Fred Fountain appointed Dalhousie University Chancellor

John Baigent: helping Ethiopians to help themselves Hearsay The Dalhousie Law School Alumni Magazine

Volume 31 / Summer 2008

Dean Phillip Saunders, LL.B.‘84

Editors Professor John Yogis, LL.B. ‘64 Karen Kavanaugh

Grapevine Editor Tammi Hayne

Design and Production Karen Kavanaugh

The editors welcome contributions, information, and ideas from alumni. Please direct your submissions to:

Editor Hearsay Dalhousie Law School 6061 University Avenue Halifax, NS Canada B3H 4H9 tel: 902-494-3744 fax: 902-494-1316 E-mail: [email protected] Photo: Dalhousie Law hockey team celebrates a victory over archrival Harvard Law with Dean Mailed under Canada Post publications agreement 40065040 Ronald St. John Macdonald (circa 1977).

On the Cover: John Baigent (LL.B.’69) meets with townspeople of Agarfa, Ethiopia. In the background pictured from left to right are Spring Stevenson, John Baigent’s daughter; Mohammed Amin, Mayor of Agarfa; and John Baigent. In the foreground is a woman who participated in the Partners in the Horn of Africa’s micro finance program. She is seen here with her grandchildren, many of whom lost their parents to AIDS. There are 1.5 million orphans in Ethiopia. Volume 31, Summer 2008 conContentstents

Alumni Affairs...... 8

School News...... 37

Student Notes ...... 42

Faculty News...... 48

Weldon Award for Unselfish Public Service...... 24

2007 Alumni Reunion...... 28

Report on Giving...... 66

Grapevine...... 71

Obituaries...... 79  FROM THE EDITOR

discover the story of retired provincial events in our history is represented by court judge, Elmer MacKay (LL.B.’55), who Dianne Marshall’s account of the career played piano for several prominent of John T. Bulmer, the Law School’s first dance orchestras during the height of librarian. what became known as the “Big Band Within the School we note the Era.” Elmer’s story should bring back appearance of Dal Legal Aid before memories for many members of the the Supreme Court of Canada, the alumni and entertain those who were too establishment of a Chair in Human late to actually be part of this period of Rights Law, the creation of East Coast musical history. Environmental Law, and the generous Alumni who are taking a “road less contributions of class reunion members, travelled” are represented by John law firms, and others to provide funding Professor John Yogis and “Maggie” Baigent (LL.B.’69) and Daniel Laprés for refurbished classrooms, scholarships On October 30, 1883 Dalhousie Law (LL.B.’72). John has been instrumental and bursaries and other special needs. School opened its doors at the corner of in organizing a Canadian charity to Our students and recent graduates Brunswick and Sackville Streets in what assist citizens in Ethiopia to bring about through voluntary service in several was then a notoriously disreputable positive changes in their own futures. law school organizations, participation neighborhood of Halifax. One hundred Daniel (one of the founders of the and success in many moot court and twenty-five years and four locations Dalhousie Legal Aid Service) tells us competitions, and the receipt of later what was an experiment in about his professional life and activities prestigious fellowships, scholarships training students for the practice of law in France, China and beyond. and post-graduate appointments are in Canada has produced a national Many alumni and faculty have further examples of the things in which law school renowned as both a great received special honours and we take pride and celebrate as we go “on teaching institution and a great centre appointments during the past year. parade.” of legal research. Like most families John Crosbie (LL.B.’56) was appointed We also celebrate the many years significant birthdays should be marked Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland of dedicated service from our retiring by celebrations, reminiscences and and Labrador. Innis Christie (LL.B.’62) faculty members, Professors Hugh Kindred thoughts as to what the future might received two major awards for his and Richard Evans, and Heather MacLeod, hold. In A History of Dalhousie Law School outstanding contributions to the executive secretary to four deans and John Willis stated that on the special profession. David Newman (LL.B.’68), a three acting deans. Also, Catherine occasions when the Law School is “on longtime advocate for First Nations and Currell who has given 19 years of parade” three themes can be found in Metis peoples is the recipient of the 2008 dedicated service to DLAS is taking up a which the School can take great pride: Weldon Award. Fred Fountain (LL.B.’74) new post with the Faculty of Medicine. its contributions to the national life of a dedicated community volunteer, We wish them well in all their future Canada; its special place in Canadian philanthropist and longtime University endeavours. legal education; and the clearly defined supporter, became Dalhousie’s sixth My Co-editor, Karen Kavanaugh, goals of the Weldon Tradition that it Chancellor. Sean Foreman (LL.B.’98) was and I hope you enjoy this issue and tries to set for its students and faculty. named “Outstanding Young Alumnus encourage you to join the Law School We believe that a perusal of this issue of the Year”. Megan Leslie (LL.B.’04), an in events across the country marking will amply demonstrate the themes advocate for the rights of women and our 125th. mentioned by Professor Willis, and give persons in poverty was named “Holly us just cause to celebrate as we approach House Heroine”, an initiative of the this significant anniversary. Elizabeth Fry Society. These are but Hearsay thought it could make an a few of the many individuals whose early start to the 125th celebrations with achievements Hearsay acknowledges and John Yogis a “Big Band” — well, at least, a “Big congratulates throughout this issue. Band Story.” We were delighted to Our goal to celebrate memorable

4 Hearsay 2008 Dalhousie Law School This year marks the 125th anniversary of the opening of Dalhousie Law School, and over the course of the coming months we will be contacting you about events to mark that occasion across Canada. It is, I think, appropriate that this issue of Hearsay highlights the remarkable accomplishments of many of the Dal Law family – students, alumni and faculty – demonstrating that they continue in the tradition of those who came before them over the past 125 years, and who made Weldon the unique institution that it is . It is clear that this has been an extraordinarily successful year for our students. Our competitive moot programme brought home a first (Labour Arbitration) a second (Jessup) and a third place finish (Laskin), out Message from the Dean

of the five national moots in which we participated. In addition, the Jessup team went on to earn a fourth place prize for written arguments at the international round, out of approximately 200 competing schools. Three Dalhousie students were selected for clerkships at the Supreme Court of Canada, a remarkable record given the proportion of available clerkships that this represents. Our students also continue to win the most prestigious graduate fellowships, including a Viscount Bennett Christie, who only recently ended his post “retirement” Scholarship and a MacKenzie King travelling fellowship teaching career, was recognized with both the Nova Scotia (Joseph Chedrawe), a Frank Knox Scholarship to Harvard Barristers’ Society Award for Distinguished Service and the (Lee Seshagiri) and a Fulbright and an SSHRC (Jon Penney). national Laskin Prize for contributions to Labour Law. The stories included here also remind us of the many and This has also been a year that saw some changes in our varied successes of our alumni, including the remarkable ranks. Hugh Kindred and Dick Evans both retired after contributions of John Baigent and Dan Lapres. I note that many years of outstanding service to Dal, and to the broader both of them came to Dalhousie as Dunn Scholars, and community. Heather MacLeod, assistant to several Deans while we no longer have scholarships in that name, the and a valued colleague to all in the School, also retired Law Foundation Scholarships, the McBain Scholarship and this year. We welcomed two new faculty members – Sarah the Godsoe Scholarship all make it possible to continue Bradley in the business law area, and Graham Reynolds, the tradition of attracting the very best from across the who will be working in intellectual property law, as well as country to come to Dal. I would also like to make special teaching property. note of the wonderful contribution of another alumnus, All in all, I believe that our students, faculty and alumni Judge Sandra Oxner, who has donated $1 million towards can once again take pride in the record of achievement and the establishment of the Yogis and Keddy Chair in Human service set out in the stories in Hearsay, and be secure that Rights Law. Sandra’s own career in this field and in judicial the tradition of excellence established since 1883 continues education has been extraordinary, and has been recognized today. with a Weldon Award for Unselfish Public Service. Our faculty also had a productive and successful year, with continued growth in our research programme and much-deserved external recognition. Professors Devlin and Downie were awarded the Canadian Law Teachers’ Association for Academic Excellence award – making them the third and fourth Dal faculty members to win this award out of the 16 times it has been presented (the others Phillip Saunders being Hugh Kindred and Wayne MacKay). Professor Innis Dean & Weldon Professor of Law

Dalhousie Law School Hearsay 2008 5 Letters to the Law School

A Street Lawyer’s Prayer RESPONSE TO Mr. Matheson at the Royal Ottawa Golf Club). But I was pleasantly surprised to receive I was interested to read about you in I never knew them at that age, except your letter about The Ansul. I am 72 years the Winter 2007-08 edition of The Ansul anecdotally, so now I must derive my of age and have been a sole practitioner (Dalhousie Law School). I too am an spirit from the likes of you. Of course, for 38 years. I refer to myself as a “street aging sole practitioner, though you have the sad truth is that I never thought lawyer”. me beat by a few years (I was born in the day would come when my lack I am happily semi-retired to my own 1948, so I’m 59 years of age at present). of financial planning would become practice. Most of my current clients are I graduated from Dal in 1973 and was so painfully obvious. Yet I attempt to now old friends, as well as their children called to the Ontario bar in 1975. Since assuage my guilt by reminding myself and grandchildren. This practice beats 1976 I have been practising in Almonte, how much I have enjoyed good whiskey hanging out at Tim Horton’s and I still a small town about 30 miles west of and luxury sedans. Small comfort, make a little money. Besides, I don’t play Ottawa in the Ottawa Valley, first with perhaps, but it helps. golf and I don’t carve ducks and I am too Michael J. Galligan, Q.C. (ret’d) & (now) In any event, all this is to say that old to indulge in squash which I played His Honour Alan D. Sheffield, and since I am delighted to see that the practice for about 40 years. 1978 on my own. Currently I am the old of law has kept a smile on your face I have written a “street lawyer’s guy in Almonte (there are about five or (that inner sunshine beams in both your psalm” which reflects my advancing six lawyers associated proximately with “before” and “after” pictures). I had years and is intended to replace the this little town of about 4,000 people). open-heart surgery last July, and I made one I wrote as a young lawyer. It goes What captured my interest about you up my mind then that I’m only good for as follows: were the following details: another ten years max. That’ll put me You obviously have a sense of nicely at 70 years of age, and even then The law is my shepherd. humour, in that you refer to yourself as I’ll still have your good example a “street lawyer”. I could be wrong, but to follow! I shall not want because I will never give up I’m guessing that you either harbour a the practice of law. bit of disdain (or reserved suspicion) L. G. William Chapman, LL.B.‘73 for the Bay Street types and their Almonte, Ontario Blessed are the street lawyers for they are sophisticated colleagues, or you are just familiar with every vice and dumb behaviour very proud to do what you’re doing congratulations that humans are subject to. and what you have done. Alternatively, I have just received the summer edition perhaps you’re just a modern Rumpole! of Hearsay and I hasten to send you my Maclean’s notwithstanding, our public loves Your 1972 Letter to the Editor was heartiest congratulations. the street lawyer, because the street lawyer a refreshing bit of commentary, and far Two things strike me most about understands the client’s good intentions even more pungent in its original form than this number. First, the front cover: when the client has none. when politely diluted by John Yogis in what a clever idea to honour our most his introductory Editor’s Note. distinguished alumna Bertha Wilson Have mercy on the aging street lawyers, But the real kicker was that you’re by so placing her picture. Second, Lord, because they have kept their heads 72 years of age, a sole practitioner the presentation of the contents: the down while those who think superior for 38 years, and still going to work. numerous pictures, most of them in thoughts fire artillery shells over their heads. What an encouragement that was for colour, help to attract attention and lead me! I am surrounded by people who to the related stories. And surely such lawyers shall inherit the actually know what Freedom 55 means! I am please to add a special word Kingdom of God because they have proven Most of them are retired teachers and of congratulations to you, John, on themselves to be the toughest bastards in government employees, all sucking on your well-earned retirement after over the valley. the Big Teat, as I like to say! My only 40 years of teaching. A replacement of consolation is that I have never enjoyed similar caliber will be very difficult to Amen television (or Tim Horton’s, as you find, but with Karen’s ability, I hope the have said), and so I persist. Granted, quality of Hearsay will be maintained at Holmes A. Matheson, LL.B.’61 my former Principals of 30 years ago the high level you have set. Brampton, Ontario at Macdonald, Affleck on Sparks Street where I articled, all worked well into Donat Pharand, LL.B.’52, LL.M.’53 their upper 80s (I suspect they all died Professor Emeritus International Law University of Ottawa, Ontario

6 Hearsay 2008 Dalhousie Law School Dalhousie Law Alumni Association Board of Directors National President Ronald A. Meagher, LL.B.‘83 Vice President Jeanne Desveaux, LL.B.‘01 Past President Julia Cornish, QC, LL.B.‘83 Secretary-Treasurer Associate Dean Michael Deturbide Honorary President Brian Flemming, OC, QC, LL.B.‘62 Ex-Officio Dean Phillip Saunders, LL.B.‘84 Director of Alumni & Development Karen Kavanaugh

Members at Large Tricia Barry, LL.B.’05 The Hon. Justice C. Richard Coughlan, QC, LL.B.‘75 Brian Curry, LL.B.‘99 J Michael Donovan, LL.B.‘78 remembering Moffat Hancock MESSAGE FROM MOSCOW Anne Emery, LL.B.’78 Now that’s an alumni magazine! Just a note to congratulate you and John Donna Franey, LL.B.’86 Handsomely packaged, teaming with Yogis (who taught me Legal Research in Anna Fried, LL.B.‘80 photos, news, and interesting articles. 1975-76) on the Winter ‘07 version of The Myrna Gillis, LL.B.‘91 Jodi MacDonald, LL.B.’06 Congratulations. Ansul, which landed on my desk here in Michael Power LL.B.‘75 I was particularly delighted to come Moscow. Robert M. Purdy, QC, LL.B.‘76 across a photograph of Moffat Hancock. I was keenly interested in all the The Hon. Judge Michael B. Sherar, LL.B.‘77 He was indeed a star teacher. At the stories and our far-flung community Clifford Soward, LL.B.‘79 Monroe Day Dance, I introduced Mo to of interesting people who have gone Samira Zayid, LL.B.‘92 the lovely lady who would become through Dal Law School. I thought his wife. Ansul had long since ceased publishing, Branch Presidents as I do get Hearsay, but hadn’t seen Alberta John Ballem, LL.B. ‘49 the Ansul logo except for the fading Brian Beck. LL.B.‘93 Calgary, Alberta copies of Ansul from 1978 (the year I [email protected] was editor) which are still sitting in my British Columbia Patricia Thiel, LL.B.‘95 stacks of books at my parents’ house in [email protected] Bedford. Cape Breton DAL APPRECIATION I will be showing the copy to my Robert Sampson, LL.B.‘81 [email protected] Thank you for the wonderful Summer son, in hopes of convincing him that Manitoba 2007 edition of Hearsay. What memories a Dal Law degree can be put to many Elissa Neville, LL.B.‘98 you evoked! It made me realize what a good uses which range beyond the [email protected] debt I owe to the Law School. I have had practice of law, as your articles on our New Brunswick Barrie H. Black, LL.B.‘71 such an interesting life — I thank Dal for alum illustrate. Keep up the good work. [email protected] the great training I received when I was Newfoundland young. Carol Patterson, LL.B.‘78 Robert J. Hickey, LL.B.‘91 [email protected] Moscow, Russia Quebec Judge Tim White, LL.B.’77 Edward B. Claxton, LL.B.‘83 Saskatchewan Provincial Court We welcome your letters. Write to: [email protected] Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Hearsay Magazine Southern Ontario Chris Hale, LL.B.‘87 Dalhousie Law School [email protected] 6061 University Avenue Southeastern Ontario Halifax, Nova Scotia Thom Kelley, LL.B.‘96 B3H 4H9

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Partnersby John Baigent, LL.B.’69 Canadian aid organization. Our trip to income to inaugurate the — a large outhouse. Horn of Africa Merawi that day was to inaugurate a Or, as they are referred to in Africa, a The drive to Merawi, a small project which Partners and AMA had pit latrine. town in rural Ethiopia, had been long sponsored. One might wonder why the top civil and dusty and we were four hours late When we arrived at the school servant in the region and the head of for the ceremony. That’s a long time students, teachers and civic officials were an Ethiopian aid organization would for kids to wait on a warm Saturday milling around the entrance. Several travel across the country to inaugurate in Africa and we were not sure what hundred students, standing four or an outhouse. The answer requires a we would find when we reached the five deep, formed a corridor extending bit of background. Rural schools in elementary school. My two companions several hundred yards into the school Ethiopia almost defy understanding were Abere Mihretrie and Alebel grounds. Two young Ethiopian girls in by Canadians. Ethiopia, a country the Dessie. Abere was the head of AMA, an long white dresses presented us with size of British Columbia, has more than Ethiopian aid organization. Alebel was flowers and then the three of us were 80 million inhabitants and a per capita the government’s Chief Administrator in escorted, with much fanfare, down the income of less than $150 per year. The the region and I was there representing corridor. At the end of the corridor a poverty is crushing and the resources Partners in the Horn of Africa, a large ceremonial ribbon strung between available for education are scant. an Ethiopian and a Canadian flag was Classrooms are typically built from mud waiting to be cut by the dignitaries. On over a eucalyptus frame and have neither the other side was the project we had electricity nor desks. Inside, between 60 and 100 kids sit on rough benches balancing notebooks on their knees. But

8 Hearsay 2008 Dalhousie Law School Partners in the Hornit is the absence of water which is most of Africa problematic. Kids walk great distances to school and then pass the day without water in the African heat. The lack of water also affects toilet facilities. Schools in the urban areas usually have pit latrines, but in the rural areas latrines are rare and kids relieve themselves around the perimeter of the school grounds. It doesn’t take much imagination to realize how unsanitary and uninviting the average school yard can become. The first step in improving educational facilities is to make schools fit places. My companions and I were excited about the solution we were going to inaugurate that afternoon. This was no ordinary outhouse. Two cement block structures had been built on the school grounds. The first building consisted of four latrines on each side of a central wall — one set for girls, the other for turned our attention to the Horn of aid program out of Ottawa for another boys. Waste from each latrine drained Africa (Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia and year before heading off to Dal to study into an underground concrete tank. Djibouti) and the seemingly intractable law. But Africa is hard to get out of your The tank was a bio-gas system creating problems of that region. Ethiopia in blood and several years later I found methane which was transmitted through particular fascinated us. Here was a myself persuading my law partners to a copper line to the second cement block country of incredible beauty with a rich inaugurate a sabbatical program — so structure about 100 feet away — a lunch and fascinating culture: alone among I could get back to Africa. Then during room where the methane fired burners African nations in never having been a working sabbatical in Ethiopia in were located so meals and tea could colonized but Christianized centuries the late ‘80s the ideas behind Partners be heated. An outflow trough from the before Western Europe. But above all, began to emerge. I had met a young concrete tank allowed neutralized waste it was a country of desperate poverty Ethiopian refugee who was on his way to be extracted and applied to vegetable and recurring famine struggling with to Canada to study. Mekonen and I gardens. New water lines from the town an AIDS pandemic. We wondered became fast friends and our discussions brought clean water to the latrines and how our training and background regularly turned to the question of to the cookhouse. Water would no longer might be applied to the problems in the international assistance and how it could soil the ground and threaten the health of region. After all, we were by training be more effective. We knew that many students and in the process methane gas “advocates”. We had one strong talented African university graduates would be created in a living educational conviction: we believed that international end up working for international non- experiment. aid could be more successful if it was governmental organizations (NGOs) based on “partnership” principles rather like UNICEF or OXFAM and that, ow I came to be in Merawi than simple benevolence. But I am increasingly, Africans were starting up last February requires some getting ahead of myself. their own self-help organizations. These explanation.H After graduation from My trip to Merawi had actually started organizations were of particular interest Dalhousie Law School I moved west and in Ghana, West Africa where I had been a because we knew that real and lasting practised labour law in British Columbia. CUSO volunteer in the early ‘60s. After a changes in the third world had to involve In 2001 a few lawyer friends and I had two year stint I administered an African local residents, empowering them to take

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be abandoned if you live on the wrong friends and clients took an interest in side of the river. Children who try to the Agarfa story and indicated they cross risk drowning. Mekonen told me were prepared to be involved in future of his own experiences with just such a projects. We decided to organize and river near the town of Agarfa, 11,000 feet register a Canadian charity which would above sea level in the Bale mountains. Up build on the ideas that had worked so to 5000 people were cut off from essential well in Agarfa. services every rainy season. Fifteen years Partners was incorporated in March later Mekonen’s classmates had taken 2002 and follows two simple principles. on responsible positions in the town. Partners only undertakes projects One had become the mayor, another a with local volunteer groups who are school principal and the two of them prepared to contribute 15-20 per cent of had formed a self-help organization the cost. If funds are not available, the (Agarfa Self-Help Organization or contribution can be in labour or material. “ASHO”) which was attempting to Whether they contribute cash or labour, address the needs of their community. the ‘partner’ shares in the selection, The combination of an impassable implementation and supervision of river crying out for a simple footbridge each project. We avoid any suggestion and the emergence of an indigenous of “donor” and “recipient”; we see our volunteer group presented too great a relationship with our African “partners” temptation to resist. I decided to visit as one of shared responsibilities. Agarfa the following year. The second principle relates to Two memories stand out from my administrative costs. Partners does not first visit. I had walked a couple of use donations for its administrative charge of their own future. The new kilometres from Agarfa to the place costs…period. Partners’ directors indigenous organizations were a hopeful where villagers crossed the river and cover all administrative costs and work sign that the reins of power were starting when I arrived a number of elders were voluntarily, fundraising, planning, to change hands. How Partners emerged waiting for me. One after another they running the day-to-day operations in from those early discussions involves told me of the difficulties and lost lives Canada and visiting Ethiopia each year another story — one which took place in caused by the absence of a bridge. The at their own expense. the Bale Mountains of Ethiopia. other thing I remember occurred while Few would quarrel with the efficiency The story involves a footbridge. the elders were addressing me. A group of an aid model that focuses on Footbridges in Ethiopia are a bit like pit of villagers came to the river carrying empowering third world citizens. That latrines — their importance does not leap a very sick person on a stretcher to the is just common sense. Our concern was out at you. Most Ethiopians live in small hospital in Agarfa. A few months later, whether our policy of using 100per cent villages and travel to the towns by foot. after the rains had started, a journey like of our donations for Since all essential services are located that would not be possible. projects could be in towns, access to them is crucial for The next day I met with the leaders sustained as we medical care, schooling, shopping, and of ASHO. The community had no cash grew into a major other necessities. For most of the year to speak of but agreed to provide the Canadian charity. access is not a big issue. It expends a lot labour and local materials required to Would the of energy and time but that is all. During build a footbridge. A few days later model only the rainy season the runoff in the steep with the assistance of Ethiopian friends work on a mountains — and most of Ethiopia is in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, small mountainous — changes small streams we concluded a contract with a local into impassable rivers. In a society where (read, Ethiopian) construction company all essential services are centralized the who agreed to design and fabricate the impact can be staggering. If you are bridge in sections and then transport it to seriously ill during the rainy season — Agarfa. A term of the contract provided and with the rains come mosquitoes and that the Agarfa community would malaria — you cannot get treatment. supply labour and materials And with no access to local markets The bridge was completed on time there is no way of generating income and on budget. The matter might have or buying necessities. Schooling has to ended there but it didn’t. Back in Canada

10 Hearsay 2008 Dalhousie Law School “…real and lasting, changes in the third world had to involve local residents, empowering them to take charge of their own future”

scale or could we actually develop a new model of assistance to the third world? Six years later we have the answer. Today Partners has a staff of seven and has completed more than 50 projects in Ethiopia. This year we will spend $1.2 million in Ethiopia. As it turned out, a lot of people liked our model. Our directors continue to finance our administration but they have been joined by a couple of foundations and a host of in-kind contributors who provide accounting, IT services, publishing, computers, office supplies and phone services. The implementation of projects through Ethiopian ‘partners’ effectively transfers much of the administrative overburden to the third world who are enriched and empowered in the process. The advantage of Partners’ approach was evident the year after building the first bridge when we returned to Agarfa. No kids had drowned the previous year trying to cross the swollen river and the people had had 12-months access to hospitals, schools and markets. But the real benefit became apparent when we met with ASHO, our “partner” in the project. They had two more projects they wanted to proceed with. One involved a high school library where the community had already raised 50 per cent of the hard costs. The other was another footbridge about 10 miles from the first. Already local materials had been assembled at the sites and bids solicited from two construction companies. ASHO had proceeded with these projects in the hope that another agreement could be reached with Partners but also in the knowledge that they could make other arrangements if necessary. This is exactly what international aid should strive to achieve ­— empowering people to bring about changes themselves.

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“The advantage of Partners’ approach was evident the year after building the first bridge…no kids had drowned…trying to cross the swollen river and the people had 12 months access to hospitals, schools and markets”

Partners did, of course, agree to the two new projects at Agarfa and they have long since been completed. Since then we have built another eight bridges, extended micro finance loans to several hundred women, built classrooms and libraries, placed several hundred HIV orphans (kids who have lost both parents to the pandemic….and there are 1.5 million such children in Ethiopia) in extended families, dug dozens of shallow wells (only 22 per cent of Ethiopians have access to clean water). There is now a bio gas system built by Partners in Ethiopia’s central prison (a bit of a nod to our less successful sorties into the criminal courts). We are in the manufacturing business —manufacturing and distributing fuel efficient ovens which reduce the need for firewood in a country with huge erosion issues. And this year, washable/reusable sanitary pads are being fabricated for rural school girls who would otherwise miss two to three days of school each month. It is hard to predict where all these projects will go. Some will undoubtedly be more successful than others. But all will have one thing in common. They will be ventures in which Canadians are empowering Africans to take charge of their future. •

For more information go to www. partnersinthehorn.org

John Baigent was a Sir James Dunn Scholar and winner of the Smith Shield during his time at the Law School. He was the 1970 recipient of the Viscount Bennett Award and completed his LL.M. at Harvard. He is the Executive Director of Partners in the Horn of Africa.

12 Hearsay 2008 Dalhousie Law School A “Swinging” Judge

Peter Power’s band at the Hotel Nova Scotian with Elmer MacDonald at piano., circa mid 1950s.

Elmer MacDonald recalls the Big Band Era Retired judge, Elmer Joseph MacDonald, received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the Beginnings University of King’s College in 1952 and his Bachelor of Laws degree from Dalhousie in I was born in New Waterford, Cape 1955. Following his admission to the bar in 1956, Mr. MacDonald served as Assistant Crown Breton in 1931. It was a musical family. Prosecutor for the Province of Nova Scotia from 1958 to 1967 and Crown Prosecutor from My father worked the coal mines, but he 1967 to 1980. He was appointed a Judge of the Provincial Court in 1980, and was President was also a musician. He played piano of the Provincial Judges Association in 1985-86. Mr. MacDonald is married to Margaret and saxophone. He was in a dance band (Butler) formerly of Sydney, Nova Scotia, and they have two children: Anne Marie and called “The Commanders”. When I was Shauna Lynn. very young, they used to rehearse in our Mr. MacDonald is also an accomplished musician who played piano in prominent dance living room. I have a clear recollection of bands in Nova Scotia for several years until the end of the Big Band era. Mr. MacDonald them rehearsing with my dad playing the consented to share with Hearsay recollections and anecdotes of his “musical career” from the saxophone. He loved to play, and he sang 1940s through to the 1970s. in the church choir.

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The Halifax Forum was a big venue that needed a big band to fill it with sound. The Waltz and the Foxtrot were fashionable. The Jive or Jitterbug were popular with the younger crowd.

I probably first got interested in the Waterford at the Strand Gymnasium. musicians would start to play jazz until 7 big bands around 1939. My Dad had As soon as you were 16 you were old or 8 o’clock in the morning. They’d play records of the Duke Ellington Band. He enough to get in and all the young people all night. It was at one of these sessions would play them on an old wind-up went to the dance. It was a regular that I met Les Bryant. Les was born in the Victrola and I would listen to them. That occurrence throughout my teenage years. Sydney area, but he was living in Halifax was my first exposure. I really became That would have been from about 1947 at the time. He played alto saxophone. addicted to this music. Later I listened until I went to King’s in Halifax in 1949. He liked the great alto sax player, Charlie to all the big dance bands on the radio. Before I went to Halifax I got to know Parker and knew a lot of Parker’s jazz There was such talent at that time. Glenn a lot of the black musicians in Sydney. tunes. We learned those tunes as well. Miller was a great band leader. There Word had got around the community When Les heard I was coming to Halifax were also the Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey that my brother, George, and I were and King’s he gave me his phone Bands, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, players. One night some of the black number. He said, “You know, man, when Woody Herman, Vaughan Munroe, and musicians called my house and spoke to you come down to King’s get in touch so on. Dad. They had a band and were playing with me because we have something My brother, George, and I played at a dance in Inverness. They came to going in Halifax.” I went to King’s in at school dances in Sydney and New New Waterford and talked to Dad and 1949, and stayed in the King’s residence. Waterford. I was about 15 or 16, and asked if they could listen to us play. I called Les, and thus began my career as George was two years younger. I played Dad agreed, and after we played for a musician with dance bands in Halifax. the piano, and George played saxophone. them they asked us to come to Inverness Piano was my only instrument. I didn’t and play at this dance. So we went and The Halifax Scene wander from that. played the dance. As a result we got to There were regular dances at the Gerrish There were a number of dance bands know the musicians. Street Hall in Halifax. This was a very in Cape Breton at the time. They were They also had dances at the Pier popular spot. The Hall would be jam part of the social fabric. There was a — Whitney Pier. After the dances the packed. I would be picked up at King’s, chap by the name of “Gib” Whitney from musicians used to have jam sessions. taken up to Gerrish Street and would Glace Bay. He had a good band which George and I used to go to these things. play the dance. Les led the band. Then played most of the dances at the time. The dances would start about 9:00 I’d be driven back to King’s and dropped There was a Friday night dance in New and finish at 12:00 or 1:00. Then the off at the residence. I did this for a

14 Hearsay 2008 Dalhousie Law School Olympic Gardens, Cunard Street, circa 1955. number of years. There was segregation I just couldn’t go to law school without a regular member of Don Warner’s in Halifax at the time. The audience playing. I didn’t have any money and my band with which I was to have a long would have been mostly black, but a few Dad didn’t have any. association. I’m not sure for how long members of the white community would Jerry played with the band. He later come also. The Jitterbug was popular, Law School practised in Dartmouth and then went and everybody loved to dance regardless After I received my BA from King’s I with the Attorney General’s Department. of race. wasn’t sure what I was going to do. I In connection with the Gerrish had a couple of friends who went to law Don Warner Street Hall I should mention “Bucky” school, and I had a good friend by the Don Warner also had a law school (Charles R.) Adams. He is one of the most name of Al Smith (LL.B.’58) who also loved connection. It started after the war when prominent jazz and blues musicians and music and was doing a law degree on he left the service. He got out of the air bandleaders to come from this area. I met the installment plan. He said “Look, why force and went to law school. It was for Bucky at the Hall when he was a young don’t you try law school?” only a year or two. I think Dean Vincent fellow. At that time he was starting to So I applied. It wasn’t very difficult MacDonald (LL.B’20) suggested Don play trumpet. He later switched to tenor to get in then. I got accepted and started should stick to music. It is probably just saxophone. I can’t recall whether he ever law in ’52. There were about 45 in the as well that he did because he became played with us. He may have, but he class at the beginning. There was also a star of the musical scene in Canada. would have been very young — perhaps a small faculty. Horace Read (LL.B.’24) However, a few legal phrases stuck about 15 in those days. Bucky carved out was Dean. Of the professors I remember with him that he just loved to pass on. quite a career for himself and went on to (Bill) Lederman, Graham Murray (LL.B.’40), He would say, “Elmer, I went to law receive several honours and awards. Jim Hendry (LL.B.’47), and Art Meagher school and I can tell you nemo dat quod Two of Halifax’s most popular dance (LL.B.’36). And there were a number of non habet.” Don also loved characters. bands were led by Don Warner and Peter people who came from downtown like There was one professor, Moffat Hancock Power. Peter Power had a small band. He Judge Vincent Pottier (LL.B.’20), as he then (Professor ’45-’49 Ed.) who I understand asked me to join it and I did. This would was, and Justice John MacQuarrie (LL.B.’29). would recite Shakespeare and act out probably be around ’49 or ’50. Even after Jerry Kavanaugh (LL.B.’55) was in my scenes in class. He was very colourful I went to Law School I continued to play class at law school. Jerry was quite a and the class loved him. Don had a lot with the band. I didn’t break stride at all. good tenor saxophone player. He was of stories about him. I think Don spent

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that his piano player Cecil Roberts was leaving the band, and he said “will you join the band?” I said, “Well, do you think I can do it?” He knew I could play all the arrangements, and said, “Yes, you can do it.” I said “Okay, I’d be happy to join.” I played with Don Warner from about ’52 to about ’55 or ’56 when he left Halifax again for a few years. He went to take over the dance band in the Bonaventure Room of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal. The Nova Scotian Hotel After Don left I played with Peter Power’s band again for a few years. Peter had the band in the Nova Scotian Hotel. The Nova Scotian was a CNR hotel. It was the policy of the CNR and CPR hotels to The Don Warner Band. (Photo courtesy of Peter J. Power) have their own regular bands. These were prime venues for dance orchestras across Canada. The Nova Scotian had dances every Saturday night throughout the ‘50s and ‘60s and into the ‘70s. I played at the Nova Scotian with Peter during the years when Don was away. Another band leader, Jimmy Sadler, had a band at the Olympic Gardens on Cunard Street. I played piano in that band also. I was kept quite busy. Don Warner came back to Halifax in 1960 to stay. I joined him when he started the band up again. Don took over the Saturday night dances at the Nova Scotian. We played there from 1960 to 1973 when Don retired. We also did New Year’s Eve shows on the CBC from the ballroom of the Nova Scotian. They were broadcast throughout the Maritimes. By means of radio, dance bands had a wide exposure. Ball at Dalhousie gym circa 1950s The Warner Band more time studying the professors than However, I first really met him when a Our summer schedules were particularly he did the books. few of us were having a jam session at heavy. Monday nights in the summer Don wasn’t around when I first got the CBC radio studio on Sackville Street. we’d do a dance at the Halifax Forum. to Halifax. When he returned to Halifax Don wandered in with his trumpet. I can Tuesday night we might play for dances after the war he started up a small band. see him coming in yet. at the Waegwoltic Boat Club on the This was around ‘46 or ‘47. Don then In 1952 after I graduated from King’s Northwest Arm. Wednesday night we went to Toronto around ’48 and came I was working for the summer at Royal would do the Med-O-Club outside of back in ’50 or ’51 and started up the band Print and Litho on Oxford Street. My Halifax at Timberlea on the St. Margaret’s again. He came down around Christmas boss came and said to me, “A gentleman Bay Road. Thursday night we’d be back for a show at the Dal gym. I went to the in the office wants to see you.” The at the Forum. Friday and Saturday night gym because I had heard about Don. gentleman was Don Warner. Don told me back at the Med-O-Club. Supposedly

16 Hearsay 2008 Dalhousie Law School we had Sunday night free, but often the the Tango, the Rumba and the Cha Cha. dances in the Dal gym. These would have Jewish Community would use Sunday Later on there were dances like the Twist. been quite informal affairs. They probably night for bar mitzvahs. They would Depending on the place or occasion had bands, but I can’t recall playing at any be held at the Lord Nelson Hotel. We the band might comprise about 14 or 15 of them. might play for thirty straight nights. players. If you were performing at the Don Warner said there was one year we Halifax Forum you knew that it was a End of an Era played over two hundred dances. It big venue and you needed a big band The “hey day” with regard to bands and was amazing how often and how many to fill it with the sound. But a regular dancing started to fall apart because of two people danced. band — such as we might do at the things. First, in the mid ‘60s the lounges During the rest of the year we had Law Ball — would have somewhere opened up, and they had entertainment. the regular Saturday night dances at the around nine or ten players, possibly People started going to the lounges. They Nova Scotian. And we moved around. eleven, with a singer. That would be the weren’t dancing. Secondly, the music We went to Acadia, Mount Allison and basic band. The basic instruments for changed. Rock and Roll came in. The St. F.X. for their graduations. Once we a dance band would be trumpet, three combination killed the bands. That killed went to the University of New Brunswick or four saxophones, piano, string bass dancing as we knew it. in Fredericton. In Halifax we played and drums. Don played the trumpet, dances and balls at St. Pat’s, QEH, King’s but he would also sing as well. Don also Today and Dalhousie including the Law School. always had a girl singer. Grace Boutilier I have a digital piano with head phones. I When I was in law school I would and Doreen Hanrahan were very popular. enjoy it tremendously. I can play any time take the week off before the exams. He had a number of them over the of the day or night, and no one can hear me Other than that I was working my way years. The girls would be dressed in a but myself! I had a nice Yamaha upright, but through. I had to because when you fashionable gown, and would sit in front I never felt comfortable playing it because of were with Don you were a member of of the band. They would come up and the neighbours the band. You couldn’t say “Well I’m not sing when Don called upon them. They I still play jazz, but just for practice. I going to show up tomorrow night.” The would probably sing four or five songs have a lot of folios — Oscar Petersen, Bill quick reply would be, “Well if you’re not throughout the evening. Evans, Erroll Garner. I have music, a lot of going to show up tomorrow night then standard songs, that I have collected and I’ll get somebody else.” Drinking at Dances haven’t played for years. I’ll try those out I played all the dances that Don There’s an interesting point about and work on them. played. I was the regular piano player. drinking. Everybody brought liquor All in all, I certainly was very fortunate Don relied upon me to do them because regardless of the liquor laws. It was all to have been born into a musical family. As I knew the arrangements, and it would under the table. As long as you didn’t I mentioned at the outset I heard the band have been difficult to bring in somebody have it out on the table the establishments practising in my Dad and Mom’s living new who had never done it before. Also, of the day closed their eyes. room. From my earliest recollection I heard Don used to sing a kind of medley of music. • songs. You would have to know the right Law Balls and Sadie keys. There was no music for them. I could play them by ear. A different piano Hawkins Dances player could have learned them, but not The annual law ball was one of the main overnight. highlights of the law school’s social Don’s band played mostly special life. These were quite formal affairs — arrangements that he got from a tuxedos for the guys and formal gowns professional arranger, Ed Graf, in for the girls. As I recall the balls were in Toronto. It was a style of music that April towards the end of the school year. people could dance to easily. There They would be held on a Friday night at were standard romantic ballads like the ballroom of the Lord Nelson Hotel. “Stardust”, and upbeat swing numbers The Don Warner Orchestra would have like Glenn Miller’s “String of Pearls” or played at the balls even before I joined “In the Mood”. The Waltz and Foxtrot him in ’52. Then he would have played were fashionable styles of dance. Jive until he left in ’56 for Montreal, and then or Jitterbug were popular with the again from 1960 pretty well through until Retired from the bench, Elmer and his wife younger crowd for the up-tempo tunes. he retired in ’73. There may have been reside in Halifax. His daughter Shauna Depending on the audience we might the odd year he didn’t do it. MacDonald (LL.B.’94) is working at the also get requests for specialty dances like I also remember Sadie Hawkins Public Prosecution Service of Canada.

