Everything You Always Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to AskThis is a two-day practice-oriented course that will sink its teeth into the major areas of change under the...

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Families Change: A day with Professor Patrick Parkinson

The BC Parenting Coordinators Roster Society, in conjunction, I understand, with Collaborative Divorce Vancouver and Mediate BC, are hosting a seminar with the renowned family law expert Patrick Parkinson of the Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney. The talk is billed as:"A full day educational opportunity for mental health professionals and lawyers to hear an internationally recognized expert on children and divorce, and to dialogue with a family law professional who brings a perspective of many years as a legal scholar, researcher, and...

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Out With the Old, In With the New: Changes to plan for in 2013

The last few years have welcomed a range of important reforms affecting the practice of family law in British Columbia, including the new Supreme Court Family Rules, recalculated child support tables, the extension of the Notice to Mediate Regulation to family law matters and the expansion of the family law justice centre court model beyond Nanaimo. 2013 is going to be no different. In fact, in 2013 we are going to undergo reforms of a scope and magnitude not seen in the last thirty years. If the changes implemented in 2010, 2011 and...

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