LAW COMMUNITY PAYS TRIBUTE TO PHILLIP SAUNDERS’ DEANSHIP

HEARSAYVolume 33, 2010/11

R. B. BENNETT ED DUNSWORTH FINDS A A “Progressive” alumnus PATHWAY TO CHANGE remembered on IN NICARAGUA 80th anniversary

SPEAKER PETER MILLIKEN SPEAKS OF “HIS DAY” AT THE LAW SCHOOL

PAULA TAYLOR SCALES KILIMANJARO FOR YOUTH AND MENTAL HEALTH

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36 School News A Progressive Prime Minister 6 Law community pays tribute to Dean Phillip r.B. Bennett—Canada’s Depression Prime Saunders Minister Douglas M. Johnston lecture launched IB&M Initiative wins Touchstone award 12 2010 Weldon Award Winner Hearsay Hats off to Brian Flemming The Dalhousie Law Alumni Magazine 42 Student Notes 2010 Discretionary Award winners Volume 33 2010/11 Changing China 13 students pitch in to help rebuild New Orleans Daniel Laprés’ impressions of China today

16 Pathway to Change 48 Faculty News a trip to Nicaragua changes Ed Dunsworth’s life Professor Bill Charles joins former student in tar ponds cleanup anne Matthewman joins the library

51 Faculty Profiles Dean Kim Brooks, B.A., LL.B., LL.M. 58 Donor Report Editors Professor John Yogis, LL.B. ‘64 62 Grapevine Karen Kavanaugh In Memoriam Copy Editor 68 Judy Kavanagh

Writers Michael Karanicolas Julie-Ann Sobowale

Grapevine Editor Marlene MacDonald 20 In My Day an interview with the Honourable Peter Milliken Cover Photo: Corbis Images

23 Marshall’s Unsung Hero stephen Aronson the man who freed Donald Marshall Jr.

The editors welcome contributions, 25 The Road Less Traveled information, and ideas from alumni. anne Bastedo: lawyer turned artist Please direct your submissions to: Editor Hearsay 26 Scaling Kilimanjaro Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University Paula Taylor climbs the legendary mountain to raise Weldon Law Building 6061 University Avenue money for Laing House Halifax, NS Canada B3H 4H9 30 Family Traditions Run Deep E-mail: [email protected] Four generations of the McInnes family graduate from tel: 902-494-3744 the law school fax: 902-494-1316

32 Halifax’s Answer to John Grisham Mailed under Canada Post publications agreement Pamela Callow’s debut thriller 41890527

Hearsay 2010/11 3  FROM THE EDITOR Dalhousie Law Alumni Association life-changing experience that led him to Board of Directors Nicaragua where today he and his wife, National President Barbara, oversee many projects to improve Jeanne Desveaux, LL.B.‘01 the lives of those who live in one of the Vice President Robert Purdy, LL.B.‘76 poorest countries of Central and South Past President Message from the Dean America. Ronald A. Meagher, LL.B.‘83 Service to an individual, the community, Secretary-Treasurer and the legal profession generally, is Associate Dean Michael Deturbide , LL.B.‘89 represented by our story on Stephen Honorary President Brian Flemming, OC, QC, LL.B.‘62 Aronson (‘73) and his “lonely struggle” to Ex-Officio have Donald Marshall Jr. freed from his Dean Kim Brooks, B.A., LL.B., LL.M. 11 years in prison for a murder he did not Director of Alumni & Development commit. Karen Kavanaugh Paula Taylor (‘78) relates a sometimes harrowing tale resulting from a decision Members at Large to climb Mount Kilimanjaro to raise funds Tricia Barry, LL.B.’05 Professor John Yogis and Maggie for an organization assisting young adults Julia Cornish, QC, LL.B.‘83 Happy New Year. My co-editor Karen facing serious mental illness. Brian Curry, LL.B.‘99 Kavanaugh and I wish you a happy, An alumnus in far-off fields is Daniel Michael Donovan, LL.B.‘78 Anne Emery, LL.B.’78 healthy and productive 2011. We also Laprès (‘72). Daniel, who lives in Paris, Donna Franey, LL.B.’86 hope you will enjoy the latest issue of has had a long connection with the legal Anna Fried, LL.B.‘80 Hearsay, the Law School’s principal alumni profession and business community in Mary Hamblin LL.B.’99 Buzzing. It is a word that appropriately describes the Responsibility and Legal Ethics, co-hosted with the Nova publication. China. We were delighted that Daniel Naiomi Metallic LL.B.’05 feel at the School. Let me give you a sense of the activities of Scotia Barristers’ Society, was a huge success. This year’s topic Sometimes serendipity seems to play agreed to share with us some of his Michael Power LL.B.‘75 our community over the last six months. was conflicts of interest and a panel discussion featured The a part in bringing about a thread that personal experiences and impressions of The Hon. Judge Michael B. Sherar, LL.B.‘77 We have been engaged in a process of strategic planning: Hon. Joel Fichaud of the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal, Ms. C. runs through a particular issue of Hearsay. China today. Branch Presidents setting a course for the next five years. As we have been Kristin Dangerfield of the Law Society of Manitoba, and Prof. Anne Bastedo (‘81), Political service to the nation is a recurring Hearsay visits Alberta drafting our strategic plan we have met with alumni, Paul Paton of the McGeorge School of Law at the University theme in four of our features. Our cover Pamela Callow (‘91) and Mark Stebbins (‘08), Brian Beck. LL.B.‘93 members of the practising bar, friends of the School, judges, of the Pacific, with Ms. Marjorie Hickey, QC, President of the story marks the 80th anniversary of the three alumni whose careers have taken [email protected] community members, and other leaders at the university. We Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society as the moderator. You can R. B. Bennett (LL.B. 1893) British Columbia election of as them outside traditional roles of the legal Patricia Thiel, LL.B.‘95 have discussed our vision of curriculum, pedagogy, graduate watch the proceedings on the Schulich School of Law’s iTunes Canada’s 11th Prime Minister. By chance profession. [email protected] studies, and community engagement. We have reviewed our University site. we included an interview with Canada’s Here at home the school and legal Cape Breton commitment to sustainability, focused on the consequences of In other exciting news, our IB&M Initiative, which has Robert Sampson, LL.B.‘81 current Speaker of the House of Commons community had a major event to celebrate [email protected] increased internationalization on legal education, and explored been instrumental in shaping the law school, law students, Honourable Peter M. Milliken (’71) Phillip Saunders (‘84) the in the deanship of and to Manitoba how technology might support a rich learning environment. and the legal community, was honoured by the Canadian Bar which he relates some memories of his honour law librarian, Ann Morrison, and Elissa Neville, LL.B.‘98 We have worried about some of the consequences of the Association’s prestigious Touchstone Award. time at the Law School. Also featured long-serving staff member Gwen Verge. [email protected] financial and work pressures faced by our students. We have It has, in fact, been a year of honours at the School and for is an article on four generations of the These are but a few of the stories we Newfoundland reiterated our commitment to access to legal education and to our alumni. Simply to illustrate, five of our alumni—Ryder Robert J. Hickey, LL.B.‘91 McInnes family. Hector McInnes (1888) hope you will find of interest. This is your [email protected] justice. We hope to have a strategic plan in place by the end of Gilliland, Andrea Johnson, Suzanne Rix, Alan Ross, and was a candidate for the Progressive magazine and we want to connect with Northwest Territories/Yukon this academic year and look forward to sharing it with you. Michael Statham—were recognized by Lexpert as rising stars Conservative Party in the federal election you and hear your stories as well, what Ramona Sladic, LL.B.‘07 Two major new funds have been launched. The Innis in their Top 40 under 40 list; Howard Wetston was named the [email protected] Stewart McInnes of 1921. His grandson, interests you, and what you would like Prince Edward Island Christie endowment honours the life and work of former Chair of the Ontario Securities Commission; Rocky Jones was (‘61), campaigned for the Progressive to see in future issues. Please write to us Ronald MacLeod, LL.B.‘91 dean and leading scholar, policy-maker and arbitrator, Innis named to the Order of Nova Scotia; and a remarkable number Conservatives in 1984, and became a with your thoughts and ideas, and keep [email protected] Christie. The endowment will support a leading scholar in of our alumni were appointed to the bench. member of the cabinet of former Prime us abreast of events in your lives that you Quebec the area of labour and employment law to teach a course as a We remain ever proud of our graduates. You cover the Edward B. Claxton, LL.B.‘83 Minister, Brian Mulroney. Brian Flemming would like to share with your classmates, [email protected] visiting professor and enable the School to offer a labour and globe and have made remarkable contributions in all aspects of (‘62), this year’s recipient of the Weldon the school, the university, and the alumni Southern Ontario employment law related symposium to members of the legal public life. If we have not already met, I hope we do so soon. Award, ran as a Liberal in two federal generally. Chris Hale, LL.B.‘87 community. [email protected] elections, and later accepted a position as The Purdy Crawford Fund for Global Financial Markets Southeastern Ontario Assistant Principal Secretary and Policy Thom Kelley, LL.B.‘96 was established to honour the work of Purdy Crawford (‘55) Advisor to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. [email protected] with the Investment Committee concerned with the Asset Public service is however not Backed Commercial Paper crisis. The fund will support exclusively confined to the political All the best, initiatives in the area of business law. Kim Brooks arena. Ed Dunsworth (‘75) underwent a John Yogis Our annual F. B. Wickwire Memorial Lecture in Professional Dean and Weldon Professor of Law

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Portrait of Richard Bedford Bennett’s Cabinet after they were sworn in, taken in 1930. Bennett is seated, centre.

R. B. Bennett (LL.B.1893) A Progressive prime minister

by Peter B. Waite

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the election School John Willis wrote that the dean influenced of Richard Bedford (R.B.) Bennett (LL.B. 1893) as the young Bennett at critical stages in his early life. Canada’s 11th prime minister. Bennett was one of the To supplement Bennett’s meagre financial status as Law School’s early major benefactors and he remained a student Weldon appointed him at a modest salary committed to his alma mater throughout his life. He to oversee the Law School’s small library collection. felt a particular indebtedness to his dean, Richard Later, when Bennett was in practice in Chatham, Chapman Weldon. In A History of Dalhousie Law N.B., Weldon recommended him to Senator James

6 Hearsay 2010/11 Hearsay 2010/11 7 R. B. Bennett’s birthplace in Hopewell Cape, N.B. Bennett aged 10. Bennett c.1912 Mrs. Hazel Colville, the widow who came into Bennett with Robert Borden Leaving for the World Economic Conference, 1933 Bennett’s life in 1932

Alexander Lougheed of Calgary, who R.B. Bennett is an authentic New can, but give away all you can. It was a duty to his country. Eighteen months If he set high standards for himself, he who had died in 1931 of lung cancer. was looking for a law partner. The Brunswicker. The Bennett family were an exacting discipline that R.B. Bennett after his arrival in Calgary in 1897 he was applied them to others. He tended to He smoked, drank wine, and had done move was to hasten the young lawyer not United Empire Loyalists, they were learned at his mother’s knee. She taught elected to the Assembly of the North- judge people by what he thought they things a wealthy man about town in on his path to a political career and older than that—they were pre-Loyalists, him everything: poetry, history and West Territories. should do, not so much what they were Montreal would do. national prominence. what historians now call Planters. The perhaps most surprisingly, the beauties As prime minister of Canada 1930- capable of doing. Generous to secretaries, That 1933 break-up hurt R.B., and Bennetts came from Connecticut in of higher mathematics. He went to work 1935 he was one of the most gifted he could be abrupt, bad-tempered and badly. It was said in Ottawa that that Bennett has been the subject of an the early 1760s. American migration at age 16 teaching school. He had to. intellectually of any of our prime demanding with colleagues. He himself failed romance with Hazel Colville quite aroused sense of public awareness westward, beyond the Alleghenies, had By the 1870s his father’s shipbuilding ministers. That does not mean the most was a bear for work; the six days of R.B.’s broke his heart. during the past year. Many writers been stopped by the British government, business had fallen on hard times and politically successful. His Conservative week were laborious; Sundays he kept By 1933 R.B. knew his own political and commentators have revisited who wanted to keep those western lands Henry Bennett had to become a country government was broadsided by the for church and reading. regime was not going well and that the as Indian country. As a result, burgeoning blacksmith. And a rather feckless one, Great Depression. It was the judgment He never married, but he was not a Depression was gradually savaging his accomplishments during his five American migration went eastward, east inclined to spend money as if there of Harold Innis, the great economic misogynist. Medical problems explain him and his party in the country. years as Canada’s Depression prime to the Acadian lands made vacant by were lots of it. Sometimes he would take historian, writing personally to R.B. in and complicate his early relations with Nevertheless, he would do whatever minister (1930-35). Many of his 1938, “No one has ever been asked to “NO ONE HAS EVER BEEN ASKED TO CARRY THE BURDENS OF UNPRECEDENTED HIS BRILLIANT MIND AND HUGE CAPACITY FOR WORK WERE CONJOINED TO A advocates, including former Liberal carry the burdens of unprecedented DEPRESSION SUCH AS YOU ASSUMED AND NO ONE COULD HAVE SHOULDERED depression such as you assumed and no VOLATILE AND SOMETIMES IRASCIBLE TEMPER. if he set HIGH STANDARDS FOR prime minister John Turner, have one could have shouldered them with argued that it is time a statue of THEM WITH SUCH ABILITY.” such ability.” HIMSELF, HE APPLIED THEM TO OTHERS. R.B. Bennett joined the seven other It’s a judgment to be weighed and Canadian prime ministers who are the Acadian expulsion of 1755-60. By the more than a drink or two. Young “Dick” pondered. Institutions R.B. left behind women. In 1905, when he was 35, he he thought needed to be done to bring 1840s Nathan Bennett, R.B.’s grandfather, Bennett grew up learning to account for bear constant witness as to how well told his friend Max Aitken, the future Canada’s vessel through the storms commemorated on Parliament Hill. had established a solid shipbuilding every cent, and to avoid liquor as if it he had stood by his duty to his country. Lord Beaverbrook, that he might never that beset her. His achievements On June 12, 2010, renowned business at Hopewell Cape. R.B.’s father, were the plague. He put through the Bank of Canada marry. But 27 years later in 1932 he fell in were considerable and long-lasting; Canadian historian and Dalhousie Henry Bennett, was born and brought up R.B. always had an instinct for despite the opposition of almost every love with a twice-widowed, handsome he trusted that when elections came professor emeritus P. B. (Peter in this prosperous shipbuilding family. politics. Politics was where important chartered bank in Canada; he brought in Montreal lady, Hazel Kemp Colville, Canadians would appreciate what he had R.B.’s mother, Henrietta Stiles, the things were decided and done, where the CBC (called the CRBC then) despite some 20 years his junior. accomplished. In the general election of Busby) Waite paid tribute to the Law real power in his life, was a schoolteacher destinies could be determined. In the opposition of most of the big private Late love affairs can be dangerous. So July 1935, a majority of Canadians didn’t. School’s distinguished alumnus with in Hopewell Village nine miles to the 1892-93 when he was a third-year law radio stations in the country; he began it was with R.B. He probably would have That hurt, too. an address at the opening of the R.B. west, whither she went for the birth student at Dalhousie, he became premier unemployment insurance despite legal married Hazel Colville had she been Historians since have not been Bennett Commemorative Centre at of her firstborn son, Richard Bedford of the student mock parliament. His uncertainties, believing it was needed. willing. But in the end, by the summer very kind, either. R.B. had little tact Bennett, born July 3, 1870. Henrietta “government” promptly united the It was, but it took a later constitutional of 1933, she backed away from R.B. She and less patience with academics or Hopewell Cape, N.B. Waite, who is Bennett was a strong woman, her three Maritime provinces into one. He amendment to do it. was rich and comfortable. Why should newspapermen. He felt academics were completing a biography of Bennett, husband much more easy-going. Strong followed that by bringing Newfoundland R.B.’s talent, energy, determination she give up her cocktails, cigarettes and long-haired idealists out of touch with has kindly permitted Hearsay to women can be attracted to such men. into confederation half a century early. did not come unalloyed. Despite all he bridge for R.B., who thoroughly disliked reality. As for newspapermen, they present a slightly edited print version Her strength came from her mind and However, he and his “government” were accomplished, he still inhabits a fairly all of those things? And he was never should report facts, not fantasies, publish her religion­—Wesleyan Methodist. John defeated giving women the vote. rugged reputation. His brilliant mind and chary about saying so. truth, not exaggerations. Nor had he the of his remarks. Wesley’s rule for living was: work as Later, R.B. went into the real world huge capacity for work were conjoined to Hazel Colville really wanted a slightest qualm in raking editors over hard as you can, save as much as you of Canadian politics, believing he had a volatile and sometimes irascible temper. husband like Arthur Colville, her second, the coals for what he conceived were

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government from Mackenzie King, R.B. age 62, unguarded and vulnerable. At that point he could have had “At the core of RB’s being was a fundamental told King that he kept very little private It is this inner world that biographers almost any position in Canada he had a aloneness....He was not a lonely man, but he correspondence. That was true. King find so difficult to find and measure. fancy for, from president of a university was what one might call a loner.” A poem, replied that he kept almost everything. Mark Twain said flatly that biography to president of a bank. But he couldn’t “The Crossing Paths”, that he set down in 1890, That was also true. The Bennett papers can’t be done. Most biographies, he bear the unhappy echoes associated possibly written by himself, when he first came to and the King papers are very different. asserted, are “but the clothes and with his name and the Depression. It Dalhousie Law School conveys this: So were Bennett and King. buttons” of the real person­—that the was symbolized by “Bennett buggies,” After R.B.’s death in 1947, Lord real lives of men and women are in their a dead car hitched up to a horse, whose Our far diverging lines of life, Beaverbrook set researchers to work to heads and can never be known. Most owner could afford neither gas nor Have for a moment crossed, collect whatever Bennett papers could be biographies, he said, are like the 90-foot repairs. Wherever R.B. went he could To touch and wind away again and be found, in New Brunswick, Ottawa, Hull brontosaurus in museums, made up not escape those unhappy associations. In the dim distance lost. and Calgary. He had them all shipped from nine old bones and 50 barrels of There was another reason he no to the University of New Brunswick. plaster. There’s hard truth in that. We longer felt wholly comfortable in As passing ships whose wide-flung sails The result was the massive collection biographers simply try to get as close to Canada. He had already been attuned Are for an instant furled of Bennett papers in Fredericton, some the real person as we can. We burrow to the larger world across the Atlantic. We hail, and banter words of cheer, 627,000 items. They tend to be, however, around and do the best with what we Over the years London had become Brought, from the other world, heavily official, not less valuable for can find. The greatness of Boswell’s 1791 almost as familiar as Ottawa—2,000 that perhaps, but often lacking the book, The Life of Johnson is his uncanny years older, more civilized, and much With eager question, quick reply inner pulse of R.B. In Fredericton R.B.’s knack for remembering Dr. Johnson’s more sophisticated. He was first in Across the deck we lean, faithful secretary since 1914, Alice Millar, tavern talk. London in 1905 when he was 35 and Then part and put the silences watched the papers as they came in It is difficult to record change. We all had been there almost every year since. Of ocean wastes between. with a jealous, reverential eye. She was change, and all the time, but how can you Furthermore, he was the only Canadian devoted to R.B.’s memory. So much so catch people in the act of doing it? It’s not politician who knew something about We turn and watch the fading sail that at the U.N.B. incinerator she would made easier by the fact that people can be the British Empire first hand. In 1936 Until our eyes grow dim burn papers she deemed “unhistorical.” expert hypocrites. he spent six months visiting New And the blue billows melt away One windy day in 1948 a colleague of R.B. was famous for bluntly speaking Zealand, Australia and South Africa, On the horizon’s rim. mine at U.N.B., Professor A. G. Bailey, his mind. When he was defeated in July and very impressed he was, especially rescued a letter from Beaverbrook to 1935, he told many of his correspondents with Australia. He was an imperialist How sad it seems! A few brief words R.B. floating among the trees behind the that he was quite philosophical about it. by thought and deed, truly a Canadian A kiss, a handclasp given. incinerator. Alice Millar was getting rid It was to be expected that the Canadian man of the British Commonwealth. Then­—paths that cross on land or sea of some of those “unhistorical” letters. people wanted to punish him and his Thus, in January 1939 when he moved to No more this side of heaven! Bailey duly reported this outrage to government for the Depression. But England he was moving into the centre Beaverbrook in London. Beaverbrook, beneath all that acceptance a layer of a comfortable world he knew well. himself an expert at collecting letters, of bitterness gradually surfaced. He In the fall of 1938 R.B. had bought history and its Empire, that soon he had wondered how much of the real R.B. had done his best, worked laborious a 90-acre run-down estate, Juniper more requests for speeches than he could Bennett would be left after Alice Millar days and nights, brought in excellent Hill, next door to Beaverbrook’s, and handle. Some of them were made during had pitched out so many “unhistorical” new institutions and here Canadians proceeded to have it fixed up and the 1940 blitz. More than once he walked ones. were handing him the sharpest defeat with Canadian essentials­—central to a London rendezvous amid burning On the other hand, there has been of any federal government since heating, lots of hot water and generous buildings and falling bombs. a lucky find. Pamela Miller, now the Confederation—40 seats in a 245-seat bathrooms. Juniper Hill was in a In June 1941 Winston Churchill Sir William Osler Librarian at McGill House of Commons. It was not as bad beautiful setting in the Surrey Hills, near recommended him for a Viscountcy, the E DAY University, found in their collections a as it looked. The total Conservative a village called Mickleham, a 40-minute highest rank in the nobility yet given ZANN U bundle of letters and telegrams—the popular vote was 30 per cent as against drive south of London. He was to a Canadian. He loved the House of