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Daniel Laprés: A worldly walk of life

I had traveled in about 20 countries and Daniel Laprés was born in Halifax Can you tell us a little about your activities I wanted to know what it would be like after leaving law school? while his parents, who were from to live in those four particular cities and After graduation in 1972 I lived and perhaps settle in the one I liked best. the Montreal region, were in the worked as a lawyer successively in New service during and after the Second York, Rio de Janeiro and Hong Kong. I What made you eventually choose Paris? World War. They moved back to settled down in 1976 on the Left Bank On a professional level, I came to Paris to Montreal where Daniel grew up of Paris where I have lived and worked enter the design field and founded and until the family moved to Winnipeg ever since. ran a home textile design company until when he was in high school and then the 1990s. You would not typically find a graduate On a personal level, I like working to Regina. He says that Dalhousie fresh out of law school in such places and living in a multilingual context and, was the only school to which he as New York, Rio and Hong Kong. What having been educated in French schools applied because of its reputation circumstances motivated you to choose in Quebec, Paris was an easy choice. for excellence and also because he these particular locales? The French have an art de vivre that wanted to return to Halifax. Getting Thanks to my parents, I had already especially appeals to me and Paris is a a Dunn Scholarship was gone around most of Canada and the beautiful city with a fine climate. And the continental United States as a child. By French like Canadians, even the English- “la cerise sur le gateau.” the time of graduation from law school speaking variety.

18 Hearsay 2008 Dalhousie Law School “My fondest memory without question at the School would have been working with Dalhousie Legal Aid…”

Did you have any prior background in opposing counsel. All wishes of good it is as intellectually rich and yet down- design or textiles? luck are welcome. to-earth as a law class but with a lot of None. In a sense, that was the point. I In addition, I am “Of Counsel” to a mathematics, which develops analytical wanted to try something different and be leading Chinese law firm specializing skills, and to improvise mathematical in business as distinguished from being in business and financial law. The problems in front of MBA students in consulting. Paris seemed like the best Kunlun Law Firm is located in Beijing, produces adrenalin! place to try my luck in the design field. Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. This led me to work with many of the Since last May, I have been appointed In John Willis’ A History of Dalhousie leading creators in Europe and America to the list of international arbitrators of Law School he mentions that in 1970 the and to engage in trade with customers the Chinese International Economic and Dalhousie Legal Aid Service, or “The Clinic” and suppliers on every continent. Our Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC). was the product of a group of idealistic major source of supply was India and for I am pretty much fluent in Chinese students spearheaded by you. Hearsay several years in the 1980s I would spend Mandarin. I have also developed a pro would like at some stage to get your three to four months a year working bono specialty in the representation of story of the beginnings of what is now an with artisans in India, mostly around the Chinese Christians seeking asylum on important institution in the life of Holy City of Benares (Varanasi) along the account of persecution at the hands of the the School. Ganges River. Communist Government. I would love to do that. My fondest memory without question at the Were you practising law also during this In law school you were a regular contributor School would have been working period? of articles to the then student publication, with Dalhousie Legal Aid with Dennis No, and I had no desire to do so. Still I Ansul. Do you continue to write? Patterson, Greg Warner, Barbara Penvidic have over the years always maintained I am editor and principal co-author of the and Tom Boyne. Dennis and Greg were in my admission to the Nova Scotia bar, book, Business Law in China (published by my class of 1972, and Barb and Tom were and more than once the qualification has the International Chamber of Commerce a year ahead. proved to be beneficial. I had passed the in Paris). A second (electronic) edition of French bar admission exam in 1978, but about 350,000 words is in the final stages Any other Dalhousie recollections you might the French bar (like a lot of other bars) of preparation and it should be posted in like to share? excluded most foreigners from practice. the near future. I’ve had published, as Well one unforgettable experience took Then the new GATT was adopted in 1994 well, about 40 articles written in English place in 1972 when I reached Base Camp and national treatment was extended to or French, a few translated into Chinese, on Mount Everest with Eric Rice (LL.B.’71). legal services. So I was able to join the on law and economics in journals in Some 30 years later I was part of a Paris Paris bar and, coincidentally, that is what North America, Europe and Asia. I try bar delegation that welcomed Eric in his I then wanted to do. Since then I have to make my web site a useful tool for capacity as President of the Canadian been practising and teaching law. communicating on the academic and Bar Association. There are many other professional levels. memories. I fondly recall a Saturday What does your practice entail? afternoon sailing around Hong Kong My favorite professional activity is court Tell us a little about your teaching. Harbour shooting the breeze with Bill work. My current challenge is a case What I like about teaching is that it Mingo (LL.B.’49). Bill had paid me the before the European Court of Human makes it possible to explore areas that great compliment of looking me up. He Rights in the defense of an official of an I would not otherwise be exposed to. I had been my main mentor on supporting international governmental organization create courses on subjects that I want to Dal Legal Aid. He also took me on as accused of sexual harassment. We learn about. Teaching is a useful exercise his articled clerk and introduced me to are trying to have the rules of public for improving skills in that it forces the Wall Street law firm where I finished international law on jurisdictional you to make yourself understood, often articling in 1973. immunities rewritten. We won at the about complex subjects, and to spark Cour d’Appel in Paris where a former interest and empathy. I especially enjoy Deputy Attorney General of France was teaching international finance because Continued next page

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I get the impression that we’re just scratching the surface of a lifetime of amazing adventures and experiences. Alumni-Student Well, tell me when to stop. Perhaps one of my most exhilarating life experiences Mentorship Program was when I became involved with the leaders of the Tian An Men student movement after their flight to Paris. Also, a very special encounter was meeting Mother Theresa in Calcutta in 1983. On the subject of adventures I suppose my most memorable goes back to 1972 sailing from Cairo up the Nile to Khartoum, overland from war torn Asmara Province in Ethiopia to Mombasa in Kenya, and then sailing across the India Ocean via the Seychelles Islands in the company of mostly Indian refugees after Idi Amin’s expulsion of that community from Uganda.

It sounds like a possible script for an Indiana Jones film. This year the Law Alumni Relations Office and the Dalhousie Law Alumni I think you are telling me to stop. Association have established a new mentorship program to assist students and No! No! I wish we had the space to go on. recent graduates across Canada as they prepare themselves for their law career. Maybe we can revisit this material in a This brand new service is off to a great start as we have a number of students and future issue. However, before we conclude recently graduated alumni eager to meet with seasoned law professionals. perhaps you might tell us a little something of your family. Sure. My wife of 17 years is from Beijing We are asking for your assistance. and we have two daughters aged 15 and 13. The girls are fluently trilingual in These students are looking for alumni that will share their experiences and provide French, English, and Chinese. My wife career advice to help them avoid some of the pitfalls and perils commonly faced and I are very proud of this, as even by new lawyers. Your time commitment could be a brief response to an inquiry or in Canada where, as you are probably ongoing supportive guidance. In addition to helping current students and recent aware, Chinese has become the second most spoken language, there are only a graduates, this will be an opportunity to reconnect with the Law School and develop few thousand families whose kids are a chain of contacts with students and alumni that can be both personally and trilingual in those languages. We would professionally rewarding. like for them to spend time in Canada perhaps as students in a few years. Many alumni wonder how they can give back to Dal Law. Becoming a mentor is an

Daniel, thank you for sharing these excellent way to make a significant contribution to the School. fascinating episodes and experiences of your life, family and career with us. I If you would like to make a gift of your time and experience by becoming a mentor know they will be of great interest to our please contact Karen Kavanaugh, Director of Alumni & Development at lawalum@ readers. Also, good luck on your case in the dal.ca or 902-494-3744* European Court of Human Rights. Thank you, and this has been a pleasure. •

Daniel Laprés can be reached at www.lapres. *With The Law School’s Mentorship Program your name will not be published or widely distributed. Your net or [email protected] contact information will be accessible to the Law Alumni Office and the Student Mentorship Committee only.

20 Hearsay 2008 Dalhousie Law School Law School History John Thomas Bulmer by Dianne Marshall

John Thomas Bulmer led a life dedicated as an avid bibliophile, an almost to education, to professional integrity, and obsessive need to improve the to social reform. He was a man of strong standards of local libraries. It opinions with a caustic wit and such eloquent was his love of books and speaking skills that his listeners were often education that prompted him left clamouring for more; and if he believed to make a number of visits to a cause was worth fighting for, regardless of some of the most prominent its popularity or lack thereof, he embraced academic institutions in it wholeheartedly. To his opponents he was North America. From the stubborn and arrogant, but to those who librarians of Yale, Harvard knew him best — his friends and family — and Columbia, among he was an incurable idealist. Friend or foe, others, he learned the no one could deny that in his lifetime, John essentials of stocking and Thomas Bulmer made an impact. running a modern library. Remarkably, in July 1877, amid countless cases, projects and causes, he found the time to After a modest start to life get married and to set up a home on a small farm in Nappan, Nova Scotia, in Halifax with his bride, Eleanor. Bulmer was educated at the Amherst In 1879, after having been Academy, and shortly after graduation instrumental in establishing the in 1871, set off to Halifax with the intent Nova Scotia Historical Society, Bulmer of becoming a lawyer. After articling for was given the opportunity to put his four years, he was called to the bar on library skills to the test when he accepted July 21, 1875. the first salaried position of Provincial During his early years in Halifax, Librarian. His immediate challenge was His anger over the circumstances Bulmer became acquainted with several the Legislative Library, which in previous surrounding his departure from the other bright young lawyers, among them years had been allowed to deteriorate post of Provincial Librarian resurfaced Robert Sedgewick and Benjamin Russell, to an alarming degree; and in just in January 1883 when on a visit to the and together they formed a discussion three years under his direction, it grew City Market, located across the street group called ‘The Halifax Law Society’. from 6000 volumes in various stages of from Province House, Bulmer happened Their primary concern was the lack of disrepair to 25,000 volumes that included upon fishmongers and butchers consistent professional standards in rare and historic periodicals along wrapping their goods in the pages of far too many of the lawyers currently with many valuable first editions. He historic newspapers and periodicals in practice; and though their early accomplished this at no public expense, — publications that he personally had attempts to see a law school established demonstrating great skill at bartering, acquired for the Legislative Library. at Dalhousie failed, they never gave up exchanging and attracting donations; Furious, he gathered up every one of the hope that with the right support it and such was his success in turning the the papers and magazines that he could would eventually become a reality. In Legislative Library into one of the best find and within hours, his outrage over 1883, when that support came in the libraries in the country that in 1882, the actions apparently taken by his successor, form of an endowment by publisher government agreed to his request for Francis Blake Crofton, was causing a and philanthropist George Munro, the a paid assistant. Over his strenuous stir on the streets of Halifax. In the Dalhousie Law School came into being. objections, however, they gave the post days that followed, Haligonians were When he wasn’t engaged in academic to an untrained political friend. Furious, stopping Members of the Legislature pursuits, Bulmer’s days were filled with Bulmer abruptly tendered his resignation on the street to complain about their the practice of criminal law along with and returned full time to the practice choice of librarian and that pressure, countless efforts at social reform, and, of law. combined with the efforts of the Nova

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Scotia Historical Society, convinced the reform. From the early days of his career Megan Leslie awarded at library commissioners to conduct an and throughout his life he was a steadfast Holly House Heroes Gala investigation. For a time it appeared as champion of the black community in though Crofton might lose his job, but his their fight for equality. In 1876, when name was ultimately cleared when the the City of Halifax implemented a policy blame was placed on a House Messenger of segregation in public schools, for named Coleman, who Crofton claimed example, he and Robert Sedgewick who had been ordered to sell only ‘duplicate’ was at that time a Member of the Board of periodicals to victuallers and the like; and School Commissioners, became actively that, in an effort to make extra money involved in the fight to have it rescinded. for himself, he had sold the remaining Finally, in 1884, after a bitter struggle publications as well. of eight years, they succeeded. In the Months later when the members of 1890s he saw great promise in a young the Halifax Law Society were eagerly law student — James Robinson Johnston awaiting the opening of the Dalhousie (LL.B.1898), the school’s first black Megan Leslie graduated from Dalhousie Law School, Bulmer was urged to accept graduate – and in 1900, took him into his in 2004 and has worked for Dalhousie the post of School Librarian. With his practice to complete his studies. Legal Aid Service since. While her legal training and a proven expertise in Bulmer’s sense of justice, however, legal career began at the Clinic, her library management, he was perfectly was not only offended by racism, but commitment to advocating for the rights suited for the job. He agreed without also by the mistreatment of the poor, of those in poverty embodies who Megan hesitation. The opportunity to combine the inequality of women, and the is and was long before graduation. She his love of education, books and the law detrimental effects of the consumption was awarded for her efforts at the 2008 was simply too good to pass up. of alcohol. When, in 1887, he decided Holly House Heroes Gala and named a As with everything else in his life, he to run as Prohibition Candidate in the Holly House Heroine. set about creating the new library with Federal election, it came as no surprise Her efforts in anti-poverty activism great enthusiasm and was soon on his to those who knew him. Though at the have impacted positively on poverty law, way to acquiring a substantial collection. end of the day, he lost to a prominent particularly in the area of tenant’s rights. In no time at all, he had created a library Conservative candidate Charles Tupper, In 2005, Megan launched Dalhousie Legal that was far superior to that of any other he wasn’t discouraged. He simply took a Aid’s “Tenant’s Rights Project”, which faculty at Dalhousie; though after only different approach and founded a weekly was named nationally as a best practice a year in the position he was informed, magazine, Canadian Voice (Halifax), for eviction prevention. with great regret, that the school could through which he advocated support In accepting the Holly House award, no longer afford the cost of his salary. for the causes he cared so passionately Megan urged people to be involved in That, however, did nothing to stop him. about, including women’s suffrage, equal their community and to consider poor He took this as an opportunity to further pay for men and women for jobs of equal people as part of that community. She his own legal education and enrolled value. In these respects, he was a man also recognized the person who is in classes from 1884 to 1885, during well ahead of his time. remembered through the awards, Holly which time he continued to act, as time John Thomas Bulmer passed away Gushue. “It is an honour to be receiving permitted, as a voluntary librarian. suddenly at the age of 55 on February this award in the name of Holly Gushue,” For the rest of his days, he maintained 9, 1901, leaving Eleanor, their three sons she said. a proprietary interest in the Law School and many friends to mourn his loss. The Holly House Gala is an initiative library, trusting that at the very least he In his lifetime, he struggled to make a of the Elizabeth Fry Society. The mission had laid a solid foundation for future difference. He wasn’t always successful, of the society is to advocate for and librarians to build upon. Such was his and the successes he had certainly didn’t support women involved in the criminal affection for the school itself that in make him a wealthy man; but in his own justice system and those at risk. Holly 1896, during an effort to bring about a way he accomplished much and in his House was opened in April 2008 to Canadian Bar Association, he declared cherished library, left a valuable legacy to provide affordable housing to such that in his considered opinion the several generations of law students. • women. The awards are given in honour Dalhousie Law School offered the most of the Holly House namesake, Holly superior legal education in the entire Gushue, who worked actively with the country. Halifax Coalition Against Poverty prior One of the most impressive aspects to her death in 2006. • of the character of John Bulmer was his Diane Marshall is an historian and instinctive need to bring about social author who resides in Halifax.

22 Hearsay 2008 Dalhousie Law School Celebrate125Years of Dalhousie Law School

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2008 Weldon Award for Unselfish Public Service

On March 6, 2008, Judge Bill MacDonald presented David Newman with the Weldon Award for Unselfish Public Service on behalf of the Alumni Association. Mr. Newman is a veteran Winnipeg lawyer who has been instrumental in promoting human rights for the underprivileged in Manitoba and throughout Canada. In presenting the award, Judge MacDonald described Mr. Newman as an intelligent, hard-working, compassionate individual who gives hope to the vulnerable. “He seeks justice for the powerless and helps those who have power become more sensitive to its impact on others,” said Judge MacDonald. Mr. Newman graduated from Dalhousie Law School in 1968 and returned to his hometown to establish himself as one of Manitoba’s leading lawyers. With a young family and growing practice, Mr. Newman found time to become an active Rotarian and a chair of the Manitoba Cardiac Centre. In the 1980s, he became involved with the Manitoba Chamber of Commerce and sat as a member of the Manitoba Government’s Labour Management Review Committee. In 1995, he resigned from Pitblado LLP, ran for a seat in the Manitoba Legislature, and embarked on a productive five-year term as a Member of the Legislative Assembly for the Province of Manitoba. He was eventually appointed to Cabinet. It was in this capacity that Mr. Newman established an excellent rapport with the leaders of the Aboriginal communities of Manitoba. David Newman ‘68 Mr. Newman is best known for his advocacy for human rights for First Nations and Métis peoples. With tenacity and passion, he has worked to improve the distressing statistics of aboriginal lives in Manitoba and Canada. Through his passion as a politician, lawyer and advocate, he has made in-roads for change. Mr. Newman has diligently sought positive change that gives hope to the underprivileged and courage to those who feel powerless. Even in accepting the award, he used the opportunity to promote helping those in need. He encouraged students and lawyers in the crowd to carry on the Weldon tradition of public service. “I appeal to you to empathize with and seek to understand the challenges faced by the disadvantaged”, he said. “We must use our understanding with courage and humanity to help champion positive change through courts, legislatures and our own attitudes.” The Weldon Award for Unselfish Public Service, sponsored by the Dalhousie Law School Alumni Association, was established in 1983 to serve as a tribute to the ideals of the Law School’s first dean, Richard Chapman Weldon. •

24 Hearsay 2008 Dalhousie Law School Call for Nominations The Weldon Award for Unselfish Public Service 2009 This annual award, sponsored by the Dalhousie Law School Alumni Association, is to honour a graduate of the Law School for unselfish public service in the community. Established in 1983, this award is a tribute to the ideals of the Law School’s first dean, Richard Chapman Weldon, and a reminder of the Weldon tradition which had its origins during his 31-year tenure as dean from 1883 to 1914.

2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Lorne O. Clarke ‘51 Kimberly Pate ‘84 John Cuthbertson ‘79 Lee Cohen ‘80 Justice Robert Barnes ‘77 Dugald Christie ‘66

Eligibility: A Dalhousie Law School graduate Nominations: With your nomination please include a minimum of two letters of support along with the nominee’s curriculum vitae. Selection: A selection committee appointed by the board of directors of the Dalhousie Law Alumni Association. Deadline: nominations must be received by November 28, 2008.

My nomination for The Weldon Award of Unselfish Public Service: ______Nominated by: ______Telephone: e-mail: ______

Please return this form to: Karen Kavanaugh Dalhousie Law School, Weldon Law Building 6061 University Avenue, Halifax, NS B3H 4H9 tel: 902-494-3744 fax: 902-494-1316 [email protected]

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Fred Fountain: named Dalhousie’s new chancellor

important positions nationally and internationally.” Dr. Fountain is a founding partner of the law firm, formerly Franklin, Mitton, Fountain and Thompson. He is counsel to the law firm Burke, Thompson. Since 1985, he has been President and Chief Executive Officer of The Great Eastern Corporation, an investment management company based in Halifax. Both as a volunteer and philanthropist, Dr. Fountain’s association with Dalhousie has been long and distinguished. He sat on the Board of Governors from 1990 to 1999, during which time he served as Chair of the Development Committee and the Dalhousie Foundation, and as a member of the Finance and Budget, Investment and Executive Committees. He continues to serve as Chair of the Advisory Board to Dalhousie’s Faculty of Management and as a Director of the Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation. He was Dalhousie University Alumnus of the Year in 1997 and in 1998 he received the Dalhousie University Community Award. He was awarded an honorary degree from Dalhousie in 2000. The residence wing, Fountain House, is named in appreciation of Fred and Elizabeth Fountain’s generous support of Dalhousie. The $7.5 million addition to Howe Hall opened in 2002. One of Dr. Fountain’s lasting contributions to Dalhousie is his endowed scholarship fund. Two of the spring graduates received scholarships from the fund. Dr. Fountain’s family also has a strong connection to Dalhousie. His parents, philanthropists Sheldon and Marjorie Fountain, received honorary degrees from Dalhousie in 2005.

“… I might add that even back in the ‘70s our class thought that it was a great school, and I still feel much the same…”

th During the May 20 Convocation ceremony They established the F.C. Manning Chair in Economics and Fred Fountain (LL.B.’74) was formally installed as Dalhousie’s Business in memory of Marjorie’s father in 1960. In 1999, sixth chancellor. He presided at 14 ceremonies held at the the Fountains established the Marjorie Manning Fountain Dalhousie Arts Centre conferring degrees on more than 3,000 Endowment Fund in the Faculty of Management. graduates. When contacted by Hearsay to congratulate him on Dr. Fountain is a dedicated volunteer. From 2003 to 2007, his appointment Dr. Fountain said: he chaired the capital campaign, Working Miracles, which “I feel very positive about taking on this special role for the raised $44 million for the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences University. It was not something to which I aspired, but when Centre Foundation. He has served on the boards of several arts asked I was quite excited and thought that it was something institutions, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Art too compelling to decline. I have been involved in various Gallery of Nova Scotia, the National Arts Centre Foundation ways with the University for over twenty years and I believe and the Scotia Festival of Music. it is stronger now than ever, and it makes me proud to be its As chancellor Dr. Fountain will act as the ambassador of ambassador. Dalhousie University and will preside at convocation and other “With regard to the Law School I might add that even back official ceremonies. He will also sit as an ex-officio member in the ‘70s our class thought that it was a great school, and I still on the Board of Governors. He succeeds former Dalhousie For more information please contact Tammi Hayne at [email protected] 902-494-5100 feel much the same. When I look at the careers of the class of chancellors C.D. Howe, Lady Beaverbrook, Dr. Reuben Cohen, 1974 I am very impressed with the ways in which the members Sir Graham Day and Dr. Richard Goldbloom. have contributed both within and beyond the profession. A native of Truro, Dr. Fountain is married to Elizabeth (nee Their influence has been wide ranging from the local arena to Brown). The couple has two children, Alexander and Katherine.•

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CLASS ORGANIZERS: Celebrating

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On Friday, September 28, 2007, Dalhousie Law School’s Annual Alumni Dinner brought together members of the classes of ‘47, ‘52, ‘57, ‘67, ‘82, ‘87, and ‘97. In addition to an evening of catching up on the current news and sharing memories of the past, the group of over 220 alumni enjoyed a meal of maple glazed salmon and the inspirational speaking of fellow alumnus, Madam Justice Lois Hoegg (LL.B.’82). In her address, the newly appointed 8 Justice toasted her fellow alumni saying “as graduates of Dalhousie Law School we have each made a valuable contribution to our clients and communities. May we continue to make a difference and to enjoy health, prosperity, and self respect.” The dinner was just one event that served to kick off the Annual Dalhousie Law Alumni Reunion. The rest of the weekend included organized tours of the Law School and smaller class dinners throughout the downtown area.

9 10 1. Madam Justice Lois Hoegg (‘82) 2. Amy Baker (‘97), Cheryl Canning (nee Legge) (‘97) 3. David Bryson (‘57) Patri- cia McLeod Vogel 4. Gerald Regan (‘52), Ted LeBlanc (‘52), Gordon Read (‘52) 5. Charlie MacIntosh (‘52), Moyra Nich- olson (‘52) 6. Brett Christen (‘87), Lori Stolz (‘87), Richard Haigh (‘87) 7. Bill West (‘67) 8. Allan Blakeney (‘47), Dean Phillip Saunders (‘84), Justice Alex Hickman (‘47) 9. Doug Pittet (‘57), Justice David Gruchy (‘57) 10. Vivian Arenillas (‘97) 11. Terri Deller (‘82), Anne MacNeill (‘82), Matt Napier (‘82), Jan Napier

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32 Hearsay 2008 Dalhousie Law School Perspective Time to create a northwest passage authority

by Brian Flemming, (LL.B.’62) CDFAI Fellow, Halifax, NS

Despite being surrounded on three sides Passage Authority (NPA) through which debate in Washington over whether by the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic Oceans, both countries can manage the opening to ratify the Third United Nations Canada has never — except for a brief, of, and the rules covering transits of, the Convention on the Law of the Sea shining moment after World War Two — northwest passage. (UNCLOSIII). The issue driving the regarded itself as a maritime power. It is in the American interest to pro-ratification forces in Congress is But the faster-than-expected melting of cede its claim to this new authority making sure the undersea borders the northwest passage — as well as a because the United States does not between Alaska, Canada and Russia can similar thawing of the often overlooked- want improperly strengthened or be drawn to America’s advantage. Anti- by-North Americans northeast passage underinsured commercial vessels flying ratificationists worry about American above Russia — and Prime Minister flags of convenience transiting its own loss of the broadest possible claim to Stephen Harper’s new policies for portion of the passage that passes make “innocent passages” through Canada north of 60 may soon change through Alaskan waters. It may also the Arctic. all that. want to ensure that American ships, A Harper proposal to the Bush The prospect of ocean-going ships properly certified by the NPA, can go administration to create an NPA might transiting the northwest passage in a through the passage without having paper over some of these divisions decade or so opens the door to Canada a diplomatic punch-up with Canada. in Congress and allow Bush to offer proposing a joint American-Canadian Hon. Paul Celucci, former American considerable consolation to the anti- institution, one sorely needed at a time ambassador to Canada, recently said he ratification forces by claiming America when post-9/11 American security believed the northwest passage belonged would be better off with the combination initiatives along the world’s “longest to Canada and that America should of the NPA and UNCLOSIII ratification. undefended border” have eroded the support Canada’s claim in return for the The commercial pluses for both gains made possible by the increased kind of guaranteed access it gets to the countries would be that they could NAFTA-driven porosity of our southern Seaway and the Canadian side of the agree that the Canada Shipping Act border. Great Lakes. and the American Jones Act were to It’s been a long time since border Canada’s interest lies in putting aside apply to the northwest passage, thereby initiatives such as the International its long quarrel with America over the assuring the potential “coasting trade” Joint Commission (IJC) for waterways passage and using its governmental in the north would not be captured along the U.S.-Canada border or the and diplomatic energy to develop the by flag of convenience countries. Both Saint Lawrence Seaway project were scientific and technological capacity to countries should also encourage their hammered out between Canada and help the NPA effectively manage the insurance companies to acquire as soon America. The opening of the waterways northwest passage. This is particularly as possible an ability to insure ships between the Arctic islands north of 60 urgent because the Russians today are far in the northern trade, not only in the presents a unique opportunity for North ahead of Canada and the United States North American north but in the Russian America’s neighbours to rebuild their in developing the tools needed to open north too. Minister Harper deserves historic borderlands relationship. and regulate the northeast passage which credit for putting Canada’s Arctic Ocean To do this will require both countries has the geographic advantage of making squarely on the policy radar screen in to climb down from their current policy Europe closer to Asia than the northwest Ottawa. The baby steps he’s taken so pedestals. The United States will have passage does. far have been encouraging. But it’s now to stop claiming that the northwest In recent months, there has been a time for him and his government to passage is an international strait under seize the imagination initiative and to international law, one capable of give an embattled Bush administration being transited by any ship making an an opening way to show how it can “innocent passage”. Canada, for its part, cooperate with Canada in a creative and must set aside its claim to every square mutually-beneficial policy initiative. centimetre of territory in its Arctic Canada might even suggest Celucci be archipelago. Instead, Canada and the named the first chair of the NPA. • United States should create a Northwest

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Ron Mitton: appointed Senior Advisor, Dalhousie

Ron Mitton (LL.B.’72) Top Row, L-R: Andrew Wadden, Chris Peddigrew, John Hogan, Chris Quigley, Katie Wadden, Johanna Brown , In November 2007, Regatta Comm. Member (unknown) Bottom Row, L-R: Race Sponsor (unknown), Greg Connors, Alex Templeton, was appointed to the position of Senior Regatta Comm. Member (unknown) Advisor, Corporations and Foundations here at Dalhousie University. Ron graduated from Acadia St. John’s Dalhousie Law alumni University with a B.A. and graduated from Dal Law in 1972. He practised law find time for a day at the races with Macleod Dixon in Calgary before returning to Halifax to establish his In the lawyer’s world of the billable hour, in which daily life is regulated by the own firm, Franklin Mitton Fountain & number of hours spent at the office, time for recreational pursuits comes at a Thompson. Between 1976 and 2004 he premium. This year, novice rowers Andrew Wadden (LL.B.’02), Chris Quigley (LL.B.’02), was the senior partner in the firm, with a Chris Peddigrew (LL.B.’03), John Hogan (LL.B.’03), Greg Connors (LL.B.’99), and Alex practice primarily in civil litigation. Templeton (UNB LL.B.’06); with spare, Steve Barnes (U of S LL.B.’03), took to the water In January 2001, Ron was appointed pursuing the regatta tradition of a day at the races. Senior Advisor, External Relations, This historic regatta is the oldest continuing sporting event in North America. The Acadia University having served on their event continues to draw in excess of 50,000 spectators each year and is a major focal Board of Governors from 1982 to 2000. point of summer activities in the St. John’s area. Ron has served on various Boards Led by coxswains/coaches, Katie Wadden & Johanna Brown, the new male rowing in the arts and cultural sectors. He is team comprised of lawyers, most of whom work at Cox & Palmer, had a personal and past Chairman of the Foundation for heartfelt commitment to rowing this year. Katie Wadden was a member of the 2005 Heritage and the Arts which assisted women’s championship team, rowing the course in 4:57:78. Her team also won the leading cultural organizations in Nova 2007 championship, and she received Oarswoman of the Year! Lucky for this team, Scotia by providing expertise in board she is also Andrew’s cousin. Johanna Brown is the daughter of Reginald Brown, Q.C. governance and strategic planning. He is (Queens’s Law LL.B. ’77), who passed away suddenly on January 15, 2007. Reg Brown, a former Director of the Writers’ Trust, a a widely respected lawyer in St. John’s, was the managing partner of Cox & Palmer. national organization for the promotion For the team, rowing in the Regatta was a personal challenge that embodied many of of Canadian literature and authors. the characteristics Reg Brown was known for: teamwork and the pursuit of excellence, He served on the Boards of Symphony both at home and at work. Nova Scotia and Debut Atlantic, and is The challenges of rowing were not without sacrifice for these new rowers and their a former Director of The Halifax Club coaches. The sore muscles, early mornings, and sometimes frustrating practices, come and a past Vice Commodore of the Royal as no surprise to anyone familiar with the sport. The building of a team, to finish the Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron. race and leave nothing on the pond had been their quest. Ron is married to Susan Young At the 2007 regatta, Cox & Palmer won their race with an impressive time of 10:59. Mitton, Regional Director of CBC Radio Whether their billable hours suffered, this team is evidence that life is not just about and they have two children. • work, it’s finding your team, and coming together to do the job right. We hope to see them on the pond in 2008, to carry on their new tradition. — Kim Mackay

34 Hearsay 2008 Dalhousie Law School John Bragg receives honorary degree at spring convocation

The finals: Dean Phil Saunders drops the puck as Dalhousie students face off against Dal Law alumni. This year John Bragg received a Doctor of Laws on May 23rd at Spring Dal Alumni win third Annual Atlantic Convocation. Mr. Bragg is the President and Chairman of Oxford Frozen Foods. He developed his company from a Law School Hockey Tournament local, family-run business to nothing The Dalhousie Law Alumni team won the third annual Atlantic Law School Hockey short of a global phenomenon. From Tournament. Tied with the Dalhousie Law School team in the final game, the Alumni humble beginnings, Oxford Frozen scored the winning goal with seconds left in the third period. The tournament took Foods has grown into an international place at the Halifax Metro Centre on February 2nd and 3rd. industry leader, specializing in wild This year marked the first time the tournament was hosted in Halifax and was the blueberries and exports to Europe, East biggest tournament to date. It included teams from Dalhousie Law School, Université Asia, the Caribbean and Australia—all de Moncton, University of New Brunswick and alumni teams from both Dalhousie the while embracing the values that he and New Brunswick. According to Michael Santerre, co-chair of the tournament, the is known for: integrity, dedication and event was a success. “It was the biggest tournament to date and overall it went really courtesy. Mr. Bragg’s business acumen well.” Major corporate sponsors for the tournament were law firms McInnes Cooper has extended to other entrepreneurial and Stewart McKelvey. The Dalhousie Law Students Society also contributed. pursuits with great success. His Eastlink The Alumni team included: Peter Driscoll (’94), Brian Francis (‘06), Danny Graham communications and entertainment (‘88), Robert Kimball (’07), Matt Lefave (’06), Brett McGarry (’07), Kyle MacIsaac (’07), Adam company is recognized as a pioneer in Rodgers (’04), Kelly Serbu (’96), Mark Tinmouth (’07), and Wayne Woodard (’93). communications services. He is president The Dalhousie Law School team included: Colin Andrews, Ryan Brothers, Travis of many affiliated companies, and Cramb, Steve Degan, Jeff Ellis, Joseph Herbert, Ken Jennings, Ian McIsaac, Mordy Mednick, serves as director for several prominent John Miller, Ben Pryde, Michael Santerre, Christian Thatcher, Rory Wizbicki, Dylan White, Canadian businesses. His entrepreneurial and Daniel Zatzman. • success is balanced with a strong commitment to community, higher education and philanthropic causes. In recognition of his tremendous support of Dalhousie, a room is named after the Bragg family in the Marion McCain Arts and Social Sciences Building. Dalhousie awards honorary degrees to prominent Canadians in recognition of their significant accomplishments. •

Students from Dalhousie, Université de Moncton and UNB participated, as well as two teams comprised of Dalhousie and UNB alumni.

