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August 17, 2015
Bencher Election 2015
By Tom Schonhoffer, Q.C. Executive Director, Law Society of Saskatchewan Another 3 years has passed and the next Bencher Election is scheduled for November 2015. This article has two purposes. The first is to encourage lawyers to consider running as Benchers in this election. The second is to reacquaint you with the process for online elections. Lawyers are privileged to...
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March 9, 2015
Chronology: Women and the Legal Profession in Saskatchewan
By Alan Kilpatrick In honour of International Women’s Day we have reproduced a chronology of women and the legal profession in Saskatchewan. This chronology was compiled for a 1988 survey of female graduates from the University of Saskatchewan’s College Of Law. [caption id="attachment_2512" align="alignleft" width="102"] Mary Cathcart[/caption] [caption id="attachment_2511" align="alignleft" width="95"] Elsie Hall[/caption] [caption id="attachment_2510" align="alignleft" width="100"] Dorothy Greensmith[/caption] [caption...
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March 5, 2015
One Woman Makes a Difference – Justice Bertha Wilson (Throwback Thursday)
The spring of 1982 was marked by two landmark events in Canadian legal history: Bertha Wilson was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada as the first female Justice of the Supreme Court on March 4, and The Charter of Rights and Freedoms was proclaimed into force on April 17. Born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, Bertha Wilson received a Master of...
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January 27, 2015
Incivility Paper
By Melanie Hodges Neufeld Slaw recently highlighted an interesting paper about lawyers’ incivility entitled “Judicial Sanction of Uncivil and Unprofessional Conduct”. As Slaw notes: This paper is a practical guide to lawyer behaviours that Canadian courts have deemed uncivil or unprofessional, and to the kinds of judicial sanction – of lawyers and their clients both – that those behaviours have...
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November 6, 2014
Remembrance (Throwback Thursday)
During the First World War, all Law Society members who enlisted for active service were deemed to have paid their annual fees and continued in good standing until they resumed practice. In 1918, 77 of 496 lawyers on the roll and 158 of 302 students-at-law were enlisted for active military service. A roll of honour was proposed for all Law...
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June 26, 2014
Amendments to The Legal Profession Act, 1990
By Barbra Bailey Amendments to The Legal Profession Act, 1990 will come into force on July 1, 2014. There are three primary categories of amendments: the hearing and investigation process; Bencher elections; and the mandate of the Law Society of Saskatchewan. Those concepts are discussed further in the summary paper previously posted on the Law Society website on August 29, 2013. The Legal Profession Amendment Act, 2014,...
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