S BY S letters in R.B.’s handwriting. They the Liberal 45 per cent—but it was bad tremendously pleased with it, and he Lords. He attended regularly and was O T

O had been deposited at the Royal Trust enough. was soon what one might call a country a highly respected member—one of the PH Montreal in November 1932 by Hazel Nevertheless, R.B. stayed on as Leader squire. He had a special pew in the local few who knew much about the British THE ONLY CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER BURIED ABROAD: While living in London, Bennett died quietly of a heart attack. Services were held at St. Michael’s, his church in Mickleham, and at Westminster Abbey. Colville. They were R.B.’s love letters to of the Opposition for three more years. 9th-century Anglican church. He made a Commonwealth first hand. He was buried in the church yard at St. Michael’s. her. They were to be destroyed unless And a very good opposition leader point of being accepted in its parish; he When R.B. died in June 1947, Hazel’s daughter wanted to keep them. he was, helping to draft constructive would invite the local villagers to his big there were services in his memory misrepresentations or outright errors. R.B. was an intensely private man. His Mercifully, Frances Ballantyne chose legislation, bringing to bear on debates house for Sunday night movies in the not only at St. Michael’s—his church So his press coverage was not always private life was his and no one else’s. He to keep them. Thus, did they end up at his wealth of knowledge and experience. theatre he had installed. in Mickleham—but in Westminster generous. He had a long feud with John covered up his tracks. His mother died McGill. Those Colville letters, some 30 or But he had developed a heart condition, As the war came on in September Abbey. He is buried right in front of the Dafoe, editor of the Winnipeg Free Press. in 1914; he destroyed his letters to her. so, are written by R.B. in his own hand and in March 1938 he felt he would not 1939 he began to be invited to make churchyard at St. Michael¹s, the only That affected his reputation too, not Later, in the 1940s, he had the very home (and not easy to read). They are a rare be able to carry his party through the speeches around Britain. He was Canadian prime minister buried abroad. least from Arch Dale’s clever, mocking he had grown up in torn down. When in and vital glimpse of the inner man—an strain of another general election. So then so good at it, praising in a vigorous It is right to note that in his will that is cartoons. August 1930 he took over the Canadian R.B. in love, perhaps for the first time at he resigned. Canadian accent the glories of Britain, its where he said he wanted to be. •

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2010 Weldon Award for Unselfish Public Service

the Marine & Environmental Law Institute at Dalhousie University. While a member of the Bar Council of the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society in the 1970s, Flemming founded the Nova Scotia Law News. He was also active in the Canadian Bar Association and chaired the Maritime Law Section. He was the founding president of the Dalhousie Law Alumni Association and, since 1985, has been the honorary national chair of the association. He has been a Governor of Dalhousie University, the first lay chair of the Board of Canada’s oldest university, University of King’s College, and a Trustee of Pearson College of the Pacific. He was national chair of the Bicentennial Campaign for King’s that built and endowed the university library. King’s awarded Flemming an honorary doctorate in 1991. He and his friends endowed an annual lecture at King’s when he left the chair.

From 1976 to 1979, Flemming interrupted his law practice and S E

became assistant principal secretary and policy advisor to Prime AG M Minister Pierre Trudeau in Ottawa. He worked closely with Trudeau

Changing China TTY I on patriation of the Canadian Constitution and advised him to E G appoint the Macdonald Royal Commission. That commission’s report led to the negotiation of the free trade agreement with the United States. In 2000, he was made chair of the Canada Transportation Our man ON China Hearsay: Daniel, perhaps we might begin to investigate further. Even then Hong Act Review Panel, the statutorily-mandated decennial review of Daniel Laprès (‘72) if you give us a brief re-cap on your early Kong was a major metropolis and all East involvement with China. Canada’s transport policies. His report earned Flemming the 2003 has published some 20 Asia was booming. During the 1980s, I annual National Transportation Week’s “Award of Achievement.” Daniel Laprès: My immersion in the maintained a trading company in Hong articles on Chinese law After the tragedy of 9/11, the government of Canada appointed him Chinese environment began in 1975 Kong and sourced and wholesaled goods and business in journals and magazines in North founding CEO and chair of the Canadian Air Transport Security when I moved to Hong Kong to join the in Hong Kong. Authority (CATSA), Canada’s principal governmental response America, Europe and Asia. The Sir James Dunn first foreign law firm to open an office in In 1989, I became involved in assisting to that event. In 2005, he was appointed a founding director of the Law Library was very appreciative to receive Asia. In the People’s Republic of China refugees from the Tiananmen Square federal Advisory Council on National Security. a version of his book Business Law in China (PRC), the Cultural Revolution was just movement establish themselves in Brian Flemming ‘62 Locally, Flemming has been a passionate supporter of the arts. which is now part of the library collection. winding down and the country remained France. Several of the leaders lived in my He was the founding president of Symphony Nova Scotia and mired in autarchy and poverty despite apartment for awhile and we had some His latest article entitled “The Role of Foreign He is a nationally renowned policy advisor, teacher, chair of the committee that established the Atlantic Symphony the considerable progress since the interesting discussions. One point, which Lawyers in Arbitration Proceedings in the PRC” consultant, writer and international lawyer who has generously Orchestra. He was a founding director of the Scotia Festival of Revolution in 1949. The legal profession might surprise a lot of Western observers, volunteered his time, energy and personal resources to make Music, a director of Neptune Theatre Foundation and chair of the was published by the International Business was practically nonexistent in the PRC was made systematically by those young extraordinary contributions to the legal profession and his Maritime Conservatory for the Performing Arts. In the early to mid Law Review in its June 2010 issue. In 2005, and foreign lawyers would only be people, and is still maintained by those community. 1970s, he was first a member, then vice chair and acting chair, of the he became the first foreign lawyer to integrate a issued visas to travel to the mainland for with whom I am still in contact; they Born in Halifax, Brian Flemming received a Bachelor of Science Canada Council, now the Canada Council for the Arts and the Social Chinese firm as Special Counsel, and he was also business reasons. support the PRC Government rejection from Saint Mary’s University, a Bachelor of Laws from Dalhousie, Sciences and Humanities Research Council. He has also been chair of Tibetan secession. Altogether, it was a the first French lawyer to be cited in the China a Master of Laws from University College London, England, and of several social welfare agencies in Halifax. His current passion is H: You left Hong Kong in 1976 to move very exciting time! section of the The Asia Pacific Legal 500. In 2008, the coveted Hague Diploma in International Law from the Hague Halifax Humanities 101, which brings learning to low income and to Paris. Why did you learn Chinese and In 1995, after admission to the Academy of International Law. disadvantaged people in his community. he was appointed to the list of foreign arbitrators continue your business and professional Paris Bar, I renewed my interest in In the 1960s and 1970s, while practising at Stewart MacKeen In 1989, Flemming was made a Member of the Order of of the China International Economic and Trade activities in the China region? Chinese law and two years later the & Covert (now Stewart McKelvey), Flemming taught the first Canada. In 1991, he was awarded the Canada 125 medal and, in Arbitration Commission (CIETAC). Currently DL: Rubbing up against China at that International Chamber of Commerce advanced course in public international law at Dalhousie Law 2002, the Queen’s Golden Jubilee medal. The Weldon Award for he is “Of counsel” to Kunlun Law Firm which time might be analogized to the ant published Business Law in China, a book School, wrote legal articles, advised the Canadian government at Unselfish Public Service, sponsored by the Dalhousie Law Alumni scurrying up the elephant’s leg: it’s big, which I co-edited and co-authored with has offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and the Third United Nations Law of the Sea Conference and lectured in Association, was established in 1983 to serve as a tribute to the but you’re not sure how big or even Zhang Yuejiao, currently a member Shenzhen. Laprès kindly consented to speak to international law at universities, colleges and conferences in North ideals of the Law School’s first dean, Richard Chapman Weldon. The what the total form is but you’re drawn of the Appeal Board of the World America and Europe. He taught commercial law for 12 years at award was presented to Flemming at the Dalhousie Law Annual Hearsay and share some of his experiences and Trade Organization (WTO). (A second, Saint Mary’s University. In 2004, he was made an honorary fellow of Alumni Dinner in October. • impressions of China today. electronic edition was published in 2008.)

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The idea that the PRC internet is protected by firewalls is belied by the actual …globalization will continue to challenge both traditional chinese “ possibility for any high school student to figure out a way around it.” “ values and the values of the communist party.” H: Is it fair to say that your China H: Are you therefore predicting a liberal From my viewpoint, that is already too H: This might lead us to ask about your own connection also goes beyond the mere democratic future? restrictive an environment. Also, as trip to Xinjiang this past August. Did you om c professional? DL: Yes, globalization will continue to a lawyer I must decry the exercise of . form any impressions that would have a DL: Well, yes, it’s also a family affair. challenge both traditional Chinese values licensing powers to silence professionals bearing on this discussion? In 1990 I married Shen Suhua, a native and the values of the Communist Party. who defend in the normal course of their ngabay DL: Well, the trip certainly brought of Beijing, in Paris. That’s where The current dispersion of economic practice controversial cases, such as those home that globalization has penetrated r / mo le we have lived and raised our two power, even if at the moment it mainly involving the defense of Christians before t throughout the territory even into its daughters. The eldest, Mae, is 18 years exists within an oligarchy constituted of the Chinese courts. frontier hinterlands, including Xinjiang,

old; she served as a volunteer during the family and friends of the rulers, will But, I also find it bothersome when tt A. Bu where one can readily encounter a e h the Olympics in Beijing in 2008, and only fuel and sustain ambitions for the some people argue that China is R family of Mongolian nomads dancing to Evidence of progress cascading to even the poorest worked as a translator (French, English Daniel Laprès with associates of the Chinese law exercise of political influence. Western endemically corrupt—when Westerners recordings of Straussian waltzes, or be regions is seen in solar-powered yurts in Western and Mandarin) for the media. This July firm to which he is “Special Counsel.” To Laprès’ style democracy is not much more distant excuse their own predilection for invited to dine with them in their “yurt” China. she modeled for the inaugural issue of right is Lei Kai, a senior partner and a contributing than the first secession of any of the corruption with the glib: “Everybody under a glowing reprint of the Mona editor to his book Chinese Business Law. Harpers’ Bazaar in China. Our second currents agitating the Communist Party. does it so we must keep up—when in Xinjiang has the country’s longest border Lisa. In the capital city of Urumqi the daughter, Lena, is 15 years old. She also Rome, etc. etc.” The much-commented which it shares with Mongolia, Russia, principal Mosque juxtaposes a building speaks the three languages and is in high H: That sounds almost too good to be true. H: Could you elaborate a bit more on that case involving Rio Tinto and an Australian Kazakhstan, Kirghiziatan, Tajikistan, of identical architectural inspiration, the school in Paris. This past summer she DL: I am an inveterate optimist—but last point? (ethnic Chinese) executive ought to serve Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. The ground floor of which is occupied by appeared as a dancer in a movie made for China’s recent history has shown that DL: If you mean my reference to a liberal notice that the Chinese authorities will vast majority of China’s 20 million outlets of Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Chinese television. optimism is the right side of the trend. democracy being no further away fight corruption wherever they can find Muslims live in Xinjiang. The danger McDonald’s, and on the roof of which flies than the first secession of a splinter it—not every time, because no one could for dislocation of the PRC would, in my the flag of the PRC. In Xinjiang, one point I H: On your website you have inter alia H: Can you give us any examples from this group within the Communist Party, I pretend the system to be perfect—but opinion, come even more from Xinjiang tried to verify was the local policy toward references about your pro bono work recent history? am going beyond a mere prediction increasingly often. than from Tibet. In Xinjiang, the Chinese, the wearing of veils and of bourkas (full for Chinese Christians seeking asylum in DL: The situation, as I see it, is constantly of the instauration one day of a liberal including the Chinese Muslims, seem to body veils leaving only the eyes apparent) France. Many in the West regard China’s evolving and I think in the right direction democracy by imagining how it will H: What are the greatest risks facing today’s enjoy better living conditions and have by local women. The issue evokes different record on human rights to be dismal, overall, so there is good reason to be come about. Perhaps it will be another China? better prospects than the minority peoples. treatments from one country to another, particularly with regard to freedom of optimistic about the prospects for mass movement of the youth as during DL: In economic terms, the greatest risks Based on my own personal observations, and a law in France that is to prohibit the religion and expression. Would you share increased freedom of speech and of the Tiananmen Square demonstration, are posed by the national banking system’s any resentment that people generally wearing of bourkas in public places has that view? expression in the PRC. There are gay a workers’ revolt as in Poland, or a exposure to the overbuilt real estate in Xinjiang might have manifested drawn the ire of Muslims in numerous DL: There is a lot of misunderstanding on communities in Shanghai and Beijing dislocation of the Republic as in the sector, which is vulnerable to interest rate toward any neglect or disdain from the countries. But in Xinjiang, it seems that the matter of thought control in China. and other major cities. There are faithful Soviet Union. My own thought— increases. In political terms, the danger central authorities is greatly exacerbated young Muslim girls can attend public In private one hears lots of criticism of all religions, and members of minority reflecting those of at least some of my arises mostly from the Western frontier among the ethnic minorities, almost all school wearing veils, though one would of the government. The idea that the political parties, who have reached the Chinese friends—is that the currents in and the Muslim part of China as a part of Muslims—often nomadic—and clearly not wear a veil while exercising a public PRC internet is protected by firewalls highest posts in the PRC’s administration, the Communist Party will become more the general movement of radical Islam. disadvantaged socially. function, such as teaching in school or is belied by the actual possibility for including in its legal branches: the assertive, supported by contending working in a hospital. So the policy in any high school student to figure out Judiciary and the Procuratorate—which factions within the widening economic H: To follow up on that last point, Daniel, are H: You thus see any real danger to the Xinjiang is actually more liberal than that a way around it. Some issues of great is loosely the national agency for criminal oligarchy. Eventually one or more you saying that crackdowns we read about PRC as coming from these ethnic minority applied in France. social consequence are regularly debated investigation and prosecution. Believers factions will officially secede from the on Chinese Muslims are occurring out of a groups? openly and on TV: environmental in Buddhism can be encountered in Party. The PRC already has an elective fear that they may have links with Al Qaeda, DL: Yes, while hastening to add that I do H: Based on your observations and protection, protection against food and every walk of life, including within the system. What’s missing is a strong the Taliban and other groups connected to believe the worst will be avoided because experience over the last 35 years, what do hygiene risks, transportation systems Communist Party, and the Christian opposition party. My prediction is that organized jihadist activities? the Chinese economy is being managed you see as the long-term outlook for China ? and catastrophes, to name a few. One religions are thriving in the rural such a strong opposition will arise DL: The first observation I would make in such a way as to draw even the poorest DL: Rising general wealth, further indication of how China is evolving is communities. It’s worth remembering gradually within the Party, and later is that there needs to be a distinction up—even if this results from a cascading integration into the global economy, that the local Chinese Catholic church that in the Maoist tradition, religion without, at which point there would be a drawn between Chinese Muslims and down of what progress is afforded unrelented urbanization, at least partial in Paris nowadays encounters far fewer is only a “minor contradiction” and decent model of liberal democracy. ethnic minority Muslims (such as the hui, generally—better communications, solutions to the environmental challenges, sincere underground Catholics who have in the Constitution religion is neither wei - Uyghur - and the kazak minorities). education, housing and other social gradual implementation of Western-style suffered persecution on the mainland. So encouraged nor prohibited. The rush H: You paint a pretty rosy picture. Xinjiang in the northwestern region is services. I see a tendency of the youth democracy, increased personal freedom, there does seem to be greater tolerance up the scale of values to reach moral DL: Maybe, but at the same time I don’t China’s largest province-level territory in the minority peoples to integrate the and peaceful international relations by the authorities of religious expression. discussion has been accomplished for deny that in China today the golden and corresponds to one-sixth of the sedentary way of life, to become educated making possible an amicable solution to large numbers of well-off Chinese who rules are to avoid threats to the unity country’s total territory; but only some and to adopt the global styles of living. the Taiwan issue. • conclude that there is more to life than of the Chinese State, and those to the 20 million people live there (about 1.6 For the full story see www.law.dal.ca/Alumni_ material gain. dominance of the Communist Party. per cent of China’s total population). and_Friends/Alumni_News

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dilapidated old house with nine other people: her mother, two sisters and their children. During the dry season the children slept on the floor. When it rained, the house flooded and the children had to crowd into Anna’s bed. Dunsworth notes that these women were dedicated mothers, determined to make a better life for their children. They Ruby lived in a house that had jobs, but flooded when it rained, would never was overrun with rats and make enough had GLASS MISSING FROM to qualify for any kind of MOST OF THE WINDOWS. housing loan. Dunsworth became acutely aware of her leave everything that was familiar also recalls the challenge of husband’s desire to make a to me, but what I really couldn’t encouraging the local people to Erick is a nine-year-old boy from a community of extreme long-term commitment to understand was why my parents join with the Habitat workers in Ed Dunsworth’s (‘75) improving the lives of the most wanted to sell their lovely home their building projects. poverty in Managua, Nicaragua. He attends school at disadvantaged. She agreed to and belongings and move to a “Too often in developing pathway to change join her husband in a three-year place I had barely heard of to help countries there is a tendency for the Loyola Institute, a private-run Jesuit school in the stint with Habitat. Dunsworth people they had never met.” the people to stand back and let took a leave of absence from Although Sally was to foreigners do all the work. It’s heart of Managua. Erick’s mother, Rosario, beams with Ed Dunsworth is a native Nova Scotian who grew up in his law firm, Leahey Nearing, become attached to her new not because the people are lazy the affluent area of south-end Halifax. He attended St. Francis intending to return to Halifax in school, life and surroundings, or indifferent. More often it is pride as she speaks of Erick’s academic success in coming School, St. Patrick’s High School and Dalhousie, from which 2001. Three of their four children the Dunsworths had real fears at because their input is not sought he received a Bachelor of Commerce (‘70), and an MBA and Sally (age 15), Edward (10) and the beginning that she might run or encouraged. Our aim is to third in his class with an average of 95 per cent. She says law degree in 1975. He married, had four children and enjoyed Jacqueline (7) accompanied their away. motivate as many people in the a successful law practice. For 13 years he was an instructor in parents. Following a training Life was certainly very community as possible to become it is a “miracle from God” that Erick has been given the the Faculty of Commerce at Saint Mary’s University where he session at Habitat’s headquarters different for the Dunsworths in involved in the process.” taught a course in business law. Moreover, Dunsworth gave in Americus, Georgia, the Belize. Although they lived in The Dunsworths’ intention opportunity to receive a top-quality education that has generously of his time and talents to several local organizations Dunsworths were assigned to a comfortable house in a good to return to Halifax after three and causes. For many years he served on the board of the Nova head up Habitat’s house building part of the city, a short distance years with Habitat was not already made a profound change in his life. Scotia Division of the Canadian Cancer Society and was one of efforts in the small Latin American away were blocks of shacks and to be. Their work with the its major fundraisers. country of Belize. The family took deteriorating houses. The smell of Erick is but one of 52 children ranging in age from A chance occurrence in the fall of 1996 was to change both up residence in Belize City.The sewage and rotting garbage was Dunsworth’s life and that of his family. A friend mentioned move was particularly hard on everywhere. People dug through six to 16 years attending four different private schools in that he had recently been involved with Habitat for Humanity 15-year-old Sally. In the family their garbage looking for food. in Guatemala. Habitat is a non-government organization that newsletter she wrote: Dunsworth remembers, Managua. The story of how these children have been given assists in building affordable housing for the poor in over 100 “Last year I hated Habitat. I however, the excitement of the countries. Dunsworth was inspired to investigate the Habitat knew it was an organization that ground breaking ceremony for a chance to reach their full potential goes back to the late program. For two weeks in February 1997 Dunsworth and a built houses for the poor and the first two lots upon which few other volunteers helped build brick and tin houses in a other than that I didn’t care. The they would be building. The 1990s when Edward Dunsworth (’75) took a two-week trip small village in northern Nicaragua. The experience compelled only thing that mattered was that first Habitat homeowners of him to consider making a dramatic change in his life. He later Habitat was ruining my life. I Belize were single mothers with to Nicaragua that changed his life. recalled, “When you are in Nova Scotia you think you know had to leave all my friends and three children each. Ruby lived poverty. You see it on TV or read about it. But until you move to a third-world country. in a house that flooded when it actually come face to face with it, and live in a community What worse thing can happen to rained, was overrun with rats, where there’s abject poverty, you really don’t know what it is.” the life of a 15-year-old? I had no and had glass missing from most Upon his return to Halifax Dunsworth’s wife, Barbara, idea. I hated the fact that I had to of the windows. Anna shared a