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Young alumni receive prestigious scholarships

JONATHAN COADY (LL.B.’06) Lee Seshagiri (LL.B.’06)

J. William Mingo FRANK KNOX MEMORIAL Scholarship is a $25,000 FELLOWSHIP provides full tuition scholarship for graduate studies for students from Australia, Canada, abroad at a university of their choice. New Zealand and the United King- dom to conduct graduate study at Jonathan will be attending Harvard University. Cambridge University this fall. Lee will be attending Harvard this fall.

Joseph Chedrawe (LL.B.’05) Jon Penney (LL.B.’03)

VISCOUNT BENNETT Fulbright SCHOLARSHIP FELLOWSHIP is a $40,000 fellow- supports graduate study in the United ship offered annually to a Canadian States ($15,000USD) student for post-graduate studies in law awarded by the Canadian Bar Joseph Armand Bombardier Association. Canada Graduate Scholar- ship provides $35,000CDN a year MacKenzie King Travelling for three years for doctoral studies Scholarship is available to in Canada, or $20,000 a year for four graduates of Canadian universities years if used abroad. who pursue graduate study in the United States or the United Kingdom Jon has also received a sizeable schol- in the areas of international relations arship from Columbia Law School; or industrial relations. Jon will be making his way to New York City this fall to pursue graduate Joseph will pursue his BCL at Oxford. work.

Four Dal Law grads are off to the Supreme Court

We are pleased to announce that four Dal Law graduates secured positions offered by the Supreme Court of Canada. Katharine Glover (’06) (Justice Abella); Dave Mollica (’08) (Justice Abella); and Jane Thomson (’08) (incoming judge to replace Justice Bastarache) will be heading to Ottawa for 2009-10, and Michael Fenrick (’08) (Justice Rothstein) for 2008-09. Supreme Court of Canada clerkships provide articling students with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience the workings of the court. The clerkships are a popular option not only for aspiring litigators, but for future academics and solicitors as well. Twenty-seven law clerks are hired each year, three for each judge. The SCC gets approximately185 applications for the positions annually. Congratulations to all!

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Dal Legal Aid argues before the Supreme Court

Left to right: Carolyn Shelley, Shawna Hoyte and Misty Morrison in Ottawa.

Each year, the Supreme Court of Canada grounds that the issues were of national importance, receives approximately 600 applications from lawyers seeking granted leave. leave to appeal the decisions of appellate courts. Roughly 80 or On February 25, Ms. Hoyte was in Ottawa making her so cases are actually chosen to be heard. client’s case before our country’s highest court. For almost an So for Dalhousie Legal Aid Service staff lawyer Shawna hour, she was asked and answered questions from all seven Hoyte (LL.B.’03), the chance to argue before Canada’s highest judges in attendance dealing with factual and legal aspects of court last month was, in her own words, “the experience of the case. It is expected that their decision will be handed down a lifetime.” in five or six months’ time. “It was awesome,” she exclaims proudly, noting that as an Dick Evans, a Dal Law faculty member who has been African Nova Scotian woman the opportunity was particularly associated with Dalhousie Legal Aid since 1975, was present significant. “Very few lawyers ever get the opportunity to in the Supreme Court to hear Ms. Hoyte argue the case. He stand in front of the court and make their case — it’s quite the says that DLAS has brought cases to the Supreme Court at confidence builder!” least five times since the clinic’s creation in 1970. “For an However, Ms. Hoyte saves her strongest words for the office that practises poverty law on behalf of some of the most importance of the case she was arguing. It involves a young disadvantaged in our society, that’s pretty extraordinary,” he says. person with a learning disability charged in Youth Court with Other attendees also sitting in the gallery included two a criminal offence. The issues for the Supreme Court of Canada students who worked on the case as clinic students: Carolyn involve the admissibility of statements given by a young person Shelley (’08) and Misty Morrison (’08), each of whom spent an to someone of authority, (the police), and what precautions academic term at DLAS. police need to take when dealing with and taking statements “I care a lot about the rights of youth, and I thought this from young people . was a really important case,” Ms. Morrison explains, adding “The case is truly about the rights of all youth in this that she felt personally empowered by the experience. “There’s country,” says Ms. Hoyte, who in addition to her law career something inspiring about watching a black Nova Scotian is also a practising social worker with a master’s degree from woman arguing in front of the Supreme Court, because that Dalhousie. “The foundation of the Youth Criminal Justice Act simply wouldn’t have happened years ago.” provides for enhanced procedural protections for young people. It’s that sense of empowerment — for law students and The police need to make sure that young people understand clients alike — that drives the DLAS mission. what is being said to them and the consequences of their “It’s what we’re about,” says Ms. Hoyte. “We continue to decision when they choose to waive their rights.” fill our mandate as a community-based poverty law office with Ms. Hoyte, who has been working on behalf of her client the support of law students who work extremely hard we effect since the very beginning of this case in 2004, applied for leave change in the lives of our clients and the community. I am really to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court of Canada, on the proud to be a part of that experience.” — Ryan McNutt

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Wishing Heather MacLeod all the best in her retirement

If the faculty and staff were bricks of the Law School then Heather MacLeod would certainly be the mortar. For nearly 23 years she served as executive secretary to the Dean and skillfully held together the complicated and sometimes chaotic comings and goings of the Dean’s Office. Heather was a master at multi-tasking and faced the demands of her job with patience, diplomacy and an extraordinary attention to detail. During her tenure she was the right hand to four Deans, three Acting Deans and saw more than 3500 students arrive and graduate. She assisted with three capital campaigns, endured the school’s devastating fire and arranged for lectures, receptions and celebrations too numerous to count. Former Dean Dawn Russell commented, “Heather carefully watched and mentored newcomers to the school. She witnessed many of us ‘grow up’ as faculty and staff.” Despite her heavy work schedule she would make time to assist a faculty member, co-worker or student with whatever might be their particular concern of the moment. Heather’s sense of protocol and institutional memory often came to the rescue to save many delicate situations. At her retirement party in May, Heather reflected with her usual wry humour, “Let’s just say that I’ve been lucky to have such wonderful, trainable Deans! I have even reached the stage where Dean Saunders asks if he can get me a coffee.” On a more serious note Heather stated, “Dean Christie, Acting Dean Girard, Dean Ghiz, Dean Russell and Dean Saunders have all been great to work for, and I like to think that I was of some help in their pursuit of a perfect Law School.” After years of organizing the schedules of others Heather now has her own “to-do” list ready. She says, “It will be great to have more time for family, friends, exercise, photography and golf.” We thank Heather for her years of exceptional dedication and service to the Law School and the University and wish her all the best in her retirement. •

Jess Bolla, Kate Ives, Rebecca Koskela, Carla Nasser Melissa Marsman and Burtley Francis The band “Mother Sandwich” Fourth Annual “Legal Who?” is a sold out success

The 4th Annual “Legal by the law school’s own Mother Both the “Who?” and the Clinic have Who?” Masquerade Ball & Silent Sandwich, and a chance to network with their roots based with people new to Auction was held at the Halifax Club on local lawyers and young professionals. the legal community: Dalhousie Legal February 9, 2008. Not only is the event According to Catherine Currell from Aid Service was originally founded one of the most highly anticipated social Dalhousie Legal Aid Service, this by students, and the “Who?” was a events in the legal community, it is also year’s “Legal Who?” was a complete project initiated by students fresh from an important annual fundraiser for sell out, raising almost $10,000 for the Dalhousie Law School in their articling Dalhousie Legal Aid Service. Clinic. Dalhousie Legal Aid Service has year. Fundraising events like the “Legal This year’s event featured a silent been providing legal services to Nova Who?” help cover poverty law services auction, elaborate masks, music provided Scotians living in poverty since 1970. not provided by the government. •

38 Hearsay 2008 Dalhousie Law School Wishing Heather MacLeod all the best in her retirement

Irwin Cotler: Member William Schabas: Ronald Gilson: Torys of Parliament and Delivers Horace E. Read Lecture given by top Human Rights Advocate Memorial Lecture author in business field

Irwin Cotler, MP for Mount Royal and William A. Schabas, a law professor and The Torys Lecture in Business Law official opposition critic for human international authority on human rights was given by Ronald Gilson, one of the rights, visited Law Hour on March 13, and the abolition of capital punishment, foremost authors in the business field. 2008. His lecture, “Jewish Values, Human delivered the thirty-first Horace E. It was an honour to have the Meyers Rights and the Pursuit of Justice”, talked Read Memorial Lecture on November Professor of Law and Business from about the importance of being involved 27, 2007. Horace Read was Dean of Stanford Law School give the lecture, in the human rights effort. Dalhousie Law School from 1950 to “Deconstructing Equity”, on March 14, “The struggle for human rights needs 1964. The Horace E. Read lecture was 2008. to have a sense of urgency and a sense of established as a joint project of the Read While touching on many aspects permanency,” said Mr. Cotler. “We need family and the Law School in 1977 to of equity, the two feature points of to relate to each other out of our own honour his contribution to the school. the lecture were how capital market sense of authenticity, out of our shared This year’s lecture focused on the evolution drives corporate governance experiences, and out of our own sense International Criminal Court, which evolution and that the rate of change in of who we are. We all have particular Schabas played an instrumental role these areas is likely to increase. “These identities, but we all share a common in creating. The Court was established are interesting times to be concerned humanity.” to prosecute individuals for genocide, about how capital markets function and Mr. Cotler is currently on leave from crimes against humanity, war crimes, about corporate governance,” said Mr. his position as Professor of Law at and the crime of aggression. However, Gilson. The point was made while dis- McGill University where he specializes according to Schabas, it is not currently cussing how what has become familiar in Constitutional and International meeting expectations due to slowness in in corporate governance over the last 30 Human Rights Law. He is a scholar and prosecuting cases. “If you believe that years is changing. advocate of international stature, holding the threat of prosecution is going to be Each year for the past five years, a eight honorary doctorates. He has been a deterrent, you have to be in a hurry,” pre-eminent business law scholar has a visiting professor and scholar at both said Schabas. “Every day the clock ticks, visited Dalhousie Law School to teach Harvard and Yale. Mr. Cotler spoke later there is a body count.” Schabas remains a course in his or her area of specialty. the same evening to students at Saint optimistic that if a new prosecutor, This year the course was replaced by Mary’s University giving a lecture titled, willing to work more quickly, is put the lecture, which was generously “The Charter: A Revolution in 5 Acts.” in place, the Court could eventually sponsored by Torys law firm. • Law Hour is a student organized, function as planned. student run regular meeting that invites More information on the speakers on a range of topics to come to International Criminal Court can be the Law School and speak with students. found in Schabas’s book, An Introduction This year’s chair of the Law Hour to the International Criminal Court. • Committee was second-year student, Adam Picotte. •

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Farewell to friends Catherine Currell Students, professors, Clinic alumni and co-workers gathered for dinner at Niche Restaurant on Barrington Street to thank Catherine for her years takes on a new challenge of support and hard work at the and to wish her all the best in her new position with the Faculty of Medicine. Dalhousie Legal Aid Service (DLAS) would like to wish Catherine Currell a fond farewell after her recent move from the Clinic on Gottingen Street to the Faculty of Medicine. In 1989, having left Dentistry, Catherine began her work at DLAS at the Cunard Street location, and the job was interesting and challenging enough for her to enjoy 19 memorable years with us. Over the years Catherine has seen Melinda Shaw, Jim Rossiter (LL.B.’98), Gwen Verge tremendous change at the Clinic. She and Bianca Krueger (LL.B.’03) remembers when at Cunard Street there were six phones for 16 students, who all The Clinic saw many positive changes in sat around a long row of tables. There Catherine’s 19 years of service were no computers for students, but a couple of staff members had word interesting, and she felt she was ready processors. Then the Clinic hit the for a change and a challenge. Catherine technological big-time, and there were is now working as the office manager a few computers along the edge of the for the departments of biochemistry and room that the students got to share! molecular biology, as well as physiology Times sure have changed. One of the and biophysics. tasks Catherine was charged with was We sure do miss Catherine here on to secure a new space for DLAS that was Gottingen Street, but we’re happy to Former Clinic director Dick Evans and his wife Eiblis accessible, which prompted the move to see her challenged and stretched in her our present location at 2209 Gottingen St. new job. If you happen by the Faculty Professor Dick Evans, former Director of Medicine, make sure you drop in to of DLAS, remembers another home that Room 9B2 to say hello to her! Catherine was responsible for finding. He tells the story of a law student Rosemary Gill Award environmental group who generously On June 12, the Catherine Currell fan donated vermiculture composting club gathered at Shirreff Hall to celebrate to the Clinic, which saw a big bin of Catherine’s receipt of the Rosemary worms housed in the office. Catherine Gill Award. The Rosemary Gill Award immediately went in to Dick’s office celebrates outstanding service made to and threatened to quit. But we all know students, staff and faculty by someone Donna Franey (LL.B.’86) and Susanne Litke about Catherine’s delightful smile and in a non-teaching role. This award disposition, so one can easily understand honours the legacy of Dr. Gill, a Dalhousie how Dick thought she was joking. physician distinguished by the quality Apparently it came pretty close to the of her patient care and community wire before Dick realized that it really involvement. At a lovely afternoon was either Catherine or the worms! The gathering, Catherine received her award worms didn’t even notice their move the from university President Tom Traves, next day. alongside the three other recipients, After 19 years and hundreds of Dane E. Kelley, Elizabeth McCormack and students having come through the Clement Mehlman. Congratulations to door, Catherine saw a job posting at Catherine, from all of us at the Law the Faculty of Medicine that sounded School! • — Megan Leslie (LL.B.’04) Catherine Currell and Scott Hicks (LL.B.’06)

40 Hearsay 2008 Dalhousie Law School East Coast Environmental Law: a dream come true by Tricia Barry (‘05) & David Wright (‘07) committee set up to develop the East Coast Environmental Dalhousie Law has produced some Law Association, using of the top environmental lawyers and the same name and similar academics in the country. Yet there has objectives as those used by always been a void in public interest the group in 1991. In 2007 environmental law organizations on its first board of directors Canada’s east coast. Over the years, was put in place. The Board students, faculty, practitioners and changed the name to “East community members have attempted to Coast Environmental Law” The 2007 Legal Toolkit Workshop. Left to right: David Wright, Professor Meinhard Doelle, Robert Wright and Tricia Barry build environmental law organizations. and expanded its mission Most notably, in 1991 a group of students beyond clinical education to and faculty incorporated the East include providing legal advice to the There are several exciting endeavours Coast Environmental Law Association. public and carrying out research projects. on the horizon. In the short term, this However, this and other attempts never There are 12 members on the board. summer East Coast Environmental became fully operational due to lack It has representation from academics, Law will be providing two public of funding. Meinhard Doelle (’89), Peter Mushkat (’86) presentations and a workshop on The latest effort, beginning and Peter Tydemers; representatives of the topic of enforcing environmental about six years ago, has been more environmental NGOs, Tamara Lorincz laws, as well as producing Volume II successful. Members of the Dalhousie (’03) and Mark Butler; law students, of the Environmental Law Summary Environmental Law Students’ Society Jessie Irving (’09) and Derek Schnare (’09); Series. Over the long term, East Coast (ELSS) decided it was time to make practitioners, Lisa Mitchell (’91), Rob Environmental Law’s mission is to another attempt at building a public Miedema (’05), Tricia Barry (’05) and Dave provide legal advice to individuals and interest environmental law organization Wright (’07); and financial management, organizations to ensure environmental on the east coast. From the students’ Neil Jones. Since April 2007, the laws are effectively used. It will also point of view, such an organization was board has been meeting monthly and conduct research and offer advice on critical to enhancing practical learning advancing ambitious fundraising and how to improve environmental laws that opportunities and making a difference strategic planning initiatives. affect this region. These services will be in the local community. The ELSS’ This year, East Coast Environmental delivered through collaboration among focus was on developing a permanent Law received major funding from students, academics and practitioners. environmental law clinical course, similar the Nova Scotia Law Foundation and Currently, the organization is operating to that of the Environmental Ecojustice (formerly the Sierra Legal out of Nova Scotia but the vision is for Law Centre at the University of Defence Fund), as grants from the East Coast Environmental Law to service Victoria. This idea brewed with the Marine Environmental Law Institute all of Canada’s eastern seaboard. • ELSS and faculty member Meinhard and various law firms in Halifax. This Doelle, culminating in a meeting held in support launched a search for the first If you are interested in learning more, November 2006 with key stakeholders, Executive Director and ensured that the getting involved or supporting the that focused on discussing ways to see organization will move into un-chartered organization, please visit our web site this idea become reality. territory for an east coast public interest at www.ecelaw.ca That meeting led to the creation of a environmental law organization.

Hugh Benevides: first Executive Director of ECELAW

Hugh Benevides graduated from Dalhousie Law School’s Marine Environmental Law Programme in 1994 and was an original founder of an early inception of ECELAW in the 1990s. He is nationally recognized for his expertise in environmental law and is moving back to Nova Scotia after working for the Canadian Environmental Law Association for a number of years. Hugh worked closely with MP Charles Caccia for many years during his term as chair of the House of Commons Standing Committee on the Environment. He has been a wonderful advocate for the strengthening and effective application of environmental law in Canada, and will be a great leader for ECELAW.

Dalhousie Law School Hearsay 2008 41  STUDENT NOTES Moots Smith Shield

The Smith Shield recognizes the high level of achievement in mooting by four third-year students selected to compete in the annual competition. The winners of this year’s Smith Shield were Leah Anderson and David Mollica. They were awarded the A.S. Patillo Prize in Advocacy. Runners up Amanda Dillman and Michael Fenrick were awarded the Leonard A. Kitz Prize in Advocacy. Professor Wayne MacKay (LL.B.’78) drafted this year’s moot, which dealt with the nature and limits of academic freedom on and off campus. The moot was held before a bench comprised of the Honourable Chief Judge Patrick Curran (LL.B.’70), the Honourable Chief Justice Michael MacDonald (LL.B.’79), and Ms. Catherine Walker, Q.C., (LL.B.’77). • David Mollica and Leah Anderson 8 Canadian Labour Arbitration

This year students Jody Brown (‘09) and Michelle McCann (‘09) took first place at the Canadian Labour Arbitration Competition in Toronto competing against teams from seven other Canadian law schools. Students appear at the premises of the Ontario Labour Relations Board to moot before panels made up of seasoned arbitrators and labour lawyers. After a preliminary round of moots, Jody and Michelle were selected12 to moot against Queen’s University, at the conclusion of which they were presented the Mathews Dinsdale & Clark Trophy. Team coaches, Eric Slone and Lorraine Lafferty (‘83) note that in the ten-year history of this national competition, Dalhousie Law School has now brought the trophy home three times — the only Michelle McCann, Eric Slone, Jody Brown and Lorraine Lafferty law school to have achieved this distinction. •

Laskin Memorial

The Laskin Constitutional & Administrative Law Moot took place at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg on March 8. The team of third-year students, Matthew Cameron, Mark Watton, Daphne Keevil Harold and Leah Anderson was awarded the prize for third best overall at the competition. Eighteen schools participated in the moot, with McGill taking the top spot and UBC second. Darcy MacPherson (LL.B.’97), now teaching at the University of Manitoba Faculty of Law, was the local organizer for the event. A special thank you goes out to Mark Watton for foregoing a Matthew Cameron, Professor Philip Girard, Leah Anderson, Daphne Keevil previously scheduled reading week holiday in order to serve as Harold and Mark Watton our francophone pleader. •

42 Hearsay 2008 Dalhousie Law School Jessup

Dalhousie’s Jessup team’s performance at the International Rounds in Washington, D.C., April 6-12 went extremely well. The team consisted of Amy Anderson, David Mollica and Daniel Watt. Michael Fenrick stayed home in Halifax, due to the then-impending birth of his daughter. David stepped into the breach and argued both applicant and respondent sides during the competition. Daniel, Amy and David competed in four preliminary rounds, meeting teams from Greece, Puerto Rico, Indonesia and the UK. All members acquitted themselves well in tough competition, putting in what Dean Saunders described as “flawless performances.” While they did not advance to the final rounds, Dal won fourth place overall in a field of nearly 100 teams. Also, Amy was ranked the ninth overall mooter in the competition. • David Mollica, Amy Anderson, Daniel Watt, Professor Rob Currie and Michael Fenrick McKelvey Cup

Four students from Dalhousie participated in the McKelvey Cup hosted by UNB on February 22 to 23, 2008. The Dalhousie crown team, of Mat Brechtel (‘09) and Conor Dooley (‘09) placed first, defeating the other five teams and winning the McKelvey Cup. In addition to the team prize, Mat also won awards for the Best Cross Examination and the Best Closing. The Dalhousie defence team, of David Dow (‘08) and Trevor McGuigan (‘08) faced off against a team from UNB, winning their trial. They acquitted themselves well, displaying a good knowledge of the problem and the required skills. Mat and Conor’s win earned Dalhousie a spot at the national Sopinka Moot Competition which was won by McGill. • The McKelvey Cup is named after Neil McKelvey, OC, QC, of Stewart McKelvey, NB, (far left). To his left are Conor Dooley, Mat Bretchel and coach Brian Casey

Kawaskimhon

Tanya Bath (‘08) and Lori O’Connor (‘08) represented Dalhousie Law School in the Kawaskimhon Aboriginal Rights Moot hosted by the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Law in Edmonton held March 7 to 9. This year’s question involved a dispute regarding overlapping claims to territory between First Nations in British Columbia, in the context of negotiating land claims with the Crown. Kawaskimhon, which means “speaking with knowledge”, is a non-competitive moot based on issues concerning Aboriginal peoples. Dalhousie was one of 14 law schools represented from across Canada. The Kawaskimhon has been Lori O’Connor, Professor Constance MacIntosh and Tanya Bath held annually since 1995. •

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44 Hearsay 2008 Dalhousie Law School Tim Young awarded Grad Ring The graduating class presented Tim Young with the Weldon Law Grad Ring in May. Tim, a custodian, has been keeping Weldon spotless for the last six years and as students point out, he does it with a chipper outlook and a signature dry sense of humour. “I tell students not to stress out, to take it easy…I’m a bit of a five-and-dime phi- losopher, I guess.” Tim goes on to say “I can’t say enough about the faculty here, the support staff and the students.” The ring is presented each year to a person who has given great service to the School, the legal profession or to13. the 12.public life of Canada •

11 Dalhousie Law School Hearsay 2008 45  STUDENT NOTES

Michael Fenrick: This year’s Gold Medalist sees public interest as part of his future

bench memos to help inform Justice Rothstein’s decisions. “I’m hoping to gain some real insight into what it takes to facilitate legal decision-making on some of the country’s biggest legal issues.” Law is a family affair for Mr. Fenrick — his father is an This year’s gold medalist, Michael Fenrick, had international law expert and part-time faculty member at extra reason to be anxious at exam time this year. Also on his Dalhousie — but it was a volunteer experience at a legal mind was the all-important phone call from his wife, Eden, advocacy office in Vancouver that showed him first-hand how who was expecting their first child. As he sat writing his finals, lawyers can play a significant role in public life. During his Faculty of Law staffer Gwen Verge was holding his cell phone time at Dalhousie, Mr. Fenrick has had the opportunity to serve in case. as student coordinator of the university’s chapter of Pro Bono Thankfully, the phone remained silent, and shortly after Students Canada, a program that pairs students in all three exams were complete, Isadora Fenrick was welcomed into years of law school with local non-profits that can benefit from the world. Mr. Fenrick’s newborn daughter will be joining legal research and advocacy. him at convocation and then making the journey to Ottawa in After his clerkship is complete, Mr. Fenrick hopes to enter September. That’s where her father will be spending the next private practice. “My goal is to be a really good lawyer at this year clerking for the Honourable Justice Marshall Rothstein, one point,” he explains. “I want to put the law into motion and to of the nine justices of the Supreme Court of Canada. deal with the daily challenges and difficulties that the field “It’s an opportunity that you don’t ever get again,” says Mr. represents. But no matter what area of litigation I do, I want Fenrick, who will be researching legal precedent and preparing public interest work to be part of my practice.” • A tribute to the classical model

April Fool’s pranks are alive and well at Dalhousie Law School, as can be seen by Section C’s first-year’s students’ tribute to their Contracts professor, Richard Devlin, who has a penchant for cheesy T-shirt gags. On April 1st the students confidently walked into class with a swagger. But little did Professor Devlin (seated centre) know that they were not only going to be discussing racism’s affect on contractual freedoms… but also the “classical model” as expressed by 52 T-shirts with his vintage 1987 faculty photo emblazoned on the front …moustache and all.

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10 9 11 12 DISCRETIONARY AWARD WINNERS 2008

1. Jane Thomson Muriel Duckworth Award

2. Mike Paris G. O. Forsyth Prize 3. Dave Mollica The William Johnston Grant Q.C. Memorial Award 4. Taryn Eyton Elizabeth May Award for Environmental Service 5. Jarvis Googoo David M. Jones Memorial Award 6. Roula Athanasiou Sarah MacWalker MacKenzie Clinical Law Award 7. Melissa MacAdam NSBS Presidents’ Leadership Award 8. Stephanie Lane Judge Fran Potts Award 9. Tanya Bath The Honourable H. G. Puddester Prize 10. Natalia Mikiciuk Horace E. Read Award 11. Rebecca Law The Dawn Russell Community Commitment Award 12. Michael Fenrick George Isaac Smith Memorial Award

Dalhousie Law School Hearsay 2008 47  FACULTY NEWS

Professor Bill Lahey receives teaching award at the David Mollica, Professor Rob Currie and Ron Meagher Professors Richard Devlin, Jocelyn Downie and Law School’s Spring Reception in March 2008 President of Dalhousie Law Alumni Association Elaine Gibson William Lahey awarded Rob Currie receives Richard Devlin and Hanna and Harold Barnett Award for Excellence Jocelyn Downie win Teaching Award in Teaching CALT Award

After unexpectedly being asked to Professor Rob Currie is the most Professors Jocelyn Downie and Richard teach first year Public Law late in the recent recipient of the Dalhousie Devlin recently received the Canadian summer of 2007, Professor William Lahey Law Students’ Society and Alumni Association of Law Teachers Award for demonstrated his superior teaching Association Award for Excellence Academic Excellence. Candidates for ability by not only teaching the class in Teaching. Professor Currie was the award are nominated by their peers, successfully, but also by winning a nominated by students for the award and are assessed on the basis of “quality teaching award in the process. in his Civil Procedure and Evidence of teaching; creation of new courses; and On March 6, 2008, Professor William classes, as well as those he coached in research in relation to law reform or other Lahey accepted the 2008 Hanna and the Jessup Moot. The well-deserved legal matters.” Harold Barnett Award for Excellence award is recognition of the time he Jocelyn Downie holds a Canada in Teaching First Year Law. Professor generously gives to his students in Research Chair and has been Lahey was nominated by students in all courses. instrumental in establishing the his Public Law class. In accepting the The Dalhousie Law Students’ Society Dalhousie Heath Law Institute as a award, he thanked students for going and Alumni Association Award for leader in Canadian medico-legal teaching to the effort of nominating him for the Excellence in Teaching was established and research. Recognition of her work award. “The nomination by itself tells in 1991 to honour professors who are has recently come in the form of a $1.8 me that I did indeed make a difference to the unheralded heroes of the academic million grant in support of graduate-level your education and to your transition to world. Professors are nominated teaching in health law, shared with the this strange world we call law school,” by students and then selected by Universities of Toronto and Alberta. he said. “To be told by you in this a committee that considers the Richard Devlin has been active exceptional way that you thought I did it professor’s efforts as a teacher as well writing—topics ranging from the law well means a great deal to me.” as a number of other criteria including of contract to the regulation of the legal The award was designed to promote committee observations of lectures, profession. His passion for teaching high quality teaching and to honour course evaluations, service to the legal shines both in the classroom and in extraordinary achievement in teaching community, and evidence of impact on his work promoting the graduate and service to the students of Dalhousie the lives of past and current students. • programmes as Associate Dean of Law School. Winners are nominated Graduate Studies and Research. by students and chosen based on the Downie and Devlin have collaborated nominee’s ability to encourage high on numerous projects on the topic of academic achievement in their students, legal ethics. Indeed, the collaboration as well as their involvement with the between the two runs so deep that it was direction of their students’ lives and none other than Devlin, unaware that careers. • he had already been nominated by other colleagues, who put forward Downie’s name for the award. The committee decided to bestow the award jointly. •

48 Hearsay 2008 Dalhousie Law School Time Travel 1982

Southeast to the Sahara by Professor Paul Thomas Paul Thomas with Kadis (Sharia court judges) of the Sokoto Court of Appeal. Grand Kadi Alhaji Halinu Binji is standing to Professor Thomas’ left.