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organization extended to Argentina and in a community dedicated to making says. “We cover their education costs, Chile, encompassing administration, life better for the children and families it pay for their school books, uniforms, recruitment, training, fund-raising serves. HHM also offers people in Canada transportation, and feed about 40 Sir Nigel soars and a myriad of other responsibilities and the U.S. an opportunity for hands- per cent of the children by providing instrumental to Habitat’s growth in the on experiences through immersion trips nutritious breakfasts every morning. If Caribbean and Latin American regions. to the places it serves. It is believed that they are sick and local clinics can’t assist, Dunsworth also served a seven-month these volunteers will return home with a we attend to their medical needs. We try stint on the island of Grenada with better understanding of themselves, and to provide anything that is needed to Habitat’s Disaster Response Program in a compassion and desire to continue their improve their educational potential.” the aftermath of Hurricane Ivan. lives with a component that includes In keeping with HHM’s objectives, Dunsworth’s determination to service to others. the commitment of parents is essential improve the lives of the less fortunate It is five years since the Dunsworths to the success of the Pathway to was to shift emphasis in 2005. Friends joined HHM. Dunsworth is now director Change program. Program facilitators had mentioned “Hand in Hand of operations for HHM in Nicaragua make weekly visits to the homes of Ministries” (HHM), a charitable and Barbara is associate director. They the sponsored children to encourage organization formed in 1999. Operating are based in Managua, Nicaragua, the parents to play a greater role in every in Belize, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and poorest country in Central and South aspect of the lives of their children. Appalachia, HHM attempts to make a America after Haiti. Dunsworth’s Dunsworth admits that the challenge difference by providing food, shelter, responsibilities, inter alia, include is great and it takes time to implement clothing, medicine and education to the overseeing the staff of nine full- and part- change. He states, “There is still much to poorest of the poor. The Dunsworths’ time employees, meeting on a monthly do, but as a result of the program, and Spanish skills were now good enough basis with the sponsored children’s the commitment of the families of the and with the experience gained with families in group meetings, meeting with sponsored children, on average 50 per Habitat they felt prepared to take on a each family individually after each report cent of our students attain an average of new commitment with HHM. card, managing the small loans portfolio, 90 per cent or better. The future of these Dunsworth says, “While we attempt hosting immersion groups from out-of- young girls and boys would be uncertain to meet people’s immediate needs, we country and organizing and managing at best were it not for the help of this seek systemic change. We like to work at the in-country projects, acting as agent program. Education is the most powerful the grass roots level, asking community for the new Canadian charity “Pathway weapon against poverty. Our goal is to leaders what they need most, and then to Progress Nicaragua,” which was set enable many more Nicaraguan children helping provide the tools and skills to lift up to encourage Canadian donors to to take advantage of this wonderful themselves and their communities out of involve themselves in the Nicaragua opportunity.” extreme poverty.” mission of HHM, and raising awareness William (“Bill”) Leahey (‘79), The Dunsworths began their work and resources in the U.S., Canada and Dunsworth’s former law partner, is one with HHM in 2005. He states that one Nicaragua. of the local supporters of the Pathway to of the features that distinguish the However, one project that is especially Change program. In a recent conversation organization is that it works very hard close to Dunsworth’s heart is “Pathway with Hearsay Leahey remarked, “It has to keep administrative and fundraising to Change.” The Dunsworths were struck been a privilege to be able to call Ed costs at a minimum. “Over the previous by how poor the education system was and Barb my friends,” he says. “Their eight years we averaged spending in Nicaragua for a majority of children. decision in 1997 to fundamentally change 85 cents out of every dollar in our Four years ago they started a pilot project their lives took enormous courage programs. While we may not be the to try and address in a small way the possessed by very few people. It was only organization that operates at that education problems they saw among clearly the right decision for them, their Professor Sir Nigel Rodley got more than he asked for jumper, Ben. The event took place at the skydiving club of the British level, it certainly ranks us ahead of families of scarce resources. It began with children and the many people who have earlier this year following a dinner in England where he delivered a talk Army’s Parachute Association Club, at Netheravon, Wiltshire, England. most.” Dunsworth notes that while HHM three children, and there are currently benefited from their selfless devotion on human rights to the British Army Legal Service. He mentioned that Many alumni will remember Sir Nigel taught at the law school from considers itself faith-based it welcomes 52 children enrolled in the “Pathway to to improving the lives of others in a 1965 until 1968. He became the first Legal Advisor of the International all people of good will­—believers and Change” program. practical way. The Schulich School of during The Second World War his father had been in a parachute unit non-believers. “It has always been vitally “The children we sponsor range in age Law, can be very proud of its association of the British Forces and had died in 1944 at Arnhem, The Netherlands. Secretariat of Amnesty International, and later returned to academia and important that people of different beliefs, from six to 11 and are enrolled in private with two people of such rare quality as Sir Nigel mentioned that he had always wondered what it would be like served as Dean of Law at the University of Essex in Colchester, England. races, and all of the other factors that schools such as the Loyola Institute, the Ed and Barbara Dunsworth.” • to jump out of a plane. This was a risky thing to say at a table of British For his particular contributions to the cause of human rights, he was divide us, work together for the common Nicaragua Christian Academy-Nejapa, knighted by Her Majesty the Queen in 1999, and received the degree of good.” the Central Baptist School and Mother of Ed invites any friends or interested alumni Colonels, one of whom took him at his word and said this could easily Fundraising is an important part of the Divine Pastor School, which normally to contact him at [email protected]. The be arranged. The photo shows Sir Nigel free-falling below his tandem Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, from Dalhousie University in May, 2000. • HHM’s efforts to carry out its programs, are attended by only the children of the Pathway to Progress website address is www. and its donors are seen as major players wealthy and middle classes,” Dunsworth p2pnicaragua.org

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Left: Speaker Peter Milliken greets his Holiness, the Dalai Lama, on a Canadian visit. Right: Speaker Milliken presents U.S. President Barack Obama with a copy of In Roosevelt’s Bright Shadow during his visit to Ottawa in 2009.

He was elected as a Liberal Member of Parliament for Kingston & the Islands in 1988 and since then has been successful in six consecutive campaigns. Amongst several parliamentary roles he has been Speaker of the House of Commons since 2001. His four-time selection by his colleagues to this position gives him the distinction of being Canada’s longest-serving speaker. His reputation for impartiality and master of House procedure and rules was put to a critical test earlier this year when he was asked by the opposition parties to find the Conservative government in contempt of Parliament for failing to release uncensored documents regarding the Canadian military’s handing over of Afghan detainees to Afghan authorities. The Honourable Peter Milliken’s ruling that the government does not have an unconditional right to refuse the request of Parliament while recognizing the desirability for a process to ensure the confidentiality of sensitive information was praised by most academics and the media. In an editorial (April 28, 2010), The Globe and Mail called the ruling “scrupulously fair and non- partisan.” In June 2010 Milliken announced that he would not seek re-election in the next federal election. On the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the Law School Milliken (’71) agreed to be interviewed as part of a commemoration video produced through the generosity of William A. (“Bill”) Rand (’66). The following is a slightly edited version of that interview in which Milliken relates some of his personal recollections of his time at the Law School, and the significance of the school’s anniversary.

In my day H: Why did you decide to become a PM: Well, I first remember my parents could go to lectures if you wanted to. lawyer? drove me down from Kingston. I You would choose a good lecturer and PM: I think it was just something I had think I came back from Oxford in late go to a series of lectures. There would An interview with been interested in for a long time. July or early August. After locating be one or two a week in a particular an apartment we had heard about, subject….From my point of view the H. Why did you decide to come to we went over to the law school. I can lecture circuit wasn’t particularly heavy. The Honourable Dalhousie Law School? remember walking in. I was accustomed I would go to the odd one or two, but PM: I didn’t come to Dalhousie first. to university buildings, so in that most of my time was spent going to I went to Oxford and did a degree in sense it wasn’t out of this world, but the library to read the cases and books law there. When I returned to Canada I it was quite attractive; a nice building. necessary to prepare for the tutorials. Peter Milliken applied to a few law schools. However, Moreover, it was quite convenient as it Dalhousie was quite different. The Dalhousie offered two years’ credit was only about a 20-minute walk from classes were much larger, and the for my time at Oxford so that I could the apartment. Everything seemed professor would call out names and receive the Dalhousie degree after one great, and it was. say to a particular student, “Now year. I don’t believe that program exists you answer this question.” I must say today. I knew Dalhousie was a good H: How, then, would you describe the that I was surprised how many times law school. That’s how I got there, and I Dalhousie law experience as compared to someone would say, “I haven’t read that had a great time. Oxford? case, sir.” At Oxford you just didn’t say PM: Big time. At Oxford there was a that. For me this was quite a dramatic H: And you spent one year at the school? tutorial system so I was in class only change. I was so accustomed to being PM: Yes. One of my friends who once or twice a week with one other prepared I was on top of the readings had been at Cambridge applied to student and a tutor. You had to prepare most of the time. Dalhousie as well and was accepted. an essay alternately for each of these On the other hand, I had to do a The two of us got an apartment, ended classes—either he did or I did—and variety of courses. For example it was up as roommates and spent the year in then have a discussion with the tutor mandatory that I take the first-year Halifax. It was fun. about it. You were given a reading Criminal Law class. Unlike Canada, list in order to prepare the essay and England didn’t have a code…. The H: If you cast your mind back, do any to be able to answer questions….The subject matter was different and so memories come back about your first day discipline was quite strict in terms of was the [first-year] class setting with a on campus, or entering the law building? being on top of what was required. You large number of students I didn’t know.

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Stephen Aronson (’73):

Ottawa Marshall’s unsung hero e- tt e vr by Becky Rynor /Cou nt me ia l ar f P

in what Stephen Indians when Marshall’s case came to him in 1981, “as a lawyer Library o It is most likely to happen Left: Peter Milliken graduates from Dalhousie Law in 1971. Right: The Speaker’s interest in canoeing has taken him on long trips to Aronson colloquially calls “Indian country.” Those are the of last resort.” He was 31 when the native advocacy group Canada’s Far North. circles where the slight, soft-spoken Jewish lawyer is still asked him to review Marshall’s preliminary hearing, trial remembered as the man who got Donald Marshall Jr. out of transcripts and an appeal decision. Of course, that was also true with the H: Would you say that your Dal Law H: Would you have anything to say to prison after Marshall served 11 years for a murder he did not He was also asked to look into a confession by another classes I selected in third and second experience was a contributing factor to today’s Dalhousie law students? commit. inmate who claimed to have committed the stabbing. year. But, I spent more time with them, your later political career? PM: I would imagine that in some Aronson generally finds any attention for his part in what “That took an incredible amount of work, frustrating work, and some classes were smaller so I got PM: That’s hard to say. It certainly respects legal education has changed remains one of Canada’s highest-profile wrongful conviction difficult work,” Derrick says. “So for someone in a very small to know them better. made it easier. But, I had maintained an dramatically from the time I was at cases “a bit embarrassing,” he says quietly. “Sometimes it’s practice with on-going overhead, this must have been a very interest in politics since my high school Dalhousie, [as well as] in my early days more important to other people than it is to me.” great burden.” H: What about your instructors? Do you days. I don’t think there was an election in practice. At least from a research In 1971, Marshall was convicted of murdering his friend, Aronson acknowledges there were months where he didn’t remember any teachers in particular? when I was at Dal so I don’t recall being aspect computers enable students to Sandy Seale, in a park in Sydney, N.S. He was 17 years old see a penny for the hours he poured into Marshall’s case. At the PM: I recall Professor Adrian Bradbrook particularly politically involved. When I locate cases and other material more when he was sentenced to life in prison. He was released in who taught Wills and Estates. I had returned to Kingston I was admitted to readily than we could have imagined. 1982 after the case was reviewed, thanks to what Judge Anne “It opened the system of justice to public many discussions with him after class. I the bar and went straight into practice. However, when I think about the Derrick (‘80) says was Aronson’s “lonely struggle” to have the scrutiny, I think it’s important for the public also recall Professor Donald, who, if I’m Then I got back into party work and the study of law the thing that I found most Mi’kmaq man’s name cleared. not mistaken, was the Dean of the Law type of political activity that I had been important at Dalhousie and Oxford was Now a Halifax provincial court judge, Derrick was one of the to have a better understanding of how the School while I was at Dal. involved with in high school and while the necessity to read as much as one lawyers who represented Marshall before the Royal administration of justice does work.” I was at Queen’s. is able and from as wide a variety of Commission into his wrongful prosecution. She also H: Do you recall particular “haunts” you sources as possible. I believe the more represented him at the Royal Commission that reviewed his time he and his wife had an infant and a toddler, and “mostly and your friends would frequent? H: Does the fact that Dal Law has you read and the more thoroughly you compensation, and acted for Marshall at the Canadian Judicial lived off my wife’s salary. I think I paid for the groceries,” he PM: I used to attend Domus. Since it celebrated its 125th anniversary have any are exposed to a variety of opinions, Council’s Inquiry into remarks made by the Nova Scotia Court says. was located close to the Law School, I meaning for you? the more you will be able to appreciate of Appeal at the time of Marshall’s 1983 acquittal. While there were “definitely” times when he thought he was would head over there after class with PM: Absolutely. Dalhousie has one human differences. To me the ability to She is frequently, mistakenly, referred to as the lawyer who in over his head, he says he never considered dropping the case, some classmates for a few drinks on our of Canada’s oldest law schools. It is understand and accommodate different helped Marshall walk free. though he had no idea of the legal proportions it would take on. way home. not surprising that it enjoys the great viewpoints is one of the most important “He’s an unsung hero, for sure,” she says. “But for Mr. In 1982, Ron Fainstein was a senior general counsel in the reputation it has—partly because of its aspects of the study of law. • Aronson, I don’t know how Mr. Marshall ever would’ve got out federal Justice Department when Aronson brought him the H: Looking back, then, how would you age. Obviously, it has provided a sound of prison. There was nobody else to step up to the plate for him. submission requesting the Marshall case be re-examined. describe your overall experience at Dal? education to so many people; and so He had been buried alive.” “I had never seen a more complete submission,” Fainstein PM: It was excellent. I enjoyed my time. many of its graduates have moved “Can you imagine if Donald Marshall had cold called some recalls of the material Aronson put before him. “It was all there. I had fun. I liked the subjects I took and all across the country. On a regular Hearsay acknowledges with appreciation lawyer and said, ‘I’m an aboriginal man, I’m locked up in Obviously he had put in an extraordinary amount of work.” I enjoyed all the other students I met. I basis I meet alumni in Ottawa, and photographs supplied by the Office prison and I’ve been wrongfully accused of murder, I want you He says he was equally impressed by the lawyer in front of made a number of friends over all three in British Columbia, Newfoundland, of the Speaker and, in particular, the to help me get out’? There wouldn’t have been a whole lot of him. of the years, but mostly in third and and wherever I may happen to be assistance of Heather Bradley, director of lawyers who would do this.” “He wasn’t there to do a job of advocacy. He wasn’t just second year. in Canada. Dalhousie has a great communications and Anthony Carricato, Aronson is originally from Montreal but grew up in Halifax. arguing a position for someone he was hired to represent. He reputation. communications officer. He was working in Halifax for the Union of Nova Scotia truly believed in what he was doing, and that really shone

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Jarvis Googoo (‘09) had the idea to create the through in the way he conducted himself. Aronson still lives in Ottawa, now award the day after his cousin Donald Marshall Jr. It was a very infectious thing.” running a private practice dealing died. Marshall, the long-time hero of the Mi’kmaq, Marshall was acquitted of the murder exclusively in aboriginal law. He so Maliseet and Passamaquoddy, passed away on in May, 1983. But Derrick says the victory obviously shrinks under the eye of any August 6, 2009. A few days later Googoo approached the road less travelled was “tainted” by comments made by attention that one can only wonder Marshall’s family. “I wanted to get their permission the Court of Appeal basically blaming how he survived being at the centre and their blessing,” says Googoo. “I was pleased Marshall for being the cause of his own of a landmark legal case as well as the when they said yes.” misfortune. financial and emotional wounds it Marshall’s legacy will endure in the Donald “This was just a very inappropriate inflicted. Marshall Jr. Memorial Award. The Law School exoneration of the system, she says. “It Today, when he recalls the Marshall partnered with the Indigenous Black and Mi’kmaq would have been a very bitter taste in case, he says the word that springs to (IB&M) Initiative to create the award in honour of (Aronson’s) mouth at the end of it all to mind is “tragedy.” Marshall. The award will be given to a third-year have his innocent client who had 11 years “The fact that it happened in the first student who demonstrates a commitment to of his life taken away from him, still place is tragic. There were other victims, Aboriginal justice. “We want to recognize those who saddled with responsibility for having not just Junior. The witnesses were support the Aboriginal community,” says Googoo. got himself convicted in the first place.” victims.” “Junior had many sources of help throughout his But Aronson’s work paved the way to And he says a lot of people walked life. We want to acknowledge the work of students two Royal Commissions and a Judicial away with scars, including him. involved in Aboriginal law.” Inquiry into the Nova Scotia Court of “It was a pretty traumatic Appeal’s statements. experience to go through. High “I think that to me in a lot of ways that stress, high pressure.” was the best part of the whole thing,” When Donald Marshall Jr. wn o

Aronson says. “It opened the system died in Aug., 2009, accolades for r -B of justice to public scrutiny. I think it’s the native man flowed. r e i l

important for the public to have a better “His name should go down ti understanding of how the administration in history as a sympathetic Anne Bastedo ’81: lawyer turned artist of justice does work.” individual who had the rights of Eric Bou “The Royal Commission said those the Mi’kmaq people close to his remarks from the Court of Appeal heart,” Chief Lawrence Paul of Anne Bastedo was looking for a change. After working as a land use planner in the Department markets in Dartmouth and Halifax. Bastedo joined were wrong and Mr. Marshall was not the Millbrook First Nation said Marshall was wrongfully convicted of murder in 1971 and After working drafting legislation and in investment of Municipal Affairs in Nova Scotia, Bastedo also the Nova Scotia Designer Crafts Council in 2007 and responsible for what happened,” Derrick at the time. spent 11 years in prison before his name was cleared. compliance for 20 years, she decided to step taught land use planning at Dalhousie Law School. shows her work in ViewPoint Gallery in Halifax. “It’s so says. “It was the system that failed him, Many feel the same tribute away from the law in 2004 to do something new: Her interest in legislation led her to the University of different to go from the analytical to the creative,” she and it failed him in part because he was could be said of Stephen Aronson. The IB&M Initiative was created to ensure a photography. One year later, she was running her Ottawa where she received a diploma in legislative says. “I’m still using the skills I gained in law school an Aboriginal. So racism contributed to “He conducted himself to the greater representation of visible minorities in the business Serenity Images. “It’s a great adventure,” says drafting. She returned to her position in Municipal and my previous career. You need to be organized his wrongful conviction. That was hugely absolute highest standards of the legal justice system. All of these changes came as a result Bastedo. “It’s nice to do something creative.” Affairs until a chance encounter led to working in the and know how to market to be a photographer.” significant.” profession,” Derrick says. ”He was of Marshall’s drive to reform the justice system. Lawyers can be an original bunch. Bastedo’s love Office of the Legislative Counsel of Nova Scotia. The recent death of her father prompted Bastedo By the time Marshall was declared prepared to take on a really hard case. It Marshall faced new challenges in 1993 in for words and art led her through an unconventional During her 13-year tenure with the Counsel, to solidify her will and give back to Dalhousie innocent, Aronson had been offered a job wasn’t like there was a whole bunch of Aboriginal law. He was arrested and prosecuted career from working for the government to starting a Bastedo was seconded to be lead drafter for a team University. The plan is simple: Bastedo will purchase with the Department of Indian Affairs in support around of any kind at all. He did for selling the eels that he caught at Pomquet small business. Now her next challenge is giving back of engineers, lawyers, administrators and miners in a life insurance policy in which Dalhousie owns the Ottawa. And he took it. it and he did it to a very high standard. Harbour, Nova Scotia. His case was successfully to the Dalhousie community. modifying the Occupational Health and Safety Act and principal. The premiums are paid off within 10 years “I was just tired. Tired physically and And Mr. Marshall walked out of prison argued in the Supreme Court of Canada. Through Bastedo grew up in a family of lawyers. Her the Underground Mining Regulations. The reforms and the policy reverts to the university. Bastedo will mentally and I just needed a change,” a free man because Stephen Aronson did the 1999 landmark case, treaty rights between the grandfather Frank Lindsay Bastedo was the Lieutenant were in response to the 1992 Westray Mine explosion, get the tax benefit and the school has a guarantee on he says. He also needed to make some the work it took to make that happen.” Mi’kmaq people and the Crown were affirmed. Governor of Saskatchewan and her father, Edgar which killed 26 mine workers in Pictou County, Nova receiving the proceeds of the policy. Currently Bastedo money. In the years following the Marshall The court ruled the Mi’kmaq people had the right Bastedo, had his own practice as a solicitor in Ontario. Scotia. “I didn’t know anything about mining,” she and the university are in negotiations on allocating the Aronson recalls he got paid about case, Derrick says she received a “cold to “a moderate livelihood for individual Mi’kmaq “When I was young, he would come home and tell says. “When you are in that kind of situation, you rely funds. “The benefit is in knowing that the funds are $74,000 in 1984, which he agrees was call” from an Aboriginal man in prison, families at present day standards” through the fishing me he had been making money on his money tree,” on the knowledge of other people who are experts in secure and we both agree on what will be done with “probably” a drop in the bucket. “At the claiming he had been wrongfully industry. The decision helped form the basis for she says. “I didn’t really know what he did, but I was the field.” them,” she says. “I’m excited to think about how the time it probably mattered more than it convicted of murder. And she took it. Aboriginal fishing rights in Canada. “No one person proud of him.” After 20 years in government service, Bastedo funds will be spent.” does today.” “I took that call because I thought, made such an impact on so many areas of law as After completing her master’s degree in decided to take on the challenge of developing an Bastedo wants to put her father’s inheritance from But he says he was ready to move on. ‘Stephen Aronson would take the call.’ Donald Marshall Jr,” says Naiomi Metallic philosophy at Dalhousie University, Bastedo headed to investment compliance department for Maritime Life the “money tree” to good use. “I wish my dad could “I felt I’d done my part. He had been Stephen Aronson’s example was a (‘05), a lawyer at Burchell Hayman Parish. “He Dalhousie Law School in 1978. As a philosopher, she Assurance Co. Five years later, she took a year-long know about this,” she says. “I know he would be acquitted. I also felt it was just one part very concrete reference point to say, helped shape modern Aboriginal law, criminal and was drawn to legal theory. “I’ve always enjoyed words break to find her next adventure. proud.” • — Julie-Ann Sobowale of a longer process which also included yeah, one does have this professional social justice.” —Julie Sobowale and analyzing ideas,” she says. “I wanted to study the Bastedo’s business began through her interest in compensation and a commission of responsibility.” • meaning of words in the law.” photography. She began selling her prints at the Harris For more information on Serenity Images, please visit inquiry.” She kept close ties to Dalhousie after graduation. and Co. gallery in 2004 and ventured into the farmer’s www.serenityimages.ca.

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Day 2. In our rain forest camp “Big Tree,” ready to start the day’s climb. (l to r): Dani Sue Himmelman, Paula Taylor, Hans Himmelman, David Kirkpatrick, Rena Demone, Henry Demone

Our leader was Kombi—a quiet, take us. When anyone asked how we Luckily it was dry and the sleeping bag dignified man from the region and a true were going to do it, we would just say, dried before night, but there is little room leader. When we made a mistake—and “Oh we’re Canadians. We know about for such carelessness at high altitude. we did make quite a few the first couple cold.” The summit day arrived and we of days—he would say, “Do not do that But the truth is that we knew we were awoken in the middle of the night again.” You knew he was to be taken would be in big trouble if we got wet. to start the climb in the cold and dark. seriously. We were a small community Unless we absolutely had to, we made a Base camp is a crazy patchwork quilt of whose lives and health were inter- point of not wearing our jackets, gloves, camps and tents and outdoor toilets. It dependant. Hygiene and mutual respect and borrowed hats, as the temperature is not beautiful in any way and, in fact, became paramount to avoiding illness plummeted. Surprisingly our bodies has changed my previously romanticized and injury. We were certainly a liability to adjusted as we climbed over the days, idea of “base camp.” We slept in all of the experts even when we did everything and we were no more troubled by the our gear and it was cold and dark but right; if we didn’t, it was unforgivably clear, and there was no wind. We made a careless. push for the summit. “When anyone asked how we We took a long, circuitous route to It was 9-1/2 hours of upward base camp which took us seven days. We were going to do it, we would climbing in the most spectacular terrain climbed through rainforest to an upland just say, “Oh we’re Canadians. I have ever seen. There is purity to such plateau, then descended into a magical austere landscape that I find difficult to valley with plants that were so enormous WE KNOW ABOUT COLD”’ describe and the air is so clear it doesn’t and bizarre as to make you think you seem possible. In the past I have looked were in a science fiction movie about at photographs and found this terrain Paula Taylor (’78): Scaling Kilimanjaro another planet. Then eventually we cold than those who had many layers to be ugly. In fact, it is spectacular when found ourselves camping in the shadow and changes of clothing. (I make no you are there. We knew we had to eat of the peak of Kilimanjaro—which comment about how we smelled…and and drink at every stop but what I really If I had known in advance of $60,000 to assist Laing House, using For every returning climber there even at night presented a white outline our friends were too polite to do so, too!) wanted to do was collapse against a rock the nature of the “adventure” I was the climb as the vehicle. We paid all our are arriving hopefuls—just like we that was so enormous it was almost The food was fantastic. It was and just breathe. Our guides insisted that signing on for, I’m not sure I would have own expenses, and through the generous were—fresh from the airport. One thing overwhelming. Each night it was colder prepared by the cook and his assistants in we eat a pink, powdered sugar that stuck done it. I am a sensible person who support of many friends, family, and we learned quickly was not to listen to and windier, and the placement of our a tiny tent over a single burner. I remain in our mouths like cement. But, it was doesn’t seek out risk. Yet somehow I even total strangers, we ultimately raised the sad tales of those who didn’t make it tents seemingly more precarious. in awe of the ingenuity and talent of amazing how the energy from this pure found myself going to a doctor’s office more than $118,000 for Laing House: that to the top. At this point we had no option The gradual ascent allowed our these men. Needless to say, we were cold glucose seemed to go straight to your every Saturday morning for many weeks remains the greatest satisfaction of the but optimism—even with evidence all bodies to acclimate to the altitude. and hungry every night and enjoyed legs. What seemed impossible before the being injected with one tropical disease entire adventure. around that success was far from certain, My husband and I had an additional wonderful evenings huddled in our tiny break became possible again. after another in preparation for climbing And what an adventure it was! We and that the dangers were real. Every challenge: our suitcases, with all of our mess tent, telling stories and comparing There is no way to avoid the fact that the tallest free-standing mountain in the gathered in a small, walled hotel complex year many people die on Kilimanjaro. specialized climbing gear for extreme notes from the day’s hiking while sipping this final day is gruelling. Every breath world, the legendary Mount Kilimanjaro. in Moshi, Tanzania a day or so before the Others become very ill from severe cold, had not arrived with us on our hot chocolate and tea or coffee. required a huge effort. Our pace seemed We were doing the climb to raise climb. The hotel is a gathering spot for mountain altitude sickness. plane. We had worn our hiking boots on The higher we climbed, the less punishing, but was very slow and funds for Laing House, an organization climbers coming and going. At any given We were climbing with an outstanding the plane and had worn and carried one welcome our sleeping tents became. deliberate. I felt that our kindly guides founded by Keith and Rosemary time you will see returning climbers organization called “Tusker Trails.” Each layer of climbing clothing, and that was Even our water froze—inside the of the past week had suddenly become Hamilton to assist young adults dealing at various stages: some jubilant and of the guides and porters who helped all we had. A year of preparation for this sleeping tent! One night I accidentally almost unreasonable in the pace they with serious mental illness challenges. exhausted, having reached the summit, us reach the summit was admirable and climb and we were left, in the end, with left the hose to my waterline under my were setting. In retrospect, this is where My husband David Kirkpatrick and others dejected and disappointed, having courageous and had tremendous capacity only a minimum of gear. sleeping bag and was truly horrified to you either make it to the top or don’t. I, and our friends Hans and Dani Sue failed in their ambition. All of them for hard work, without complaint. It was Our guides and friends gave us feel that my sleeping bag was damp in You don’t have a lot of time to play with. Himmelman, and Henry and Rena had one thing in common: they were not difficult to place great confidence in what they could spare, and we made a the morning. I knew this could be the end Our guides were not giving us the chance Demone, had proposed to raise a total unbelievably dirty and bedraggled. these experts. personal vow to climb as far as it would of my climb if we had rain the next day. to fail. We simply had to keep going.

26 Hearsay 2010/11 Hearsay 2010/11 27 We slid, jumped and half-skied down steep banks of volcanic ash at an alarming rate. The storm was scary in a different way than anything we had encountered up to this point because it was entirely beyond our control. Two good They did regular checks of our oxygen levels and knew that we were healthy, so success was within our reach. Oddly, the top is a gift because it levels out and the final half-hour of the climb is along a gradually rising ridge to the marker. We were beyond lucky that day because the clouds parted and we could see far into Kenya and the surrounding reasons Tanzania from the peak. Kombi told us to take our time and stay as long as we wanted. It was a very emotional experience for everyone. We had dedicated the climb to the memory of Dani and Hans’ daughter. While she was never far from our thoughts on the ascent, her presence affected us to be in Halifax this summer... deeply when we reached the summit and allowed ourselves to think of her and of our friends’ loss. One by one, three of the young porters came to me and This year we will host the Law School’s Annual Law Alumni Reunion Weekend in embraced me, saying, “You are my sister.” I don’t know concert with the Canadian Bar Association’s Annual General Meeting in Halifax in exactly what prompted this, but I know that in doing so they August 2011 - two very good reasons to join us this summer. had paid me the highest compliment. It was so unexpected that I was trying to keep my composure. Then Kombi noticed Planning for the 2011 Law Alumni Reunion Weekend is well underway. A special the clouds moving in again and suddenly it was snowing. He invitation goes out to the anniversary classes of 1961, 1971, 1986, 1991, 2001 and urged us to start moving. 2006 but all classes, alumni and friends are welcome to join us. Along with activities The descent was as quick as the storm would allow. We scheduled by your own class, Dean Kim Brooks will host the annual law alumni dinner slid, jumped and half-skied down steep banks of volcanic ash and open the school’s doors to welcome everyone back. at an alarming rate. The storm was scary in a different way than anything we had encountered up to this point because it Mark your calendar: August 12 to 14, 2011 was entirely beyond our control. Also, we had no choice but to descend. We could not stay long at this altitude and with Watch for more information in the coming months. night upon us. Questions? Send an email to [email protected] or We pushed on and after many hours saw a tiny figure in call Karen Kavanaugh at 902-494-3744. the distance. One of the cooks had braved the cold and snow to meet us with hot, steaming drinks. Without our guides we We look forward to seeing you on campus this year! could not have found the base camp in the blizzard. We later learned that only the year before a Korean man had simply wandered off course and his body was never recovered. His guide had left him at the edge of base camp with his tent in sight! It took a couple of days to descend, and on our final night Law ALUMNI Reunion Weekend in camp our guides talked to us about the climb. They told us that they had never seen three women get along so well— at Dalhousie that it was as if we were sisters. It is true. We talked and laughed for 10 days. The only times we weren’t having fun were when we were struggling just to put one foot in front of the other and to breathe at the same time. It was a privilege to share this experience with my friends and husband. TOP: Two of our guides, Gaudance and Kombi, at the summit. Laing House needs another team to take on this type of MIDDLE: Moments after reaching the peak (19,340 feet/5,895 metres) with adventure. I cannot recommend it highly enough, and if any Laing House banner, carried to the summit by Henry Demone. of you are interested we would be pleased to share more of BOTTOM: Camp Karanga at 12,500 feet, with the top of Kilimanjaro in the our experiences. • background, and a long climb to base camp still ahead.

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for many years with senior Hector and Donald serving as chair Mark with his RBC Canadian Painting Competition winner “Data Centres.” of the board for more than 40 years in total. Politics accidentally Mark Stebbins (’08) entered Stewart’s life. Former prime minister has a banner year Brian Mulroney, one of Stewart’s Mark Stebbins was recently selected from over 600 former classmates, applicants nationwide as an Honourable Mention in asked Stewart in 1983 to look over the the 2010 RBC Canadian Painting Competition, adding federal campaign to a growing list of art awards that includes 11 awards for the Progressive in the past year and a half since graduating from the Hector McInnes graduated in 1888, Hector’s son Donald (‘26) became a Hector McInnes (‘56), with his Stewart McInnes (‘61) entered poli- The new guard. Stewart McInnes’ Conservatives. in the fourth graduating class of well-known litigator and corporate brother Stewart, represented the tics in 1983. In 1984 he campaigned daughter, Sarah, now attends the Dalhousie Law School. He was the lawyer with a keen interest in Mari- third generation of the McInnes for the Progressive Conservatives Schulich School of Law. She intends to Mulroney wanted a Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie. first family member to earn a law time law. family to attend Dalhousie Law. He and was elected Minister of Public graduate in 2012. strong candidate in Now in its 12th year, the RBC competition has degree. practised corporate and commercial Works, and served in the cabinet for Halifax to challenge law with the family firm. four years. established itself as a showcase of the talent of Gerald Regan (‘52), the former Premier of Nova emerging artists and the future of Canadian painting. Stewart McInnes was at a crossroads in his known litigator and corporate lawyer. Donald’s sister Carolyn Scotia. A year later, Stewart was elected and became the Stebbins was awarded a $15,000 prize, and his winning career. He had a few options: become an engineer, study graduated four years later. Minister of Public Works. He served in the cabinet for piece, “Data Centres,” has been acquired by the Royal medicine or become a lawyer. He chose the legal field. “I went “My father was very busy,” says Stewart McInnes of Donald. four years. into law by default,” he says. “I found out that I love being a “I remember him when armadas gathered in the Bedford Basin “I couldn’t find a candidate, so they said I should Bank for its art collection. The collection spans 100 lawyer.” during the Second World War. I remember him boarding ships run,” he says. “I thought the campaign would just be a years of Canadian art and includes over 4,000 works. Family traditions run deep. The McInnes’ are a family of to take statements from witnesses when there were so many learning experience. I was surprised when I won.” Stebbins’ other recent awards include Best of Show lawyers. Four generations of the family studied at Dalhousie’s collisions. He was really interested in maritime law.” McInnes returned to the family firm in 1988 and law school. Their lineage is the longest run of graduates in the Another generation of McInnes members studied law. recently engaged as an arbitrator and mediator. at two art fairs in Toronto, including the Toronto school’s history. Stewart’s daughter Sarah was well aware of the Outdoor Art Exhibition in July, where he also won Best The legal tradition began in 1859 when the firm that would family business. After studying psychology at St. Francis The legal tradition begins in 1859 when the FIRM THAT in Drawing Category. In 2009 he was named Emerging later become McInnes Cooper was established in Halifax. The Xavier University, she faced the same problem as her WOULD LATER BECOME MCINNES COOPER was established in firm was founded by Jonathon McCully, one of the Fathers of father: choosing the next step in her career. After taking Artist of the Year by Visual Arts Nova Scotia and also Halifax. The firm was founded by Jonathon McCully, one Canadian Confederation and a former Nova Scotia Supreme a year off to travel and work, Sarah started her first year won the Halifax Mayor’s Award of Distinction in Court judge. Hector McInnes graduated from Dalhousie of the Fathers of Canadian Confederation at the Schulich School of Law in 2009. She got a taste of Contemporary Visual Arts, a $10,000 prize. His work Law School in 1888. As the first family member to have a legal practice this year as a summer student at McInnes law degree, he was involved in the some of the most famous Cooper. “Law school has always been at the back of my was recently featured in the National Post. cases in Nova Scotia. His tenure included representing the Stewart finished at Dal Law in 1961, five years after his brother mind,” says Sarah. “I had close friends who loved it and The focus of Stebbins’ art is on the intersection White Star Line in the Titanic sinking in 1912 and the owners Hector (‘56) graduated. Both began their legal careers at the urged me to follow.” between traditional craft practices and contemporary of the French munitions ship Mont Blanc in the 1917 Halifax McInnes firm. Stewart joined 10 other lawyers at McInnes and And so the family tradition continues. While Stewart explosion. worked in a variety of practices. “I learned a little about a lot of was surprised by Sarah’s decision, he didn’t want to digital imaging technologies. See more of his art by Hector’s love for law greatly influenced his family. Donald different things,” he says. pressure his daughter to pursue law. “It was her desire visiting his website at markstebbins.ca. • McInnes followed his father into the legal profession. He The McInnes roots run deep in Dalhousie University. The to go,” he says. “I’m delighted that she’s enjoyed graduated from Dalhousie law in 1926 and became a well- family has held a position at the Dalhousie Board of Governors learning about the law.” •

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“Part medical mystery, part bloody thriller…a debut that had me flicking pages until the wee hours of the H: An inevitable question is highly commercial for this H: Some current mystery writers H: What do you do for whether anything of yourself is type of genre. like Elizabeth George, Ian relaxation? Do you have any morning.” James Rollins, New York Times bestselling revealed in your character. H: Did the setting pose any Rankin, and particularly the guilty pleasures? author, praises Pamela Callow’s novel, Damaged. PC: Some of my life problems for your publisher? Swedish authors like Henning PC: In the little spare time “Pamela Callow is Halifax’s answer to John Grisham experiences are revealed in PC: Being successful in the Mankell and Stieg Larsson I have I enjoy a few TV seem to set their plots against and Tess Gerritson.” Linwood Barclay, bestselling Kate although we have very genre means you have to programs such as HBOs different family backgrounds. be successful across North a certain social backdrop. Is “True Blood.” As a writer I author of No Time for Goodbye. H: Does she have qualities you America. I did have to there anything like this in your also enjoy different forms of admire? wonder if middle America writing? artistic expression like dance. PC: Yes, Kate is something would be interested in the PC: Perhaps certain elements H: And books? of an “everywoman.” She’s east coast of Canada. I had with regards to occupation PC: You know, reading isn’t struggling to find her place at least one rejection from and background of the as relaxing as it used to be. I Pamela Callow ’91 in life and that’s what she’s a publisher who said their characters. I think I am more also don’t find it as inspiring about. books set in Canada didn’t do interested in public policy and because I find myself doing Debut thriller introduces H: Do you sketch all the well. I was therefore gratified how it trickles down to the a lot of analysis. But, when I characters at the beginning so when Damaged was picked individual experience. find a book I really enjoy, it is you know where you are going? by MIRA books and put in H: Has the success of the book a treasure. a feisty legal heroine PC: I found that it was Targets and Wal-Mart in the impacted on your family life? H: Can you give us any important to explore a U.S. I have received a lot of PC: Unfortunately, yes, examples? back story for every single email from readers who have because the publisher is eager PC: Well, I do enjoy Ken Hearsay: Perhaps we could start by having you tell us a little about character. In Damaged there picked it up there and read to get the next books out close Follet. And, I think Donna the journey that led you to becoming a published author. had to be intense plotting up it even though they don’t to the last. The deadline for Tartt’s A Secret History is an Pamela Callow: I was an avid reader when I was five years old. front due to the fact that there necessarily know Nova Scotia. the new books has had an incredible murder mystery. The first novel I remember was The Secret Garden and I was are five different points of On the other hand, I have impact and I am working very John Irving’s A Prayer for very proud to have read it all by myself. When I was eight I view in the book. For every found that locally people are hard. Owen Meany is probably one told my brother I would write a book. He said I couldn’t; so I step forward in the plot I really enjoying the setting. H: Is much expected of you of the funniest books I have wrote one that was two pages long. I always had a passion to had to go two steps or more H: Did you make a deliberate personally in promoting and ever read. write and was very frustrated in elementary school because I backward to the character’s decision not to call the law marketing? H: So more books are already couldn’t write things the way I wanted to. In junior high I had a back story, as this was school in the book “Dalhousie” PC: Because I am new to scheduled? fabulous English teacher who introduced me to creative writing. necessary to help drive all the or “Schulich”? the industry, I think there’s PC: Yes. Indefensible is to I would lock myself away in my bedroom and write because the motivations. PC: Yes, and you will know a lot more expected now come out in late December spark had been lit. I did the Foundation Year Program at King’s H: Are there any writer’s “tricks” why when you read the book. than there used to be. A 2010. Tattooed is scheduled for College, and an undergraduate degree in English Literature, or devices that you would care There is a reason and it won’t lot of it is based on social summer 2011, and a fourth before going on to law school. to divulge? be hard to figure it out. networking – blogging. There book is planned for June 2012. H: What were your favourite subjects at law school? H: How long did it take you to write Damaged? PC: The challenge I found H: You have had good reviews. are also signings, making I am currently working on PC: I liked constitutional law, and family law obviously had an PC: It took about a year. with writing a thriller is that Did any comments have a appearances, attending the plot outline for Tattooed. influence upon me as may be apparent from Damaged. However, H: So, some of your own personal experiences and background are it has to be organic with particular significance? conferences. The publisher The fourth book is more I regret not doing more criminal law as I now write so much reflected in the book? your characters’ motivations PC: All readers have different showcased Damaged at Book in the gestational state of about it. I guess I am lucky that my brother-in-law and sister-in- PC: Yes, one of the reasons I wanted to write a thriller was structured in a way that comments and I really get a Expo America where I did development at this point. law are Crown Attorneys. to share some of my own experiences working in a blue chip doesn’t appear to be contrived kick out of that. However, three book signings. I went H: It seems you have long term H: How would you describe Damaged in the sense of its genre? corporate environment, and particularly a consulting firm where or forced so that the characters James Rollins’ endorsement to Bloody Words, which is aspirations as a writer. PC: It‘s a thriller. a lot of politics were involved. I transposed this to a legal setting are actually propelling the was a thrill. Not only is he Canada’s national mystery PC: I have lots of ideas. I H: Can you describe the genesis of Damaged and how you went which I thought might be more interesting. story forward. You may a bestselling author in the conference where I did a have a young adult mystery about developing it? H: Is the plot based on any real incident? have a plot, and know where genre, but he is a vet with reading, a signing and a brief synopsis written up and one PC: I had written one other novel, which was a time travel PC: Yes, it is based on a U.S. criminal case I had read about it in the turning points are and a science background and workshop. I also attended chapter completed, but when historical with a lawyer set during the Napoleonic Wars. It was the newspaper. As I had been planning to write a suspense novel what the ending needs to includes a lot of biomedical Thrillerfest, which is the Damaged was sold it was put called Carpe Diem and it was 780 pages long. I started writing I began researching this case. be, but knowing where your stuff in his works. My book international thriller writers’ on the back burner. I would it six years ago. It was difficult to write every day with young H: Was your own legal training an important factor in the characters have to be is a is biomedical-legal and I mystery conference in New also like to get back into the children still at home along with all the research required. I development of the novel? challenge. was very nervous when the York. As a debut author I historical genre. also realized I would never sell a 780-page novel. That forced PC: Yes, it was. It was a great help in doing the research. Because H: Was the locale important to manuscript was sent to him. did a signing and breakfast. H: Thank you very much for me to really adopt structure, to deconstruct and put it back it was a U.S. case, the research was somewhat of a challenge. the plot? He emailed my editor and About 500 to 700 people were speaking with us, Pamela. together again. It actually did well and won some contests. I got H: Tell us something about Kate, your protagonist. PC: It was a conscious told her he really enjoyed the in attendance. Every best wish for future an agent and came “this close” to selling. I was even going to PC: Kate is a struggling, 30-something lawyer. She’s a survivor. decision and I had a lot of book and read it in two days. success wherever your writing write a sequel, but decided to try to write a murder mystery and She has had to overcome a tragic past. Things haven’t been easy fun setting it in Halifax, but That was a great boost and may take you. incorporate some of my professional experiences. for her and what she thinks may make her happy may not be it was also quite a gamble as helped carry me forward. PC: Thank you also. I have what makes her happy. the market is U.S.-driven and really enjoyed this. •