In 1982, I and then Associate Court was housed in a Victorian building Harmattan, a wind that blows so strongly Dean of Dalhousie Medicine, Lee Steeves, with all the traditional trappings from the Sahara that it darkens the day traveled to the Sub-Saharan province of including red carpeting, raised dais and with sand and dust, was in full force. The Sokoto in northwestern Nigeria to advise jury box. The Sharia Court, however, doors and windows shook violently and a fledgling university, the University was simply a bare concrete building with after the lecture was over, my shoes were of Sokoto now known as Usmanu concrete benches. covered with sand. Danfodiyo University, on curriculum Developing a curriculum for the Communications continued after our development. university, melding the needs of such visit to Sokoto. The “Books for Nigeria” The city of Sokoto is famous for its a disparate society, was no easy task. project was initiated and Dalhousie Law Grand Sultan’s Palace and the Shehu Nevertheless, meetings with faculty faculty generously contributed much- Mosque and is well known for being on members led to a feeling that a consensus needed publications. A delegation from a traditional caravan route leading north was achieved on curricular development. Nigeria was hosted here at the Law across the Sahara. Northern Nigeria The faculty were generous hosts with School and there was talk of student has a large Muslim population, but in receptions in homes and at the university, and faculty exchanges. Sadly, four years 1900 the Fulani Empire was toppled by and trips to the country, including one after the visit, communications fizzled. the British West African Frontier Force to neighbouring Niger (but, sadly, not With a number of ensuing changes of and the British Protectorate lasted until as far as Timbuktu!). There was also a government in Nigeria priorities shifted, Independence in 1963. memorable tennis match with Dr. Bridge faculty moved and contacts were lost. The legal system of the province of Pachai at the Sokoto Club, formerly the Today, Usmanu Danfodio University Sokoto is therefore a mix of Common club for British officers. Having lost the offers an LL.B. program in combined Law and Sharia Law. The courts in tennis match badly, I bought the drinks. Common Law and Islamic Law. It is Sokoto were much like the courts in Dr. Pachai was then Dean of Arts at the university’s mandate to graduate London prior to the Judicature Act — Sokoto and later he became Director of lawyers who are knowledgeable in these the Sharia court was on one side of the the Black Cultural Centre in Nova Scotia. two disciplines as it is necessary in a street and the Supreme Court literally on I was asked to deliver a lecture on the society where both systems play equally the other side of the road. The Supreme Canadian Legal System. On that day the important roles. •

Dalhousie Law School Hearsay 2008 49  FACULTY NEWS

Mike Deturbide appointed Associate Dean

and is technology law counsel to the law the Convention on the Use of Electronic firm McInnes Cooper. He is co-editor-in- Communications in International chief and co-founder of the national law Contracts. He presented his report at review on technology law matters, the a conference in Quebec City in July. Canadian Journal of Law and Technology. He is also a member of the Board of He also helped establish several Trustees of the Law Services Admissions innovative programs at Dalhousie Council (the organization that sets and The Law School is pleased University, including the Master of administers the LSAT) and continues to to announce the appointment of Professor Electronic Commerce Program. He has teach Tax Law. Michael Deturbide (LL.B.’89) as Associate lectured at universities and technology Professor Deturbide indicates that Dean, Academic, for a three-year term, law conferences in Canada, the U.S., law school administrations are facing effective July 1, 2007. As Associate Mexico, Europe, and Australia, and is the several new challenges. “As tuition Dean, Professor Deturbide oversees the author and co-author of two books. increases, students have become more academic administration of the Law Professor Deturbide says that demanding. It’s become more difficult School, including academic regulations taking on the role of Associate Dean has for some to accept lower grades. and policies, grades, and student issues. resulted in several career adjustments. There is a movement in academia to He also works closely with the Dean on “I’ve undertaken many administrative view students as ‘clients’, an analogy the general administration of the school. roles since joining the law school in 1996, that I feel is flawed. Law schools Professor Deturbide holds a tenured although my primary responsibilities are also facing increased pressures faculty position, with the academic rank have been teaching and scholarship. from students who need to complete of full professor. He recently completed a My experience so far is that full- their qualifications via the National four-year term as the Director of the Law time academic administration is all- Committee on Accreditation. In this and Technology Institute at Dalhousie, encompassing.” changing environment, I think we must and a term as a member of the board Nevertheless, Professor Deturbide continue to focus on our strengths: our of directors of the Canadian IT Law is determined to continue academic national character, tradition of academic Association. He is a practising member pursuits. He recently completed a report excellence, and encouragement of of the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society to the federal Department of Justice on public service.” •

Patricia Hyndman: first female teacher at Dal Law

honours, followed by a Master of Laws degree, from In 1972 Dr. Hyndman moved to Australia University College London. She also qualified for taking up a lecturing post at the University of New admission as a Barrister-at-Law at Gray’s Inn. South Wales. She became a leading academic and Dr. Hyndman came to Dalhousie in 1965. humanitarian contributor to the field of human rights Bringing to Dalhousie an expertise in shipping in the Asia-Pacific area—as a consultant in human law, she initiated courses in marine insurance and rights and refugee law; as a member of observer carriage of goods by sea. She recalls working hard missions in Sri Lanka; as an inspector of Thai border to establish her credentials within the traditional camps; and as a leader in LAWASIA, a professional bastions of male privilege. One particular incident association of lawyers, judges and law teachers stands out in her memory. At a welcoming party to in the region. In 2000 Dalhousie conferred an Patricia Hyndman (nee Walker), the Law School’s mark the beginning of the academic year, the new honorary Doctor of Laws degree upon Dr. Hyndman first female lecturer, paid a visit to the Weldon lecturer was whirled aloft by an enthusiastic member in recognition of her outstanding contributions to Building while on a visit to Nova Scotia in July. Dr. of the Law Students’ Society. He had mistaken her international human rights and her pioneering work Hyndman is a distinguished educator, author and for a new student. Female law students were as with respect to the plight of refugees. Dr. Hyndman activist in the area of international human rights. much a rarity as female lecturers at this period in the resides in Danbury, England, with her teenage She received a Bachelor of Laws degree with School’s history. daughters Alexandra and Natasha. •

50 Hearsay 2008 Dalhousie Law School Innis Christie doubly honoured Professor Innis Christie, Q.C. (LL.B.‘62) is recipient of both the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society 2008 Distinguished Service Award, and the University of Toronto’s 2008 Bora Laskin Award for Outstanding Contributions to Labour Law in Canada. The Barristers’ Society award is presented to a member who has made significant contributions to the profession, his or her community, and the Society. In announcing the award it was stated that Innis Christie has excelled “as a legal scholar, arbitrator, and public servant. “ The University of Toronto’s Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources in noting Professor Christie’s accomplishments stated: “Innis Christie’s career in labour law “…He has taught, mentored and inspired generations of labour law students across Canada…” has been truly impressive. He has taught, Following receipt of his Bachelor of law, commercial law, poverty law and mentored and inspired generations of Laws’ degree in 1962, he received a professional responsibility. His academic labour law students across Canada, and Diploma in Comparative Legal Studies contributions have also included his contributions to academic labour from Cambridge University (1964) numerous books and articles. Employment law, to public policy formation and and an LL.M. from Yale University Law in Canada, now edited by Professor administration, to labour arbitration and (1969). He began a teaching career at Geoffrey England, remains the leading adjudication, and to legal education, Queen’s University in Ontario in 1964, text in that field. are broad, deep and enduring. To our but returned to Nova Scotia to teach at Professor Christie’s continuing great benefit he continues to serve our Dalhousie Law School in 1971. During “parallel career” as a leading arbitrator community, which now honours him with this period he was a visiting Professor and tribunal adjudicator cuts across this award.” at the University of Victoria, British a wide range of industries, the public Previous Bora Laskin Award winners Columbia, at Leuven University, Belgium, sector, and universities. He has served as include York University Professor and at Vreij University, Holland. He Chair of the Nova Scotia Labour Relations (and former York President) Harry W. served as Dean of Law at Dalhousie from Board (1972-1979); Deputy Minister in Arthurs; Professor Emeritus Pierre Verge 1985-1991. Following his retirement in the Nova Scotia Department of Labour (University of Laval); Paul C. Weller, Henry 2003 Professor Christie taught part-time (1993-1994); and, Chair (1996-2001) of J. Friendly Professor of Law (Harvard at Dalhousie Law School until 2007. the Nova Scotia Workers’ Compensation University); leading practitioners In the early 1970s Professor Christie Board. Particularly in the labour law Roy Heenan and Mel Myers; and, the taught the first law school course field, Professor Christie has also played a Honourable Warren Winkler (CJO). in employment law. However, his leading role in law reform both in Nova Professor Christie was born in teaching activities have included Scotia and nationally. • Amherst, Nova Scotia. He studied a wide range of subjects including political science and law at Dalhousie. contracts, administrative law, labour

Dalhousie Law School Hearsay 2008 51  FACULTY NEWS Retiring The Law School honours Hugh Kindred and Dick Evans on th eir academic careers and years of loyal and dedicated service

I first met Dick when I was a not-so-young student and he was a not-so-old professor. I was going to work at the Clinic in the summer of 1977, so I spent a day that spring following Dick around, in and out of court and with clients. What I remember was Dick’s enthusiasm for what he was doing, his interest in my student perspective, his genuine fondness for his clients, and his happy cynicism about the justice system. Not much has changed in the intervening thirty years, even as Dick retires from the law school. Dick “retiring”? Not possible, not in any sense of that word. Dick came to Dalhousie from Ontario in 1975, to become director of Dalhousie Legal Aid Service (DLAS), the first of his many stints there. Throughout his tenure at the Law School, Dick has been a force for clinical teaching: executive director of DLAS 1975-79, 1987-89 and 1991-95; long-time member of the Board of Trustees of DLAS; creator of the Clinical Course in Criminal Law (“the criminal clinic”); co-author of the 1985 Christie-Evans-Johnson Report (which proposed that every third-year student have a clinical experience, sadly never fully implemented); architect of the Law School’s application for the 1998 Emil Gumpert Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Trial Advocacy (the first Canadian law school to win the award); and recipient of the Pottier Award in 2003 for his outstanding contributions to Dal Legal Aid. Dick has also made other large contributions to the Law School, the University and the community. I mention just a few: his shepherding of the design and new construction of the building after “the fire” in 1985; his chairing of the Student Finance committee for many years; his recent membership on the University’s Board of Governors; and his active involvement in Oxfam Canada since 1999. Richard (Dick) L. Evans More important for me is a string of memories: Dick and his wife Eiblis inviting all us Clinic students to their house for parties in the ‘70s; Dick reporting back to the DLAS Board of Dick Evans is looking forward to doing the things he enjoys most, such as spending time with his family. Trustees on the first Nova Scotia Legal Aid funding in 1977-78 (I was a student member of the Board); “discussions” with Dick back then that were loud enough that the late Sarah MacKenzie asked us to keep it down; his providing me with helpful advice when I became the director of Dal Legal Aid in 1982; day trips on his sailboat in honour of various occasions; Dick going back to the Clinic in the late ‘80s when it needed direction and then leading the charge as part of the “Gang of Five” (ex-clinic faculty) to help “save the Clinic” during the Faculty Council debates; Dick and I working together as “co-directors” of the clinic in the early ‘90s (a scary thought to everyone except us); and many, many hallway/street corner/farmers market conversations about the latest injustice, court decision, social policy, newspaper article, community event, former student, family happening, grandchild and most anything else under the sun. —Professor Rollie Thompson 52 Hearsay 2008 Dalhousie Law School The Law School honours Hugh Kindred and Dick Evans on th eir academic careers and years of loyal and dedicated service

For 37 years the Law School faculty had the privilege, pleasure and good fortune to work with Professor Hugh Kindred, a much admired and respected colleague and friend. A barrister at Lincoln’s Inn, England, and barrister and solicitor in Nova Scotia, Professor Kindred will be retiring from Dalhousie this year at the height of a sterling career in teaching, research, public service and active participation in the governance of the Law School. Professor Kindred is probably best known for his internationalism. His education and training prepared him well for a distinguished career in international law. Originally from Kent, England, he completed his undergraduate legal education at the University of Bristol in 1967, followed by graduate degrees from the University of London (1969) and the University of Illinois (1971). Following short stints as Teaching Fellow at the University of Illinois and as intern at the United Nations Secretariat in New York he joined Dalhousie as assistant professor in 1971, became associate professor in 1974 and full professor in 1979. His teaching and research at Dalhousie was punctuated by stints as Director of the Marine and Environmental Law Programme and as senior legal officer with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva. Over the years, and especially since the late Ronald St. John Macdonald assumed the deanship of Dalhousie Law School, the School has attracted some of Canada’s best international legal minds, creating a veritable international legal powerhouse that included (in addition to Professor Macdonald himself), the late Professor Douglas M. Johnston and Professor Edgar Gold. Their efforts probably constituted one of Dalhousie’s earliest Hugh M. Kindred major efforts at internationalizing education on campus. That

initial group laid the foundations of a tradition that continues Hugh Kindred with his wife, Sheilagh, this year in Trafalgar Square today. Professor Kindred was at the centre of much of this internationalist tradition at the Law School. received numerous competitive and prestigious research grants, Students at Dalhousie benefited tremendously from the including several SSHRCs. He authored and co-authored many many courses he taught over the years. In 1984 he coached the widely regarded works and received laudatory reviews from Dalhousie Jessup Team which went on to win the prestigious around the world. His output as a scholar and its significance Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, for the various legal fields he crossed is remarkable. receiving a certificate of distinction as faculty advisor. He For many academics, retirement is not really a retreat, but animated classes and challenged students to excel, several of rather an opportunity to embark on more selective pursuits whom went on to publish outstanding research papers. The and thereby continue to be part of the community to which numerous LLM and JSD students he supervised or advised they belong. Professor Kindred is likely to follow this tradition, over the years will remember the attention they received in albeit from different locations in England and Nova Scotia, to their research and successful completion of theses. It was not maximise on the benefits of different climates! He continues altogether surprising to see Professor Kindred winner of the to maintain his professional associations, including (and most 2003 Canadian Association of Law Teachers (CALT) Award for fortunately) as an associate of the Marine & Environmental Law Academic Excellence, a prestigious award open to a faculty (MEL) Institute to which he has contributed so much. While his member from any of the 21 law schools in Canada. MEL Institute colleagues wish him well on his retirement, they A quintessential team player, Professor Kindred produced will be looking forward to remaining in contact and inducing several highly regarded scholarly works. Over the years he him into new pursuits! — Professor Aldo Chircop

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J. of Int. & Comp. Law, 2008), co- authored with D. Dzidzornu, J. Guerreiro and C. Grilo; Professor Chircop co-edited Volumes 21 and 22 of the Ocean Yearbook (Leiden: Nijhoff) with Professor McConnell and Scott Coffen-Smout. At Dalhousie, Professor Chircop continued academic affiliations with the Marine Affairs Programme (Faculty of Management), International Development Studies Programme (Faculty of Arts and Social Vaughan Black DAVID BLAIKIE SARAH BRADLEY Sciences) and the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies Vaughan Black management at Hue University “The Origins of a Coming Crisis: (Department of Political Science). Vaughan Black taught Animals later in the year. Renewal of the Churchill Falls He was also elected Vice- and the Law, Conflicts of Law, He is working to complete a Contract”. Professor Bradley President (Atlantic) in the Coastal and Tort Law and Damage few book projects. With Professor attended the annual conference of Zone Canada Association. ULTY PR O FILES C ULTY Compensation. In the summer Diana Ginn, he is finishing a the American Law & Economics he taught a course on Judicial book for the US market, American Association at Columbia Law Steve Coughlan

FA Remedies at the University of Religious Institutions and the Law School, and is currently writing Steve Coughlan and family Sherbrooke and delivered a (Continuum Books). He is also a commentary on the Nova Scotia happily spent the second half of lecture on the law of causation at writing a volume of Halsbury’s Companies Act and pursuing a his sabbatical last year in New the University of Montreal. He Laws of Canada on the law of research project relating to the Zealand, with side trips to Hawaii wrote a report for the Federal damages (Lexis Nexis). governance of business trusts. and Australia on the way there Department of Justice on He is involved as co-editor of a and back. They were settled in implementation of the Hague book with Darrel Pink, Executive Aldo Chircop Dunedin on the South Island, but Choice of Court Convention and Director of the Nova Scotia Professor Chircop continued with frequent trips to the various attended the annual meeting of Barristers’ Society and Justice to teach Contracts and Judicial petrified forests, penguin colonies, the Uniform Law Conference of Thomas A. Cromwell, Nova Scotia Rule-Making, Maritime Law fiords, glow worm caves, glaciers, Canada to speak on that subject. Court of Appeal. The book, to and Practice, and Law of Marine rainforests, albatross colonies, and He published a paper on tort law be published by Irwin Law, will Environment Protection. He was Lord of the Rings tourism sites to in the Alberta Law Review and one present a balanced discussion and the recipient of the Dalhousie be found. While there, Steve was on conflict of laws in the Canadian critique of lawyers and lawyering Student Union Teaching completing a book relating the Business Law Journal, and he spoke in Canada. It will be comprised Excellence Award for the Faculty work of Kurt Gödel, a philosopher about assessment of damages at a of about 16 short essays written of Law. Over the course of last of logic and mathematics, to conference at Carleton University. for the general reader by a diverse year, Professor Chircop’s research criminal law. With the start of He continued to chair hearings group of Canadians: judges, activity focused on transboundary the new academic year, Steve for Dalhousie’s Senate Discipline lawyers, artists, academics, marine protected areas, coastal returned to teaching first year Committee. politicians and journalists. law and Arctic shipping. Criminal Law as well as Criminal He participated in various Procedure and Criminal Law David Blaikie Sarah Bradley conferences and international Problems. Professor Blaikie taught Civil Professor Bradley is one of the meetings in Sweden, Portugal, Procedure and Torts this past year. newest members of the faculty, and Uruguay. His most recent Rob Currie In late April, he traveled to Hue having joined us in July 2007. publications include: PSSA in Rob Currie’s licence plate says City, Vietnam where he co-taught Her research interests are in the the Baltic Sea: Present Situation “I’d Rather Be Teaching,” and (with Professor Ginn) a seminar business law area, particularly and Future Possibilities (Malmo, it’s true. In the spring of 2008, on advanced conflict management corporate finance and corporate Sweden: World Maritime Professor Currie was deeply at Hue University. The seminar governance. This year, she University, 2007), a monograph/ honoured to receive the Law was part of a CIDA funded taught courses in Business research brief co-written with Students’ Society and Alumni project, Principles in Practice: Associations and Corporate O. Linden, M. Pourzanjani, J-U. Association Award for Excellence Ocean and Coastal Governance Finance. Her publications for Schroeder and S. Raaymakers; in Teaching. He ascribes this in Vietnam and the Philippines, the year included a commentary “Climate Change and the award to “having had excellent which aims to enable Vietnam and regarding the history of the Prospects of Increased Navigation teachers myself, having some of the Philippines to build capacities renewal provision of the Upper in the Canadian Arctic” (WMU J. the best students in the country in coastal and ocean policy, law Churchill Falls hydro contract of Mar. Aff., 200); “The Maritime here at Dal, and close study of and management. They have been entitled Conflict of Interest, Zones of African States in the the collected works of Johnny invited back to teach a graduate Duress and Unconscionability in Law of the Sea: Benefits Gained, Cash” [we’re not sure what he level law course in conflict Quebec Civil Law: Comment on Opportunities Missed” (African means by that last bit – ed.].

54 Hearsay 2008 Dalhousie Law School Jocelyn Downie Jocelyn had an interesting and challenging year trying to move her research results “from the tower to the trenches.” Building on previous academic writing, she sat on the Experts Committee for Human Research Participant Protection that has recommended the creation of a new system of oversight for research involving humans in Canada. She also drafted a federal bill to decriminalize assisted suicide as ALDO CHIRCOP STEVE COUGHLAN ROB CURRIE well as arguments that could be used in a court challenge to the He had another wonderful Richard Devlin and L. Langevin] available on current Criminal Code prohibition year of teaching International 2007 – 2008 has been an energetic videocast at . engaged in Nova Scotia health topped off by the victories of the as the Associate Dean Graduate Professor Devlin has also law reform initiatives – working Jessup moot team, which placed Studies and Research and taught been working on several other against the mandatory gunshot second at the Canadian National Contracts, the Legal Profession scholarly projects: a co-edited and stab wound reporting bill Round and won prizes for both and Professional Responsibility casebook Legal Ethics and and in support of the advance oral and written advocacy at and the Graduate Seminar. The Lawyers’ Regulation; an essay on directives bill. the International Round in return to teaching first-year “The End(s) of Self-Regulation(?)” Jocelyn was honoured to share Washington, D.C. Contracts after a two-year hiatus with LL.M. candidate Porter the Canadian Association of Law Professor Currie’s research was particularly enjoyable Heffernan; and a paper on Teachers Award for Academic efforts have also proceeded apace. Professor Devlin has also mandatory legal ethics education Excellence with Richard Devlin. Along with colleagues Steve developed a module on Contracts with Professor Downie, entitled Her Canada Research Chair was Coughlan and Hugh Kindred (and For Engineers for the Faculty of “Horses to Water ...”. renewed for five years and she former colleague Teresa Scassa) he Engineering. Much of the year was spent began work on her new five-year was a co-recipient of a substantial On the scholarship side, in the clutches of Air Canada as research agenda on women’s SSHRC grant to further their Professor Devlin published one Professor Devlin was invited to health law and policy (through research into extraterritorial solely authored essay, “Return participate in various conferences two main projects: the legal jurisdiction — research that of the Undead: Fundamental and workshops in Singapore, determinants of women’s health; saw their first co-writing effort Breach Disinterred” (2007) 86 Hanoi, Montreal (twice), Toronto and relational theory). cited by the Supreme Court of Can. Bar. Rev. 1-38 and five co- (thrice), Vancouver, Edmonton, As always, she enjoyed Canada. Rob was also invited authored essays: “Mandatory Calgary and Banff. It was a supervising a range of talented to give papers at a conference Legal Education is a Step in particular privilege to be invited graduate and post-graduate on the implementation of the Right Direction” Lawyers to Victoria to give the Murray students and teaching Health international law, held at the Weekly (March, 2008) 3 [with Fraser Memorial Lecture at the Care Ethics and Law as well as University of Western Ontario’s J. Downie]; “Are Law Schools Faculty of Law in commemoration Legal Ethics and Professional law faculty in September 2007, Amoral Boot Camps?” (2008) of one of Dalhousie Law School’s Responsibility. and at the Canadian Council 16: Literary Review of Canada most distinguished alumni. on International Law annual 6-7 [with J. Downie]; “Social Professor Devlin was deeply Elaine Gibson conference in October 2007. He is Context Education for Realising honoured to be the co-recipient, Along with teaching and research, hopeful that his book, International Equality Rights: Lessons from with Professor Downie, of the Professor Elaine Gibson has and Transnational Criminal Law, the Canadian Experience” (2007) 2008 Canadian Association of Law spent a significant amount of will be published in 2008. He Commonwealth Judicial Education Teachers Award for Academic time and resources this year is also looking forward to the Institute Report 13-17 (with D. Excellence. This is the first time on policy-oriented activities. ten-year reunion of the Dal Law Hackett & T.G. Puthucherril); the Award has been jointly She presented the results of Class of 1998, which will be held Taking Responsibility: Mandatory conferred and was given in a multi-year project on legal in the fall of 2008, and hopes Legal Ethics in Canadian Law recognition not only of Professor aspects of privacy and electronic to reconnect with friends and Schools” (2007) 65:6 The Advocate Devlin’s and Downie’s individual information to Health Canada, classmates then. 761-778 [with J. Downie and contributions to the legal academy Justice, and the Office of the S. Lane]; and “Doing Contract but also in acknowledgement Privacy Commissioner. Professor Theory in First Year Law School: of their collaborative work on Gibson produced a report for The Iceberg Method” (2007) 1 promoting Legal Ethics and the Nova Scotia Department of Canadian Legal Education Annual Professional Responsibility. Health on recommendations for Review 1-36. [with T. Duggan research provisions in health

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Society and Alumni Association Award for Teaching Excellence. Michael actively pursued his research interests in the areas of regulating human biomedical research and neuroimaging ethics. He authored several peer-reviewed journal articles, including a paper on incidental findings in magnetic resonance imaging research that will appear in the Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, and an article entitled,

RICHARD DEVLIN JOCELYN DOWNIE ELAINE GIBSON “The Therapeutic Misconception: A Threat to Valid Parental Consent information legislation. She also Law and Religion. This spring, Osgoode Hall in fall 2007. for Paediatric Neuroimaging drafted a paper on the legal duty along with colleague Professor In November he presented a Research”, for Accountability of disclosure for presentation to David Blaikie, she co-taught a paper entitled “Liberty in Canada: in Research. Additionally, the Newfoundland Commission seminar on advanced conflict Michael wrote a book chapter on ULTY PR O FILES C ULTY Multiple Subjects, Multiple of Inquiry on Hormone management at Hue University in Freedoms” at a workshop in “Navigating the Sea of Biomedical Receptor Testing. She assisted Vietnam. The seminar was part of Cincinnati, Ohio on the theme Research Regulations”, which FA representatives of the Department a CIDA funded project, Principles of “Liberty and Cultural will be published in the Handbook of Health of Trinidad and in Practice: Ocean and Coastal Transmission in the British for Clinician Scientists: Tools for a Tobago in their preparation of Governance in Vietnam and the Empire.” The pursuit of Canadian Successful Academic Career, and new mental health legislation. Philippines. Professors Ginn and legal history will continue to prepared a “Neuroethics Case Professors Gibson and Downie Blaikie have been invited back figure in Professor Girard’s Study” with corresponding appeared before the Nova Scotia to teach a graduate level course future with his receipt of a Social commentary for the United Law Amendments Committee in conflict management at Hue Sciences and Humanities Council Nations Educational, Scientific to critique draft legislation on University later in the year. Standard Research Grant of and Cultural Organization’s mandatory reporting of gunshot Professor Ginn is currently approximately $140,000 to explore (UNESCO) book, Ethics in and stab wounds. As a result of working on two books. With “Canadian Legal History, c. 1500- Research. this intervention, the legislation colleague David Blaikie 2000.” Professors Jim Phillips In March 2008, Michael ended up being significantly she is co-writing American of the University of Toronto and delivered a talk entitled “What if revised prior to its enactment. Religious Institutions and the Blake Brown of the Department of Guinea Pigs Had Voices?” to the Professor Gibson was also Law (Continuum Books). She History, Saint Mary’s University, University of Windsor Faculty involved in judicial education, is also completing a volume of are co-investigators on the grant. of Law and, this June, will be presenting a paper on information Halsbury’s Laws of Canada on the On the teaching front, presenting his paper on incidental laws at a seminar organized by law of religious institutions. (Lexis Professor Girard enjoyed teaching findings in MRI research at the National Judicial Institute Nexis). Property, giving his Pension the annual Canadian Bioethics seminar on “Preparing for a In 2007-08, Professor Ginn Law course for the second time, Society conference in St. John’s, Pandemic”. She hosted the continued as the law school offering Canadian Legal History, Newfoundland. ever-popular seminar series on representative on the Nova Scotia and coaching the Laskin Moot Health Law and Policy, with Law Reform Commission. team to a third-place finish in Mohamed Khimji approximately 70 to 80 people in Winnipeg. Mohamed Khimji continues to attendance for each of the eight Philip Girard teach Commercial Law (A) – Sale seminars throughout the academic Professor Girard’s project on the Michael Hadskis of Goods, Commercial Law (B) year. Along with Professor Lahey, history of the Halifax bar in the Professor Michael Hadskis taught – Secured Transactions, Property new Director of the Health Law first half of the twentieth century the core “Health Law” course and Rights in Investment Securities, Institute, she presented a seminar was supported by the Borden acted as the faculty supervisor and supervise the Canadian in this series on “Patient Safety Ladner Gervais Fellowship, for the Health Law Placement Corporate/Securities Law Moot Laws: From Silos to Systems”. which enabled him to hire Jeffrey course. As well, he oversaw and team. In the next academic year, All in all, it has been a busy and Haylock for the summer of 2007. delivered health law education he will also be teaching a new rewarding year! The two co-authored a paper in the Faculty of Medicine at the seminar course called Current entitled “Stratification, Economic M.D. and post-graduate levels, Issues in Corporate Law. His Diana Ginn Adversity, and Diversity in an and oversaw the health law research focuses primarily on In 2007-08, Diana Ginn returned Urban Bar: Halifax, Nova Scotia curriculum in the Faculties of property rights in the electronic to the classroom full time after 1900-1950,” which was presented Dentistry and Health Professions. cross border financial markets. three years as Associate Dean. She at a conference on Canadian Michael was enormously Recent publications include “The th taught Property, Administrative legal history held on the 175 honoured to have been nominated Securities Transfer Act - The Law, and a new seminar on anniversary of the building of for the Dalhousie Law Students’ Radical Reconceptualization of

56 Hearsay 2008 Dalhousie Law School series. Professor Lahey lectured on environmental governance in the Faculty of Management’s Management Without Borders Program, in Professor Doelle’s class in environmental law and in a class on public administration at Mount Saint Vincent University. He presented at the second annual Regulatory Craft in Nova Scotia conference and to the annual meeting of the Nova Scotia Chapter of the Canadian Evaluation Society. As Director

DIANA GINN PHILIP GIRARD MICHAEL HADSKIS of the Health Law Institute, Professor Lahey is working Property Rights in Investment some of the maritime fallout of International Trade and Shipping to expand opportunities for Securities” (2007) 45 Alberta the terrorist attacks of 9-11-2001 and will cooperate with Dawn teaching, research and public Law Review 137 - 170 and under the title “Consequences Russell in delivering the course on service collaborations across Annotated Securities Transfer Act of Securing Merchant Shipping International Law, as he did in the the Dalhousie health policy (Ontario), 2008 ed. Markham, ON: for Contractual Relations in the fall of 2007. community, including with LexisNexis, 2007. This past year, Carriage of Seaborne Trade.” colleagues in the School of Health Mohamed also presented at the Professor Kindred also William Lahey Services Administration, in the National Centre for Business Law participated in a project for Professor Lahey returned to the Medical Humanities Program on the topic “Securities Transfer Transport Canada led by David Law School after spending three of the Medical School and in Act & the Implications for British VanderZwaag and Aldo Chircop years on leave as Nova Scotia’s the School of Nursing. He Columbia” and was consulted by to review the international Deputy Minister of Environment represented the Law School on the Government of Nova Scotia on governance of shipping in the and Labour. At the same time, the university steering committee the implementation of provincial Arctic in anticipation of its he began his tenure as Director of that has developed a proposal for securities transfer legislation. In increase as a consequence of Dalhousie’s Health Law Institute. a new undergraduate degree in addition, along with co-applicant warming climatic and reducing He returned to the teaching of sustainability and served on the Professor Chris Nicholls of the ice conditions. His part was to Public Law to first years, and working group on governance Faculty of Law at the University appraise the regulation of the again taught Health System Law and accountability that is of Western Ontario, he was carriage of goods and passengers and Policy, as he had through his contributing to the development awarded a three-year $117,163 in the polar waters. leave of absence. He also taught of the proposed Nova Scotia research grant under the Social Along with Steve Coughlan, Health Law and Policy – Current Health Policy Research Centre at Sciences and Humanities Research Rob Currie and their former Issues, which runs in conjunction Dalhousie. Council (SSHRC) Standard colleague Teresa Scassa, Hugh with the Health Law Institute’s Research Grants program. The Kindred applied to the SSHRC lunchtime seminar series, and Jennifer Llewellyn grant proposal, entitled “Separate for funding to investigate coached Dalhousie’s Trilateral Professor Llewellyn was on Legal Personality and Limited the increasing problems of Moot team. Professor Lahey sabbatical beginning July 2007. Liability in Canadian Corporate extraterritorial jurisdiction published a chapter entitled During the spring term she was Law: An Empirical and Economic as a result of societal trends “Medicare and the Law: Contours a Visiting Professor at Vanderbilt Analysis”, involves an empirical to globalization. The quartet of an Evolving Relationship” Law School in Nashville, study of the judicial piercing of recently learned they were in the 3rd edition of Canadian Tennessee. Throughout her the corporate veil. successful in winning a Health Law and Policy (edited sabbatical she continued to be substantial grant for research by Professor Downie with the Director for the Nova Scotia Hugh Kindred assistance and travel expenses. colleagues from the Universities Restorative Justice Community During 2007-2008 Professor Hugh At the beginning of 2008 Hugh of Toronto and Alberta). With University Research Alliance, a Kindred was engaged in three moved from a full-time to a part- Professor Elaine Gibson, he five-year multi-partner research collaborative projects in the fields time relationship with the Law presented on continuing research grant funded by the Social of International and Maritime School and removed to England on governance, law and patient Science and Humanities Research Law. With Dr. Mary Brooks of for the winter/spring semester safety in Canada and five other Council of Canada. In addition, the Dalhousie Business School, where he began work on an aspect countries in the Health Law she worked on a number of other he contributed to the book on the of the extraterritorial jurisdiction Institute seminar series. He projects. She developed and Law of the Sea, edited by David project to do with the provision also presented on the links drafted a National Restorative VanderZwaag, Aldo Chircop of domestic legal remedies for between regulatory strategy Justice Policy for Jamaica as and Susan Rolston, in honour victims of international abuses and interdisciplinary practice a senior consultant with the of the late and much admired of their human rights. Upon among health care professionals United Nations Development colleague Dr. Douglas Johnston. his return to Halifax, he will at the University of Toronto’s Programme. She continued Hugh and Mary wrote about teach a seminar on the Law of health law and policy seminar her work in relation to Indian

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and communities. She also was invited to deliver a paper on the future of Aboriginal health at the National Health Law Conference in Banff. The paper was entitled “Envisioning the Future of Aboriginal Health under the Health Transfer Process”. As to her writing and publication activities, one new article appeared in the Supreme Court Law Review regarding recent developments in Aboriginal law. She has also

MOHAMED KHIMJI HUGH KINDRED BILL LAHEY had two articles accepted which are due to be published this Residential Schools Abuse, and the International Studies firms, government departments, year. One develops upon the acting as an advisor to the Truth Association Congress in San institutions and members of the paper delivered at the National and Reconciliation Commission Francisco. profession discard print in favour Health Law Conference, and the and writing an article for the of digital materials, valuable second, due to be published in the ULTY PR O FILES C ULTY Aboriginal Healing Foundation’s ANN MORRISON & THE Library historical legal information will be Ottawa Law Review, analyses the recent edited collection. Professor 2007 was a busy, productive irretrievably lost. jurisdictional and policy aspects

FA Llewellyn was invited to join the year at the Law Library. Joan She was fortunate indeed to of why drinking water quality on Working Group on Restorative Simpson, our cataloguer for 27 welcome another grandson for the First Nations reserves continues to Justice at the Alliance of NGOs years retired in June to enjoy her third year in a row, which brings be unacceptable, despite copious on Crime Prevention and family and garden and we wish the grand total to seven. spending. Criminal Justice in New York. her a long and happy retirement. Professor MacIntosh is She also became a member of In September, we welcomed Constance MacIntosh scheduled to be on sabbatical this the steering committee for the professional librarian Jennifer This year Professor MacIntosh coming year, and will be hosted working group’s Restorative Adams as our new Catalogue/ applied for and was granted by the University of Victoria Law Peacebuilding Project. In this role Reference Librarian. David tenure and promotion to the School and the POLIS Project on she co-authored a briefing paper Michels, Head of Reference, was position of Associate Professor. Ecological Governance. on the topic, gave a presentation on a sabbatical year working She reports that she is delighted to United Nations member states toward a PHD degree in to join the ranks of her tenured A. Wayne MacKay and the Peacebuilding Support Interdisciplinary Studies. colleagues. Returning from sabbatical leave Office in New York in October and New carpet was installed on Professor MacIntosh has is a bittersweet experience. The testified before the United Nations the main floor of the library as the continued to teach in the core area return to structure and pressing Peacebuilding Commission constant traffic of law students of contract law, and in her areas of deadlines can be an adjustment, Lessons Learned Committee in in and out of the library had specialization, aboriginal law and but the return to student contact February. She also gave a seminar worn the carpet thin and the immigration and refugee law, and is always invigorating and on restorative peacebuilding floor underneath was starting to also as the coach for Dalhousie’s rewarding. The 2007 – 2008 at the Center for Transitional deteriorate! moot team for the Kawaskimhon academic term also marks Justice in New York. Professor Ann Morrison continues Aboriginal Rights Moot. She Professor MacKay’s return to Llewellyn was also asked to to teach the first year Legal reports that this year was another teaching Constitutional Law, after advise the Social Science Research Research and Writing course and strong year in terms of the quality a six-year absence, which include Council in the United States on to co-teach the Advanced Legal of students in her classes, and that his time as President of Mount the development of a research Research seminar. She attended she thoroughly enjoys working Allison. Much has happened in focus on religion, reconciliation the International Association of with the broad range of students Constitutional Law over the last and transitional justice. In Law Libraries’ annual course in who are attracted to Dal law. six years, but Professor MacKay addition to these activities she Mumbai, India in December and Professor MacIntosh was reports that he enjoyed the re- was invited to present at a continues to serve as Treasurer invited to speak at a number of entry and gained an increased number of conferences this past to the Association. She has been conferences this year, including respect for the excellent (if year, including the Canadian working with the members of participating in a plenary session lengthy) decisions of the Supreme Institute for the Administration the Nova Scotia Legal Archives at the Tenth National Metropolis Court of Canada in this important of Justice in Halifax, the Working Group, a new initiative Conference: Expanding the legal area. International Conference on funded by the Law Foundation Debate: Multiple Perspectives on In addition to his teaching Restorative Practices in Budapest, of Nova Scotia, to identify legal Immigration to Canada where and administrative duties he the Canadian Criminal Justice materials and documents that are she spoke on how law can both produced two major reports with Congress in Toronto, the at risk in Nova Scotia. This group enable and impede the formation a practical as well as academic International Restorative Justice of professional law librarians of meaningful connections impact. Professor Mackay Conference in Kingston, Jamaica, in Halifax is concerned that as between security institutions produced an extensive report on