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In October the law school welcomed the reunion classes of ’85, ’90 and ’00. Alumni came back to their alma mater to relive good times. As part of the reunion weekend Dean Kim Brooks hosted the annual law alumni dinner. Guest speaker Professor Stephen Coughlan (’85) entertained a crowd of close to 200 with stories of his experiences as both a teacher and a student: “I tell my students they will look back on this experience as the best in their lives,” Professor Coughlan said. “They don’t believe me, but we know it’s true.” As part of the festivities Brian Flemming, a long-time international lawyer and academic, was awarded the 2010 Weldon Award for Unselfish Public Service during the Annual Law Alumni dinner. The award honours an alumni member for service to their community and profession. •

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Rosemary Gill Award goes to Cherilyn MacIntosh

Former VP Academic Alan Shaver and Cherilyn MacIntosh

For the past 15 years Dalhousie has honoured the spirit of Rosemary Gill, past director of University Health Services, through the presentation of awards to university staff who work in a non- teaching role. In June of this year Cherilyn INAUGURAL LECTURE (l to r): Professor David VanderZwaag, Professor Phillip Saunders, Caroline Johnston, Professor John Norton Moore, Professor Aldo Chircop Sharon Avery ‘06 of Cox and Palmer, Halifax presented the 2010 Touchstone Award to Prof. Michelle Williams-Lorde, Director of the Indigenous Blacks & Mi’kmaq Initiative at a reception in October. MacIntosh, the administrative secretary with the IB&M Initiative, was presented the award as she exemplified the values Launching of the Douglas M. Johnston IB&M wins Touchstone Award and characteristics of Dr. Gill: Passion, The Indigenous Blacks & Mi’kmaq Initiative was the recipient of the Canadian dedication, and a willingness to go above lecture and book presentation Bar Association’s 2010 Touchstone Award, recognizing outstanding achievements in and beyond the call of duty for students. promoting equality in the legal community in Canada. Cherilyn is remembered for her warm In October 2009 the Marine & Environmental Law Institute launched a memorial The IB&M Initiative Advisory Chair, George Ash, attended the CBA national and encouraging nature. One student lecture to recognize and remember the late Douglas M. Johnston, a former professor conference to accept the award. The award was later celebrated at the Law School in spoke of learning that their law school of law at Dalhousie. Among his numerous contributions, Professor Johnston played September 2010. Says Beth Bilson, QC, Chair of the CBA’s Equity Committee: “The application had not been received and a key role in the establishment of the Marine & Environmental Law Programme and commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the IB&M Initiative makes this a fitting how Cherilyn went out of her way to the Doctorate in the Science of Law (JSD) degree at the School. Professor Johnston time to recognize those important efforts.” track it down. “At the time I had been was widely considered a leading teacher, scholar, writer and internationalist in the This is the first time that the Touchstone Award has been granted to an organization accepted to a few other law schools, field of public international law, and especially in the international law of the sea and rather than an individual. Nominations for both organizations and individuals are but it occurred to me that for a person international environmental law. now accepted for the award, recognizing that both can promote equality in the legal who knew absolutely nothing about The inaugural lecture was entitled “Toward More Effective Counter Piracy Policy” community. The IB&M Initiative was established in response to the historic virtual me, to take the time to track down my and was delivered by Professor John Norton Moore. Currently Walter L. Brown absence of blacks and Aboriginal Peoples from Nova Scotia’s legal profession. More application and ensure that I had an Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Oceans Law and Policy and Center than 100 individuals have gone through this program and have secured positions with opportunity to apply, then this would be for National Security Law, University of Virginia School of Law, Professor Moore was private firms. the type of school and environment that I Ambassador of the United States to the Third United Nations Conference on the Law The Touchstone Award celebrates the accomplishments of an individual or an would want to be in.” But like so many other Rosemary The Future of Ocean of the Sea and Chairman of the Board of the United States Institute of Peace. organization that has excelled in promoting equality in the legal profession, the Regime-Building: The evening event included formal launching of a book tribute prepared by the judiciary, or the legal community in Canada. The award recognizes significant national Gill Award winners, Cherilyn is modest: Essays in Tribute to “This comes from the students. It’s Douglas M. Johnston Institute entitled The Future of Ocean Regime-Building: Essays in Tribute to Douglas M. initiatives to advance equality and/or contribution relating to race, disability, sexual Johnston, a copy of which was presented to Professor Moore. Thirty-four authors orientation or other diversity issues in the community. heartwarming, humbling, and I am contributed to the book and Sir Graham Day (‘56) wrote the foreword. The award was presented at the Touchstone reception in August in Niagara, held thankful. I work with the greatest bunch The event was chaired by Professor David VanderZwaag, and in addition to in conjunction with the CBA 2010 Canadian Legal Conference and Expo. The Canadian of students this university has ever had.” Professor Moore the speakers included Professor Aldo Chircop, former Dean Phillip Bar Association is dedicated to support for the rule of law, and improvement in the Congratulations, Cherilyn. • Saunders and Brian Flemming (‘62). Professor Johnston’s daughter, Caroline, was also in law and the administration of justice. A thank you to all who nominated the Initiative attendance. The event was followed by a reception in the Atrium. • for this award.•

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Top photo (l to r) Four deans: Phillip Saunders, Law community pays tribute to Phillip Saunders’ Dawn Russell, Bill Charles, Andy MacKay MIDDLE PHOTO (l to r) Retired faculty members: Profs. Christian Wiktor, Hugh Kindred, John Yogis, deanship and honours Ann Morrison and Brian Flemming, Bill Charles, Candace Malcolm, Ed Harris, Peter Darby, Dick Evans, Ann Morrison

Gwen Verge on their retirements by Professor John Yogis BOTTOM PHOTO (l to r) Chief Justice and former Chief Justices: Constance Glube, Michael MacDonald, Lorne O. Clarke

and personal qualities. Dawn spoke of Phillip’s devotion first and foremost to his family, but also his compassion and kindness which extends to all those with whom he comes in contact. Dawn went on to say that Phillip not only likes and cares about faculty, staff and students, he also cares deeply about the law school; he knows and cares about the school’s history, tradition and reputation. During his deanship he carefully guarded all three. He believes in and lives the Weldon tradition of public service and during his tenure as dean, despite ongoing financial challenges, he sought to maintain and enhance funding for the IB&M Initiative, the Dalhousie Legal Aid Service, and other initiatives that reflect our commitment to serve and support the community. She concluded by commenting on Phillip’s capacity to make hard decisions. As an example she spoke of the challenge and the opportunity that presented itself when the prospect of the Schulich multi- million-dollar gift proposal presented itself last year. What might not at first seem a difficult decision was a cause of considerable stress for one who cared Clockwise from top left: Professor Dawn Russell, former dean Phillip Saunders, Professor Michael Deturbide and Dr. Alan Shaver deeply about the history of the school, and who understood the attachment In June 2010 the faculty and staff of the Master of ceremonies, Associate Saunders’ predecessor as dean, spoke of many in the law school community law school, members of the bench and bar, Dean Michael Deturbide (’89), kept the of the numerous projects and initiatives to its roots and traditions. This was and family and friends came together at a proceedings running smoothly and they had worked on over a period of an opportunity that called for skillful reception and dinner at the ballroom of a often with a deft touch of humour. Dean 18 years and their common areas of negotiation and careful consideration. Halifax hotel to congratulate and pay Phillip Saunders’ moustache, he said, is teaching and research interest including Dawn stated that at the end of the tribute to Phillip Saunders (’84) for his a defining aspect of his persona. With international law, law of the sea and process Phillip was able to achieve a service as Dean of Law over a five-year the technical help of Geordie Lounsbury, maritime boundaries. She noted that result that protected the name of the period commencing July 2005. The and PhotoShop, Michael was able to during her own period as dean, Phillip building—the Weldon Law Building evening had added significance in that it illustrate what Phillip would look like had provided her with wise counsel and —and that ensured the school would also served as an occasion to honour and without his moustache, and with the support on a variety of issues of major have the best scholarship and bursary mark the retirements of Professor Ann elegant whisker styles of such famous importance to the school. She added that program in the country, with enough Morrison, Chief Law Librarian, and Gwen people as Salvador Dali and Albert such collaboration provided her with left over to improve the building and Verge, Administrative Secretary. Einstein. a great opportunity to become aware to support and enhance its scholarly Professor Dawn Russell (’81), Phillip of Phillip‘s fine character traits, talents research and teaching missions.

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On behalf of the university Dr. Ann to a higher calling. She is a natural Alan Shaver, Vice-President Academic leader and we knew some smart place and Provost, paid tribute to Phillip’s would snap her up and put her in the top deanship. Dr. Shaver commented on job. Dalhousie, now Schulich, was that his concern and commitment to the lucky place. It is no surprise that her run Law School and expressed his personal as chief has been marked by success upon pleasure in having had the experience success.” of working with him. Dr. Shaver read a letter from university President and Vice-Chancellor Tom Traves , who was Mark Lewis and Ann Morrison unable to be present. President Traves extended his congratulations and best Ann Morrison joined the law wishes to all the evening’s honorees faculty in October 1998 when she took and said that all three had contributed over the helm as the law library’s chief much over the years to the Law librarian. Ann previously had held School’s development. With regard to the post of Associate Law Librarian Phillip he noted that they had worked at the Bora Laskin Law Library at the together closely over the years and he University of Toronto. She also served as had done a great job as dean. He stated: president of the Canadian Association Elizabeth Hughes and Gwen Verge “Throughout your term I have of Law Libraries and is a member of always been impressed by your the Executive Board of the International Gwen Verge, after almost a three- commitment to intellectual excellence— Association of Law Librarians. At decade career at the Law School, was amongst our students and our faculty Dalhousie she assumed responsibility for praised on the occasion of her retirement. and staff. Every one of the changes and the first year Legal Research and Writing Elizabeth Hughes (‘01) Assistant Dean improvements you pursued seemed to Program, and developed an advanced (Academic) noted that Gwen had been flow from this vantage point. The result course in legal research for second- hired as an administrative assistant in the is clear to all, namely a great law school and third-year students. Mark Lewis, associate dean’s office in January 1981. with the potential embodied in Mr. Information and Technology Librarian, As coincidence would have it, a young Schulich’s gift to become even better. spoke of Ann’s career and, particularly, first-year student named Phillip Saunders This is a great legacy to leave behind the pleasure he had in working with her started at the school that very year. Over and you should feel great pride in the for the better part of a decade. her career Gwen worked for no fewer than achievements of the Law School during Mark stated that in her 12 years six deans and nine associate deans. She your term of leadership.” Ann achieved a transformative effect dealt with approximately 4,500 students, Nova Scotia Chief Justice Michael on the Sir James Dunn Law Library many of whom went on to become lawyers, MacDonald (’79) congratulated Ann and its place within the faculty and the professors, judges, government employees Morrison and Gwen Verge on their university as a whole. He said that it and members of the worlds of politics and retirements and highlighted the is no small trick to guide an academic business. outstanding leadership of Phillip library in this information age when Gwen was praised as a loyal and valued Saunders in promoting a very positive many think everything is online. Also, employee of the Law School and university. and productive association between because changes are often incremental Her position required her to be an expert the Law School and the Nova Scotia he doubted if even Ann was cognizant of at multi-tasking on a daily basis. Elizabeth judiciary. The chief justice gave several the extent of the impact she has had. He noted that Gwen had processed thousands examples of the on-going growth of this noted, “It is safe to say that owing largely of examination booklets, reviewed countless association—much of which occurred to Ann’s leadership the Sir James Dunn wait lists, dealt with endless inquiries as a result of Phillip’s insight and Law Library is one of, if not the finest, in about course registration, answered untold support. In his closing comments he Canada.” telephone and email inquiries and all the stated: Amongst the many extending best while kept track of deadlines, dates, policies “Phillip, you have enriched the wishes to Ann were the Honourable Frank and events. Through all of this Gwen was intellectual and emotional lives of Iacobucci, former Justice of the Supreme cheerful, matter-of-fact and demonstrated many. You have not just maintained, Court of Canada and Robert Prichard, grace under pressure. but enhanced this school’s long and former Dean of Law and currently Elizabeth wished Gwen much joy in her proud tradition of excellence. For this President of the University of Toronto. retirement with her husband, Graham, and we are all very much indebted and President Prichard stated: thanked her for her years of service, hard appreciative.” “It was inevitable that we would lose work, patience and helpfulness. •

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In the long run: Jim Janson’s trek to law

It’s been a journey for Jim Janson — from Bill 1 2 3 3 4 Lynch carnival worker to 2010 law graduate. Mr. Janson’s return to Dalhousie to pursue a long-standing passion for law came decades after his first Dal sojourn. During his first degree (BA Economics, ’83), he worked a number of jobs at the fairgrounds. He ended up spending 25 years in the carnival business before turning his attention back to school. “I have always been interested in words and language,” he says. “Law is a profession where words are the basic tools.” 5 6 7 8 9 It wasn’t easy. It took multiple tries to enter the program— and to make the case that the workload was manageable after 20 years out of the classroom. After shining in courses like intro to law, and criminology, he was accepted into the Edge; and then worked on a paper at the law library for most program and hasn’t looked back. of Saturday.” His life has been full, to say the least. Janson and his wife He notes that Elaine’s support has made this latest stage Elaine are busy raising six children, ages two to 16. The of his journey possible. He is now articling with Evans, demands of family life along with work and school have meant MacIsaac, MacMillan in Port Hawkesbury, and looks forward 3 little time for anything else. to a new challenging career. His time at Dal wasn’t always 10 11 12 13 13 “I treated school as a nine-to-five job with lots of overtime easy, but it was rewarding. He credits his professors with their to prepare for exams and papers,” he says. “So, when I wasn’t accessibility and their clear desire to see him do well. Asked to working I was doing something family-oriented. For example, sum up his time at Dalhousie, he is succinct: “It was extremely (on a recent) weekend I attended four midget girls basketball positive. Challenging. Stimulating. It was exactly what I hoped games, two playgrounds, Bayers Lake Chapters and Putting it would be.” — Charles Crosby 2010DISCRETIONARY AWARD WINNERS Puthucherril awarded Vanier 14 15 16 17

This year student Tony George Puthucherril was awarded the Vanier Canada 2 3 Graduate Scholarship while pursuing his JSD. Puthucherril earned his initial 1. Monique Orieux Robert E. Bamford Memorial Prize law degrees from Kerala University, India. After a few years of legal practice, his 2. Christie Gilmour Eunice Beeson Memorial Prize academic pursuits brought him to the University of Juridical Sciences in India, where 3. sandra McCulloch, Dillon Trider the A. William Cox Memorial Award he served as a faculty member and research scholar pursuing an M. Phil degree 4. Patricia McIver The Donald Marshall Junior Memorial award 5. Nora Ciurysek Muriel Duckworth Award specializing in water law. In 2004, Puthucherril joined the National Judicial Academy, 6. Danielle Boyd G. O. Forsyth Prize under the Supreme Court of India as a research fellow. In 2006, he was appointed 7. Michelle McBride William Johnston Grant Q.C. Memorial Award Assistant Professor of Law. During this period he developed an interest in ship 8. Yee Htun David M. Jones Memorial Award breaking which brought him to Dalhousie to pursue a Master of Laws degree. He 9. Maren Zimmer Elizabeth May Award for Environmental Service is now a JSD candidate researching climate change, sea level rise and integrated 10. Ian Sinclair NSBS Presidents’ Leadership Award CELEBRATING THE NEWS (l to r): Lekshmi Vijayabalan (Puthucherril’s wife), 11. Lia Bruschetta Judge Fran Potts Award coastal zone management. Tony George Puthucherril, Judge Sandra Oxner and Professor John Yogis 12. David Rodgers The Honourable H. G. Puddester Prize “I am fortunate to be the first Indian national to be awarded the Vanier 13. Jude Hall, Andrew Law The Dawn Russell Community Commitment Award Scholarship for the discipline of law,” Puthucherril says. “Being a Vanier scholar has Dalhousie University and for always being there as a pillar of strength and support. 14. Benjamin Heller George Isaac Smith Memorial Award increased my responsibility to help the less fortunate coastal inhabitants in South I am also fortunate to have had strong faculty support from all my professors at the 15. Jessica Upshaw Judge Corrine E. Sparks Award in Law for Excellence and Service Asia, who are going to be severely impacted because of sea level rise, through my law school.” 16. Jose Rodriquez Race & the Law Essay Prize 17. ramanjit Khabra Graduating Class of 2008 Book Prize research.” Dalhousie University awarded Puthucherril the President’s Award for his Puthucherril thanked the people who helped him along the way: “I’d like exemplary academic achievements. He was also awarded the SSHRC Joseph- Missing from photos: to express my profound gratitude and indebtedness to Judge Sandra Oxner, Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Doctoral Scholarship 2010, but had to decline Aimee Peddle Sarah MacWalker MacKenzie Clinical Law Award Erin Tolfo Horace E. Read Award Chairperson of the Commonwealth Judicial Education Institute, for introducing me to it for the Vanier Scholarship. •

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Moots

Smith Shield

A student farewell to a beloved dean It should come as no surprise that an event marking the end of Dean Phillip Saunders’ term attracted a huge turnout. It is a testament to the Dean’s affability and accessibility that, rather than holding a black-tie dinner, the Schulich community honoured his contributions with a Thursday night roast at the Lower Deck. L TO R: The Honourable Judge Jamie S. Campbell, Marjorie Hickey, Q.C., Teresa-Anne Martin, Patrick Quilty, Amber Penney, Jose Rodriguez and the Honourable Justice Joel E. Fichaud Co-hosted by Domus Legis and the Law Students’ Society, the Dean Saunders This year’s Smith Shield moot saw a diverse audience of she thought an appearance before the Supreme Court would Appreciation Extravaganza featured students students, teachers, and members of the legal community pack be far less challenging than the rapid-fire questioning that the giving heartfelt and hilarious odes to the school’s into Room 105 of the Weldon Law building to hear a spirited students faced. Students pitch in to help outgoing head. The Schulich donation and the series of arguments centred around the health law concept of Ultimately, Patrick Quilty and Amber Penney were declared proposed JD-switch provided rich fodder for mature minors. The mooters, Jose Rodriguez, Amber Penney, the winners, though the contest was close. In announcing the the participants, as did the Dean’s reluctance Patrick Quilty and Teresa-Anne Martin, held their own against a court’s decision, Justice Joel Fichaud stressed that all four had rebuild New Orleans to do the traditional portrait sitting and his tough panel of judges. After the competition was over, Dean performed exceptionally, and pointed out that, as a student, he Most law students devote their reading week to catching reputed prowess as a scuba diver. The evening Kim Brooks applauded their performance, commenting that too had once argued on the second-place team. • up on studies or sleep, but for Dan Pink the break from school was a chance to help was highlighted by student Patrick MacDonald’s those less fortunate. Along with a few other law students, Pink organized a bus load “discovery” of the Dean’s unpublished harlequin of volunteers to drive down to New Orleans and help rebuild homes in the city’s novel, whose racy law-themed romance scenes Laskin Memorial Kawaskimhon devastated Lower Ninth Ward. left the crowd in stitches. The project had its origins in 2006, when Pink visited New Orleans in the Not to be outdone, Dean Saunders Marc Matras and Alex Keenan represented us at the 2010 aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. While working on a Habitat for Humanity project, he responded with pointed barbs of his own. Kawaskimhon National Aboriginal Rights Moot this year, encountered a local building supervisor. The resident was grateful for their help, but Following a skit by several professors, Saunders where they attempted to negotiate a resolution to Peavine lamented the fact that “slowly but surely, New Orleans is being forgotten about.” questioned how Professor Graham Reynolds Métis Settlement v Alberta. This case raises issues about And so, in 2009, Pink decided to organize another humanitarian mission, and had managed to enter the 19+ establishment, relationships between sections 15 and 25 of the Charter, s.35 recruited 35 students from various faculties to join him for the 42-hour bus drive while noting that Professor Stephen Coughlan of the Constitution (1985), and s.91(24) of the Constitution down to “Camp Hope,” a Habitat for Humanity volunteer retreat in New Orleans. had been behind him in law school, “a trend Act (1867), all of which had to be determined in the context On arrival, the group set to work refurbishing a house for a young single mother which continues to the present day.” Responding of provincial statutes which recognize a Tribunal as having of two. The students also worked to repair Louisiana’s devastated swamplands by to the nostalgic tone in many of the speeches, authority to exercise Metis Indigenous law. The strength planting over 20,000 trees. the Dean felt the need to remind students that of our team’s performance was commented upon by the In addition to the humanitarian work, the group got a chance to explore the city’s he was not actually retiring and that, in his facilitators and other faculty coaches. They noted our team unique southern charms, sampling some tasty Cajun cooking, as well as taking in a words, “I’m not that old!” stood out for their effectiveness in directly and persuasively L TO R: Greg Gilhooly, Brian Kuchar, Tipper McEwan and Prof. Philip Girard Hornets game and a Jay-Z concert. When the speeches were over, the event conveying complex positions, for demonstrating acute Pink described the trip as a huge success, and expressed heartfelt thanks to the turned into a karaoke party, beginning with The Laskin Moot team participated in the 25th annual responsiveness to the positions of other parties, and for student-executive that helped him organize it, consisting of Erin Fowler, Joanna Professor Dianne Pothier giving a rousing competition in March 2010 in Montreal. Schulich team members their analysis on how to substantively reconcile the various Weiss, Jonathan Hughes, Loretha Boehner, Erin Matthews, Jessica Reed and Kim rendition of Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit.” Greg Gilhooly, Brian Kuchar, Tipper McEwan and Frederic Perron- systems of law at play. They were particularly commended Wilton. The trip was also made possible through the generous sponsorship of The evening marked a fun and festive end to Welch performed extremely well and came away with two prizes: for several interventions that effectively re-shaped the Dalhousie University and the Schulich School of Law, Joel E Pink Law Inc., McInnis Dean Saunders’ tenure, a night that, joking third prize for best team and fourth prize for best oralist, which dialogue when parties were re-trenching into their Cooper, and the LSS. For students or sponsors who are interested in pitching in, there aside, reminded the students how lucky they went to Brian Kuchar. The Laskin Moot is a national competition positions and tensions and frustration were running high. are plans for a repeat trip next year, with Brandon Hillis, Fraser Thomson and Brian had been to attend law school under his in Canadian administrative and constitutional law, founded in Their coach, Constance MacIntosh, was very proud of their Gibb taking over leadership from Pink. — Michael Karanicolas leadership. — Mike Karanicolas 1985-86 named in honour of former Chief Justice Bora Laskin. • performance. •

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Jessup

Alison Hopkins, Leigh Hudson, Mike Madden and Jackie Porter competed at the national round of the Phillip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition in Toronto in March 2010. The team displayed an excellent command of the law and facts, and in each round they successfully engaged the judges with that conversational mode of appellate advocacy that is so easy to talk about but so difficult to do. Despite their valiant mooting the team did not advance to the final rounds. This was in no small part due to the matches they drew—of the six teams that advanced, Dalhousie faced five of them in the preliminary rounds. Significantly, Dalhousie mooted against the team that ultimately won the competition (University of Ottawa, Civil) and handed them the only defeat they encountered in the preliminaries. It was a heartbreaker of a JESSUP MOOTING TEAM Back Row (l to r): Mike Madden, Professor Rob Currie Front Row (l to r): Alison Hopkins, Jackie Porter and Leigh Hudson result, but does not detract from their wonderful performance.•

Canadian Corporate/Securities an exceptional rebuttal and ultimately placed second overall in the competition. Additional honours went to Kirincich and Lia Bruschetta, Rob DuMerton, Ben Heller and Breann Kirincich Bruschetta who were the second and third placed oralists, competed at the 2010 Annual Davies Ward Phillips Vineberg respectively, out of the 44 competitors. Canadian Corporate Securities Moot in Toronto against teams The annual Corporate/Securities Moot provides an Dean Kim Brooks, Professor Harry Arthurs and Jeanne Christie from 10 other common law schools from across Canada, opportunity for top students from Canadian law schools to and placed second overall in the preliminary rounds of the debate current legal issues in corporate and securities law with competition. They had the honour of arguing in the final senior practitioners from Toronto law firms and corporations, The inaugural Innis Christie Symposium takes shape round before Justices Feldman and Blair of the Ontario Court regulators from the Ontario Securities Commission, and judges. of Appeal and Vice-Chair Turner of the Ontario Securities The Moot is sponsored and administered by the Toronto law The generosity of Professor Innis Christie’s friends from across Coen and John MacPherson (‘76). Commission. They performed impressively in the final against firm Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP. • Canada has created an endowment in his memory, which Professor Bernie Adell, Innis’ former colleague from Queen’s the team from Osgoode, delivering outstanding arguments and funded the Inaugural Innis Christie Symposium on Labour and University, chaired the second panel on human rights, collective Employment Law held at the Schulich School of Law on Oct. 22 bargaining and individual employment contracts, where and 23, 2010. The symposium, entitled “Navigating the Labour Professor Michael Lynk (‘81), now associate dean at Western University Medal in Law Criminal Law Clinic and Employment Law Regimes: New Course Headings from University Law School, presented a paper commented upon by Canadian Courts and Law Makers,” was preceded by a half- Larry Steinberg (‘75) and Terry Roane (‘79). day workshop on pension law and policy called “Surviving Schulich professor Lorraine Lafferty (‘83) chaired the third the Pension Storm.” Nearly a hundred labour and employment session, in which her colleague Professor Dianne Pothier (‘82) lawyers, union and management representatives, pension gave a paper on recent cases from the Supreme Court of Canada experts, law professors and students were in attendance, many dealing with discrimination and wrongful termination, with of whom were former students or colleagues of Innis. Everyone commentary from Joseph Liberman and Ronald Pizzo (‘86). appreciated the fact that Innis’ wife, Jeanne, and his brothers The symposium ended with a session, chaired by Schulich Garth and Fred were also in the audience. professor Bruce Archibald (’74), on the future of labour and Professor Harry Arthurs, President Emeritus of York employment law with presentations by Raymond Larkin (’75) University and Canada’s most prominent labour and and Peter McLellan (LLB ’73), and remarks from Brian Langille employment law scholar, was invited as the first Innis Christie (’75), now teaching at University of Toronto. The session closed Visiting Professor. He presided over the pension workshop as with final observations from Harry Arthurs. recent chair of the Ontario Pension Review Commission and Innis’ legacy in the field was well and truly honoured during gave the keynote address at the symposium: “Charting the the weekend, with testimonials from virtually all concerning

Leigh Hudson of Edmonton, Alta. was awarded the University Medal in Law Since the late 1970s the Criminal Law Clinic has been a vital part of the Law Boundaries of Labour Law: Innis Christie and the Search for an the wonderful impact he had on their lives. He would have at convocation in May 2010. As well as the first place medal, while attending School’s curriculum. With this three-month program students work shoulder Integrated Law of Labour Market Regulation.” It was a tour de enjoyed the intellectual cut and thrust, and had a good time at law school she received the Hon. W.A. Henry Prize, the Carswell Prize and the to shoulder with a practitioner and benefit from the critiques of participating force. the social events! McMillan Binch Mendelsohn LLP Prize. She was a recipient of a Law Founda- judges and instructors. Volunteers Judge Barbara Beach (’77), Jim Gumpert tion of Nova Scotia scholarship in second and third year. She also competed (’75) and Stan MacDonald (’87) are committed volunteers of the program; Innis’ son Michael Christie (’94) who practises labour law in The symposium will be a regular event in the future, and on the Jessup Moot team, and did a clerkship placement with the Nova Scotia Beach and Gumpert have been principals and co-instructors since the early Halifax Regional Municipality, chaired the opening symposium plans are now in the works for a short course and public lecture Court of Appeal. Currently she’s clerking with the Federal Court of Canada and 1980s and MacDonald since 1990. Pictured above are students and instructors hopes to pursue a career in public international law, and possibly an LL.M. in from the 2010 spring semester (l to r): Judge Barbara Beach, Yee Htun, Beverly session on the Charter and new developments in labour and to be given in the next academic year by the second Innis international law as well. Congratulations, Leigh! Cormier, Brian Cox, Jim Gumpert, Christie Gilmour, Stan MacDonald, Erin Toflo, employment law, where a paper was given by Professor Michael Christie Visiting Professor in Labour and Employment Law. Adam Crane and Cory Roberts. MacNeil (‘79) of Carleton University, with commentary by Susan Watch for announcements! — Professor Bruce Archibald (‘74) 46 Hearsay 2010/11 Hearsay 2010/11 47  FACULTY NEWS

Teaching excellence recognized

Elaine Craig honoured with alumni teaching award First-year teaching award goes to Richard Devlin

Bill Charles joins Bruce Hilchey in pond cleanup Professor Elaine Craig adopted a proactive approach to In her presentation of the Hannah and Harold Barnett Award teaching Constitutional Law, and was honoured with the for Teaching in First Year, student Lucy Howard related that, In October, Professor Bill Charles (‘58), Department of Environment, Professor Transportation and Infrastructure Dalhousie Law Student’s Society and Alumni Association as part of his recent donation, Seymour Schulich expressed who had been a member of the joint Charles was joined by former student Renewal. Together they are Award for Excellence in Teaching for her efforts. interest in setting up a teaching award that included a Federal/Provincial Review Panel Bruce Hilchey (’75). responsible for project governance, Presenting the award at the annual Spring Reception, significant cash prize. In response, Dalhousie’s law professors assigned to conduct an Environmental Hilchey is the federal government the implementation of financial students Victoria Foster and Melissa Grover described the told Mr. Schulich that the cash was not necessary. Her Assessment of the Sydney Tar Ponds representative employed by Public and environmental controls, risk “modified Socratic method” that Professor Craig employed. presentation went on to praise Richard Devlin, this year’s in 2006, visited the site to see how Works and Government Services, management initiatives and project Having memorized everybody’s name, she kept the class recipient, for his “inspirational commitment to teaching.” the remediation work on the project Canada, which is the lead federal quality assurance for the $400-million on their toes with direct questioning, demanding to know Accepting the award, Prof. Devlin offered an alternative had progressed. While on the tour department in The Tar Ponds Project. project which is scheduled for students’ opinions on tricky legal issues. Although the tactic theory for why he was being honoured. With a gleam in his of the project, arranged by The Tar The P.W.G.S.C. manages the project completion in 2014. • created some unease at first, before long the students caught eye, he postulated that his advancing senility had garnered Ponds Agency and the Nova Scotia with the Nova Scotia Department of on to their professor’s enthusiasm, engaging in heated him a strong sympathy vote, and that students had figured debates over Canada’s constitution. that if he didn’t receive the award this year it might be too late. Accepting the award, Professor Craig marveled at how Joking aside, Professor Devlin expressed profound thanks “something that takes so much work is so much fun.” She to his fellow teachers and the law school’s excellent librarians, Kudos to Jocelyn Downie credited the students for contributing their enthusiasm to noting that effective teaching is a collaborative process. the class dynamic, and attributed her own abilities to the Describing his job as “a blessing,” he thanked the students for In May, Professor Jocelyn Downie of the faculties of law and medicine was informed wonderful teaching of her colleagues, speaking of Schulich’s their energy and the law school as a whole for giving him the that she had been elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences “well-deserved reputation for collegiality.” • opportunity to grow within this larger community. • (CAHS). This was soon followed in July by a notification of her election to the Division of Social Sciences of the Academy of Social Sciences of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC). Fellows of the Canadian Academy are elected on the basis of their demonstrated Anne Matthewman joins the library leadership, creativity, distinctive competencies and commitment to advance health The summer of 2010 was one of transition as former law librarian Ann Morrison retired, and Anne Matthewman was appointed sciences. The Royal Society of Canada is the senior national body of distinguished law librarian and professor of law. Canadian scholars, artists and scientists. The society consists of nearly 2,000 fellows— Professor Matthewman comes to Dalhousie from Toronto, where she held the position of library manager and executive men and women who are selected by their peers for outstanding contributions to the director of the Toronto Lawyers Association (TLA). She brings with her extensive experience in legal librarianship as well as natural and social sciences, in the arts and in the humanities. administrative and managerial skills. Specifically, Matthewman has managed library budgets, implemented automated systems, Professor Downie also holds the Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy. coordinated educational programs for the TLA and provided many other support services for the board and its members. Among her many past awards and honours are the Canadian Association of Law During Matthewman’s tenure at the association’s library, she also participated in many professional associations. She is Teachers Award, the Royal Society of Canada’s Abbyann D. Lynch Medal in Bioethics, currently the past-president of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries (after a two-year term as its president) and chairs the and the Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation Award of Excellence. From 1996 to American Association of Law Libraries Special Interest Sections Council. In addition to her attendance at annual CALL and AALL conferences, she was this year’s 2006 she was Director of Dalhousie’s Health Law Institute. planning committee chair for the Joint Study Institute held in Montreal this past June. She also holds a membership in the Special Libraries Association. Professor Downie was inducted into the CAHS in September, and the RSC in Matthewman was raised and educated in Ontario. She attended the University of Windsor (BA, MA) and the University of Western Ontario (MLS). She looks November, 2010. • forward to beginning this new chapter in her professional career, and we are happy to welcome her to the school. •

48 Hearsay 2010/11 Hearsay 2010/11 49 FACULTY PROFILES

Professor Bruce Archibald visited (serving in that capacity from 1991-2000). Professor Sarah Bradley is among the Guangxi University Law School in Nanning, In 2005, Professor Aylward presented newer members of the faculty, having joined southwest China, in June where he spoke at the first International Human Rights in July of 2007. Her research interests are to LLM students, prosecutors and student and Critical Race Theory Conference in the business law, particularly corporate prosecutors on the subject of Canadian hosted by the University of Ontario finance and corporate governance. This year criminal law and restorative justice. This Institute of Technology. She also authored she taught courses in business associations, found resonance with Chinese counterparts a book review of: From the Grassroots corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions. who are working under a new slogan, to the Supreme Court: Brown v. Board She also served as coach for the Corporate “Balancing Leniency and Severity in a of Education and American Democracy Securities Moot team, which placed second Harmonious Society,” in their criminal law (forthcoming) Osgoode Hall Law Journal out of 11 teams from common law schools FACULTY studies and work. commemorating the 50th anniversary of the across Canada this year. BRUCE ARCHIBALD Professor Archibald’s remarks were Supreme Court of the United States decision Professor Bradley’s publications rooted not only in his comparative law of Brown v. Board of Education. Professor for the year included a commentary on IN PRINT training but also in his experience with Nova Aylward has also accepted an invitation the BCE case entitled BCE Inc. v. 1976 Scotia’s internationally known restorative to be part of the National Advisory Board Debentureholders: The New Fiduciary justice system, which is the focus of the “Canadians for Diversity in Radio-Television Duties of Fair Treatment, Statutory Nova Scotia Restorative Justice Community and Telecommunications” extended by the Compliance and Good Corporate University Research Alliance (NSRJ-CURA). Canadian Centre for Research Action on Citizenship? and a report to the Yukon Professors Jennifer Llewellyn and Archibald Race Relations.” government relating to the corporate International and Transnational Criminal Law In International and Foreign Currency Claims in the Conflict of Laws With this book are principal investigators in this five-year opportunities doctrine under the Yukon Transnational Criminal Law, Professor Rob Currie offers an overview of those Professor Vaughan Black takes a comparative look at how common law courts research program funded by SSHRCC. In Professor Vaughan Black taught first-year Business Corporations Act. CAROL AYLWARD branches of international law commonly referred to as “international criminal law” have addressed damages claims when foreign currencies are involved, and at November of 2009, NSRJ-CURA partners, torts, animals and the law and conflicts of Professor Bradley attended the annual and “transnational criminal law.” He surveys the history and major developments statutory and international responses to that question. It describes the practices including Professor Archibald, helped host law. He published a book on assessment of workshop on consumer and commercial behind a major legal and philosophical force of the twentieth century: that of UK, Commonwealth and American courts in this field and draws on principles a delegation of legal professionals from damages in foreign currencies and articles law hosted by the Université de Montréal. Jordan who spent a week in Halifax learning on judicial jurisdiction, and the effect of She is currently pursuing a research project individuals can be liable for horrendous crimes that are committed, not just of private international law and damages assessment to critique current thinking about the Nova Scotia Restorative Justice culture on assessment of damages for relating to the governance of unincorporated against the criminal laws of a single state, but against international law and thus and suggest improvements. Program. personal injury and death. Professor Black business entities in Canada. the entire world community. The book examines genocide, war crimes, narcotics Professor Archibald continues to teach also chaired Dalhousie’s Senate Discipline trafficking, terrorism, organized crime etc. and explores the interface of Canadian The Nova Scotia Companies Act & COMMENTARY labour and employment law, and act as a Committee. Professor Aldo Chircop returned from and international law in these areas. The Nova Scotia Companies Act is one of the oldest and most unique general neutral in the resolution of labour disputes sabbatical to a full teaching schedule and as as a grievance arbitrator, vice-chair of Professor David Blaikie taught civil Graduate Studies Coordinator. He continued incorporation statutes in Canada, offering incorporators flexibility and features the Nova Scotia Labour Relations Board procedure, professional responsibility and to teach contracts and judicial rule-making, Vaughan Black Halsbury’s Laws of Canada The “Religious Institutions” title of Halsbury’s not found in other jurisdictions. For many years, these features have made and chair of the Civil Service Employee torts this year. He was delighted to be maritime law and practice, and ocean law Laws of Canada (first edition) Professor Diana Ginn provides a comprehensive Nova Scotia a jurisdiction of choice for corporations involved in inter-provincial Relations Board. He also chairs the Nova the recipient of the Class Ring from the and policy. He supervised or advised several summary of all aspects of Canadian law relevant to religious institutions, and cross-border transactions, but the ancient provenance of the Act and its Scotia Minister of Labour and Workforce graduating Class of 2010. A book he co- doctoral candidates and master’s students including such topics as constitutional law, administrative law, liability of religious anachronistic elements have often proven challenging and counter-intuitive Development’s Advisory Committee on wrote with Professor Diana Ginn, The Legal at Dalhousie and at overseas universities. In Arbitration. Guide for Religious Institutions, a primer on July he stepped down as Graduate Studies institutions, employment law, human rights, property, consent to medical to non-specialist advisors. Professor Sarah Bradley’s, comprehensive guide to the law for religious institutions in the United Coordinator and took over the directorship treatment, faith-based arbitration, criminal law and taxation. It is intended as a corporate law in Nova Scotia offers an introduction to the Companies Act and a Professor Carol Aylward teaches criminal States, was published in June by Continuum of the Marine and Environmental Law complete reference for those interested in how religious institutions in Canada are discussion of the history and modern practice of corporate law in Nova Scotia. law and general jurisprudence. She has Books in New York. He is writing a volume Institute. affected, regulated, and protected by the secular law. written the only Canadian book on critical of Halsbury’s Laws of Canada on the law of Professor Chircop published articles Environmental Law Cases and Materials Climate change, pollution, and race theory, Canadian Critical Race Theory: damages (Lexis Nexis). on topics including the law of the sea, Racism and the Law, and is the author of Professor Blaikie is also co-editing a maritime law, Arctic shipping and marine DAVID BLAIKIE Dental Law in Canada Dental Law in Canada is a comprehensive survey biodiversity loss are fundamentally altering our global environment, and driving articles on affirmative action: “Adding Colour book with Darrel Pink (‘78), the executive protected areas, including Ocean Yearbook of dental-legal issues. It provides a solid grounding in the legal and healthcare associated changes in domestic and international law and policy. Environmental — A Critique of: An Essay on Institutional director of the Nova Scotia Barristers’ (with Professor Moira McConnell and Scott systems, delves into the fundamentals of dental law and then explores the most and biodiversity protection, mitigating and responding to climate change and Responsibility: The Indigenous Blacks and Society, and Justice Thomas A. Cromwell of Coffen Smout). Major new projects include critical matters facing Canadian dental professionals today. The new edition has “carbon law” are now more than ever key concerns for law students and the Micmac Programme at Dalhousie Law the Supreme Court of Canada. The book, a $77,000 SSHRCC standard research grant been fully updated to cover the latest legal and practice developments, including legal profession. Co-authored by Professor Meinhard Doelle of Dalhousie and School” and “Race at the Supreme Court of to be published by Irwin Law, will be a to study best practices in coastal zone Canada R. v. R.D.S.” collection of essays that present a balanced management legislation and a $300,000 a substantially revised chapter on the Regulation of Dental Research and a brand Chris Tollefson, Environmental Law Cases and Materials provides students and Professor Aylward was the recipient of discussion and critique of lawyers and CIDA-funded, multi-university project in new chapter on Business Law and Dentistry. Authors include Dalhousie faculty practitioners alike with an understanding of the breadth and nuance of the the Harry Jerome Award for Professional lawyering in Canada. Over the past year, Cuba concerning local integrated coastal members (Professors Fiona Bergin, Steve Coughlan, Rob Currie, Diana key issues that animate Canadian environmental law, and with theoretical and Excellence, a national award given by the Professor Blaikie has been involved in the zone management. Ginn, Elaine Gibson, William Lahey, and Jennifer Llewellyn) and alumni practical tools necessary to engage with these issues. Black Business and Professional Association start of a new international publication, The Professor Chircop also completed a SARAH BRADLEY (Corinne Boudreau, Dale Darling, Kate Dewhirst, Marjorie Hickey, and of Ontario to honour “outstanding members Journal of Arbitration and Mediation, a ground breaking study for the International of the African Canadian Community” (1998) joint initiative of the Schulich School of Law, Seabed Authority concerning a new Fiona McDonald).” Understanding and Strengthening European Union-Canada as well as the Canadian Association of Sherbrooke University Law School and the international royalty established by the Relations in Law of the Sea and Ocean Governance Black Lawyers Award — Recognizing Black Canadian Arbitration Congress. He is the United Nations Convention on the Law The Legal Guide for Religious Institutions The Legal Guide for Religious Co-edited by Professors Aldo Chircop, David Vanderzwaag of Dalhousie and Women’s Contribution to the Law. She has journal’s co-editor with Dr. Marie-Claude of the Sea on offshore mineral resource Institutions, by Professors David Blaikie and Diana Ginn, provides an overview Timo Koivurova, Erik Franck and Erik J. Molenar, this book explores the ocean also served as a commissioner of the Nova Rigaud of the Université de Montréal. development on extended continental of the legal landscape for religious institutions in the United States, and includes governance practices of Canada’s “ocean” policy and the European Commission’s Scotia Human Rights Commission and as shelves. He presented at several conferences a commissioner of the Nova Scotia Police and workshops in Halifax, Vancouver, discussion and analysis of issues relating to governance and decision-making, civil “maritime” policy, focusing on selected themes. It explores key marine sectors Commission. She is the past director and Seward (Alaska), Santiago de Cuba, Brussels, liability, civil rights, employment and property. One reviewer, a Massachusetts and issues and their projection in the international area from a comparative the longest serving director of the Dalhousie Being and Taipei, and he gave a Jean superior court judge, recommended it as “the standard text for clergy, board perspective. Indigenous Blacks and Mi’kmaq Initiative Monnet lecture at the University of Macau. ALDO CHIRCOP members and administrators of every religious organization in America.” 50 Hearsay 2010/11 Hearsay 2010/11 51  FACULTY NEWS