58 Hearsay 2008 Dalhousie Law School activities makes it a great place to work.

Moira L. McConnell Professor McConnell taught two “small group” first-year Contract Law classes and an upper-year paper course, Law of the Sea. In addition to her LL.B. teaching, Professor McConnell continued with graduate supervision of Masters and Doctoral students at Dalhousie and at other universities, including the

JENNIFER LLEWELLYN ANN MORRISON CONSTANCE MACINTOSH Copenhagen Business School and the University of Bergen governance issues at Bishop’s chronological order these and Beyond” at The Viscount (Norway) Law School. She University in Lennoxville, Quebec presentations were: “Building Bennett Memorial lecture Series has also continued her work along with two other colleagues. More Inclusive Post Secondary in Fredericton, New Brunswick; with Professor Evangelos This was the final product Institutions: Beyond Barriers” “Does Academic Freedom Serve Raftopolous (Pantheon University, of a yearlong independent at King’s College Conference Democracy: Its Dimensions and Athens) in connection with the commission of inquiry, which for Registrars, Admissions Limitations” at Canadian Center Mediterranean Environmental he chaired. He also produced Officers and School Counselors; for Ethics in Public Affairs in Programme for International an extensive 210-page research “Respecting Constitutional Halifax, October 23, 2007. Environmental Law and paper for the Canadian Human Rights and the Values of In respect to research and Negotiation and the establishment Rights Commission, which will Equality: The Prime Directive” publications, Professor MacKay of a new university centre. be published on its web page as a at Alberta Special Education wrote two chapters for different In Spring 2007 she presented a focus for a consultation on adding Symposium in Red Deer, Alberta; books and two comments on paper, “The Economic Dynamics “social condition” as a prohibited “Safe and Inclusive Schools = controversial legal and social of International Labour Standards: ground of discrimination under Expensive / Quality Education issues in Canada. The details of Implications for International the Canadian Human Rights = Priceless / For Everything Else these publications are as follows: Labour Law and Practice” and Act. This work was done in There’s Lawyers” at Canadian “Social and Economic Rights in chaired a session at a workshop conjunction with his former Association for the Practical Canada: What Are They and Who on the Economic Dynamics of student and now Privy Council Study of Law and Education Can Best Protect Them?” (with International Labour Standards lawyer, Natasha Kim. in Halifax; “Equality, Inclusion the assistance of Natasha Kim), held at the ILO, Geneva, On matters of practical and the Need for Professional in J. Magnet (eds.), Canadian Switzerland. Throughout the application, Professor MacKay Support” at 2008 Colloquium Rights and Freedoms: 25 Years summer 2007 she wrote a major again presided as a Citizenship Series of the Dalhousie School under the Charter; Also a special paper, “‘Making labour history’ Judge (in his Order of Canada of Communication Disorders volume of the Sup. Ct. Law Rev; and the Maritime Labour capacity), on April 15, 2008 and in Halifax; “Guantanamo “The Lighthouse of Equality: A Convention, 2006: Implications swore in 52 Canadian citizens North: Security Certificates Guide to Inclusive Schooling” for international law making from all parts of the globe. He and Terrorism” at Ideal Law in M. Manley-Casimir (ed.) The (and responses to the dynamics has also been appointed by the Conference 2008 in Dalhousie Courts, the Charter and the of globalization)” that will be Association of Medical Faculties Law School; “The Supreme Court Schools; “Why the Government included in a book tribute to of Canada, as a member of a “Blue of Canada and Federalism: Does Was Wrong to Cancel the Court Douglas Johnson, to be published Ribbon” Panel to explore the re- Anyone Care Anymore?” at Challenges Program” (with Daniel in 2008. In Spring 2008 she design of medical education in Alberta Law School, Edmonton, McGruder and Kenneth Jennings), agreed to write a book on the Canada. This investigation will Alberta; “The Lighthouse of in M. Charlton and P. Barker (eds.) Convention. The book should be proceed over the next year. Equality and Inclusive Schooling” Crosscurrents: Contemporary published in late 2009 or early On his continuously active at the Sixth Annual Lieutenant Political Issues (6th ed.); “Social 2010. conference circuit, Professor Governor Hole Lecture in Public and Economic Rights in Canada: In July, Juan Herrera, a Doctoral MacKay is a sought after keynote Education, Edmonton, Alberta; What Are They and Who Can Best candidate from Mexico that speaker and he performed that “The Comparative Roles of Courts Protect Them?” in Association for she had supervised for the last role in ten conferences during and Administrative Agencies: Canadian Studies, The Charter of 3 years, successfully defended the last year. As the following Applying Constitutional Rights and Freedoms in Canadian his dissertation examining list suggests, the topics and Principles of Diversity in Canada” Society: 1982-2007 / Canadian biodiversity protection, GMOs audiences were both diverse at the CBA Administrative and Issues / Thémes Canadiens. and international trade. and multi-disciplinary in nature. Labour Law Conference in Professor MacKay reports that In October 2007 she was These engagements also take Gatineau, Quebec; “Inclusive the opportunity that the Law invited to give a tribute to the him to many different places Schools: Principles, Promises and School provides to engage in a late Honourable Justice Bertha throughout Canada. In reverse Challenges: The MacKay Report diverse and interesting range of Wilson at the Francis Fish Women

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in Constitutional Law (2008, Carswell Press, ed. L. Rotman et. al.); “Buy This Book! Commercial Expression in Canada” 2008, 46 Canadian Business Law Journal 111; “Inadmissible, eh?” 2007 7:9 The American Journal of Bioethics 67 (co-author with Jocelyn Downie). Professor Murphy also prepared the Nova Scotia Bar Ad materials on constitutional law, and prepared evidence law materials for presentations to provincial and superior court A. WAYNE MACKAY MOIRA MCCONNELL RONALDA MURPHY jurists. Professor Murphy was Lawyers’ Achievement Award Labour Standards Department, on her doctorate in law. This was awarded the Border Ladner ceremony. She is also one of a ILO, mainly in connection with an a great year for several former Gervais Research Fellowship to number of feminist scholars from Action Plan to encourage the rapid students who won national hire a student (Erin Toflo) to begin law schools across Canada who and widespread ratification of the and international scholarship empirical research into sexual ULTY PR O FILES C ULTY are collaborating to produce recently adopted Maritime Labour competitions as well as admission assault and burdens of proof a book examining the legal Convention, 2006. to top graduate schools (see rules in Canadian criminal trials.

FA contributions of Justice Wilson. She has continued, with Aldo “Student News” in this issue). For the academic year 2008-09 Professor McConnell’s article Chircop and Scott Coffen-Smout, It is a pleasure to see so many she is on sabbatical. She will be a examines the area of contract law. to co-edit the international Dalhousie graduates achieve visiting scholar at the University She also worked with Professor interdisciplinary Ocean early career success. In addition of the Witwatersrand (in South Bill Lahey, Director of the Health Yearbook and has remained an to teaching students, Professor Africa) where she taught between Law Institute, to develop and Associate Editor of the Yearbook Murphy often works with judges 1992 and 1994, and then she and obtain approval for a new course of International Environmental and is happily involved in both her son Zachary head to Toronto on environment and health that Law. In August 2007 she provincial and national judicial for the Sept-Dec. 2008 period will compare this emerging finished her term as the Vice- education on evidence law this where she will be visiting at the area of concern and the related president, Atlantic Region, of summer. She was academic co- University of Toronto Faculty of regulatory systems. the International Commission of chair of the successful Canadian Law. Professor Murphy intends Professor McConnell has Jurists (Canadian Section). She Institute for the Administration to spend the second half of her remained an active participant was appointed by the University of Justice Annual Conference in sabbatical in Halifax. in the Marine & Environmental to be a member of the Dalhousie Halifax in October 2007, and Chair Law (MEL) Institute projects. She Art Gallery Advisory Committee of the Dalhousie Rhodes Scholar Dianne Pothier received funding, as Leader of the and she remains a member of selection committee, in addition to Dianne Pothier took part in International Ocean Governance the University Senate. Professor committee work within the Law the class of ‘82’s 25th reunion Working Group of the Ocean McConnell remarks that 2009 will School. activities at the end of September Management Research Network mark her 20th year as a member Professor Murphy has benefited 2007, seeing many classmates for (OMRN), to organize and chair of the Law School faculty. from on-going conversations the first time since graduation. panels for the OMRN national with faculty on a range of legal Another contact from Law School meeting and the Coastal Zone Ronalda Murphy issues, the law school community student days was renewed by Canada Conference. Along Professor Murphy began the remains a constant source of an invitation from Michael with colleagues in the MEL term celebrating with classmates stimulation and friendship. The Lynk (class of ‘81) to present at Institute she began work on a from her Dalhousie Law School excellent work of recent law a labour law and human rights European Commission funded graduating class (1987) at their school graduate, Audrey Barrett, conference held at Western Law project examining EU-Canada 20th year reunion. She recovered and current 2nd year student, Erin School at the end of October ocean governance and on a enough to teach her usual Toflo, as well as administrative 2007. Dianne’s presentation Donner Foundation Russia- stable of courses: Evidence assistant, Tammi Hayne, allowed was about developments in Canada comparative study, as and Constitutional Law, and her to publish a variety of papers human rights protection against well working on a number of the Advanced Comparative and chapters in evidence and disability discrimination at consultancy projects in connection Constitutional Law Seminar. constitutional law: Chapter 24 work, combining her expertise with Arctic shipping and other Teaching students remains the “The Evidentiary Burden” and in labour and human rights law of the sea matters. hardest and most rewarding Chapter 25 “The Persuasive law. That combined expertise Throughout 2007-2008 aspect of her work at Dalhousie. Burden” in Canadian Criminal will also be utilized in Dianne’s Professor McConnell has also This past year she has had the Evidence, forthcoming July 2008 teaching, in June 2008, a course continued to work with the UN distinct pleasure of supervising (Canada Law Book, eds. Hill, on Charter and human rights in in her role as a Special Advisor to the brilliant work of Elaine Craig, Tanovich, and Strezos); “Peace, Labour Law, as part of Osgoode the Director of the International a Trudeau Scholar who is working Order and Good Government” Hall Law School’s Professional

60 Hearsay 2008 Dalhousie Law School Professor Thornhill successfully organized a week-long farewell Mini Film Series of the National Film Board (NFB) Films on Blacks in Canada which she gifted to Temple University, in her capacity as an NFB Trustee. Upon her return to Dalhousie Law School in September 2007, Professor Thornhill resumed her regular teaching duties in the areas of Administrative Law, International and Domestic Human Rights Law, and Critical DIANNE POTHIER ROLLIE THOMPSON ESMERALDA M.A. THORNHILL Race and Legal Theory; she also taught a module in Pre-Law, Masters of Law. Dianne’s current the lead article in a 2007 book of dedicated to the Black experience and delivered the First Year teaching at Dalhousie has been family law essays in honour of in Canada. The largest Black Orientation to Law lecture on Public Law and Constitutional his friend, the late Professor Jay Studies publication of its class, “The Implications of Race and Law at the LL.B. level, and McLeod, entitled “Five Vexing the JBS boasts a worldwide Culture for Legal Education and graduate supervision in areas of and Vexatious Issues in Family readership on four continents. The the Legal Profession”. As well, constitutional and labour law. Law Evidence and Procedure”, initial “Call for Contributions” she co-taught with Professor John Dianne is also a member of the covering issues of privilege, generated an overwhelming Barnstead a module on “Richard Legal Program Committee of hearsay, summary judgment response from African Canadian Wright and Dostoevsky” in the LEAF (Women’s Legal Education and vexatious litigants. He also scholars in both Canada and the upper year course in Russian and Action Fund). spoke on these topics at the NJI United States and resulted in Studies, Dostoevsky and Western Family Law Seminar, held in the publication of an expanded Literature. Rollie Thompson snowy Quebec City in February double issue entitled, Blacks in Professor Thornhill continued Rollie Thompson returned to 2008. Rollie spoke about child Canada: Retrospects, Introspects, her service as an active participant Dalhousie and Halifax in the hearsay in child protection cases Prospects. on faculty standing committees, as year on sabbatical in Toronto. program in October 2007 and Professor Thornhill has accepted well as on Dalhousie’s Senate and He spent much of the fall term again at an Ontario Court of an invitation to join the Editorial Senate Steering Committee. writing the revised final version Justice program in January 2008. Board of the JBS. of the Spousal Support Advisory And he conducted two month- While at Temple, Professor David VanderZwaag Guidelines, with his colleague, long online courses in child Thornhill taught and lectured Professor VanderZwaag kept a Professor Carol Rogerson from protection procedure for judges at both undergraduate and busy lecturing schedule during the University of Toronto. These across Canada in 2008. Finally, he graduate levels in a variety of the year. In July, he presented guidelines are informal, not continued to edit the Butterworths units: African American Studies, a paper, “Canada’s Fisheries legislated, used by lawyers, loose-leaf version of the Nova Law, Education, and Humanities. Act, 2007: Propulsions Towards mediators and judges across Scotia Civil Procedure Rules, soon She was also invited to teach a Sustainability Amid a Sea of Canada to determine the amount to become a more interesting task Graduate Seminar in Humanities Governance Challenges” at and duration of spousal support with the new rules. at Cheyney University, the oldest the MARE 2007 Conference in family law cases. A “draft Rollie taught Civil Procedure HBCU (Historically Black College People and the Sea IV: ‘Who proposal” was released in January and Evidence at the Law School, and Universities) in the U.S. As Owns the Coast?’ hosted by the 2005. A number of adjustments as well as returning to the board Fulbright Scholar she presented Centre for Maritime Research in st have been made in the final of Dalhousie Legal Aid Service. scholarly papers at the 31 Annual Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He version, to be released by the Conference of the National also participated in a Maritime federal Department of Justice in Esmeralda M.A. Thornhill Council for Black Studies in San Compliance and Enforcement th June 2008. Rollie will be speaking Recipient of a 2006-2007 Canada- Diego, and at the 18 Cheikh Anta Workshop in Haiphong, Vietnam on the Guidelines at the National US Fulbright Visiting Scholar Diop International Conference in for government officials and Family Law Program, to be held Award, Professor Thornhill Philadelphia. lectured on Canadian struggles in July at Deerhurst, Ontario. spent a fulfilling sabbatical In addition, Professor Thornhill with controlling freedoms Rollie does read and write leave in residence at Temple engaged in public education of fishing and navigation about topics other than spousal University’s Department of African beyond academe. Not only did and Canadian innovations support too. In July 2007, he American Studies. the African American Museum offenders. In October, he was an family matters and facilitated During this time, she of Philadelphia, but she also invited speaker at the National a small group at the National successfully guest-edited an participated as an invited special Maritime Museum in Greenwich, Judicial Institute’s intensive unprecedented thematic issue of guest on the WURD live Open London on the topic, “Canada Evidence Workshop. Rollie wrote the Journal of Black Studies (JBS) Line radio programme. and National Ocean Policy: Still Dalhousie Law School Hearsay 2008 61  FACULTY NEWS

DAVID VANDERZWAAG SHEILA WILDEMAN MICHELLE WILLIAMS christian wiktor

Getting Its Oceans Act Together”. the globe and held under the Standards of Review in Theory Black Schoolhouse, to which she In December, he lectured to auspices of the IUCN. He also and Practice” to C. Flood & L. contributed, was released by the Chinese Association on the participated in a workshop, Sossin, eds., Administrative Law award-winning filmmaker Sylvia Law of the Sea and at China convened by WWF, The in Context (Toronto: Emond Hamilton in the fall of 2007. University of Political Science Netherlands, on the future of Montgomery, 2008). By far the greatest event of the ULTY PR O FILES C ULTY & Law in Beijing on “Canadian Arctic Ocean governance. year was celebrating the birth of Ocean Governance Approaches/ Publications during the Michelle Williams her first child, Joshua Lorde, born

FA Challenges in the Arctic” and year, among others, included, Professor Michelle Williams in March 2008. gave a public lecture at the “High Seas Fisheries: Troubled continued her work as Director of University of the Philippines, Waters, Tangled Governance and the Indigenous Blacks & Mi’kmaq Christian L. Wiktor Visayas, “The Precautionary Recovery Prospects” (2007) 64 (IB&M) Initiative, which included Professor Wiktor paid tribute to Approach and Ocean/Coastal (5) Behind the Headlines 1-32 community outreach, recruiting the contribution of Ronald St. Governance: Beacon of Hope, Sea (with Boris Worm); “Overview of and admissions; facilitating the John Macdonald (LL.B ‘52) to of Confusion and Rough Waters”. Regional Cooperation in Coastal development of Aboriginal and international legal scholarship In March, he gave a paper, and Ocean Governance” in C. African Canadian scholarship; through his writings covering “The Precautionary Principle/ Thia-Eng, G. Kullenberg, D. Bonga and promoting the hiring and 1954-2006 in an article on “The Approach and International (eds); Securing the Oceans: Essays retention of graduates. The IB&M Publications of Ronald St. John Fisheries: Beacon of Hope, Sea on Ocean Governance – Global and Initiative once again joined Macdonald” published in The of Confusion and Illusion” at the Regional Perspectives (Quezon with the Dalhousie Aboriginal Canadian Yearbook of International Tenth International Wildlife Law City, Philippines, PEMSEA and Law Students Association Law, Vol. 44, pp. 479-502 (2006). In 2007 Professor Wiktor Conference in Granada, Spain. The Nippon Foundation, 2008) (DALSA) in organizing the undertook, on behalf of the He was also an invited speaker 197-228; and “Invasive Seaweeds: annual Mi’kmaq Treaty Day & Dalhousie Law School, the task on the topic, “Reflections on Global and Regional Law and History Month Discussion Series. of sorting and organizing the Whether There Is a Regulatory/ Policy Responses (2007) 50 This year’s speakers were Mr. sizeable collection of Macdonald Governance Gap for Areas Botanica Marina 438-450 (with M. Bruce Wildsmith, Ms. Naiomi papers, representing an invaluable Beyond National Jurisdiction” at Doelle and M. McConnell). Metallic and Mr. William Nevin, source of information not only on the Marine Biodiversity Beyond Sundance Chief. The Initiative Sheila Wildeman Macdonald’s scholarly activities National Jurisdiction Workshop also worked with the Dalhousie known around the world, but also convened in Ottawa by the Professor Wildeman returned Black Law Students’ Association on aspects of public international Department of Foreign Affairs from maternity leave in January (DBLSA) in awarding the second law. A significant amount of and International Trade. In May, 2008. She continues to collaborate annual Judge Corrine Sparks papers relates to his special he spoke at the Coastal Zone on three grants aimed at fostering Award in Law as part of the areas of interest dealing with the interdisciplinary approaches to Canada Conference in Vancouver African Heritage Month Gala theoretical aspects of international legal and ethical issues affecting on the subject, “Arctic Ocean organized by Dalhousie’s Black law and human rights. persons with mental disorders/ Governance: A Slushy Seascape Student Advising Centre. The In April 2008, Professor Wiktor disabilities. She also continues to and Hard Questions”. 2008 recipient was second-year continued his research on the work on her doctoral thesis in law. Professor VanderZwaag also student David Curry Jr. Professor bicentennial legislative history She contributed a chapter entitled worked closely with various Williams enjoyed teaching of treaties submitted to the U.S. “The Supreme Court of Canada at conservation organizations Criminal Law and continued her Senate (1789-1989) as a visitor at the Limits of Decisional Capacity” during the year. He co-chaired research on restorative justice the University of South Carolina to J. Downie & E. Gibson, eds., the workshop on High Seas as a Research Collaborator with Law School at Columbia, S.C., st Governance for the 21 Century, Health Law at the Supreme Court the Nova Scotia Restorative where he made a presentation to New York, October 17-19, of Canada (Toronto: Irwin Law, Justice Community-University staff on the U.S. treaty practice. involving over 50 leading marine 2007), and a chapter entitled Research Alliance (NSRJ-CURA). law and policy thinkers around “A Fine Romance? The Modern The documentary The Little 62 Hearsay 2008 Dalhousie Law School We welcome two new faculty members

Sarah Bradley B.Sc. (University of Toronto) LL.B. (Queen’s) LL.M. (Harvard)

Sarah Bradley is one of our newest faculty members, and has just completed her first year of teaching at the school. A newcomer to Nova Scotia, Professor Bradley was born and raised in Ontario, and received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Toronto in 1996. She then ran her own retail business for a few years before attending law school at Queen’s University, where she received her LL.B. in 2002. She articled and practised law at Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP before pursuing her Master of Laws degree at Harvard Law School, which she received in 2006. From Boston, she moved to Halifax with her husband, Clarence, and practised law with McInnes Cooper before joining Dalhousie in July, 2007. She is a licensed member of the bars of Ontario, Nova Scotia and New York. •

GRAHAM REYNOLDS B.A. (Manitoba) LL.B. (Dalhousie) B.C.L., M.Phil (Oxon)

Graham Reynolds joined the faculty in July 2008 as an Assistant Professor. As a former Dalhousie Law student, he says he is honoured to have the opportunity to teach and research as a member of the faculty. His primary focus is Intellectual Property Law. He says, “My interest in this area was sparked by Professor Faye Woodman’s series of lectures on ‘moral rights’ in my first year Property Law course at Dalhousie. I pursued my interest in Professor Teresa Scassa’s upper-year Intellectual Property Law course.” Intellectual Property Law was his academic focus in two years of graduate studies in law at the University of Oxford. In his first year of study, he completed the Bachelor of Civil Law degree (B.C.L.). During his B.C.L. year, he wrote a dissertation which addressed the impact of proposed copyright legislation on fair dealing and freedom of expression. He completed a research degree, the Master of Philosophy in Law (M.Phil.), in his second year. His thesis dealt with the intersection of law, science, and technology in the context of nanotechnology. Professor Reynolds’ research agenda is varied. Currently, his areas of interest include moral rights, digital sampling, the patentability of life, the intersection of intellectual property and human rights, and nanotechnology law and policy. He will also be contributing to the activities of Dalhousie’s Law and Technology Institute. •

Dalhousie Law School Hearsay 2008 63  GIVING BACK

Reunion Class Gifts Judge Sandra Oxner (’65) establishes For many years it has been a tradition at Dal Law for reunion year members a fund for a Chair in Human Rights to give back to the Law School in the form of a Class Gift. Class members have pooled their resources and funded projects such as student awards and bursaries, audio visual equipment for newly renovated classrooms, chairs for classrooms and new computers — all for which the Law School is ever so grateful. We thank the following classes for their generosity: Class ‘57 In honour of Chief Justice Lorne Clarke, the Class of ’57 has plans afoot to furnish a corner in the Law School with a reading chair and a plaque as a tribute to Mr. Justice Clarke’s contribution to the Law School and the legal profession. “The Lorne Clarke Corner” will be a quiet haven complete with a chair, table, lamp and his picture. Class ‘67 The Class of ’67 provided a generous gift to the Law Students’ Society (LSS). It was a tremendous boost to the A well-attended reception was held in June 2008 to celebrate Judge Oxner’s generous gift to the Law School. Pictured here from left to right: The Rt. Hon. Sir Dennis Byron, Professor John Yogis, Dalhousie fundraising efforts by the students for President Tom Traves, Judge Sandra Oxner and Dean Phillip Saunders new lockers located on the first floor. Many of the existing lockers are in poor The Law School will establish a new president of the John Howard Society condition and as Michael Paris, the former president of the LSS, quipped Chair in Human Rights Law. Named and an amateur equestrian active in “…there are a number of lockers that for the late Donald Keddy and former many horse and animal organizations. should have graduated and left the Dalhousie law professor John Yogis Q.C., He ran his businesses and his life on a building long before 2007!” the “Yogis & Keddy Chair in Human principle of equality to all and never Rights Law” will be expected to carry permitted discrimination of any form. Class of ‘82 out research and teaching in the field of John Yogis, Q.C. taught at Dalhousie As part of the Law School’s ongoing human rights, to take a leadership role for 40 years before his retirement in 2006. room renovations the Class of ’82 in furthering the study of human rights His distinguished career was marked by helped put the final touches on a newly in the Law School, and in developing his interest and support for his students refurbished seminar room located collaborative programs with other and colleagues and his support and on the fourth floor. In memory of academic institutions and Governments. implementation of equality principles classmates, Ernie MacArthur and Irwin The Chair has been established due to in his life and work. Professor Yogis will Hirsch, money was raised to furnish a generous gift from Keddy’s wife, Judge advise the Dean of Law and the Law the lecture room with chairs and tables. Sandra Oxner. School Appointments Committee on the A plaque will be hung on the wall in Donald Keddy was an entrepreneur hiring of the first appointee to the Chair. recognition of their generosity. and businessman who grew up at Appointees to the Chair will be highly Class of ‘97 Chocolate Lake in Armdale, HRM. He reputed scholars, jurists and practitioners Class members mustered and raised a built the first modern nursing home in in the field of human rights law, which substantial gift that will be used to buy Nova Scotia and developed a chain of may include Canadian, comparative much-needed audio visual equipment hotels in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and international human rights law. The for Classroom 207 that has been newly and Maine and was also a pioneer in Chair may represent any field of legal renovated and willbe ready for students cable television. He was also very active study related to human rights including: come September. in the community, being president jurisprudence, constitutional law, for years of the Atlantic Winter Fair, a international law and legal history. •

64 Hearsay 2008 Dalhousie Law School Law School names classroom for Fasken Martineau Dumoulin

A sizeable gift was made by Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP in support of funding the renovation of Room 207 in Dalhousie Law School. A major renovation to the room includes new electrical outlets, flooring, seating, lighting, hard-wired and wireless internet access, audio visual equipment along with new heating and ventilation. The gift was made in connection with Fasken’s Legal Education Endowment Program (“LEEP”). The objective of LEEP is to provide the law firm with the opportunity to work with Canadian law schools in support of high quality legal programs, facilities and educational opportunities to develop strategies to enhance gifts which have been made to schools. The official opening of the “Fasken Martineau Room” took place on Wednesday, January 30, 2008. •

The Newfoundland & Labrador challenge NSBS award launched

The inaugural presentation of the Nova Scotia Barris- Dalhousie has been fortunate to be the Moores (’71), Ian Wallace (‘86), John Baker ters’ Society Presidents’ Leadership Award took place (‘76), Justice Leo Barry (‘67), Chief Justice in May 2007. Left to right: Philip Star, Wade Mills and law school of choice for students from Catherine Walker Newfoundland and Labrador, many Clyde Wells (‘62) and the firm of Stewart of whom have been among our most McKelvey have stepped forward to The Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society gifted scholars and legal minds. In turn, support the campaign and volunteers Presidents’ Leadership Award was many of these graduates have returned such as Brad Wicks (‘82), Kathleen O’Neil launched in 2007 to emphasize to to their home province and made (‘00) and the Honourable Alex Hickman students the importance of leadership significant contributions as leaders in (‘47) have shown their support. as a member of the legal profession finance, business, government and their When the goal is reached, this and to encourage volunteerism in the communities. endowment will fund a scholarship community. With continually increasing tuitions of almost $25,000 that will support a This $1000 award is given each and living costs, financial support can be student’s living and tuition costs for year to a third-year student who has a determining factor for students when one year. “exemplified consistent leadership they are deciding upon a law school The Newfoundland and Labrador qualities while at Law School.” Wade to attend. Currently, tuition is almost Scholarship is an opportunity for alumni Mills of Shelburne, Ontario received the $12,000 per year. to support talented and deserving award in 2007 and Melissa MacAdam of In an effort to address this challenge students, giving them the opportunity to Halifax was this year’s recipient. Dalhousie Law and some of our remain in Atlantic Canada to receive their Past Presidents of the Society, Philip Newfoundland and Labrador alumni are legal education. • Star and Catherine Walker, provided the leading a campaign to raise $500,000 to seed money of $5000 for this award and endow a scholarship for students coming For more information please contact they hope it will grow with the support from their home province. Alumni Diane Chisholm at 902-494-5112. of those who also value the significance such as Justice Lois Hoegg (‘82), Douglas of volunteerism to the Society. •

Dalhousie Law School Hearsay 2008 65 ANNUAL GIVING Dalhousie Law School is extremely grateful for the generosity of our alumni and friends and the companies for whom they work. We are honoured that you have chosen to sup- port Dalhousie Law School and Dalhousie University. The following list is an acknowl- edgement of gifts made and is one small way in which Dal Law is able to say “thank you.” We also wish to thank our donors who requested to remain anonymous.