Professor Steve Coughlan The second Professor Michael Deturbide continued Professor Devlin’s teaching and to stimulating and advancing the public Professor Philip Girard taught property Professor Elizabeth Hughes is in annual Chocolate Lake hockey game took to serve as Associate Dean, Academic. research were acknowledged when he debate on various aspects of assisted in its historical context and Canadian her sixth year as Assistant Dean at the place this winter, with a few second-year He oversees the academic administration received the Hanna and Harold Barnett death; most notably, assisted suicide and legal history and coached the Laskin law school. She works closely with students joining the first-year criminal of the Law School, including academic Award for teaching first-year law, and by euthanasia. The Panel’s report will be Moot. He was proud to see two of his Associate Dean Michael Deturbide in

LE S law class in a pick-up game, followed by regulations and policies, examinations, the renewal of his university research released in the fall of 2010. doctoral students, Bill Laurence and the administration of the LL.B. academic hot chocolate and Rock Band on the Wii. grades and student issues. Last year he professorship for the five-year term of 2010 Pamela Palmater, graduate at the fall program and provides academic In addition, Professor Steve Coughlan undertook a feasibility study to examine to 2015. Professor Elaine Gibson spent much of 2009 convocation and LLM student David counselling and advice to many students auctioned off a game night for four as student use of computers in the writing the year preparing a report on information Steeves graduate the previous spring. on a wide range of issues. She is also part of the Pith and Substance professors’ of examinations. The Law School plans Professor Meinhard Doelle is sharing between Canadian Blood Services Professor Girard’s main scholarly delighted to be able to work closely with auction, which due to some bidding to offer this opportunity to all first-year an Associate Professor at Dalhousie and provincial public health authorities. She accomplishment this year was completing the school’s part-time faculty, who give so STEVE COUGHLAN ELAINE GIBSON confusion transformed into two separate students and for selected upper-year Law School, where he specializes in reviewed statutes dealing with public health revisions to his own doctoral thesis. Entitled generously of their time and expertise to enjoyable evening sessions of board and courses in 2010-11. environmental law. He is the Associate and privacy for each of the 13 jurisdictions Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North the school and the students. card games. Professor Deturbide also taught Director of the Marine and Environmental and made recommendations for legislative America: Beamish Murdoch of Halifax, the Professor Hughes continues to teach In the Law School’s annual Insert taxation law and served as Associate Law Institute and the Director of the Marine and policy changes. draft book uses the career of Halifax lawyer youth and the law, a seminar course that Firm Name Here squash tournament, Director of the Law and Technology and Environmental Law Program. Starting Professor Gibson taught Advanced Beamish Murdoch to explore various focuses primarily on child protection, Professor Coughlan had his best results to Institute. He is co-editor-in-chief of the in the fall of 2010, he began teaching a Negligence: Medical Malpractice and Tort themes in the history of 19th-century adoption, youth criminal justice and issues TY PR O FI date, making it to the final for the first time Canadian Journal of Law and Technology course at the Sustainability College on Law and Damage Compensation. She lawyers, such as professionalization, relating to youth and media. She serves but losing to Mitch LeBlanc in the 2009 and served on IT.Can’s national student- Humanity in the Natural World. supervised the completion of theses by governance, law and politics, the nature of as faculty supervisor for the Nova Scotia tournament, and making it to the final paper award committee. He has been From 2000 to 2006, Professor Doelle two graduate students and mentored a legal practice and the various roles played Supreme Court and Court of Appeal again for the 2010 tournament; that match working on a second edition of Electronic served as a non-governmental member of third. She guest lectured in the faculties by lawyers in their communities. Professor student clerkship programs and supervises ROB CURRIE of medicine and health professions. She will be played in the fall. Commerce and Internet Law in Canada, co- the Canadian delegation to the UN climate Girard attended conferences in Toronto, the Judge’s Weekly Clerkship program. DIANA GINN Professor Coughlan also published authored by Teresa Scassa. He is technology change negotiations. He continues to follow also organized and co-ordinated the health Montreal and Edmonton, and gave a talk Professor Hughes was delighted to be a number of articles and one book, law counsel to the law firm McInnes Cooper. the negotiations closely, including the law and policy seminar series, now in its on Bora Laskin at a conference on judicial able to attend, with several of her students,

UL FAC completed the manuscript for another, He also sat on the Credentials Committee negotiations in Copenhagen in December 13th year. biography held at the University of Texas at the Fifth World Congress on Family Law taught his usual selection of courses and of the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society, and of 2009. Doelle is currently collaborating on Professor Gibson presented to the Austin Law School. and Children’s Rights, held in Halifax in enjoyed working with Elaine Craig, as the boards of the Commonwealth Judicial an international book project on the climate Atlantic region judges on powers of the For the past year, Professor Girard has August of 2009. She serves on several she successfully defended her JSD thesis, Education Institute and the Dalhousie Law regime’s compliance system. state in a public health emergency. In been vice-chair of the board of directors faculty committees and is the law school and supervising Carol Fleischhaker as she Alumni Association. Since January of 2009, Professor June she travelled to Barbados to give two of the Farmers’ Market Investment representative on the University’s Academic began working on her JSD. Professor Deturbide was a member of Doelle has served on the federal-provincial presentations, one on pelvic exams by Cooperative. This non-profit entity has Continuity Planning Group. Her volunteer the Tenure and Promotions Committee and environmental assessment panel for the medical trainees on anaesthetized women raised money to support the construction activities include serving on the Armbrae Professor Rob Currie is pleased to the Admissions Committee and he chaired Lower Churchill hydroelectric project in and the other on duty of care in tort law of the new Halifax Seaport Farmers’ Market, Academy board of governors and working MICHAEL DETURBIDE announce that his book, International & the latter committee for the second half Labrador. Over the past year, he has been owed by physician to fetus. Professor which opened in August. with various animal rescue organizations. PHILIP GIRARD Transnational Criminal Law, was published of the academic year. He gave admissions collaborating with researchers from five Gibson was successful as co-principal by Irwin Law in March. The book explores seminars to the Faculty of Arts and Social countries on an interdisciplinary research investigator on a multidisciplinary grant Professor Michael Hadskis taught Professor H. Archibald (Archie) Kaiser the international law regimes surrounding Sciences, the Department of Psychology project on forest governance. application on “Facilitating Access to Health the first-year tort law course for the first taught criminal law, criminal procedure crimes as genocide, war crimes, terrorism, and the Halifax community. He also helped Professor Doelle has written about Data for Research and Planning in Light of time this year. He thoroughly enjoyed the and mental disability law, as well as legal money laundering, narcotics trafficking select the Schulich scholarships and Law a variety of environmental law topics, Laws and Ethical Norms.” The project was opportunity to explore this interesting area issues in the Psychiatry Residency Training and cyber-crime, and examines how they Foundation of Nova Scotia entrance including climate change, energy, invasive awarded $642,116 over four years by the of the law with such a bright and energetic Program. He published shorter articles play out in Canadian law. While offers to scholarships. species, environmental assessments and Canadian Institutes of Health Research. group of students. As well, he enjoyed Should a Person Be Allowed to Refuse purchase the movie rights have not been At the university level, Professor public participation in environmental Under its auspices, she is examining teaching the core health law course and Psychiatric Treatment? and Expanding pouring in, Professor Currie continues to Deturbide served on ad hoc committees decision-making. His most recent books the role of consent in the uses of health serving as the faculty supervisor for the the Boundaries of Research Involving live in hope. dealing with the re-implementation of the are Environmental Law: Cases and information. health law placement course. Death and Near Death When Liberty is RICHARD DEVLIN Otherwise Professor Currie had a MBA/LLB program and the establishment Materials and The Federal Environmental Professor Hadskis was also involved Attenuated and longer ones Nasogaluak: MICHAEL HADSKIS busy year of teaching, starting with a of a new master of journalism program. Assessment Process: A Guide and Critique. Professor Diana Ginn was on sabbatical in health law teaching outside the Law Foregone Opportunities in an Unduly berth on the faculty of the Federation this year. Her sabbatical research and School. Specifically, he oversaw and Restrained Sentencing Decision and of Law Societies’ National Criminal Law Professor Richard Devlin has had Professor Jocelyn Downie finished writing projects have focused on the judicial delivered health law education in the Canadian Mental Health Law: The Slow Program in Victoria, B.C., in July of 2009. another busy year. In 2009/10 he her tenure as principal investigator of the review of administrative decision-making, Faculty of Medicine at the MD and post- Process of Redirecting the Ship of State, He had a great year teaching evidence, civil continued to teach contracts, professional CIHR Training Program in Health Law and aboriginal self-government, law and graduate levels, and he oversaw the health and a French version in two installments. procedure and international criminal law, responsibility and the graduate seminar. Policy in 2009/10. During this program, religion, and conflict resolution in Asia. With law curricula in the Faculties of Dentistry Professor Kaiser’s special lectures as well as coaching an incredibly talented On the research side, he was invited to 60 LLMs or SJDs were awarded, and many Professor David Blaikie, she co-taught a law and Health Professions. This summer included the Canadian Criminal Justice Jessup team. In January he travelled to give the J. Donald Mawhinney Lectures individuals interested in health law and course for students at the Atlantic School of he developed an online course entitled Association, the Mental Health Commission Fredericton, N.B., to give two presentations: on Legal Ethics at UBC entitled “Hope, policy were brought together for curriculum Theology in Halifax. Health Care Law for Master of Health of Canada, the Osgoode Hall National

Meinhard Doelle a paper on extradition to the International Hype and Hysteria: The Past, Present and network meetings, national health law In 2009/10 Professor Ginn had two Administration students. Symposium on Mental Health Law, various Humanitarian Law Conference held by Future of Self-Regulation in Canada” and conferences and annual colloquia. This books published: The Legal Guide for Professor Hadskis pursued his research Dalhousie departments and continuing Elizabeth Hughes the Red Cross at UNB Law School; and “Envisioning a Role Morality for Trial Level grant provided a wonderful opportunity Religious Institutions, co-authored with interests in the areas of neuroimaging legal education events for the Nova Scotia a lecture/performance to students and Judges.” to build capacity and community in the Professor Blaikie (New York: Continuum, ethics and regulating biomedical research. Bar and the CBA. He still works with the faculty of STU’s anthropology and music Professor Devlin was also invited by field of health law and policy across Canada 2010), and Religious Institutions, Halsbury’s The second edition of the text Dental Mental Health Commission of Canada and programs, entitled “Tradition and Identity the NJI to participate in its new sophomore and abroad. Laws of Canada (LexisNexus Canada Inc. Law in Canada, which he co-edited, the Canadian Mental Health Association. in Maritime Folk Music: Confessions of a program and delivered a paper entitled This year also brought the completion 2009). was published in June, and his chapter, Professor Kaiser’s family keeps him Working Folksinger.” The Art and Craft of Judging: From of theses by three of Professor Downie’s Over the past year, she has continued “Paediatric Neuroimaging,” will soon on his toes, with his partner, Judge Anne In 2010/11 Professor Currie will be in Archetypes to Architects. He also delivered doctoral students and three of her LLM to be active in the community; her appear in the Oxford Handbook of Derrick, busy in provincial court and the Ottawa on sabbatical, while his wife, Donna several other papers: Reconstructing Judicial Ethics range of possible careers in health law and board of Pine Hill Divinity Hall and on a talk entitled “Giving Voice to Research 26, is now a member of the B.C. Bar and JOCELYN DOWNIE in Canada, at McGeorge University, policy, as they are now thriving in private various committees within the United Participants: Should IRBs Hear from pursuing her LL.M. at UBC; Catriona, 21, ARCHIBALD KAISER Sacramento, California; Reactive Self- practice, government and academia. Church of Canada, and volunteering with Research Participant Representatives?” at recently graduated from McGill and is doing Regulation, Institute for Advanced Legal Finally, in 2009 Professor Downie was the Brunswick Street Breakfast Program the Society of Clinical Research Associates her M.Sc. at the University of Edinburgh; Studies, London; and Beyond Continuing named to the Expert Panel on End-of-Life and the Out of the Cold emergency shelter 19th annual conference in Dallas, Texas. and Freya, 17, is about to complete her I.B. Legal Education to Lifelong Learning, Decision Making by the Royal Society of in Halifax. at the Halifax Grammar School. Stanford Law School, California. Canada. The challenge was to contribute

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Professor Hugh Kindred, a faculty Professor Jennifer Llewellyn continued Professor Constance MacIntosh Professor Anne Matthewman is settling Professor Chidi Oguamanam continued Professor Graham Reynolds taught associate of the Marine and Environmental as director of the Nova Scotia Restorative had the pleasure of working on the Law into her new role as Chief Law Librarian to teach IP, technology and contract law property law and intellectual property Law Institute and a part-time faculty Justice Community University Research School’s Dean Selection Committee this at Dalhousie and is pleased to be working while he remained the director of the law this past year. In the upcoming year, member at the Law School, taught a course Alliance (NSRJ-CURA). In conjunction year. This allowed her to work closely with with the excellent staff in the Sir James Law and Technology Institute. He was he will also be teaching a seminar course

LE S on the Law of International Trade and with this, she is currently planning the the alumni, the law society, her faculty Dunn Law Library. Staff members remain invited to speak at the New York University on copyright law. His research this past Shipping and guest lectured in international international conference on restorative colleagues and the students. She found the dedicated to providing top-notch library Colloquium on Innovation Policy on year has focused on copyright law issues; law and the graduate seminar. He also justice to be held in Halifax in June of conversations engaging, the dinners filling services for both students and faculty. March 4, where he discussed “IP in Global specifically, on the question of the extent acted as a LL.M. thesis examiner, a book- 2011. The NSRJ-CURA also hosted several and the legal community to be dynamic Anne and David Michels will be involved Governance: Issues and Tensions.” He to which individuals should have the proposal reviewer and a board member of workshops this year, including one on and committed. in teaching both legal research and also participated in the Annual IP Scholars’ right to engage with existing copyright- the Canadian Council on International Law. measuring success with Public Safety Professor MacIntosh continued writing and advanced legal research in Roundtable at the Drake University IP protected expression in the creation of new HUGH KINDRED ANNE MATTHEWMAN Professor Kindred is the coordinator Canada, a workshop with Dan Van Ness her work on the relationship between the upcoming year. Additionally, staff will Law Center in Des Moines, Iowa, on expression. of Canadian contributors to the Oxford and a provincial workshop on restorative Aboriginal living standards and provide instructional sessions on electronic March 26, where he spoke about “The To this end, Professor Reynolds has University Press’ online reports on justice and education. environmental and constitutional law. Key legal resources such as WestlaweCarswell ABS Politics and the Marine Genetic researched and written papers on parody, international law in domestic courts. He The first reading of the play Tough dissemination points this year included and LexisNexis Canada. Resources Dimension: A Critical Canadian mashups (songs created by combining continues his research, together with three Case, commissioned by the NSRJ-CURA conferences, guest lectures and several Anne is continuing her involvement Perspective.” In May Professor Oguamanam two or more existing sound recordings), colleagues, under an SSHRC award into and written by leading playwright David publications. She completed her project with Law Library associations, serving as the was a participant with Professor Jeremy machinima (movies made within video TY PR O FI the need for and problems of asserting Craig, was held in June. It will tour junior on how Aboriginal rights with a legislated past president of the Canadian Association de Beer of the University of Ottawa at an games) and fan fiction, among other extraterritorial jurisdiction brought to the and senior high schools throughout Nova basis, such as taxation, are sometimes of Law Libraries, as Special Interest Section IDRC initiative on open development, topics. This past year, he presented his fore by the pressures of globalization. Scotia in the spring. Professor Llewellyn racialized by the judiciary, and published Council Chair of the American Association where the pair shared their ongoing joint research at conferences in both Mexico also worked on a number of other projects on this work in the Osgoode Hall Law of Law Libraries and as a member of the research project on the Developmental City and Toronto, and at various speaking

BILL LAHEY Professor William Lahey taught this year. Together with Professor Jocelyn Journal. 2011 Program Committee for the AALL Perspectives on Technical Assistance engagements around Halifax. His work was RONALDA MURPHY administrative law, health law and policy: Downie, she convened two workshops and Professor MacIntosh was honoured Annual Conference, which will be held and Intellectual Property Education. The published or accepted for publication in current issues and the second half of public produced an edited collection called Being by receiving one of the first grants from in Philadelphia. She has been appointed IDRC workshop united researchers from journals across Canada and in the United