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1935 1954 1960 1966 Thomas J. Burchell, QC Hon Arthur L. Thurlow, OC Hon. W. Dan Chilcott, QC Arthur F. Coady David D. Archibald Morris J. Haugg, QC Kenneth A. Lund, QC Robert C. Hebb Noella A. Brennan Fisher, QC Steve Konchalski 1941 Joel R. Matheson, QC Derek S. Jones J. Vincent Cain Paul N. Leamen Douglas S. Lyall* Hon. Justice Gordon H. Hon. Justice Arthur M. Lutz Sanford Cohen Ken MacInnis, QC McConnell Hon. Justice K.R. MacDonald Peter J. Dey Robert G. MacKeigan, QC 1942 Hon. John J. O’Neill Stuart G. MacKinnon Don Green, QC John S. McFarlane, QC Robert Jaffray Hon. Judge John A. MacLellan John D. MacIsaac, QC J. Timothy Sullivan 1955 Douglas F. Smith John W. McGowan 1943 Hon. Justice Fintan J. Aylward, QC Paul M. Murphy, QC 1970 Lorne MacDougall, QC George B. Cooper, QC 1961 William A. Rand Hon. Justice C. Scott Brooker Hon Constance R. Glube, QC, Lionel Alberstat J. David Thompson, QC Richard W. Cregan, QC 1947 ONS, OC Milton H. Grant Richard A. Thompson Hon. Judge Patrick H. Curran Dr. James M. Hendry A. Kenneth Maclaren Hon. Judge Leslie M. Little Mary E. Dawson Ian M. MacLeod, QC Hon. H. David Logan 1967 Pierre M. Hebert 1948 Don Murphy, QC Boyd Lowery Hon. Justice Leo D. Barry Martin E. Herschorn, QC William Chipman, QC Hon. Arthur J. Stone, QC David I. Matheson, QC R. Diane Campbell S. Clifford Hood, QC Philip H.G. Walker, QC D. Stewart McInnes, PC, QC Hon. Chief Justice N.H. Carruthers D. Ceri Hugill Kenneth G. Wilson, QC 1956 Thomas M. Scott Hon. Judge David E. Cole Kathleen D. Marrie James R. Chalker, QC John G. Cooper, QC William J. McCarroll 1949 Eric G. Demont, QC* 1962 David C. Day, QC Dennis Perlin Dr. A. William Cox, QC George T. Hanrahan Alan V. Beattie, QC Kenneth H. Glube Kenneth J. Ross Claude A. Dingwall Peter Power Malcolm H. Bradshaw John M. Hanson Hon. P. Lloyd Soper T. Bradbrooke Smith, QC Professor Innis M. Christie, QC Alan G. Hayman, QC 1971 Hon. George D. Stoughton Hon. Justice Robert Ferguson Robert Kelly Hon. Justice M.A. Cameron 1957 Dr. Brian Flemming, CM, QC John C. Lovett, QC Professor Brian C. Crocker, QC 1950 Raymond A. Bartlett Sr. Hon. Justice Charles E. Haliburton Janette M. MacDonald Hon. Judge William Digby Bob Lyall John E. Carstairs Lawrence J. Hayes, QC Peter J. McDonough, QC D. Brian Donovan Alan R. Collins Laurence D. Hebb Daryl E. McLean Hon. Judge William J. Dyer 1951 C. Patricia Harris, QC Hon. Justice Donald J. MacMillan John P. Merrick, QC Simon L. Gaum, QC* Hon. Lorne O. Clarke, OC, ONS, Hon. Judge John R. Nichols W. Ross Mollard Peter W. Mills Hon. Judge Barrett D. Halderman QC Robert E. Radford, QC Hon. George J. Mullally Sydney B. Horton Maj. John A. Commerford 1958 Hon. Justice Eugene A. Scheibel R. Peter Muttart, QC Walter A. McEwen Hon. Justice Malachi C. Jones Professor William H. Charles Wayne R. Smith Edward D. Raymond, QC William E. McKeown Paul A. Lee, QC Professor Peter E. Darby Hon. Chief Justice Clyde K. Wells Ernie Reid, QC Derry Millar Hon. Angus L. Macdonald, QC Hon. Justice Donald M. Hall David B. Ritcey, QC Peter A. Milliken, MP Hon. John C. McNair, QC Hon. Judge George F. Inrig, QC 1963 Dennis M. Starzynski, QC Douglas Moores, QC Estelle J. Karlin Robert H. Barrigar, QC John M. Stewart Tarcisio Nella 1952 Hon. Justice Hilroy S. Nathanson A. David Case, QC Hon. Justice Michael L. Phelan Roderick J. Chisholm, QC Hon. Joseph W. O’Brien John P. Cochrane, QC 1968 Hon. Justice Robert W. Wright Dr. James S. Palmer, CM,AOE,QC Arthur J. Unsworth David F. Curtis, QC Mary Jane Dodge, QC Professor Donat Pharand Hon. Arthur C. Whealy, QC Harold H. MacKay, QC Pat Furlong 1972 Professor Dan Soberman Hon. Justice Ian D. McLellan Heather A. Grant Daniel M. Campbell, QC 1959 Harvey A. Newman Hon. Justice Raymond J.P. Halley William I. Dick 1953 Hon. Justice John M. Davison Robert J. White Carl A. Holm, QC Hon. Judge J. Vernon MacDonald Hon. Justice Hiram J. Carver Hon. Justice Jean A. Forget Marc P. LaPerriere J. Fraser B. Mills L.Col. Clive L. Rippon* Hon. Justice Walter R.E. 1964 Hon. Judge D. William Friedhelm Roth Harold F.G. Stevens, QC Goodfellow Hon. Justice William Fitzgerald MacDonald Clement P. Scott Hon. Ronald C. Stevenson Hon. Justice James L. Lewis David M. Morris William R. McColm Hon. Chief Justice Sinclair Prowse Hon. Stuart G. Stratton, QC Calvin Murdoch Mayo Professor John A. Yogis, QC Senator Wilfred P. Moore, QC E. Michael R. Skutezky Bert Wyman, QC Elizabeth Strong Reagh, QC David G. Newman, QC George H. Sutherland, QC David A. Stewart, QC 1965 David H. Sohmer Hon. Judge James C. Wilson C. Barry Sullivan Dr. George T. Cooper, CM, QC William E. Wells Andrew S. Wolfson, QC Art Donahoe, QC Hon. Judge Gerard C. Hawco 1969 Hon. Theodore E. Margeson Margaret A. Brown Hon. Judge Sandra E. Oxner, OC 66 Hearsay 2008 Dalhousie Law School 1973 1976 Claude Samson S. Michael Lynk Patricia M. Nicoll Stephen J. Aronson Hon. Justice Jean-Louis Batiot Gerry B. Stanford J. Scott Mackenzie, QC Professor Dianne L. Pothier Hon. Judge Robert B. Hyslop Roberta J. Clarke, QC Hon. Justice Margaret J. Stewart Stephen J. MacNeil Linda M. Rankin John Gleeson Kelly Laurence J.E. Dunbar Shirley L. Strutt, QC Denise J. McMullen Kim E. Richardson Mary E. MacInnes G. David Eldridge, QC Thomas R. Strutt Bill Nearing Toshimi A. Sembo Hon. Justice John D. Murphy David G. Fredricksen A. Brian Oliphant Janice A. Stairs Corinne F. Murray Linda M. Gaudet 1979 James C. Orr Linda M. Tippett-Leary A. John Noel, QC David C. Hicks Brent Cotter, QC Curtis C. Palmer Steve Waller Thomas W. Patience Mary A. Kimball John H. Cuthbertson Bill Perkins Hon. Justice Wyman W. Webb Hon. Justice J. Edward Richard Raymond F. Larkin, QC D. Suzan Frazer P. Geoffrey Plant, QC Hilary A. Whitmey Maurice G. Smith, QC William M. LeClair Lynn Hjartarson Professor Dawn A. Russell Brad Wicks Andrew G. Love Michael A. Kontak Barry J. Ryan Rita L. Wilson 1974 Bud MacDonald, QC Jeffrey Kuhnreich A. Robert Sampson Michael J. Wood, QC Hon. Justice Felix A. Cacchione Brian L. MacLellan, QC S. Donalda MacBeath Clifford J. Shaw, QC Adrian C. Wright John W. Chandler, QC Tim Matthews, QC David J. MacDonald Marlene G. Stones, QC Hon. Justice M. Deborah Gass Stephen A. Mattson, QC Marian H. McGrath Paul L. Walter, QC 1983 Hon. Justice M. Jill Hamilton Paula M. McPherson Paul D. Michael Pamela J. Webster Del W. Atwood Malcolm L. Heins Hon. Justice Gerald R.P. Moir Hon. Justice Rosemary E. Nation Cdr. A. Vance Wirth Jeffrey J. Chad Mark C. Johnson Hon. Justice Linda Lee Oland Rick Neufeld Rhonda G. Wishart Julia E. Cornish, QC Hon. Justice Beryl A. MacDonald John D. Stringer, QC Maureen B. O’Connell Brian W. Derrah Hon. Justice James C MacPherson Anthony L. Sweet Collins Parker 1982 Guy Desmarais A. Anne McLellan James A. Titerle S. Victoria Pitt Clare F. Barry James A. Graham David M. Meadows, QC David N. Ross Joanne S. Bourinot John J. Kontak Hon. Justice Kathryn Neilson 1977 Rosemary Scott James D. Brydon D. A. Landry Daniel J. O’Connor Tom Akin Clifford A. Soward David M. Bulger Beth E. MacConnell Matthews Martin J. Pink, QC Hon. Justice Robert L. Barnes Hon. Judge Alan T. Tufts Margaret J. Carter-Pyne Heather Mackay John D. Plowman Hon. Justice Nancy J. Bateman Bruce M. Cooper Charles J. Meagher Hon. Justice Elizabeth Roscoe Hon. Judge Barbara J. Beach 1980 Christopher M. Correia Christopher W. Morris Glenn A. Smith Hon. Judge John D. Embree Lorne H. Abugov William R. Crosbie Scott C. Norton, QC Paul R. Stokes, QC Steven R. Enman Kenneth L. Baggs Brendan Curley Will O’Hara George L. White, QC Daniel T. Gallagher J. Helen Beck Terri E. Deller Charles S. Reagh Warren K. Zimmer George R. Lohnes, QC Florence E. Boody Glen V. Dexter Hon. Geoff Regan, PC, MP Colin P. MacDonald M. Louise Campbell John S. Doherty Ronald A. Stockton 1975 Philip Mullally Anthony L. Chapman, QC Andrew E. Drury G. Arthur Theuerkauf Peter E. Belliveau Gerard P. Scanlan Patricia G. Clahane Megan E. Farquhar Patricia J. Thomson Douglas J. Black, QC Hon. Judge Michael B. Sherar Richard A. Conway Donna J. Gallant Natalie Vukovich Linda E. Black Elizabeth J. Shilton T. D’Arcy Depoe Kenneth L. Godfrey Susan R. Winfield O’Hara Michael B. Burke Hon. Justice Frans F. Slatter Valerie A. Dyer Andrew T. Graham Gregg A. Yeadon John M. Dauvergne T. Ann Smiley Brian G. Johnston, QC Scott P. Gray Jonathan F. Davies James W. Stanley J. Stuart Koskie William C. Guinan 1984 R. Gary Faloon, QC Robert C. Stewart, QC Mark E. MacDonald, QC Hon. Justice Lois R. Hoegg, QC Frederick G. Angus Beatrice Fejtek Hines Alison Taylor Love James A. MacLean Hon. Judge James K. Kean Michael R. Brooker, QC Bruce M. Graham Cdr. C. James Price Ronald A. Lacey Susan C. Brousseau Bruce G. Hilchey 1978 David A. Proudfoot Robert A. Lehodey, QC Augustine F. Bruce Gregory S. Hildebrand Hon. Chief Justice Edmond Mark S. Rosen Leslie A. Leverman Doherty Richard A. Bureau H. Edward McFetridge Blanchard Randall W. Smith Ian S. MacKay Janet M. Chisholm Laurie S. Pascoe Bernard J. Butler James G. Spurr Howard E. MacKichan Clare W. Christie Paul J. Pearlman Elizabeth T. Callaghan Maynard H. Young Anne F. MacNeill J. Andrew Coombs Professor Michel Poirier Joseph A. Cameron John W. Maynard Bill Faminoff F. T. Mark Pujolas Elizabeth A. Ellis 1981 Professor Theodore L. McDorman Peter B. Gorgopa Hon. Justice M Heather Robertson Paul W. Goldberg Barbara H. Campbell Hon. Justice Glen G. McDougall Mark A. Greenberg Michael S. Schelew David S. Green Hon. Justice Leslie J. Dellapinna Jeff Morris Neil L. Jacobs Steven G. Zatzman Guy P. Holeksa Mark F. Dempsey Dianna M. Morrison Shirley P. Lee Roger B. Langille, QC Margaret A. Dickson Matthew W. Napier Robert R. MacArthur Kari J. LeLacheur E. Jane Greig-Hatton Mara L. Nickerson Ron MacDonald Mary E. Meisner, QC Marjorie A. Hickey, QC Margaret M. MacKenzie Harvey L. Morrison, QC Peter K. Large Dalhousie Law School Hearsay 2008 67 ANNUAL GIVING

Professor Candace E. Malcolm Bradford D. Garside 1992 Maria K. Somjen 2004 Dr. Moira L. McConnell Chris Hale John T. Kalm Zarah E. Walpole Ryan Brennan Douglas K. McLean Colin G. Hames Geoffrey J. Litherland Robert W. Weir Matthew D. Darrah John A. McMillan Susan E. Hayes Stephen G.A. Pitel D. Scott Worsfold Judy Manning Donald C. Murray, QC Paul R. Ives Tracy A. Pratt Kyle Peterson Jim Musgrave, QC John Kulik, QC Jorge P. Segovia 1997 Adam Rodgers Kimberly J. Pate David M. Layton Ryerson Symons Cheryl A. Canning David Wallbridge Richard J. Payne Mary E. Murphy Hugh H. Wright Susan E. Carruthers Maureen E. Reid R. Alexander Neve Anjali Das-McKenzie 2005 Gregory D.M. Stirling Richard S. Pratt 1993 Jennifer A. Glennie Robin Cook Larry Stordy Peter Simons Brian T. Beck Oliver J. Janson Andrew Ouchterlony Penelope Y. Tham John W. Turner Subrata Bhattacharjee Lisa C. Osoba Andrew Waugh Jeremy A. Thomas Eric H. Bremermann Suzanne I. Rix Johanne L. Tournier 1988 Joan E. Hatch 2006 James G. Walsh Rene Cadieux Roger D. Lee 1998 Robynn Arnold Hon. Judge Pamela S. Williams Peter J. Dale Marney L. Lutz Hon. Justice B. Richard Bell, QC Sharon Avery Michael J. Dickey Joseph B. Marshall Arnold T. Ceballos Trevor Crowley 1985 Scott Dickieson Scott A. Warwick Professor Robert J. Currie Marsha Curry Deborah A. Armour John J. Donihee Ian E. Davis Danielle Evans Brenda J. Christen Rina Elster-Pantalony 1994 Sean Foreman Derek Ford Dr. Stephen G. Coughlan Coleen L. Kirby J. Paul Berry Julienne M. Hills Ada Maxwell C. Joan Dornian Gordon B. Manuel Cynthia L. Chewter Kevin R. West Melanie Petrunia Douglas R. Drysdale Al Meghji Michael I. Christie Lee Seshagiri Kevin S. Gault Michael D. Pantalony Timothy J. Costigan 1999 Jay C. Humphrey David J. Roberts Jane D. Harrigan Kathleen H. Dewhirst 2007 Herve P. Le Pierres Mark A. Schmidt Edward Livingstone Harry Korosis Selina Bath Hon. Justice Mona M. Lynch Brian V. Vardigans Daphne C. Loukidelis Loretta M. Manning Olivia Bautista Jim MacAulay Caroline R. Zayid Jennifer A. MacLellan Timothy D. Morse Rhianydd Bellis J. Kevin MacLean Garry A. McCay Angela D. Peckford Phil Carpenter Brian E. McConnell 1989 Heather A. McNeill Nicole D. Samson Jill Chisholm V. Francine McIntyre Grant K. Borbridge Deirdre R. Murphy Kate Coolican I. Claire McNeil Stephanie A. Cleary Patricia A. Neild 2000 Jaime Dallaire John M. Meaney Michael S. Craig Gregory A. Shirley Robert A. Drummond Peter Dostal Celia J. Melanson Jody W. Forsyth Robert K. Smithson Richard M. Dunlop Marc Dunning Valerie A. Miller Richard J. Freeman Eric G. Taylor Angela R. Nelson Bryna Fraser E. Ann Mowatt James W. Gormley Lisa Teryl R. Charles Perez David Henderson Cathleen C. O’Grady Nathalie Goyette Peter D. Stanhope Morgan Hicks Dean D. Pietrantonio Sarah K. Harding 1995 Jamison S. Steeve Michelle Hooshley Charles Kazaz John P. Bodurtha Kersti Kass 1986 Nancy L. MacCready-Williams Jennifer G. Carmichael 2001 Alison Keen Paula L. Condran Sheila I. O’Kane Robert S. Cowan Cheryl C. Arnold Katherine Linton Linda G. Dolan Janice D. Spencer Anneke Driessen van der Lieck Christine J. Doucet Beth Newton Janet L. Epp Buckingham Michael B. Ganley Annette J. Duffy Sharmi F. Rahim Hon. Justice Theresa Forgeron 1990 C. Harrington Jones Matthew J. Heemskerk Stephanie Sanger Donna Franey Todd J. Burke Jay Maw Andrew P. Wilson Ramona Sladic Jonathan R. Gale Sandra L. Giffin J. Nathan Mean Elizabeth A. Wozniak Nathan Sutherland Fern M. Greening John M. Hovland Susan T. Nucci Mark Tinmouth Annemieke E. Holthuis Gareth C. Howells Peter Shea 2002 Lisa Weich Anne Marie Horne Don MacKenzie Megan E. Shortreed Level Y. Chan Claire Wilson Don Jarvis David H. Taylor Kristopher P. Smith Professor Patricia E. Doyle- Paul K. Lepsoe Phyllis E. Weir Patricia Thiel Bedwell Gordon A. MacDonald Mitch Williams John S. Underhill Rachel Hepburn Craig Alexander L. MacFarlane Victoria B. Wilson Leigh A. Lampert Kirk W. Meldrum 1991 Dennis Yee We apologize…. Frank S. Ryan R. Steven Baldwin 1996 Alan V. Beattie (LL.B.’62) was Robyn Ryan Bell Norine E. den Otter Sandra E. Attersley 2003 mistakenly left off our Annual Ronald M. Snyder Peter W. Gutelius Fiona A. Bergin S. Jodi Gallagher Giving Report in our 2007 issue Sheldon B. Steeves Bob Hickey Andre Boivin Claude Martin of Hearsay. Mr. Beattie did indeed Kelly L. Wharton Sean F. Layden Kelly L. Brown Christopher Peddigrew give generously to Dalhousie Celine Levesque R. Max Collett Daniel Rankin Law School and we extend our 1987 Hugh A. MacAulay Kenneth A. Dekker Shelley A. Trueman apologies for this omission. Mariane R. Armstrong Susan I. MacKay Kevin F. Fritz Robert A. Balcom Geoffrey A. Mar Douglas E. Howell Mary C. Brebner Peter D. Nathanson Samiran P. Lakshman R. Wayne Bruce Michel C. Poirier Jodi D. Mailman Ron Chisholm Saul T. Schipper Matthew G. Moloci Brett A. Christen Barbara E. Smith Jason P. Schlotter Charlotte A. Davis Andrew C. Staples David A. Seville Margery A. Fowke * Deceased

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Perry B. Abriel Erin Delaney Leslie C. Hickman Nicole MacNeil Professor Teresa Scassa Amy Anderson Mary F. Dinsdale David G. Higgins Josiah MacQuarrie Todd Scott Philip Anisman Alice Dollahite-Scott Brian Hobrecker Barbara Maize J. Herb Sherwood Colin R. Arnold David Dow Peter Home Katherine Marks Dr. Trevor J. Smedley Danielle Autran Annis B. Eagan Richard Howson Jeysa Martinez-Pratt Rodger Smith Jennifer Babe John L. Easson Janette A. Hurley Philip Mass Helen T. Soudek Newland Professor Jennifer K. Bankier Professor Richard L. Evans Rick Jaggi Ethan McMonagle Karin Taylor Dr. Harold B. Barnett Jeanne Fay Melanie James Louise Milliken Jeffrey A. Teasdale Hon. Justice Kevin J. Barry Gerald G. Fogarty Laurie Jones Edith P. Mingo Geraldine R. Tepper Alisha Bell Dr. Cindy Forbes Karen Kavanaugh Graham Robert Henry Mitchell Bruce L. Towler Taylor Bernard Dr. James Z. Francis Chafic Khouri Carla Nassar Joyda P. Tynes-Simons Avard L. Bishop Jane E. Fraser-Deveau Kevin Kindred Erin Nauss Sean Van Helden Dr. Adelle Blackett Tim Gabriel Bonita L. Kirby Kristy Newell Ann Vessey Professor Sarah Bradley Adam Garrett Rebecca Koskela Stacey O’Neill Edward Wang Malcolm Bryce Kenneth Gingrich Geoff Law Alison M. Patterson Gail White Louise Cameron Professor Diana E. Ginn Bruce Lee-Shanok Tom Plunkett Robyn White Jeff Campbell Bremner B. Green Andrea Levans Alexander H. Pugsley Frances R. Wickwire Steve Cardy Roselle Green Jessica Lockett Joan A. Pugsley Katie Wilde Cynthia Churchill-Smith Dr. Sylvia D. Hamilton Alan H. MacDonald Joanne Purves Professor Faye L. Woodman Dr. George Elliott Clarke Kerry M. Harnish Patricia MacDonald Donna J. Pyne Lisa Cramm Catherine S. Harrison Meghan MacGillivray Doug Reid Catherine L. Currell Mildred Hawson Constance E. MacKay-Carr Brett Reynolds Christine Davis J. Helen Hepburn Charles MacMichael Rosanne Rocchi

ORGANIZATIONS ESTATES AIDS Coalition of NS Hearthstone Property Mgmt. SALSA Estate of Douglas Coombes Allen J. MacPhee Law Corp. Heritage House Law Office Shodan Investments Ltd. Estate of Louis Henry Tepper Bank of America Jenkins Marzban Logan St. Rose Presentation & Graphic Estate of R. B. Viscount Bennett Bennett Jones LLP John M. White Design Estate of Sarah Wolff Benson Myles Lang Michener LLP Stewart McKelvey Stirling Scales, Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP Law Foundation of NS (Charlottetown) BMO Financial Group Leeanne MacLeod-Archer Inc. Stewart McKelvey Stirling Scales, Boland Foundation Lindsay A. Parcells Law Corp. (Halifax) Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Lisa J. Mebs Professional Corp Stewart McKelvey Stirling Scales, Boyne Clarke Barristers & Livingstone & Co. (Saint John) Solicitors Manning & Associates Stewart McKelvey Stirling Scales, Bruce E. Davidson McCall MacBain Foundation (St. John’s) HERITAGE SOCIETY Burchell Hayman Parish McCarthy Tetrault Foundation Sysco Food Services of Atlantic Diane E. Chisholm C. Anthony Carroll McInnes Cooper Canada Douglas M. Cox Canadian Petroleum Law Fdn. McMillan Binch Mendelsohn LLP Charitable Gift Funds Canada Trinda L. Ernst Cape Breton Barristers’ Society Medjuck & Medjuck Fdn. Dale A. Godsoe Cavan Properties Ltd. Miller Thomson LLP The David & Faye Sobey Fdn. Professor Edwin C. Harris CCH Cdn. Limited Ninian Lockerby Farm Account The Haynes Group of Lawyers Dale E. Ives Cdn. Bar Assoc. NS Branch NS Barristers’ Society The Law Practice of Jeanne Chester MacDonald Chester Educational Foundation Onex Corporation Desveaux Inc. Robbie Shaw Chevron Canada Resources Ltd. Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Thomas J. O’Reilly Legal Services Hon. Judge Corrine E. Sparks CHOM Management NS Ltd. Patrick J. Duncan Inc. PLC Inc. Cox & Palmer Patterson Law Thomson Canada Ltd. Dalhousie Law Class 1982 Perpetuity Investments Ltd. Torys LLP Dalhousie Law School Social Perry Mack Professional Corp. United Way of the Lower Committee Philip J. Star QC Inc. Mainland Donna Morris Law Office Pink Breen Larkin W. Donald Goodfellow QC Law DWPV Services LP Portage Investments (1998) Ltd. Wagner & Associates Eastern Admiralty Law Assoc. Presse & Mason Law Office Weldon Times Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP Princeton Law Inc. Management William F. Meehan & Associates Forgie and Leonard LLP Account William L. Mouris Professional Fownes Law Offices Inc. ProBono Student Canada Corp. Garson Pink Ray O’Blenis Law Office Inc. Witten Family Goldberg Thompson Robert N. Gilmore Professional Yvonne R. LaHaye Barrister & Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP Corp. Solicitor Inc. Gregory D. Auld Inc. Royal Trust Corporation Halifax Estate Planning Council Rudderham Chernin Law Office

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Gerald Regan, Q.C., P.C., has been appointed an honorary member of the Executive Council of the Province of Nova Scotia. The inaugural Honorary Executive Council recognizes exemplary commitment to Nova Scotians and to the growth and development of the province. Counsel to McInnis Cooper’s Dr. Libby Burnham, C.M., Q.C. Joel Pink, Q.C. has been elected Halifax office, Mr. Regan is a John C. Crosbie, P.C., O.C., was appointed a Member of the President of the Nova Scotia former Nova Scotia Premier and O.N.L., Q.C. a former senior Federal Cabinet became the 12th Order of Canada in July 2007. She Barristers’ Society. He has Minister from Nova Scotia. Lieutenant Governor of accepted her insignia from Her practised exclusively in the area Newfoundland and Labrador Excellency the Right Honourable of criminal law for over 30 years Professor Donat Pharand L.L.B., in February 2008 and will Michaëlle Jean, Governor General and is a leader of the Nova Scotia LL.M., LL.D., O.C., Q.C., recently assume his post as the Queen’s of Canada on April 11, 2008 in a Criminal Bar. Mr. Pink appears returned from a trip to China representative for a five-year ceremony at Rideau Hall. regularly in all levels of Court where he gave lectures on the term. Prior to his appointment with jurisdiction in the province. Arctic, in Beijing, Qingdau and he held a distinguished career Xi`àn. He was extremely well in public service. He had received by the five groups he previously served in the cabinets 1965 1971 spoke to. He was introduced to of Progressive Conservative the Chinese Society of Ocean Law Prime Ministers Brian Mulroney in Beijing by a fellow Dalhousie and Joe Clark. Under Mulroney, Law graduate, Professor Zhiguo he held the justice, transport, Gao. Gao took a graduate law trade and fisheries portfolios. He degree at Dal. He is now a retired from federal politics in member of the International 1993. Until his appointment he Tribunal on the Law of the Sea. was the chancellor of Memorial University and a lawyer with Cox & Palmer.

1953 George Cooper C.M., C.D., Q.C. a managing Partner with Clarence A. Beckett, Q.C. has Ronald C. Stevenson, Q.C. has McInnis Cooper, was recently been inducted as a Fellow of been appointed to the Board of 1960 awarded an honorary degree by the American College of Trial Governors at the University of The University of King’s College, Lawyers. He practises in the areas The Honourable Justice A. King’s College of which he is an an Honorary Doctor of Laws of Civil Litigation and Insurance M. Lutz honorary graduate. He continues was appointed to the degree from the University of Law with an emphasis on defence to act as an Umpire under the Canada Pension Appeals Board, Alberta and has been appointed in the Truro office of Patterson Employment Insurance Act and effective April 2, 2007. to the Board of Directors of CBC/ Law. is Chancellor of the General Radio-Canada. A former Member Synod of the Anglican Church of of Parliament, he is a Member of Canada. the Order of Canada, holds the 1962 Canadian Forces Decoration and was awarded the Queen’s Jubilee Medal in 2002. In June 2006, he 1955 was made Officer First Class of the Royal Order of the Polar Star by His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden, and serves as Honorary Consul for Sweden in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. George is the Derry Millar is the new Chair of McInnes Cooper’s Board treasurer of the Law Society of of Directors. Upper Canada. A Partner with Professor Innis Christie Q.C., WeirFoulds LLP, he practises civil one of Canada’s most respected litigation and administrative law. labour arbitrators, is the 2008 recipient of the University of Dr. Purdy Crawford, C.C. was Toronto Bora Laskin Award promoted from an Officer of the for Outstanding Contributions Order of Canada to Companion of to Labour Law in Canada. He the Order of Canada in July 2007. has also been awarded the 2008 He accepted his insignia from Her Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society Excellency the Right Honourable Distinguished Service Award. Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada on April 11, 2008 in a ceremony at Rideau Hall.

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Elizabeth Ellis has joined Torys’ Toronto office as a partner. She

J. Richard Creighton, Q.C. has is responsible for the firm’s Daniel M. Campbell, Q.C., a been elected First Vice-President Ann Janega knowledge management senior Partner with Cox & Palmer has been appointed of the Nova Scotia Barristers’ infrastructure and research was the recipient of the Nova as the Vice President, Nova Society. He is co-managing systems, she manages the firm’s Scotia Barristers’ Society 2007 Scotia Division for the Canadian partner of Patterson Law with extensive precedent collections Distinguished Service Award. The Manufacturers and Exporters. offices in Truro and Halifax. In this role, Ann works with the and is responsible for the award recognizes a practising continuing development of lawyer who has made significant industrial and exporting sector. She is also a newly appointed technology and internal processes contributions to the profession, that support the firm’s lawyers the community and the Society. director of FITT: the Canadian Forum for International Trade in their advice and direction to Training. clients. Anne Emery has released her 1977 highly anticipated third mystery novel in her Monty Collins The Honourable Judge Les series, Barrington Street Blues. Grieve, a former prosecutor with Her previous releases include Dr. Fred Fountain is Dalhousie the Calgary Crown Prosecutors’ her 2006 debut, Sign of the Cross, University’s new Chancellor and Office was appointed Judge of which won her an Arthur Ellis Terry Cooper, Q.C. has joined will act as the ambassador of the the Alberta Provincial Court Award for Best First Novel and Boyne Clarke’s Litigation Team, university, as well as, preside at effective January 28, 2008. His Obit, which was released in 2007. bringing over thirty-five years convocation and other official swearing in ceremony was of experience in criminal, family ceremonies. He will also sit as an held on February 21, 2008 with and real estate law to the firm. He ex-officio member on the Board a number of fellow Dalhousie 1979 of Governors. He is a founding graduates in attendance. He sits previously worked with Cooper The Honourable Patrick J. and McDonald which he co- partner of the law firm, formerly in the Banff and Calgary criminal Duncan, Q.C., a lawyer with founded and with the Nova Scotia Franklin, Mitton, Fountain and courts as well as other regional Beveridge, MacPherson & government. Thompson and is currently points around Calgary. Duncan in Halifax, has been counsel to the law firm Burke, Professor Edgar Gold, A.M., C.M., Thompson. appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia. He is a Q.C., Ph.D, D.Sc was awarded the former staff Lawyer for Nova degree of Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) 1978 Scotia Legal Aid and a partner in Maritime Affairs, honoris causa, of Beveridge, MacPherson & by the World Maritime University 1975 Duncan, Barristers & Solicitors in Malmo, Sweden in recognition Maureen Greene, Q.C. has joined in Halifax since 1986. In of “outstanding contributions the Halifax office of McInnis addition, he has taught/lectured to maritime law and the World Cooper as Chief Operating and presented at numerous Maritime University.” Officer. She was previously the conferences over the past 14 Vice-President and General years, worked as an advisor for Counsel of Newfoundland Coverdale Courtwork services for 1973 Hydro. women, and volunteered for the Public Legal Education Society. The Honourable Justice Duncan Lois Dyer Mann, a former The Honourable Judge Paul R. Beveridge Marian McGrath partner with Caldwell Partners J. Pearlman was appointed was appointed to is the senior International Inc., has been Judge of the Supreme Court of the Supreme Court in March counsel with the Security appointed to the Nova Scotia British Columbia on February 1, 2008. Most recently, he was a Intelligence Review Committee Business Inc. board. She is a 2008. Prior to his appointment partner in the Halifax law firm in Ottawa. She has recently former chairwoman of the Halifax he was a Partner with Fuller, of Beveridge, MacPherson and published a paper entitled, Chamber of Commerce, past Pearlman, McNeil. He has Buckle where his main area of “The Impact of the Charter on trustee for the IWK Health Centre developed a practice expertise practice was criminal law. Justice Accountability for National and former chairwoman of the in commercial arbitration and Beveridge sits in Halifax. He Security.” Marian is also a selection committee for the first administrative, labour, aboriginal replaces Justice Felix Cacchione member of the Canadian Lieutenant Governor’s Leadership and employment law. In addition, who has chosen to become a Ski Instructors Alliance and Forum for Women. he is a fellow of the American supernumerary Judge. teaches at the Camp Fortune College of Trial Lawyers. Ski Academy, Chelsea, Quebec. She lives in Chelsea with her husband, Jake Blair and their daughters, Jessica and Alexandra.

72 Hearsay 2008 Dalhousie Law School of commercial and insurance Vincent Calderhead has been litigation for over 20 years. He granted the John Tait Award of has also taught civil trial practice Excellence which he will receive at Dalhousie Law School. He at the Canadian Bar Associations’ is the current Co-Chair of the annual meeting on August 18, Department of Justice Liaison 2008. The award was established Committee with the Nova in 1998 to honour, recognize and Scotia Barristers’ Society, Vice celebrate accomplishments of Chair and Director of the IWK Public Sector Lawyers in Canada Health Centre, a Director of the who have achieved the highest Peter Merchant has joined Marjorie Hickey, Q.C., a Partner Junior Achievement of Canada standards of professional conduct SITQ of Calgary, as Senior with McInnis Cooper, has been Foundation and a Director of the and competence and made Vice President. In this role he elected as Second Vice-President Halifax 2011 Canada Games Host significant contributions to social is responsible for the asset of the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society. justice or community affairs, management of the western Society. She is a Commander in and who exemplify preeminent Catherine Woods, Q.C. portfolio and identification of the Naval Reserve, the Regional was public service. Vincent works new investment and development Coordinator of Naval Reserve appointed Queen’s Counsel for as a staff lawyer at Nova Scotia opportunities within the Calgary, Units in Atlantic Canada and the province of British Columbia Legal Aid in Halifax. His practice Vancouver and Seattle markets. past Commanding Officer in 2005 and is a senior partner is concentrated in the poverty Having been active in the real of HMCS Scotian. She is a at Guild Yule and Company in law area in which he deals with estate business for over 25 years, member of the Canadian Corps Vancouver, practising in the area housing and income support prior to his position with SITQ, he of Commissionaires’ Board of of medical negligence defence. issues on behalf of people in was a Partner with Avison Young Governors and sat on the Minister She has been recognized as a poverty. He has also represented Commercial Real Estate (Alberta), of National Defence’s Advisory leading medical malpractice anti-poverty groups many times after leading his own tenant Board on Gender Integration and lawyer in Best Lawyers in before UN human-rights treaty representation firm, RP Merchant Employment Equity. Canada and in L’Expert legal monitoring bodies in Geneva and & Associates Commercial Real directory. She and her husband, New York. He is a member of the Estate. He previously worked Clifford J. Shawn, Q.C. is Brad Armstrong, Q.C. have two part-time faculty at Dalhousie for Trizec Properties Limited and teaching the creditor/debtor children, Madeleine, age 13 and Law School where he teaches a Knowlton Realty Ltd., in Calgary relations course in the Faculty of Robert, age eight. course entitled Poverty Law and and Denver. Law, University of Calgary. He Human Rights. continues to practise banking and insolvency law with Faber Bickman Leon in Calgary. 1980 1984 Brenda J. Picard, Q.C. received the distinction of being designated Queen’s Counsel 1982 in December 2007. In June 2007 Brenda was the inaugural A. Mark David, Q.C. has joined recipient of the PEI Law Society the Halifax office of Cox & “Community Service Award” in Palmer. recognition of her lengthy and ongoing volunteer work with Valerie Vaughan MacKenzie local, provincial and national has been appointed Director of organizations. She currently Corporate Services with Boyne works as a legal aid lawyer in John S. Fitzpatrick, Q.C. Mark MacDonald, Q.C. has Clarke. has been Charlottetown. been elected Chair of the Board appointed Queen’s Counsel. He of Directors of the Halifax Port is the Chair of Boyne Clarke’s Authority. He has served on the Financial Recovery Team and has Authority’s Board of Directors 1983 served on the Firm’s Management 1987 since 2005 as a Port User Committee. He is currently the nominee. He is President and Firm’s Marketing Partner and in Chief Executive Officer of Bay 2005, he was the recipient of the Ferries Limited, Northumberland Canadian Bar Association (Nova Ferries Limited and associated Scotia) Distinguished Community companies. Service Award. 1981 1985

Darrell Brown John Kulik, Q.C. Peter Darling, Q.C. has been John Rogers, Q.C. has just spent 2007 as has been appointed Queen’s Counsel. He completed a successful year a Director of Europe and Asia appointed Queen’s Counsel. He practises with Huestis Ritch in as Chairman of the Halifax for Chemonics International is a part of McInnis Cooper’s Halifax and practises extensively Chamber of Commerce. A Inc. based in Washington. In Construction and Insurance in the area of litigation, with a managing partner with Stewart December 2008, he moved to Practice group. special emphasis on admiralty, McKelvey’s Halifax office, he Baku, Azerbaijan where he has Graham M. Law commercial and insurance has been recognized by the agreed to head the USAID Trade is working in matters. Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory and Investment Reform Support Calgary, A.B. at Bantrel Co., the as a leading practitioner and Program until September 2009. Canadian subsidiary of a large has been practising in the area U.S. engineering and construction

Dalhousie Law School Hearsay 2008 73  GRAPEVINE form (Bechtel). Previous to practice, Maritime Law Company Calgary he moved to Ottawa in 1991 Inc., emphasizes admiralty, 2002 to work for the Department corporate/commercial, civil Donna Turko was a legal of Justice Canada then to New litigation and regulatory law. commentator during the 12 York City in 2004. He married month Pickton trial for CBC radio Emily McLaughlin in 2002 in and television. She continues Mexico and welcomed Ethan to practise criminal, prison an Harnish Law in November 2005 1995 human rights law in Vancouver. while in New York City. Soon after returning to Calgary in 2007, Ethan’s little brother, Thomas Maureen McTeer, lawyer Kieffer Law joined the family. 1993 and author, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Sheffield in 2008. The honour is offered 1988 for her work in international law, public policy, and ethics. She is an Danny Graham , Chair of internationally renowned expert

Envision Halifax and Chief in the field of bioethics, women’s Robert Cowan has joined Provincial Negotiator, Mi’kmaq health, law and public policy and McInnis Cooper as an Associate Rights Initiative has been named is an Adjunct Professor at the st in the Halifax office, practising a recipient of the 1 annual University of Ottawa. Her books novaknowledge SPARK Award. corporate and business law include Tough Choices: Living and The award was presented at st with a focus on technology Subrata Bhattacharjee, co-chair Dying in the 21 Century, and novaknowledge’s 15th anniversary and intellectual property. He of Heenan Blaikie LLP’s national autobiography In My Own Name. luncheon on June 5, 2008 and previously held the position trade and competition group has recognizes forward thinking of Senior Manager, Legal in been named as one of the world’s Nova Scotians whose insight Dalhousie University’s Industry Top 40 Under 40 competition 1994 and innovation enable them Liaison and Innovation Office. He lawyers by Global Competition to triumph over economic is also a part-time faculty member Review. He is one of only four challenges and further the at Dalhousie Law School, teaching Canadian lawyers to make the knowledge economy. intellectual property law. list, which received more than 1000 nominees. He is a part-time faculty member at Dalhousie Law School, teaching competition law. 1996

Simon Fitzpatrick was named to Lexpert’s prestigious list of the “Top 40 under 40” lawyers in Canada for 2007. He is a Partner Darlene Jamieson, Q.C. was the with McCarthy Tétrault and his 2007 recipient of the Frances Fish practice focuses primarily on Women Lawyers’ Achievement securitization. Award. Frances Fish was the first Amanda Garay Robert woman admitted to the Nova Christopher Harmes and Colleen Keyes, a Partner with has recently Brookfield Scotia Bar in 1918. The award are delighted to McInnis Cooper, was named joined the Public Prosecution is given to outstanding women announce that their daughter, a 2007 recipient of Lexpert’s Service of Nova Scotia as a Crown who are dedicated to improving Amelia Kathleen Brookfield Leading Lawyers Under 40 Attorney with the Halifax office. the role of women in the legal Garay, was born October 9, 2006 award. She practises corporate, profession. She is a Partner in Ottawa. Amelia is thriving commercial, finance and securities with Merrick Jamieson Sterns and was so anxious to attend law as well as public/private th Washington & Mahody in Halifax. her mother’s 10 year class infrastructure and is counsel to reunion that she scheduled her the Halifax Regional Municipality early arrival to nearly coincide for the Halifax Harbour Solutions with it. Amanda and Robert 1989 Project. returned to Ottawa from their first posting (with Foreign Affairs Stephanie Cleary, Q.C. was and International Trade Canada) appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2005 having spent two years in on December 31, 2007 by The Moscow, Russia. Honourable Ron Stevens, Q.C., Trevor Johnson has been Minister of Justice and Attorney appointed Director of the Board General for the Province of of Directors of the Halifax Port Alberta. She is the Acting Chief Authority by the Province of Crown Prosecutor for the Judicial Nova Scotia for a term of three District of Medicine Hat. She years. He currently acts as lives in Medicine Hat with her corporate counsel for Coastal husband, Dr. Pat McCombe and Transport Ltd. and his law their two sons, James and George.

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Greg Connors has joined McInnis Cooper’s St. John’s office as a Partner. He practises in the areas of corporate and business, as well as energy and natural resources.

Mark Evans Catherine Howlett and Lawrence has been welcomed Doug Skinner has joined the St. Hanson are thrilled to announce as Partner to Fraser Milner John’s office of McInnis Cooper as Casgrain LLP. Mark is the Partner. He practises in the areas the birth of William Stanley Sean Foreman Hanson in Ottawa on October 25, was awarded co-Toronto lead for the firm’s of Insurance and Maritime Law. 2007. Their first child, Gwendolyn the 2007 Dalhousie University National Securities Litigation Jane (born August 2003), is “Outstanding Young Alumnus Group. Mark also handles Sea Taubner along with her learning how to be a great big of the Year” Award. He is a professional liability matters for husband, John Bradley and sister. Partner with Wickwire Holm in clients in the areas of corporate their two year old son, West Halifax and a part-time lecturer at governance and auditor’s are delighted to announce the Dalhousie Law School, teaching liability. arrival of their daughter, Eden, Business & Environmental Law. on July 11, 2007. Sea and John Lucy Hill has joined the work in Edmonton; she as in- Halifax office of Cox & Palmer house counsel for Alco, an oilfield as Director of Professional service group and John as a Development. She coordinates nephrologist. She can be reached professional development and at [email protected] training programs for the firm’s lawyers and articled clerks.

Linda Klaamas and husband, Robert Oliver are proud to introduce Thomson Klaamas Oliver, born September 28, 2006, Jennifer Forster in Toronto, Ontario, weighing has joined Cox & 9lbs., 1oz. Now that Catherine Palmer as an Associate. Jennifer Howlett, Amanda Garay and previously worked in corporate Linda have each had children, and commercial law and in the they are awaiting the fourth sign Nova Scotia Liberal caucus office Greg Moores has joined Stewart of the apocalypse. as an analyst & senior researcher McKelvey’s St. John’s, NL office on public policy matters. Loretta Manning and Wayne as a partner. He is the Chair Matheson were married in June of the Environmental, Energy Dana Schindelka was named one 2007. Loretta is an associate with and Resources Law section of of the Top 40 lawyers in Canada Cox & Palmer and Wayne is the Newfoundland & Labrador under 40 in 2007 when he was with the Nova Scotia Legal Aid Branch of the Canadian Bar awarded Lexpert’s Rising Stars Commission. Association. Under 40 award. He is a partner in the Calgary office of Davis LLP and he practises in the area of 2000 civil litigation. 1997 Brent Johnston joined Hunter Robert Astroff is the President Litigation Chambers in the of Astroff Consultants Inc., an spring of 2007 after practising educational consulting firm with a national firm in the specializing in applications to field of general commercial L. Martina Munden has professional and undergraduate and insolvency litigation. He been appointed partner with programs in Canada, the has worked on a wide range Patterson Law. She practises Domina Hussain United States and overseas. of insurance and commercial in Health Law, Privacy Law, and her Syed Hussain He can be reached at robert@ litigation matters in the courts Corporate/Commercial Law husband, astroffconsultants.com of British Columbia, as well as and Employment Law and has welcomed their first child, a son, appearances in the Federal Court previously taught at Dalhousie Tawfiq Syed Hussain on August and the Yukon Territory Supreme Law School and the University 13, 2007. Domina is a Crown Court. He will be continuing of Sherbrooke. Prosecutor working for Alberta his work in general commercial Justice in Edmonton, Alberta. litigation at the firm.

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Jennifer Barrigar is pursuing her Melanie MacLellan has joined LL.D. in the Law and Technology the Halifax office of Stewart program at the University of McKelvey as a staff lawyer. Ottawa, focusing on issues of She practises in the areas of identity and reputation. She is property and real estate law and also affiliated with the On the development law. Susan McKinney has joined Identity Trail project . In support of David Henley, a Partner with the Financial Recovery and Real her doctoral work, Jennifer Stewart McKelvey was named Estate teams. She also sits as a has received a 2007 Canada to Lexpert’s prestigious list of legal representative on the IWK Graduate Scholarship from the the “Top 40 Under 40” lawyers Health Centre’s Research Ethics Social Sciences and Humanities in Canada. In addition to Board. Research Council, the 2006 Marie- practising law in the construction, Paule Scott Commemorative environmental, maritime, energy Kathleen O’Neill is a Partner Scholarship and a 2006 Gowlings and natural resources field, he in the St. John’s office of Cox & fellowship as well as support is a part-time faculty member at Palmer. Her practice focuses on from the University of Ottawa. Dalhousie Law School. He was insurance litigation. She was Previously, Jennifer served as also recently promoted Colonel in admitted to the Newfoundland legal counsel for the Office of the Natsu Nogami-Shimokawa the Army Reserve and commands and Labrador bar in 2001 and the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. and her husband, Kuratoshi 36 Canadian Brigade Group Nova Scotia bar in 2003. Shimokawa were married on which includes nearly 1,600 Army Vincent Chew is working with May 13, 2007 at Yamanoue Reservists in Nova Scotia and Kate (Greene) Stanhope and the International Council of Hotel in Fukuoka, Japan. Prince Edward Island. Peter Stanhope are pleased Sports Science and Physical They are currently residing in to announce the birth of their Education in Berlin, Germany as Bangkok, Thailand where she Lori A. Hill has joined Beveridge, son, Henry Greene Stanhope on Communications and Marketing works with the International MacPherson & Buckle and February 12, 2007. Manager. Previous to this position Labour Organization (ILO) as is practising in the area of he worked in Australia with Subregional Officer for East administrative, immigration the Melbourne Commonwealth Asia, as a Technical Officer on and family law as well as civil Games and in Qatar with the International Labour Standards litigation. Doha Asian Games. and Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. She is also Jennifer M. Riordan has joined expected to complete her LL.D. the Bank of Montreal Private degree within the next few years. Client Group where she will be advising the compliance function with regards to investment management, mutual funds and Cristin Wagner is a Partner in the private banking. Jenny articled Intellectual Property Department with (then) Cox Hanson O’Reilly of the Ottawa office of Gowlings Matheson and is called to the Lafleur Henderson LLP. She Nova Scotia and Ontario bars. Bianca Krueger is an Associate practises in the areas of patent She has an LL.M. in Banking in the Halifax office of Cox & and trade-mark litigation. and Financial Law from Boston Palmer and is practising in the University. area of immigration and estates & Rebekah Powell has joined Cox trusts. Before joining the firm she Lauren Scaravelli attained a & Palmer as an Associate. After was in private practice focused in Master of Laws and graduated articling with the firm, she joined the areas of litigation, family and from the University of Victoria, the labour and employment team estate law. She has worked in the Wellington, New Zealand in 2006. and started to grow her practice field of restorative justice with the Lauren is currently practising and then worked with the Nova Community Justice Society. with the Nova Scotia Department Scotia Department of Justice for of Justice. two years before re-joining the firm. Elizabeth A. Wozniak has joined Kim Walsh has joined Stewart Beveridge, MacPherson & Buckle McKelvey’s St. John’s, NL office and is practising in the area of 2003 as Partner. She is the Chair of administrative, immigration Aniefiok Bassey the Maritime Law Section of the and family law as well as civil is working Newfoundland and Labrador litigation. as an Associate with Prince & Branch of the Canadian Bar Rivera LLP in Houston, Texas, Association and a member of specializing in federal matters. the Canadian Maritime Law Jasmine Walsh has joined Association. Catherine Craig has joined the McInnis Cooper’s Halifax office Halifax office of McInnis Cooper as an Associate. She practises as an Associate. She is practising in the areas of Labour and in the areas of corporate, Employment and Pensions and commercial and tax law. Benefits.

76 Hearsay 2008 Dalhousie Law School Mike O’Hara assumed an Denise Zareski has joined Boyne 2004 associate position in the IP Clarke as an Associate in the litigation group of Lovells in their Corporate/Commercial section New York office as of April 1, and practises in the area of 2008. Mike spent two and a half Commercial and Real Estate Law. years practising biotechnology She is also a supervising lawyer patent litigation at Kenyon for Dalhousie Pro Bono Students & Kenyon in New York and Canada. was most recently working for ImClone Systems Inc. at the firm Wiley Rein in Washington, D.C. Joseph Chedrawe, an associate 2006 with James Wallace. Mike was with Stewart McKelvey’s called to the New York State Bar Halifax office, has been awarded Dahlia Bateman and her in 2005. the prestigious Canadian Bar Roger Shaw, husband, welcomed Association Viscount Bennett their daughter, Mackenna Rachael Fellowship to pursue a Master Shaw on June 27, 2007. Dahlia has of Laws program abroad for the a private practice in downtown 2008-2009 academic year. Toronto, Ontario. Gabrielle Gray lives in the United Kingdom with her husband, Flt. Lt. Christopher Phyo, whom she married on September 15, 2006 in Vanessa Anderson London, England. Following her has joined call to the Ontario Bar in 2006, the Halifax office of Stewart Scott Campbell has joined she took a position with Clifford McKelvey as an Associate. She Stewart McKelvey’s Halifax office Chance LLP in London, practising practises in the areas of Litigation as an Associate. He specializes in in the area of structured finance. and Insurance law. Litigation. In 2007, she moved out to the West Country and in-house to Elaine Craig is pursuing her J.S.D David. R. Melvin was appointed Vodafone, a telecommunications at Dalhousie Law School and is by the Governor in Council of company, where she advises on a recipient of the Pierre Elliott Nova Scotia to the Crop and international M&A and corporate Trudeau Foundation Scholarship Livestock Insurance Arbitration finance law. in the amount of $150,000. She is Board for a term of three years also a part-time faculty member at commencing 2008. David Melissa Klages is currently the law school. continues to practise in the articling with the Christopher areas of litigation, corporate- Johnston Law Corporation in commercial, estate and real Revelstoke, British Columbia. Stephen Campbell estate law with his colleagues has at Livingstone & Company in joined Wickwire Holm as an Dartmouth. Associate. He practises in the areas of Business Structures & Transactions, Banking & Finance, Insolvency & Corporate 2005 Restructuring, Real Estate and Tax & Wealth Management.

Malcolm Kempt holds a private Jonathan Coady has been criminal practice in Iqaluit. He awarded the J. William E. Mingo flies around the Arctic doing Naiomi Metallic became the Memorial Scholarship to pursue criminal defence work and first Nova Scotia lawyer in graduate legal education outside spends 1/3 of the year in Halifax. history to be called to the Bar in of Canada. The scholarship He was the first articling student English, French and Mi’kmaq on honours the distinguished in Nunavut and the first person March 7, 2008. After graduating career, accomplishments and to be called to the Nunavut Bar from Dalhousie Law School contributions of the late William without being a member of a law she received a civil law degree Mingo (1926-2005) and is one Tricia Barry society elsewhere. has joined the Halifax from the University of Ottawa of the most prestigious awards office of Stewart McKelvey as an in 2006, making her a bijural as available to graduates of Jason Mueller-Neuhaus is Associate and practises in the area well as bilingual lawyer. She then Dalhousie Law School. Jonathan practising intellectual property of Litigation Law. Prior to joining won a coveted clerkship at the is currently a Law Clerk to The law in Ottawa with Cassan the firm she was admitted to Supreme Court of Canada where Honourable Justice Dawson of Maclean, an IP boutique. He both the Nova Scotia and British she spent 15 months assisting the Federal Court of Canada, successfully passed the patent bar Columbia bars and clerked at the the Honourable Justice Michel 2007-2008 and will be attending in Canada in 2006 and registered Nova Scotia Court of Appeal. She Bastarache. She is an Associate the University of Cambridge as a patent agent in Canada and is also a member of the Board of with Burchell’s and is a member in the Fall of 2008 to pursue his in the United States in 2007. He Directors of the Dalhousie Law of the Aboriginal law and graduate studies. also practises trademark law. Alumni Association. Litigation practice groups.

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Trevor Crowley has joined the Sadira Jan has joined the Halifax Andrew Taillon has joined Cox Burtley Francis has joined Halifax office of Cox & Palmer as office of Stewart McKelvey as an & Palmer’s Halifax office as an Stewart McKelvey’s Halifax office an Associate. He practises in the Associate. She practises in the Associate. He practises with the as an Associate. He specializes in area of corporate and commercial area of Corporate/Commercial Labour and Employment group. Corporate/Commercial Law. law. law. 2007

Ashley R. Ayliffe was called to the Bar in May of 2008 in British Columbia. He is practising as an Associate with the Chilliwack law firm of Baker Newby LLP in the areas of civil and criminal litigation. Paul Saunders has joined Stewart Katrine Giroux has joined Cox Heather Oke has joined Cox McKelvey’s Halifax office as & Palmer’s Halifax office as & Palmer’s Halifax office as an an Associate. He specializes in an Associate. She practises in Associate. She practises primarily Corporate/Commercial Law. He the areas of commercial and in the areas of corporate and is also a part-time instructor at insurance litigation. commercial transactions, small Dalhousie’s School of Business and medium size enterprises, Administration, teaching Legal intellectual property, real estate Aspects of Business. and estates and trusts.

William T. Cahill won first Prize (Past President’s Award) in the 2006-2007 Canadian Transportation Research Forum Student Paper Competition Lorway Gosse has joined Cox (Undergraduate Papers). His & Palmer’s Halifax office as an paper titled “Stop the Invasion! Associate. He practises in the An Analysis of the International Maggie Stewart has joined areas of Coporate/Commercial Melanie Petrunia has joined Convention for the Control and Stewart McKelvey’s Halifax office Law, Corporate Taxation, Estates Stewart McKelvey’s Halifax office Management of Ship’s Ballast as an Associate. She specializes in and Trusts, and Banking and as an Associate. She practises in Water and Sediments and Litigation. Financial Transactions. the area of litigation. Canada’s Ballast Water Control and Management Regulations” Nathan Sutherland has joined was supervised by Professor Aldo Stewart McKelvey’s Halifax office Chircop. William is an Associate as an Associate. He specializes with Cox & Palmer in St. John’s. in Environmental Law and Litigation.

Janet Grant has joined the St. Jonathan Poirier has joined the John’s office of Stewart McKelvey. Halifax office of McInnis Cooper She practises in the areas of as Associate in their Corporate Litigation, Health, Insurance and Finance and Corporate & Veronica Ford Corporate/Commercial law. Business Groups. has joined Stewart McKelvey’s Saint John office as William V. Szubielski has joined an Associate. She specializes in Stewart McKelvey’s Halifax office Corporate/Commercial Law. as an Associate. He specializes in Corporate/Commercial Law.

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of Trinity United Church where LL.B. at Dalhousie University. It 1939 1946 he enjoyed hymnal singing. He was at Dalhousie that he met his was past president of Branch future wife, Jessie, and they were Margaret Stanwood 34 Royal Canadian Legion, the married in Halifax in 1951. After (Drummie) Bagg, B.A., LL.B., New Glasgow Rotary Club moving to Toronto he worked at LL.M. passed away peacefully and various other community the Toronto Harbour Commission on November 21, 2007 at The organizations. In his later years, and then Westinghouse. In 1961, Berkeley, Halifax. Born in Saint when age was beginning to take he joined Miller Thomson as a John, N.B., she was the daughter its toll, he enjoyed trips to the labour relations lawyer, where of the late Thomas Francis and local coffee shop, corner store he spent 40 rewarding years – Margaret Elizabeth (Knight) and his favoured grocery chain the longest in the firm’s history. Drummie. She graduated with which provided him with daily He enjoyed family holidays at honours from Netherwood small town exposure to the Lac Brulé, Redwood ski trips School in Rothesay, N.B. and friendly faces of the residents of in New Hampshire and winter went on to earn her B.A. in 1937 his adopted Pictou County. He vacations in Longboat Key, and subsequently her LL.B. from was predeceased in 2002 by his Florida. He was known for his Dalhousie University in 1939. beacon of 61 years, Kathryn and wonderful sense of humor and She was admitted to the New The Honourable Alexander is survived by eight appreciative keen interest in history and Brunswick Bar in 1939. She met M. “Dooley” MacIntosh, B.A., sons and daughters-in-law, Ian language. An avid athlete, he her future husband, Douglas LL.B. passed away on December and Gillian of Sydney, Australia; played squash, badminton, tennis Gordon “Doug” Bagg of Montreal 2, 2007 at the age of 91. Born in Sandy and Shirley of Halifax; and golf. Besides his parents he at Dalhousie Law School and Sydney, N.S. he obtained his Bruce and Sue of Quarry was predeceased by his brother they were married on December B.A. at Mount Allison University Island; and Lachie and Debi John. He is survived by his wife 6, 1941, in Saint John, N.B. and was class valedictorian. It of Dartmouth; as well as by 12 of 56 years, Jessie (Morrison), Following the war, they moved was here that he met his future admiring grandchildren and three children, Bruce (Terry), Harry to Montreal where they resided wife, the late Kathryn (Fraser) great-grandchildren. (Astrid Peters) and Anne (Mark until 1963 when they moved MacIntosh. He went on to study Witten) and grandchildren, Peter, their family to Northwood Street law at Dalhousie University and Jane and Leah. He will be missed in Halifax, N.S. In the late 1970s during the war, enlisted with the by his nephews Michael (Nori), she returned to Dalhousie Law Canadian Army where he was 1948 Peter (Janine), Tim (Deirdre), Bob School to complete her LL.M responsible for artillery training (Laurie), and their children as degree. Margaret was very active in Gander, N.L. At the end of the Llewellyn Philip Arlette, well as his sister-in-law, Cynthia. in the community through the Second World War, he returned to LL.B., Q.C. passed away on years, usually involving hospital finish his law degree in 1946, and January 12, 2008. Born in Toronto, auxiliaries and neighbourhood was admitted to the Nova Scotia ON, he graduated from Dalhousie centres and her intelligence, bar in 1947. During his academic Law School in 1948 and went knowledge and great kindness career he established himself as on to enjoy a varied career as were of great value to these a formidable athlete in the sports a school teacher, a soldier, an projects. She was active for many of hockey and football and led athlete, a singer and a lawyer. years in the Antiquarian Society the teams at both universities He practised law for 42 years and after her husband passed to Maritime championships. He earning the distinction of Queens away in 1975, she continued began his legal career as a sole Counsel through diligence, effort to maintain their home on practitioner in New Glasgow, and endeavor. He lived his life Northwood Street for the next N.S. until 1965, when he joined with integrity, honesty and honor. 30 years which was always open forces with the late Honourable He contributed to his community to friends and guests. She was Justice H.J. MacDonnell and through involvement with the known for her great warmth, the late Honourable Justice YMCA, The Alberta Hospital and hospitality, grace, humour and R.B. MacDonald to form the St. Paul’s United Church. He is courtesy. In addition to her law partnership of MacIntosh, survived by his wife of 59 years, The Honourable Howard parents, she was predeceased by MacDonnell & MacDonald, today Betty and their three children, Russell MacEwan, B.A., LL.B. her husband, Douglas Gordon known as Mac, Mac & Mac. In John (Valli); Valerie (Frederick) passed away June 29, 2008 in Bagg and their first born, Douglas 1973, after practising law for 26 and Meaghan (Brian) as well as New Glasgow, N.S. at the age of Christopher. She will be sadly years he was appointed to the grandchildren, Mica (Debbie), 83. Born in Westville, N.S. he was missed by her older sister, Frances Supreme Court of Nova Scotia Ethan, Carter, Jennifer and Colin the son of the late Thomas and Knight Clark of Saint John, N.B.; where he went on to become and great-grandchildren, Jeleena Jessie (Cameron) MacEwan. After two sons and three daughters- one of the senior jurists on the and Braeden. He is also survived graduating from high school in in-law, Douglas Robert and Bench. He elected supernumerary by his sister, Elizabeth Turner. Springhill, he attended Mount Gay Conrad, Halifax; Deryck status in 1987 and fully retired Allison University, graduating in Drummie and Cynthia, Toronto; in 1991, after 44 years of service Alan David Churchill-Smith, 1945. During his time at Mount and Margie MacDonald, Halifax; to the Bench and Bar. Following B.A., LL.B., Q.C. passed away on Allison he was a member of her grandchildren, Leslie, Jeremy, his judicial retirement he served December 26, 2007 in his 83rd the football and track teams Amber, Tamara and Tyson and as the Conflict of Interest year. Born in Oakville, ON he and served as student council her nieces and nephews, Thomas Commissioner for the Province was the son of the late Harrison president in his final year. During Clark (Roberta), Margie-Jean of Nova Scotia and also served as and Dorothy (Poole) Churchill- his summer breaks he worked (Clark) Ouellette (Roger), William a Pension Appeals Board judge, Smith. Affectionately known in the Drummond Coal Mine Bagg and Virginia (Bagg) Repei. presiding on appeals across as “Churchie” he grew up in and with Warren Paving. He Canada. His proudest public Montreal and attended Bishop went on to earn his law degree service was as Mayor of the Town College School. He patrolled the at Dalhousie Law School in of New Glasgow from 1961-1970. North Atlantic with the Royal 1948 and was a member of the He was a former Sunday School Canadian Navy aboard the HMS Maritime champion Dalhousie Superintendent and adherent Kentville and later obtained his Rugby Team. He then practised

Dalhousie Law School Hearsay 2008 79  OBITUARIES law from 1948-1963 with Hugh Oxford Development Group in J. MacDonnell in New Glasgow 1952 Edmonton, A.B. He retired in 1981 1956 and served as Captain with at which time he enjoyed many the 1st Battalion, Nova Scotia happy years of travelling with his Highlanders (North). He was family and pursued his interests first elected as a Member of in woodworking, genealogy, Parliament in 1957 and was re- military history and gardening. elected five times after in 1958, He was predeceased by his wife, 1962, 1963 and 1965 in the riding Jean, in 1997 and his brother, of Pictou and finally in 1968 in the Larry, in 2005. He is survived then newly redistributed riding by his children, Mary, Alison of Central Nova. He served until and Donald and their respective 1971 and was a member of several partners, David, Keith and House of Commons committees, Karalee. He is also survived by including Justice and Legal his grandchildren, Scott and Max Affairs, Armed Services, Veterans and his sister, Kathryn Gillespie Affairs and Labour. During his as well as his dogs, Teddy and final term he was a Labour critic. Richard Darrell Weston Tessie. In 1971, he was appointed a Keating, B.A., LL.B., Q.C. passed Judge of the Provincial Court, away on November 20, 2007 presiding in Amherst until 1977 at the age of 82. The son of the Eric Gordon DeMont, LL.B., and in New Glasgow until his 1955 late Brigadier General Harold Q.C. passed away in his sleep retirement in 1991, after which J. B. Keating and Gladys M. at his winter retreat in Hilton he served in a part-time capacity Donald Francis Murphy, Head Island, South Carolina on (Weston) Keating, he grew up LL.B., Q.C. passed away on May until 1997. He was a member March 6, 2008 at the age of 80. in Halifax and then attended 16, 2008 in Halifax at the age of of the Westville Rotary Club, The son of Clarence and Mabel McGill University earning a B.A. 79. The son of the late Thomas Western Star Lodge No. 5, A.M. (nee MacKeigan) DeMont he and later Dalhousie University and Adelaide (Munroe) Murphy & F.M, New Glasgow City Club graduated from Glace Bay’s where he obtained his LL.B. he obtained his law degree at and Trinity United Church, New Central High School and went degree. He practised law in Dalhousie University in 1955. He Glasgow. He was predeceased by on to attend Acadia University London, ON from 1953 to 1995. served as City Solicitor and City his first wife, Joan (MacDonald); as well as Dalhousie University He was a past member of the Manager for Halifax and also second wife, Betty MacNeil. where he obtained his law degree Highland Country Club and past served on many charitable boards. He is survived by sons, Colin, in 1956. During his time at law president of the Optimist Club of He received the Lieutenant Roy’s Island; Scott (Hallee), Little school he was introduced by his Downtown London. He enjoyed Governor’s Medal for Excellence Harbour; James (Patsy), Corpus brother, Earl, to his future wife, many years at his cottage in in Public Administration in 1992. Christi, Texas; sister, Ann Walters, Pat, a teacher and basketball Cedar Bank subdivision on Lake His love of the sport of hockey New Glasgow; grandchildren, player. They married the day Huron. He is survived by his was well known among his many Matthew, Courtney and Jenna, after his graduation from law wife of 43 years, Jean (Nowosad) friends and he was a founding Little Harbour; Amy and Chris, school. Eric was a member of the and daughter, Kate. He is also member of the St. Mary’s Old Corpus Christi, Texas; niece, Nova Scotia and Ontario Bars survived by nieces Mary-Anne, Timers’ Hockey League. He Joann, Pickering, O.N.; nephew, and practised with Rutledge Cathy, Nancy, Sheila, Rebecca, played on several championship Kevin, Toronto. MacKeigan in Halifax before Lynne and nephews Christopher, teams before putting his skates moving to Toronto where he Jeremy, Dan, Neale and their to rest at the tender age of 78. became Regional Counsel for families. He is also missed by his His love of golf was second only CP Rail. In 1978, he moved from inlaws Olive Lanoway, Myron to that of hockey. He was a man 1950 Toronto to Wolfville, N.S. where Nowosad and Jean Nowosad. He of great faith and was a lifetime he worked until his retirement was predeceased by his brother, member of St. Thomas Aquinas in 2000. A longtime member of J. B. Weston Keating and Desiree Parish. He is survived by his wife the Rotary Club of Wolfville, he McCormack. of 50 years, Marie (Todd) Murphy was a Paul Harris Fellow and and his children, Paul (Heather), past president of the Club. In Rose Bay; Jeffrey (Shannon), 2005, he and Pat relocated to Kamloops, B.C.; Danny, Halifax; Halifax. He enjoyed swimming 1953 Anne (Simon), Galiano Island, and his favorite place to be B.C.; his grandchildren, Earl and Donald Alexander (Sandy) was the “Bonavista Cottage”, Floyd Power-Murphy, Peoria, Victor Romard, LL.B. passed the family vacation home at Machum, B.A., B.Ed, LL.B, LL.M. Illinois; Eva Hall, Halifax; Shea away suddenly on September Melmerby Beach. He enjoyed passed away at his home in and London Murphy, Kamloops, 22, 2007 at the age of 84. A tennis, painting, photography, Edmonton, AB on October 24, B.C. Also surviving are his sisters, graduate of Dalhousie Law web surfing and watching his 2007 at the age of 79. The son of Joan (George) Kinsman, Kingston, School, he was a lovable person, grandchildren play sports. He is Donald Wilfred Machum and O.N.; Noreen (Larry) Dempsey, kind and helpful to anyone in survived by his wife of 51 years, Mary Gibson Merritt Machum Halifax and his stepbrother, Gene any way. He is survived by his Pat (Rowe) and his children, of Wolfville, N.S., he graduated (Anne) Chaisson, Magnolia, wife, Patricia Rose Kelly and Christy (M.B.A. ’82), Toronto; from Acadia University with Delaware. In addition to his children, Charles Gilbert and Jane Frank (LL.B. ’89) (Robyn Eaton), B.A. and B.Ed. degrees and then parents he was also predeceased Cecelia. He is also survived by his New Glasgow; Richard, Montreal; went on to obtain his LL.B degree by an infant sister, Marilyn, and grandchildren Sonia and Adam and his beloved grandchildren, from Dalhousie University and his stepmother, Marie (Chaisson) as well as his father-in-law, Louis Isobel Ruth and Campbell Eric; his LL.M. degree from Harvard Murphy. Renaud. He was predeceased by Law School. He then held senior along with his brothers, Earl his son, Francis Joseph. executive roles with Algoma (Rea), Glace Bay and Russ (Joan), Steel Corporation Limited Halifax. in Sault Ste. Marie, ON and

80 Hearsay 2008 Dalhousie Law School as a corporate and commercial out of Bari, Italy and in 1946 1957 lawyer. In 1994, he was appointed was posted to 216(T) Squadron 1958 Counsel to the firm. As a member based in Almaza, Egypt, flying Walton William Cook, LL.B., of the Canadian Bar Association freight and passengers to the Q.C. passed away April 20, 2008 and the Nova Scotia Barristers’ United Kingdom, West Africa, at home, at the age of 74. The Society he was always an active Nairobi, Kenya, Karachi, son of the late Lenwood and member in the legal community. India, the Middle East and Helen Amelia (Wentzell) Cook, He also contributed his time and Mediterranean destinations. In he obtained his law degree at experience to many volunteer 1948, he immigrated to Canada Dalhousie University in 1957. organizations as the president and transferred from the RAF He began his law career as a of the Halifax YMCA, president to the RCAF. He then attended prosecutor for the City of Halifax of Symphony Nova Scotia, Dalhousie Law School where and in 1962 moved to Lunenburg chairman of the Art Gallery of he obtained his Bachelor of Law where he held his own practice Nova Scotia and vice-president degree in 1952, after which he until his recent retirement. In of Neptune Theatre. In addition, joined the Office of the Judge 1957, he joined the Masons, he served as a director and Advocate General in Ottawa, becoming a member of the New officer of numerous Canadian ON He then went on to obtain Germany Chapter. He was a corporations. He was a member of his Master of Laws degree

Master Mason, a Royal Arch St. Matthew’s United Church, the from McGill University in 1957. Mason, and Past Master of Unity Halifax Club, Royal Nova Scotia Between 1958-1962 he served as Harry John Flemming, B.A., Lodge, Lunenburg. He was also Yacht Squadron, Ashburn Golf Deputy Judge Advocate in Metz, LL.B. passed away in Halifax a 32nd degree Shriner and would Club and Chester Yacht Club. France and Soest, Germany. Upon on February 16, 2008 at the age have received his 50 year jewel Upon his retirement he moved return to Canada, he was posted of 74. He was a graduate of this year. Additionally, he was a to Chester and recently spent to Halifax, St. Hubert, Ottawa, Mount Allison University (1955) member of the Lunenburg Fire many winters at The St. Andrews and finally as AJAG and Military and Dalhousie University Law Department. He was a Member Club in Delray Beach, Florida, Judge in Victoria, B.C., sitting as School (1958). Harry articled of the Legislative Assembly enjoying time with friends and Judge at different courts martial with the firm of Patterson, Smith, from 1970 until 1974 and was family. Hector is survived by his in Canada, Europe, Cyprus, Matthews and Grant in Truro appointed Queens Counsel wife of 48 years, Beverley (Smith); Malta and the United Kingdom. and was admitted to the Nova during his time in practice. He sons, David (Julie Groulx), In the 1970s, he transferred from Scotia bar, although he never is survived by his daughter, Ottawa; Robert (Joan Cullum), CF Regular to Reserve Force practised law. Instead, he spent a Denyse Vashti Flower (Walter); Prospect; Andrew (Lesia Ettinger), for call out duties, spent one good part of his working life as a son, Jeffrey Walton Cook (Krista); Tantallon; grandchildren, Griffin, year in private practice and was journalist, political commentator grandchildren, Alexandra “Allie”, Kerry, Kesha, Ben, Will, Callie, appointed Counsel to the British and speechmaker. He was an Walter III and William. Rowan and Charlie. He also Columbia Royal Commission on editorial writer at the Chronicle leaves brothers, Stewart (Shirley Electoral Reform and Chairman Herald and the Globe and Mail in Bowness), Halifax; Roderick of the Federal Penitentiary the 1960s and wrote for many (Daniele Tanguay), Toronto; sister, Disciplinary Courts. In 1981, he publications including Atlantic Ann (Eric Rice), Vancouver, B.C.; retired after serving 43 years in Insight, Inflight Magazine and the 11 nieces and nephews, and five the military and 20 years with Halifax Daily News. In the 1970s he grandnieces and grandnephews. the penitentiary service. He is published a weekly newspaper, survived by his wife, Marion; Barometer. As a commentator he Lt. Col. (ret’d) Clive Langley daughter, Michelle Ripon, an was especially well known for Rippon, LL.B., LL.M. passed attorney in Ashville, N.C. (Larry many years on CBC Halifax 1st away on March 4, 2008 in Victoria, Farr); sons, David Rippon Edition’s political panel. During B.C. at the age of 86. The son of (Daphne), Novato, C.A., and Dr. his career Harry was employed the late Col. Rev. William and Tom Rippon (Judy), Victoria, B.C.; with the federal government’s Malvina Rippon, he was born in sisters, Rosemary Rippon, Halifax Atlantic Development Board Coventry, England. In his early and Patricia Lyell, Bath, England; and the Department of Regional years he attended Coventry grandson, Patrick, California; Economic Expansion, was a Preparatory School and Rugby granddaughter, Victoria Miller policy advisor in the government School, OTC. In 1939, he enlisted (Cam), Mankato, Minnesota; of Premier Gerald Regan and Hector MacNeill McInnes, in the RAF and trained as an great-grandchildren, Rose and executive vice president of the B.A., LL.B., LL.M, Q.C. passed air observer, navigator, bomb Jacob Miller; nephew Robert Atlantic Provinces Economic away March 18, 2008. He was aimer and joined 23(F) Squadron, Lyell, France, and niece, Susie Council. In the 1968 federal the eldest son of the late Donald flying night intruder operations Bancroft (Andy), Bath, England. election he ran as the Liberal McInnes and Betty (Rowan-Legg). over Europe. He was awarded candidate in Cumberland Hector graduated from Ashbury the Distinguished Flying Cross Colchester. Harry often noted College in Ottawa and then went in 1943 and the same year was that all the members of his family on to obtain his Bachelor of Law posted to Calgary for pilot have a degree from Dalhousie degree from Dalhousie University training and pilot rest. It was University. He is survived by and his Master of Laws from here that he met and married his wife Glen Maureen (Perry) Harvard Law School, both with his wife, Marrion E. Simpson of Flemming, Halifax (MBA 1979); high honours. After being called Drumheller, AB, in February 1944. daughters Cara Flemming, to the Nova Scotia Bar in 1957, In March 1944, he returned to the Toronto (MHSA 1987) and Dr. he began practice with the law United Kingdom and on D-Day Anne Flemming, Vancouver (MD firm McInnes Cooper following was posted to 116 Squadron 1992); son Andrew Flemming, in the footsteps of his father, operating in France and then on Halifax (B.Sc. 1984 and B.Eng. Donald McInnes, and grandfather, to Arnhem in support of ground 1987) and daughter-in-law Hector McInnes. He devoted forty forces. In 1945, he was posted Susan Flemming; sister Carolyn years to the firm and its clients to 575(T) Squadron flying DC3s Flemming MacDonald, Truro

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(BA 1956). He is also survived Kings Hockey Team during the partner with Burchell MacDougall University he went on to obtain by grandchildren Kate, William 1960s and 1970s. Following his in Truro, N.S. He was the Chair his law degree at Dalhousie and Sean Flemming. Possessed retirement he enjoyed writing of the Nova Scotia Securities University and subsequently a of an extraordinary memory and children’s literature which Commission from its creation in Ph.D in Computer Law at the a broad knowledge of history, entertained family and friends. 1987 to 2002 and Public Director University of Texas. He was a literature, politics and baseball, He is survived by his loving wife, of the Mutual Funds Dealers senior corporate executive with Harry was a formidable debater Loretta (Chisholm); son, Michael Association since 2003. In his experience in both the public and trivia expert. With his death (Hilary), and cousins, Anna Nicoll earlier years he was a member of and private sectors for over 30 a unique individual has passed and Jessie London, Toronto, ON; the CICA/CBA Joint Committee years. He sat on numerous boards from the scene. A reception was Ken MacKenzie, Montreal, Q.C.; on Taxation from 1985 to 1992; and committees, including: held at Ashburn Golf Club in Rod MacKenzie, Halifax; Sheilah member of the federal Minister The Broadband Task Force, Halifax on February 24, 2008, to (Paul) Redekop, Winnipeg, M.B.; of Finance Advisory Group on Advisory Committee to the celebrate Harry’s life. Bev (Grant) Richardson, Wolfville; 1987 Tax Reform; member of the Minister of National Revenue sisters-in-law, Marie Kelly, Venture Corporations Board of on Electronic Commerce, Board The Honourable Paul Clarke Antigonish; Audrey (Lowell) Nova Scotia from 1986 to 1987; of the Canadian Information Rouleau, B.A., LL.B. passed Binder, Hammonds Plains; Anne and Governor of the Canadian Processing Society, Board away peacefully on July 25, (Ron) Langlois, Hatchett Lake; Tax Foundation from 1988 to 1991. of the Canadian Advanced 2007 at the age of 76. Born in and granddaughter-like, Christina He was an author of multiple Technology Association, and Cornwall, ON he graduated from Scriven, Toronto, ON publications and recognized by Global Alliance for Infrastructure the University of Ottawa with national professional evaluations Advancement. He was also a a Bachelor of Arts degree and publications as an expert in member of the Roundtable on Dalhousie University with a law taxation, estates and trusts E-business Opportunities, the degree in 1958. He was called to 1959 and securities law. He was a National Research Council’s the Ontario Bar in 1960 and in lifetime member of Immanuel Advisory Committee on the 1981, he was appointed judge of Calvin Parker Wood, LL.B. Baptist Church in Truro and a Industrial Research Assistance the County and District Court passed way on May 2, 2008 in member of the Truro Branch of Program, the Advisory Board Bench of Ontario and became a Halifax at the age of 75. The son Rotary International, serving as for the new NRC Institute for Federal Court judge the following of the late Parker and Pansy President in 1991-92, Director of Information Technology, an active year. For the year previous to his Wood, he was born in Southport, Community Service and Club participant on the Government passing he was a deputy judge Prince Edward Island. Graduating Service and received the Paul Online Advisory Board, Auditor with the Federal Court. He is from Dalhousie University with Harris Fellowship in 1999 in General Committees, and held survived by his wife, Aline and his law degree in 1959 he served recognition of his support to the the position of co-chairman children, Paul Jr., Monique, Pierre as a pension advocate for the Rotary Foundation. He was also of the Conference Board (Carol Paquette) and Julie (David Department of Veterans Affairs a director of the Ship’s Company Advisory Council on Canadian Sutton). He is also survived by his for 33 years. He is survived by Theatre in Parrsboro. He took Connectedness. He is survived by grandchildren, André, Patrick and his wife of 48 years, Vera; son, great pleasure in spending time his wife of 40 years, Arlene and Amélie. He will be sadly missed Dr. David Wood (Nina Waite), with friends and family in Lower their children Gaylen (Alison), by his sisters, Bibiane Amyot, Halifax; daughters, Dr. Cathy Economy. He is survived by Krista (Michael Donaldson), Elda (Edward Firth), Denise (Dr. Connell (Peter), Halifax; Heather his wife of 43 years, Beverley Meghan (Stefan Haag) and Marc Morin) and his brother, Archibald (Chris), Hubley; Ann (Smith); children, Sheri Robert. He is also survived by Marc (Sue Bateman). grandchildren, Christopher and Jones (Wayne O’Connor), Dr. his grandchildren, Avery, Taylor Lindsay Wood, Braydon, Devin Jennifer MacLellan (Stephen and Graydon. Additionally, and Liam Connell, Cassandra and Ford) and Matthew MacLellan he is survived by his mother, Katelyn Archibald; sister, Velma David Flemming Walker, (Dr. Dawn MacLellan); as well as Frances, mother-in-law, Myrtle Wright (George), Charlottetown, LL.B. passed away on April 27, grandchildren, Lavinia, Asa and Nicholson and siblings, John 2008. The only child of Gordon Edie. (Helene), Gord (Libby), Jennifer and Mary (MacDonald) Walker 1968 (Greg Thompson), Jamie, Diane he obtained his law degree (Michael Leuty), Susan (Ron 1970 Schirlie) and 12 nieces and from Dalhousie University in Robert Bernard “Bob” 1958 and spent three years with nephews. He was predeceased MacLellan, B.Comm, LL.B. the Department of Justice in by his father, Gaylen R., his passed away November 12, 2007, Ottawa, ON before returning father-in-law, Robert Nicholson, at the age of 65. The only child to Nova Scotia in 1963 where step-father, Dr. Jack Locke and of the late Raymond “Buster” he led a successful law practice granddaughter, Caleigh. and Evelyn (Marr), he was in New Germany, N.S. until born and lived in Truro, with his retirement in 1996. He was strong family ties in Bass River. recognized with a Queens After graduating from Acadia Counsel designation in 1977 and 1971 University with a Bachelor of was honoured in 2000 by the Commerce degree, he went on Simon L. Gaum, B.A., LL.B, Law of the Future Fund of the to obtain his Bachelor of Laws Q.C. passed away suddenly Canadian Bar Association for degree at Dalhousie University on September 7, 2007. Born in his outstanding contribution to in 1968. He would later return to Sydney, N.S., he was the son the legal profession and to the Dalhousie Law School to lecture of the late Dorothy and Harry advancement of law in Canada. Corporate Finance, Business Gaum. He attended Acadia He was a past Master of Hillcrest Law and Advanced Income Tax. Gaylen Arthur Duncan, B.A., University, McGill School of Lodge, No. 93, A.F. & A.M., New He was a Law Clerk to Chief LL.B, Ph.D. passed away in his Social Work and Dalhousie Law Germany and former Deacon of st Justice Wells of the High Court 61 year on March 26, 2008. He School, receiving his Bachelor the Barss Corner United Baptist of Justice (Ontario) and articled was the son of Frances Duncan of Laws degree in 1971. Active Church. He touched many lives and practised with Blake, Cassels Locke and the late Gaylen R. in the legal community, he was through his contribution as and Graydon. He later became a Duncan. After receiving his well-known and respected. He the coach of the Springfield Ice Bachelor of Arts degree at McGill 82 Hearsay 2008 Dalhousie Law School practised law in Halifax for Century, and editor of Here Is over 35 years and felt privileged 1978 My Method, a Pulpit Book Club to have such a successful and selection in 1952. He was a fellow rewarding career. He was a of the American Association of very dedicated and supportive Theological Schools, conducting member of the Jewish community research in London and was one and Shaar Shalom Congregation. of the founders and first president Simon never forgot his strong of the American Academy of Cape Breton roots and will Homiletics. He authored nine always be remembered for his books that set the standard for vibrant personality, warmth, contemporary preaching. In his quick wit and ability to tell jokes. retirement, he was a minister Most importantly, he was a kind in residence at Charlestown and caring husband, father and Retirement Community, grandfather, truly devoted to Catonsville, Maryland. He was family first. He is survived by his predeceased by his wife, Norma wife, Karen; his two daughters, Elinor Harper Macleod and is Lesley (Dov Bercovici), Jennifer survived by four children, John Peter Alwyne Heathcote, (Adam Bobker) and his two Fraser of San Francisco, C.A., B.Comm, LL.B, M.B.A., Ph.D, Master grandchildren, Rebekah and David Ainslie of Nelson, B.C., Mariner passed away on June 6, Matthew. Alberta Anne of Baltimore, 2007 at the age of 64 after a brief Maryland., and Leslie Elinor of Reverend Dr. Donald but determined battle with cancer. Sydney Center, N.Y.; and two Macleod, B.A., B.D., M.A., Born in Eccles, United Kingdom, grandchildren. 1974 Th.D., LL.D., D.D. passed away he was the son of Edward and January 20, 2008 at The Oak Crest Joan (Bratherton). He attended Retirement Village in Baltimore, the School of Navigation at the Maryland. Born in Cape Breton, 1980 University of South Hampton N.S., he received B.A. and in preparation for a career at M.A. degrees from Dalhousie David James Cook, B. Sc., LL.B. sea as a deck officer. He rose University and a B.D. degree passed away September 25, 2007 from deck cadet with the Blue from Pine Hill Divinity Hall. at the age of 51 after a long battle Star Line in 1961 to master with He was ordained and served with lymphomas in the lungs Gypsum Transportation Limited pastorates in Louisburg, N.S. and sinuses. Born in Dartmouth, in 1972. After emigrating to and Toronto, ON He received N.S. he was the son of the late Canada, Peter went back to a Th.D. at Emmanuel College James “Jimmy” and Pamela university obtaining a B.Comm of the University of Toronto (Robbins) Cook. He graduated (cum laude) in 1975, an LL.B. in while a senior tutor at Victoria from Dalhousie University with 1978 and an M.B.A. in 1979, all College. He then joined the a Bachelor of Science degree in from Dalhousie University. He faculty of Princeton Theological 1977, followed by a law degree did much of his study while still Seminary and was awarded in 1980. He held a law practice serving as master. He was also a B.A., LL.B. Carl Felix Dombek, honorary degrees from Pine Hill in Bedford, N.S., specializing in member of the Royal Canadian passed away on October 5, 2007 (D.D.) and Dalhousie (LL.D). Dr. real estate law. He was a natural Naval Reserve during the period at the age of 58. The son of the Macleod preached in influential athlete, enjoying the sports of 1976-1979. Peter went on to work late Felix and Mary Dombek, he pulpits throughout the world, hockey, tennis, softball, curling with the principal Canadian east graduated from Brock University including the university chapels and golf. He very much enjoyed coast ferry operator, Canadian in 1971 with a Bachelor of of Duke, Princeton, Muhlenberg, attending his children’s sports National (CN) Marine Inc. and its Arts degree and then went on Rutgers, Lehigh, and New games and enjoyed reading successor, Marine Atlantic Inc., in to complete his law degree at College, London; and in pulpits selections from large science various positions, culminating as Dalhousie University. After of the National Presbyterian fiction library. He leaves behind Vice President, Marine Services. his call to the Bar, he pursued Church in Washington, D.C., his wife of 28 years, Alison He then practised maritime graduate studies at Queen’s the Chicago Sunday Evening McCallum, and children, Michael, law in Halifax with Metcalf & University and after a period of Club, American Preacher Series at home; Elizabeth (University Company, before embarking on time in private practice, joined at Eaton Memorial Church, of Hartford, C.T.) and Brian a new career in 1993 as Regional the Ontario Civil Service in 1977. Toronto, Chautauqua Evangelist, (University of Calgary, A.B.). Maritime Legal Advisor to the He held numerous positions as Wellington Church in Glasgow, He is also survived by his twin South Pacific Commission. There senior government lawyer for Scotland, and Fifth Avenue and brother, Peter and niece, Robbin, he provided legal advice on several ministries and tribunals, Riverside Churches in New York Dorval, QC maritime law and policy to the served as president of CCAT and City. He preached on “Church governments of 14 Pacific Island published several legal articles of the Air” of the CBC and countries, while based in Suva, throughout his career. He will was a guest lecturer at many Fiji. He is credited with almost be dearly missed by his wife summer conferences in the U.S. totally modernizing, updating Margaret. He was the brother of and Canada. He also mentored and, in many cases, initiating the Frank (Dora) Dombek and Wanda chaplains in the armed services. maritime legislation system of the and the late Arthur Gruszewski He delivered several lecture states in this vast region while in and son-in-law of Alison and series, and is the namesake of two this position. While based in Fiji, the late Douglas Black. He was yearly series in New Jersey. He Peter continued his studies and also the brother-in-law of Gerald was a member of the Advisory earned a Doctor of Philosophy (Florence) Black, Ann Black, Council of Princeton University in Marine Studies from the and Aileen (Jim) Lyons. He was Chapel, editor of the Princeton University of the South Pacific at predeceased by his parents as Seminary Bulletin, the New Jersey Suva, Fiji in 1997. Since retiring well as his uncle Antoni Dombek. correspondent to the Christian from his Fiji-based position

Dalhousie Law School Hearsay 2008 83  OBITUARIES in 2004, Peter has continued dreams and with his marriage to Hospital. In 1958, he was a key as a Guest Faculty Member his wife, Nicole, he had achieved 1988 member of the transplant team at the University of the South a level of personal happiness that performed one of the first Pacific, where he developed its that was apparent to everyone successful kidney transplants Introduction to Shipping course. who knew him. He was taken in the world. In 1979, he and He was a founding member of the in the bloom of his life, coming Ann moved to Nairobi, Kenya, Maritimes (Halifax) Division of home from his first wedding where he was Executive Director the Company of Master Mariners anniversary dinner with Nicole. of the Aga Khan Hospital. They of Canada. Although he had a The cab they were travelling in returned to Nova Scotia in 1982 deep affinity for the South Pacific was involved in a tragic accident where he became Chief of Staff region, he continued to call Poley that Nicole survived. He leaves at the Halifax Infirmary and Mountain near Sussex, N.B., behind his wife and soul mate, Adjunct Professor of Urology at home. His “larger-than-life”, Nicole Cushing; his beloved Dalhousie University. He and cheerful personality, storytelling mother, Theodora; sister, Shelley Ann moved to Antigonish and capabilities and exceptional Veysey (Wayne), much loved Geoffrey Arthur Holland in semi-retirement he directed professional abilities positively nephew, Russell and nieces, Pearson, LL.D., O.C. passed away the Palliative Care Unit at St. affected the many friends and Justine, Kathleen, Nadine and on March 18, 2008 at the age of Martha’s Hospital. Among many colleagues he leaves behind. Peter Aunt Helena, all of Grand 81. Born in Toronto, Ontario, honours, Dr. MacKinnon was is survived by his wife, Barbara Manan; parents-in-law, Michael he was the son of former Prime awarded Doctor of Laws by (Gollan); daughter, Gillian, Saint and Sharon Cushing, sister-in- Minister of Canada, Lester B. Dalhousie University and St. John, N.B.; son, Nicholas (Renee) law, Carla Cushing. He was Pearson and Maryon Pearson. He Francis Xavier University and and granddaughter Harmony, predeceased by his father, Ross was educated at the University of received the Canadian Urological Gold Coast, Australia; as well Russell. Toronto and Oxford University. Association Achievement as his mother, Joan; sister, Fiona He joined the Department of Award. He was predeceased by (Ray), Concord, California; External Affairs in 1952 and held his parents, his first wife, Ann; sister-in-law, Trudy (Peter), diplomatic appointments at the son, William Lloyd; and five Brantford, ON, and brother-in- 1986 Canadian embassies in Paris and siblings. He is survived by his law, Tom, New Glasgow. Peter is Mexico City, and in New Delhi. second wife, Beryl MacIntosh; also survived by nieces, Cathy, Jacklyn Heather (Grimm) In late 1983, he was appointed children, Sheilagh (William Lindsay, Jennifer and Marsha, and Kendrick, B.A., LL.B. passed as a special representative to Hudon); JoAnn (Chris Murphy); nephews, Mark and Michael. away at the age of 47 on July 6, Prime Minister Trudeau for Dr. David (Geraldine); Mairi 2008, following a valiant battle arms control, and in 1984 he (Sasha Manacas); Dr. Susan with cancer. Born and raised in was seconded to the Canadian (Bruce Tucker); Kenneth (Laura Halifax, she was the daughter Institute for International Affairs. Santini); Dr. Laura (George 1984 of the late Gerald Simon and In 1985 he was appointed as Cawkwell); Kathryn (John Pearl Marguerite Grimm. the first executive director Metcalf); daughter-in-law Diane. Brian Ross Russell, B.A. LL.B. Jacklyn attend QEHS where of the Canadian Institute for He is also survived by his sisters passed away suddenly at the she was voted co-student body International Peace and Security, Maureen MacGillivray and age of 48 on August 25, 2007 president in her final year and where he served for six years. He Patricia MacNeil and brother in Washington, D.C. The son after graduating from Dalhousie was a past president of the United Rev. Gregory MacKinnon; of Theodora and the late Ross University with her Bachelor Nations Association in Canada 24 grandchildren; two step- Russell, he grew up on Grand of Arts and law degrees, she and in 2000, he was made an grandchildren and six great- Manan, N.B. He graduated from moved to Toronto to practise Officer of the Order of Canada. grandchildren. Dalhousie University with his law. She later held the positions He is survived by his wife, retired Bachelor of Arts degree in 1980 of vice-president GMAC and senator, Landon Pearson, and by and his law degree in 1984. He co-manager of GSS Canada. She their children Hilary, Katharine, then moved to Washington, was an accomplished musician Anne, Michael and Patricia. He Friends of the D.C. where he went on to a with a keen appreciation for the also leaves his sister, Patricia stellar career in international arts and throughout her lifetime Hannah, and 12 grandchildren. Law School consulting, specializing in global performed in church orchestras business and emerging markets, and also the North York Mary Louise (MacLeod) trade policy and international Symphony Orchestra. Jacklyn Clarke, B.A., M.S.W., passed development, and legal and always clearly demonstrated her 1991 away peacefully December 4, institutional reform in developing commitment to her Christian Kenneth Joseph Chisholm 2007, at her home in Halifax. countries. He was passionate faith through participation in MacKinnon, B.Sc., LL.D., M.D. Born in Pictou in 1928, she was a about trying to make the world church activities both in Halifax passed away on October 8, 2007, daughter of the late Hector Bruce a better place and his work for and Toronto. She was a devoted at the age of 86, of prostate and Minnie (Colter) MacLeod. the U.S. Agency for International wife and mother and is survived cancer. Born in Antigonish, N.S. She attended the University Development and the U.S. by husband, Joseph Edward, he graduated from St. Francis of King’s College from which State Department took him on and daughter, Madalyn Vaughn, Xavier University and Dalhousie she received her Bachelor consulting assignments to over Toronto, O.N.; and brother, Medical School. After his of Arts. She then obtained a 30 countries. He took on senior Sterling Grimm, Halifax, N.S. She marriage to Ann Frances Meech Master of Social Work in 1951. advisory roles for projects in was predeceased by her parents. in 1945, he practised medicine She began her professional the Middle East, Africa, Eastern with his father in Antigonish and career by establishing a social Europe and Latin America. His his father-in-law in North Sydney, services department at the Nova commentaries and reviews have before moving to Montreal Scotia Hospital. She received appeared in major publications where he and his wife resided several grants and awards for such as The Washington Post, for over 30 years. He received his her academic achievements. Time Magazine and The New York postgraduate medical training For several years, she was the Times. At the time of his death, at McGill University and joined Executive Director Brian was truly following his the staff of the Royal Victoria of the Halifax Family Services

84 Hearsay 2008 Dalhousie Law School Association. Later, she became a was then appointed a lecturer provincial editor of the Canadian professor at the School of Social at the University of Bristol. He Bar Review (1986-90), and Work in Halifax. She participated met his first wife, Dr. Winnie assistant editor of the Dalhousie in several organizations including MacPherson, at Bristol, and they Law Journal (1986-90), along with the Pictou Academy Educational married in 1967. He qualified as his own research, he encouraged Foundation. She also served as a a barrister of the Inner Temple the research of others. member of the Nova Scotia Social in 1969 and began a two- In 1991 Winnie was diagnosed Services Council. Mary Lou was year secondment at Monash with cancer and the couple predeceased by her parents, by University in Melbourne. returned to the UK. Alastair took her brother, Squadron Leader Following his return to England up a chair of private law at the Malcolm MacLeod, and sisters, he taught at the University of University of Dundee where he Lillian MacLeod and Gertrude Leicester. During this time he taught family law, international Holton. She is survived by her was a founding member of the private law and English Law husband, Lorne Clarke; her International Society of Family subjects. Winnie died in 1992. In daughter, Nora; her sons, George Law. In 1976 Alastair and Winnie 1995 he was reacquainted with (Cathy) and Colin (Sandra), and moved to Montreal where he Ann Taylor, a childhood friend. four grandchildren. taught at McGill University. They married in 1996. In 1977 he joined the full-time Alastair came back to faculty at Dalhousie Law School. Dalhousie Law School in 1992 Paula Marie Jones-Wright At Dalhousie Alastair’s to deliver the Horace E. Read B.Sc.N, B.Ed., M.Ed. passed away principal subject areas were Memorial Lecture. This was June 29, 2008, after a battle Family Law, Conflict of laws and fitting as he had been very Alastair Bissett-Johnson with wife with cancer at the age of 44. Equity and Trusts. However, involved in arranging the Ann. She graduated from Dalhousie he was not only an expert in his speaker for the Read Lectures for University with a Bachelor Alastair Bissett-Johnson academic areas of specialty; he many years during his time at was a person of many parts. He Dalhousie. It is published in the of Science in nursing in 1986. LL.B., LL.M The Law School She returned to Saint Mary’s family has lost a beloved former was a great conversationalist, Dalhousie Law Journal (1993) as University to complete her teacher and colleague, and with an entertaining sardonic “Family Violence - Investigating bachelor and master’s degrees friend. Professor Alastair Bissett- twist. He was a connoisseur of child abuse and learning from in education. Paula developed Johnson (known affectionately wines, not only of the expensive British mistakes.” a distinguished, international as “BJ”) died on July 9, 2008 of a sort, but also those which most Alastair retired from Dundee reputation in the field of pulmonary embolism in Scotland of us could afford. He wrote a University in 2006. He is survived pharmaceutical clinical trials at the age of 67. Alastair was an popular wine column for the by Ann; his mother-in-law, education, serving as a board enthusiastic and entertaining University Club newsletters. He Nancy; and his sister-in-law, Jean member on the Association of teacher whose dedication to his was also a talented watercolour and her family in California. Clinical Research Professionals students at the law school was artist. He painted a series Alastair had a great fondness based in Washington, D.C. She matched only by his dedication “Homes of Dalhousie law School” for classical music, and possessed often spoke internationally and to the study and application of which hangs in the Law School, a very large collection of long acted as a trainer, curriculum the law. and was reproduced in a poster playing records of famous developer and consultant. She Alastair was also a respected which many alumni purchased as performers and orchestras. On was a lifetime member of Banook adviser to several Canadian a fundraiser in the aftermath of the death of his first wife, Winnie, Canoe Club in Dartmouth. Paula provincial and territorial the Law School fire of 1985. Alastair requested that those is survived by her husband, governments and the Canadian Alastair approached his wishing to remember her play Douglas Wright (B.Comm. Department of Justice. His subject matter at a practical a version of the Faure Requiem. ’85), son of Millard “Joey” and most influential contributions, as well as academic level. He One might ask the same for “BJ” Virginia “Ginny” Wright; and and the substantial body of qualified as a barrister in each of from his many Dalhousie friends. son, Foster, and twin daughters, his work, were dedicated to the countries where he taught. Meaghan and Marie. By Paula’s child and family law reform. While in Canada he worked as side during her brief illness were He was a feminist whose call the coordinator of Juvenile and parents, David (LL.B. ’56) and for a greater fairness to women Family Law reform in the Yukon Marie Jones, and her brother during divorce has proven to and co-drafted its Children’s and sisters – Martin (B.A. ’80, be a lasting contribution to the Act, a piece of legislation LL.B. ’83), his wife Ann (B.A. Commonwealth legal system. that protected children while ’80, M.L.S. ’84), and children, Alastair was born in being sensitive to the cultural David and Catherine; Teresa Choppington, a village in differences of the native and non- (B.Sc. ’83, M.D. ’88), her husband, northeast England. In his early native population. Paul Dykeman (B.Comm. ’84), school days at the Royal Masonic From 1977-84 he was a and children, Jonathan and School for Boys at Bushey, Herts, member of the Nova Scotia Cassandra; Angela Jones-Rieksts Alastair found solace in the Child Abuse Team. In an effort (LL.B. ’97), her husband, Mark church choir. Asthma prevented to educate a wider audience Rieksts (LL.B. ’97), and children, pursuit of a career in music. he also became involved in the Markus, Cecilia and Anna; He went on to study law at the production of a television series and Marie (M.P.A. ’03) and her University of Nottingham. He on Violence in the Nova Scotia husband, Matthew Moir (B.A. ’98, graduated in 1962 winning Family. He became the adviser LL.B. ’01). She is also survived by an English Speaking Union/ to the minister of community many loving uncles, aunts and Fullbright Fellowship to study for services on reform of Nova cousins. Paula was predeceased a masters degree in international Scotia’s Children’s Services Act by her brother, David (B.A. ’81, comparative law at the University in 1988-89 which lead to him LL.B. ’85), who died in 1985, and of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He being the member that drafted grandparents, Frank and Minnie began his teaching career at the Nova Scotia Children and Martin, and William and Lilian the University of Sheffield and Family Services Act in 1990. As Jones. Dalhousie Law School Hearsay 2008 85  POST SCRIPTUM

So, why did I become a lawyer anyway? Bill Chapman reflects on his choice of career, memories of Dal Law and his expectations as a young lawyer

Yesterday, as is my custom, away from at least were the more germane questions forgotten. Sartorial splendour was not of the office for my luncheon break and at of why in fact I had chosen to become a course the only compelling feature of the home with my faithful French bulldog, lawyer; what my professors instilled in man. He spoke well; and that, perhaps Monroe, I was browsing through the me by way of expectation at law school; more than anything, caught my attention. Ontario Reports when I noticed a most and something else that I cannot now He was also a lawyer. unusual request from a Ph.D. at the remember, perhaps what I expected of There may be some who are attracted University of Toronto. She (I shall call myself as a lawyer in society? These are to “the profession” by the smell of money. her Melanie) was collecting memories of not the sort of matters I ponder regularly, Quite honestly, however, that was never law students who had attended certain if in fact I have ever done so. Asking me an issue for me. At the most (or should I Canadian law schools (among them what I like about law is a bit like asking a say, at the worst), I may have looked Dalhousie Law School where I studied) woman why she loves her husband: “If upon law as being a bit like during the period (and this I found she knows why she loves him, she Mediterranean food; that is, all interesting) 1920 - 1980. Clearly she was doesn’t!” presentation. Yet, like Mr. Camp, law was interested in the old boys, not the new Since ever I can remember (and I not only about appearances but also about language. Unlike those of my colleagues and friends who, by their At the most (or should I say, at the worst) I scientific nature, have been attracted to medical science, I, as a man of literature may have looked upon law as being a bit like and languages (English, French and “ Latin), have always been attracted to law. Mediterranean food; that is, all presentation. At the time I made my undergraduate decision to study Philosophy, I may to generation. Was she preparing mean since eight or nine years of age), I some (like my father) have looked rather dissertations which would compare the have had it in my mind that I wanted to foolish. I recall when my father old with the new generation? Did she be a lawyer. Perhaps I was moved by an telephoned me shortly after my arrival at imagine that the older students would be image of some figure or role model, but I Glendon Hall in Toronto to enquire what more moved by now antiquated purpose? don’t remember. More recently (that is, I had decided to study, and when I told You see, she was studying the about 40 years ago), I recall distinctly him that it wasn’t Economics but “socialization of law students” during having been impressed by Mr. Dalton Philosophy, his only remark was, “Well, that period, something which to my mind Camp who was adjudicating a debate it’s your bed; you make it, you sleep in smacked of social undercurrents and being conducted at Trinity College School it.” At the time, not all that encouraging subterfuge, though perhaps not as in Port Hope, where his son, David, was frankly. But three years later, as I headed comical as those about which E. F. Benson then studying and participating in the to law school (for reasons which I always wrote (vide, Miss Mapp and Mrs. Lucia). debate. We represented St. Andrew’s jokingly said were because I had learned As luck would have it, I had already College. After our vociferous debate in nothing in Philosophy and needed a written my memories of Dalhousie Law the former chapel of the old school, Mr. trade), it became more than apparent to School (1970 - 1973) in my book, Sepia, so Camp rose first to denounce our use of me that Philosophy was importantly it was but a moment’s work before I had profane language in the chapel (someone connected to law, not because both copied the relevant passage from my on our side had said “Hell”) and second disciplines appear to encompass the trusty computer and fired it off by email to pronounce his verdict and throw in the headier concepts of society, but more to the learned Doctor. I anxiously awaited towel with the Government (we were the strategically because both disciplines are her response. Opposition). But his decision did nothing soundly based upon the development of When indeed her response came, it to dissuade my keener interest. I recall convincing arguments. What, after all, was not quite what I had expected. that he wore a dark blue pin-striped can be a more challenging case to prove Skillfully, she acknowledged her interest flannel suit, striped shirt with juxtaposed than that I think, therefore I am! Cogito, in what I had written (that was nice), but white collar and a bow tie. He was clearly Ergo Sum! The study of syllogistic wasted no time in getting to what for her a “statement”, and one which I have not reasoning in Philosophy proved to be

86 Hearsay 2008 Dalhousie Law School … I cultivated from the beginning of my very much an advantage when following studies a sense that I was doing something the pronouncements of Lord Denning,“ Master of the Rolls. important, something that could mean a lot But I digress. To answer Melanie’s question, then, I was prompted by an not only to me but to others. inherent affection for law and language and a genuine delight in its exposition. behaving more as a mechanic than as a practice, the sense of duty to participate Or, as Jill Halliday (my animator-friend) surgeon. This is not meant as a in local business and political forums. might say, law was on the side of my condemnation, but rather as a distinction Again, surrounded by presence and brain that I related to. I don’t think that between the values imparted by the two language. Being a practitioner in a small one could sustain what I call a specious minds. Nor is it meant to suggest that the community, it was apparent to me that I interest in law for as long as I did if I professors were delusional about law; could contribute meaningfully to many were not truly interested in it. It simply they gave us a love of law for itself, a organizations by virtue of my training. had to be a good fit, much the same way love which in my later years of practice I Whether I recognized this in my days at certain people are attracted to music, have been able to rekindle as I become law school, I am not certain. We were while others are attracted to sports. It is comfortable enough to enjoy a good legal after all, in the same boat, though even obviously a combination of interest and dissection without feeling my evening then there were those of us who were ability. I have also always tended to the meal or the rent depends on it. Patrick J. already making a name for themselves in academic side. I remember writing (and Galway and I, for example, frequently the Legal Aid Clinics, broadening the performing and directing) plays in school now engage in such conversations, horizons of us all beyond the hallowed at the age of ten. Now if that isn’t court always on a no-name basis, and always halls of study. But to be honest, I think room stuff! As well, my discovery later in with an interest to determine the proper each of us was simply more concerned to life that I am dyslexic has actually helped result of the application of the law get through our courses and get into the me to appreciate my preoccupation with (assuming we have the correct one) to the working world. We wanted jobs and the detail of the written word, because it facts. Moving from the general to the money. Some targeted the bigger more takes me so long to read and absorb it, particular. Deductive reasoning. prestigious firms; some were absorbed as the result being that I slow down enough On the lighter side, and more in though by prearranged marriage; some to carefully consider what I am reading. keeping with the sociologist’s domain, had connections through friends; and This tends to be an advantage when the law professors instilled in us certain there were some who just hit the unravelling legislation. social values when they visited us at our pavement with their resume. When I A more difficult matter to address is student gatherings. While I recall from articled, the salary was hideously low, Melanie’s question about the my undergraduate days that the but we didn’t think of it as slave labour. expectations of our law professors. professors made occasional appearances After being on the job for a couple of Again, I am hobbled by my sense that at student social gatherings (sherry days, we were the first to admit we knew there really wasn’t any covert agenda in parties in residence), mostly we only nothing! this department. But, like my own heard about the love affairs which sprang As the years have past, I have come reasons for studying law, the professors up in the Green Room between the more to see my career as a bit like putting probably instilled in us values and fashionable professors and wilder young together a jigsaw puzzle. As the pieces expectations by their mere presence and female students. When the professors fall into place, so does the full picture. I being. It is generally accepted that one joined us (they were invited), they am now easily able to discern the doesn’t become a law professor unless brought with them their cigarettes, their difference between technical and one is competent in the discipline (not to wry smiles, their quips about our substantive issues, and to deal with them be confused with being competent in the classroom habits, and their example of accordingly. I am now able to conduct the practice of law). This characteristic alone people who could at once be intelligent practice of law not so much as a was sufficient to encourage the students and have a good time. They paved the competition but rather as a social event, to be good at what they were studying. way for us to blend our professional lives observing the same courtesies one would By contrast, I remember that when we with our social lives. expect to be afforded at any other had a visiting lecturer from a downtown On the final issue of what my own gathering of minds. The object is now to law firm to speak to us for example about expectations were as a young lawyer, I keep it simple, and to get there with the the more esoteric features of the Income guess I cultivated from the beginning a least aggravation possible. • Tax Act, I at least was left with the sense that I was doing something L.G. William Chapman (LL.B.’73) impression that the practitioner was important, something that could mean a somehow removed from the more clinical lot not only to me but to others. This Mr. Chapman practises law in Almonte, and intellectual side of our studies, brought with it, in the early years of my Ontario

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