UL FAC law. He guest lectured in Management Relational: Reflections on Relational Theory the National Association of Women and the Canadian representative on a joint developing countries and their Canadian Kingdom, and in several edited collections. and Health Professions. He presented at and Health Law and Policy. She is currently the Law’s Policy Research Program. This committee of the Center for Research counterparts to deliberate on research Professor Reynolds recently spoke with the National Health Law Conference in leading a project with the Kroc Institute for grant was to study how gender-based Libraries and the Law Library Microform designs around open access and open the All-Party Parliamentary Arts Caucus, Montreal on regulation as governance in Peace on Restorative Justice, Reconciliation persecution claims are assessed by refugee Commission. The two organizations have development model. Also in May, Professor a group of members of Parliament and health care. and Peacebuilding. adjudicators, with a focus on domestic formed a partnership to identify, preserve Oguamanam was a keynote speaker at an senators who meet to discuss issues For the National Judicial Institute, Professor Llewellyn continued violence. She accepted a cross-appointment and provide digital access to important International Conference on Globalization regarding Canadian arts and culture, on Professor Lahey presented to Atlantic her work on Indian residential schools with the School of Resource and at-risk primary sources in the fields of and the Amazon at the University of Haifa the topics of digital copyright and copyright Canada judges on national governance abuse, co-teaching an intensive course Environmental Management, supervised international law, government and politics. in Mt. Carmel, Israel. He has accepted a reform. JENNIFER LLEWELLYN challenges in pandemic planning and on the settlement process last fall with graduate students and thoroughly enjoyed faculty position at the University of Ottawa’s CHIDI OGUAMANAM management. For the Nova Scotia Mike DeGagne, executive director of working with students in her courses in Professor Ronalda Murphy is on a Faculty of Law (Common Law Section) Professor Rollie Thompson started Health Professions Regulatory Network, the Aboriginal Healing Foundation, and contracts, aboriginal law, immigration and two-year leave of absence to work for the effective July of 2011. and ended the past year in the same he developed an inter-professional advising the Truth and Reconciliation refugee law, as well as the aboriginal rights Attorney General of Ontario. She acts as place—in London, England, talking about collaborative model of health professions’ Commission. She presented at a number moot. an Advisory Counsel in the civil law branch Professor Dianne Pothier, in 2009/10, relocation by parents with children, not a regulation with valuable assistance from of conferences and was the keynote for the of the Attorney’s office, working on a wide continued on a reduced teaching load, bad gig. In August of 2009, he attended students Alison Hopkins and Tracy Hobson. National Restorative Justice Symposium in Professor Wayne MacKay, in addition range of civil law issues with a focus on teaching only constitutional law. Scholarly the International Family Justice Judicial This model is being developed with further Newfoundland. to a full teaching load encompassing aboriginal law. She wanted to do this so endeavours included: Not So Simple Conference for Common Law and funding from the Nova Scotia Department constitutional law, education law and she could figure out, from the inside, how After All: A Comment on Ravndahl v. Commonwealth Jurisdictions, a group of Health. Professor Geoffrey Loomer’s first year public law, served on the Dean’s Search contemporary governments operate in Saskatchewan (2009–2010) 41(1) Ottawa of judges focused on international child Thanks to a partnership with Dr. Sonia at Dalhousie was eventful and rewarding. Committee as well as other administrative Canada and to gain an appreciation of the L. Rev. 139–160; Tackling Disability abduction and relocation issues. GEOFFREY LOOMER Chehil of the Department of Psychiatry, Most of his time was devoted to preparing duties. In late November of 2009, he role of lawyers in government. Discrimination at Work: Towards a This past July, Professor Thompson DIANNE POTHIER the Health Law Institute team, which lectures and materials for his courses in travelled to Hong Kong to deliver a Professor Murphy reports that she is Systemic Approach, forthcoming, McGill attended another international conference included exceptional research associates taxation, corporate taxation and secured paper entitled Inclusive Education and learning lots (you are never too old!) and Journal of Law and Health; and a critical in London on the same topics, organized Leah Hutt, Cheluchi Onyemelukwe and transactions. He was impressed by the the Canadian Experience: The Long loves the work, but she misses her students review of Alex Cameron’s book, Power by the Centre for Family Law and Practice Alana Lancaster, had the wonderful superior calibre of the law students and Winding Road. This conference was and colleagues and will be back teaching Without Law: The Supreme Court of at London Metropolitan University. In opportunity of working on the reform of at Dalhousie, of which he saw further in recognition of China’s signature to at the Law School in July of 2011. She also Canada, the Marshall Decisions, and the between, back home he taught family Guyana’s mental health legislation. Other evidence as a member of the Admissions the United Nations Convention on the notes the pleasure of running into many Failure of Judicial Activism, submitted to law, evidence and civil procedure, and learning experiences included service Committee. Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and former students and her own Class of the Dalhousie Law Journal. co-supervised students clerking at the on the Governance Task Force of the Professor Loomer also joined the his presentation will be published in the ’87 friends, and especially having weekly Professor Pothier was counsel for the Supreme Court’s Family Division. Canadian Nurses Association; participating Faculty of Graduate Studies and looks forthcoming Hong Kong Law Journal. reunions with William Bromm, ’87, Senior Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund Professor Thompson also spoke at in a dialogue on regulation and the future forward to supervising graduate students On May 4, Professor MacKay was Counsel to the Deputy Minister of Justice. intervention in the Federal Court of Appeal seven other education programs for judges CONSTANCE MACINTOSH of Health Canada; and presenting on working in the international tax area. His Dalhousie’s only presenter at the University in Micmac Nation of Gespeg v. Canada and lawyers, in Nova Scotia and elsewhere GRAHAM REYNOLDS professional regulation to a number of own research in international taxation of Moncton Symposium on the Legacy of (Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs). in Canada, on a range of topics, including health professions regulatory bodies and continues; he presented papers early in Justice Bastarache. His topic was “Justice The case concerned the implications for spousal support, divorce jurisdiction, civil national meetings of nursing regulators. the academic year at tax law and policy Bastarache, the Charter and Judging: s. 15 of the Charter of the Supreme Court procedure reform, civil rules governing conferences held in Toronto, Washington, The Centrality of Equality and Principled of Canada’s 2008 decision in R. v. Kapp, expert evidence, child protection evidence, D.C., and Oxford, England. He and his Pragmatism.” This, too, will be published as where two of Professor Pothier’s published hearsay and opinion evidence, international spouse, Lindsay, were delighted to part of a book. articles were cited. relocation, and evidence in family law. welcome their first baby, a boy, in October Professor MacKay was actively involved He is the editor of the Canadian Family of 2009. in the Intensive Seminar Program for Law Quarterly and the Nova Scotia Civil Judges offered by the Commonwealth Procedure Rules (published by LexisNexis). Judicial Education Institute, held at the Law WAYNE MACKAY ROLLIE THOMPSON School in June. He delivered sessions on judicial independence and the balancing of human rights and national security.

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Professor Esmeralda Thornhill Despite “American–Canadian Ocean Boundary her involvement with the Nova Scotia being on leave from her regular teaching Disputes and Cooperation” in the Max Restorative Justice Community–University duties for a good part of 2009/10, in the Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Research Alliance, presenting her Fall, Professor Esmeralda Thornhill not only Law and an article on “Canada, the EU and preliminary research findings as part of LE S delivered the Orientation to Law Lecture on Arctic Ocean Governance” in the Journal of the 32nd Canadian Congress on Criminal “The Implications of Race and Culture for Transnational Law & Policy. Justice. Legal Education and the Legal Profession”, By far the greatest event of 2010 for but she also taught International Human Professor Sheila Wildeman, in 2009/10, Professor Williams-Lorde was celebrating Rights Law: Facing ‘Race’ as a Factor, and in taught public law, administrative law and the birth of her second child, Ariel Grace the Spring she taught the Prelaw ModuleI, critical perspectives on law. She introduced Williams Lorde, in February. ESMERALDA M.A. THORNHILL An Introduction to Property: A Critical an occupational therapy class at Dalhousie Approach. to the principles of consent and capacity Professor Faye Woodman continues her Professor Thornhill maintained her law and made public presentations in examination of pension plans in Canada commitment to academic, professional, relation to newborn screening in Nova with an article published in the Canadian university and public service: on SHRCC Scotia and to Nova Scotia Labour and Journal of Women and the Law on the Committees; on the Nova Scotia Barristers’

TY PR O FI Employment adjudicators on access to effect on women of possible changes in Society Race and Law Essay Competition adjudicative processes on the part of federal and provincial pension legislation. Sub-Committee; on the Journal of Black persons with mental health conditions. Recently, she assumed the position of chair Studies editorial board; on the Senate Professor Wildeman continues to do of the Pension Advisory Committee of the and Senate Steering Committee; on the research on the assessment of decisional Dalhousie Pension Plan. National Human Genome Centre Advisory DAVID VANDERZWAAG capacity at law, both in connection with This winter, the Law School presented Panel; and on the Kidney Foundation of her doctoral thesis, which relates to a course on elder law for the first time. Canada (Nova Scotia). In July of 2009, psychiatric treatment capacity disputes, Professor Woodman led the seminar

UL FAC while in Paris, Professor Thornhill was and in furtherance of three grants in but was supported by a number of honoured with a customized tour of the which she participates. She is currently practitioners and members of the Nova Château de Monte Cristo and Château working on papers arising out of a multi- Scotia section of the Elder Law Section d’Ife, the private residence and estate of provincial survey canvassing Canadians’ of the Canadian Bar Association. Topics the renowned African-descended writer, understandings of divergent provincial laws included age discrimination, competency, Alexandre Dumas. She participated in the on substitute decision-making about health health care, long-term care, elder abuse, Halifax and Montreal Fall 2009 launching care and research participation. adult protection and powers of attorney. of Tribute, an African Canadian poetry Professor Wildeman is pleased to There were also sections on public and SHEILA WILDEMAN collection commemorating the inauguration be serving on the Nova Scotia Barristers’ private pensions and on financial planning. of the 44th president of the United States Society Continuing Professional An expert on the use of robotics and other of America, Barack Hussein Obama. Development Working Group, which is technologies to assist elders has already examining the prospect of mandatory been invited for next year, and the legal Professor David VanderZwaag, after continuing professional development for implications of this new care model will be Bruce left behind a successful having his Canada Research Chair in NSBS members. She also sits on the board explored. Ocean Law and Governance renewed for of the Canadian Mental Health Association. At the end of the academic year, a further seven years, had a busy speaking Professor Woodman was delighted to be law practice, 47 bow ties and year with presentations given at various Professor Michelle Williams-Lorde able to reunite in Provence, France, with venues, including: the MARE People This year the Indigenous Blacks & Mi’kmaq four of the other five women graduates and the Sea Conference (Amsterdam); (IB&M) Initiative celebrated its 20th of Queen’s Law ’72. There was much an endowment to Dalhousie. MICHELLE WILLIAMS-LORDE IUCN Protected Areas Legislative anniversary with a series of workshops and camaraderie and laughter. Guidelines Review Workshop (Bonn); a gala dinner, which included a keynote Bequests to Dal ensure happy endings. Canada–Japan–U.S. Trilateral Conference address by the Hon. Justice Murray Sinclair, (Vancouver); Colloquium of the IUCN chair of the Indian Residential Schools Academy of Environmental Law (Wuhan, Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Legacy gifts speak to your experience at Dalhousie and all it has meant to you – China); Maritime Boundary Delimitation the awarding of the Judge Corrine Sparks Symposium (Maine); Antarctic Treaty Award in Law to student Jessica Upshaw; an education and a lifetime of memories. Your gift could support a bursary fund, Summit (Washington, D.C.); Arctic Frontiers and the launch of the Donald Marshall Conference (Norway); Sino-Canadian Jr. Commemorative Award, presented to or strengthen the program within one of your preferred faculties, like Law. Workshop on the Arctic (Beijing); and student Patricia MacIver. A special thank the Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts and you to alumnus Jarvis Googoo, who led the Giving back to Dal through a bequest, large or small, helps to ensure lifelong FAYE WOODMAN Islands (Paris). creation of this award. Professor VanderZwaag gave the eighth The IB&M Initiative and its staff success for the generations that follow. annual Houston Journal of International received two awards this year. First, IB&M Law lecture in Houston, Texas, on the topic secretary Cherilyn MacIntosh received “The Precautionary Approach and the Dalhousie University’s Rosemary Gill International Control of Toxic Chemicals.” Award for outstanding service to students. He agreed to participate in a Royal Second, the Initiative itself is the recipient Society of Canada Expert Panel on Marine of the Canadian Bar Association’s 2010 Biodiversity and Climate Change. Touchstone Award, celebrating the Among other publications, Professor accomplishments of an individual or VanderZwaag contributed a chapter, “Law organization that has excelled at promoting For information, email: of the Sea and Governance of Shipping in equity in the legal profession, the judiciary [email protected] or [email protected] the Arctic and Antarctic,” to a new Polar or the legal community in Canada. Law Textbook published by the Nordic Professor Michelle Williams-Lorde Council of Ministers. He co-authored taught criminal law and continued

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1935 A. Kenneth Maclaren 1962 1968 1972 1975 1977 Paul D. Michael A. Vance Wirth Janet M. Chisholm Hon. Dr. Arthur L. Thurlow, OC Ian M. MacLeod, QC Roger A. Barrette Mary Jane Dodge, QC Frank E. Genesee W. Douglas Barrett Tom Akin Brenda J. Milbrath Rhonda G. Wishart Clare W. Christie Frances B. McConnell Alan V. Beattie, QC Heather A. Grant Hon. J. Vernon MacDonald Michael B. Burke Hon. Justice Robert L. Barnes Hon. Justice Rosemary E. Nation John S. Fitzpatrick 1941 Hon. Justice Arthur J. Stone, QC David A. Bissett, CFA Hon. Justice Raymond J. P. Halley George K. Macintosh, QC John A. Carr, QC Hon Justice Nancy J. Bateman Maureen B. O’Connell 1982 Andrea D. Gillis Donald D. Anderson, QC* Malcolm H. Bradshaw Hon. Judge William MacDonald Avon M. Mersey J. Denis Connor Hon Judge John D. Embree Hon. Justice Lawrence O’Neil, QC John R. Angel Peter B. Gorgopa 1956 Helenanne Carey, QC William R. McColm J. Fraser B. Mills Beatrice Fejtek Hines Daniel T. Gallagher Terry L. Roane, QC Gregory D. Auld Rodney D. Gould 1943 Hon. John C. Crosbie, PC,OC,ONL,QC Senator Frederick J. Dickson, QC Hon. Justice R. McIntyre Ronald B. Mitton A. Lawrence Filion George R. Lohnes, QC Rosemary Scott Clare F. Barry Mark A. Greenberg Lorne MacDougall, QC George T. Hanrahan Hon. Chief Justice Robert Senator Wilfred Moore, QC, LLD Hon. Dennis Patterson, Senator Bruce M. Graham Colin P. MacDonald Clifford A. Soward Glen V. Dexter Bernard J. Hibbitts Hon. Peter Power Ferguson Irwin G. Nathanson, QC Friedhelm Roth Alan W. Kennedy R. Michael MacKenzie Hon. Judge Alan T. Tufts Brian W. Downie, QC Neil L. Jacobs 1947 T. Bradbrooke Smith, QC Brian Flemming, CM, QC William E. Wells Jeff L. Schelew Jana M. Konrads W. Blair MacKinnon Andrew E. Drury Shirley P. Lee Hon. T. Alexander Hickman, OC Marvin D. Wentzell, QC Hon. Justice Charles Haliburton E. Michael R. Skutezky H. Edward McFetridge Robert G. McNeil 1980 Kenneth L. Godfrey Candace E. Malcolm Lawrence J. Hayes, QC 1969 David R. Thomas Rizpah A. Morrow Ray E. O’Blenis Lorne H. Abugov Scott P. Gray Gillian D. Marriott 1948 1957 Laurence D. Hebb, QC Brian D. Bruce Hon. Judge James C. Wilson D. Brian Newton, QC Judge Michael B. Sherar John P. Andrews Hon. Justice Lois R. Hoegg Moira L. McConnell William Chipman, QC Michael D. MacDonald Hon. Justice Donald J. MacMillan John M. Green Brian P. O’Leary Elizabeth J. Shilton J. Helen Beck Robert A. Lehodey, QC Douglas K. McLean Bruce M. Nickerson, QC Hon. John R. Nichols Robert E. Radford, QC Morris J. Haugg, QC 1973 Laurie S. Pascoe Hon. Justice Frans F. Slatter Anthony L. Chapman, QC Hon. Justice Glen G. McDougall David J. McPhee Philip H. G. Walker, QC Wayne R. Smith Paul N. Leamen Stephen J. Aronson Michel Poirier T. Ann Smiley Patricia G. Clahane Patricia M. Nicoll David J. McPhee 1958 Donald A. Thompson, QC Ronald A. MacDonald Susan C. Ashley F. T. Mark Pujolas Burdick W. Smith Richard A. Conway Dianne L. Pothier John D. Morrison 1949 William H. Charles Hon. Chief Justice Clyde K. Wells Robert G. MacKeigan, QC O. Noel Clarke, QC Hon. Justice Heather Robertson Harold M. Smith, QC Valerie A. Dyer G. Douglas Sealy Donald C. Murray, QC John E. Harris, QC Peter E. Darby John S. McFarlane, QC Hon. Judge Robert Hyslop William R. Seller James W. Stanley Anna J. Fried Toshimi A. Sembo Jim Musgrave, QC Hon. George D. Stoughton Hon. Justice Donald M. Hall 1963 Joel E. Pink, QC John Gleeson Kelly Lawrence A. Steinberg Robert C. Stewart, QC Robert G. Grant, QC Steve Waller Kimberly J. Pate David J. Waterbury, QC E. June Karlin A. David Case, QC J. Timothy Sullivan Peter J. MacKeigan, QC Janet D. Willwerth Alison Taylor Love Peter R. Hames Hon. Justice Wyman W. Webb Richard J. Payne Hon. Joseph W. O’Brien John P. Cochrane, QC Milton J. Veniot, QC John A. McLeish Steven G. Zatzman Joanne Kellerman Hilary A. Whitmey Ken Pike 1950 Hon. Geoffrey L. Steele David F. Curtis, QC C. Peter McLellan, QC 1978 J. Stuart Koskie Brad Wicks Heather J. Rae Johnson Bob Lyall Hon. Justice Ian McLellan 1970 Hon. Justice John D. Murphy 1976 Frank Archibald Norman G. Letalik Michael J. Wood, QC Maureen E. Reid 1959 Harvey A. Newman Aubrey L. Bonnell Hon Justice J. Edward Richard Hon. Judge Jean-Louis Batiot Hon.Chief Justice Edmond Mark E. MacDonald, QC Jane L. Shupe 1951 Hon. Justice Jean Forget Hon. Judge Robert J. White Hon. Justice C. Scott Brooker Hon. Justice Nicoll M. Scaravelli Jo Ann Carmichael Blanchard James A. MacLean 1983 Gregory D. M. Stirling Hon. Lorne O. Clarke, OC, ONS, QC Hon. Walter Goodfellow, MSM, Richard W. Cregan, QC Roberta J. Clarke, QC Bernard J. Butler C. James Price Gerene D. Albrecht Larry Stordy Maj. (Rtd) John A. Commerford CD, QC 1964 Hon. Chief Judge Patrick Curran 1974 G. David Eldridge, QC Elizabeth T. Callaghan David A. Proudfoot Hon. Judge Del W. Atwood Penelope Y. Tham Hon. Justice Malachi C. Jones Calvin Murdoch Mayo Hon. Justice William Fitzgerald Mary E. Dawson, CM, QC Bruce P. Archibald, QC David G. Fredricksen Joseph A. Cameron Mark S. Rosen Marcia L. Brennan Jeremy A. Thomas Paul A. Lee, QC Cyril T. Mullane John A. Miner Eric B. Durnford, QC Mel F. Belich, QC M. Patricia Gallivan Ronald Cole Randall W. Smith Jeffrey J. Chad Johanne L. Tournier George C. Loucks Shirley T. Rayes David M. Morris S. Clifford Hood, QC John W. Chandler, QC Linda M. Gaudet Jean V. Dawe Scott G. Thompson Ches Crosbie Kim Turner Hon. Angus Macdonald, QC Elizabeth S. Reagh, QC John A. Yogis, QC E. A. (Ted) Horton Mary C. Clancy Douglas J. Keefe, QC Elizabeth A. Ellis Guy Desmarais Hon. Judge Pamela S. Williams David A. Stewart, QC D. Ceri Hugill James H. Coleman Mary A. Kimball David S. Green 1981 Daryl S. Fridhandler, QC Hugh R. Williamson 1952 1965 John C. Lee J. Ronald Creighton, QC William M. LeClair Christopher D. Holmes E. Anne Bastedo James A. Graham James S. Palmer, CM, AOE, QC 1960 George T. Cooper, CM, QC Kathleen D. Marrie James E. Dickey Andrew G. Love Kari J. LeLacheur Jeffrey B. Berryman D. A. Landry 1985 Arthur F. Coady William F. Dickson William J. McCarroll Bruce P. Elman Jerald W. MacKenzie Peter E. Loucks Patrick I. Cassidy, QC Laurie K. Langford Deborah A. Armour 1953 Hon. Robert C. Hebb Art Donahoe, QC Dennis Perlin Fred Fountain, CM Brian L. MacLellan, QC A. Valerie Macdonald Hon. Justice Leslie J. Dellapinna Charles J. Meagher Brenda J. Christen Hon. Justice Hiram Carver Hon. Justice Arthur Lutz Ian H. MacDonald, QC Kenneth J. Ross Hon. Justice Deborah Gass John C. MacPherson, QC Harvey L. Morrison, QC Margaret A. Dickson Thomas V. Milroy Stephen G. Coughlan Donat Pharand Hon. Justice K. R. MacDonald Hon. Theodore E. Margeson John M. White Richard S. Goodman, QC Frank A. Mason W. Gerard O’Dea Andrew I. Koven Christopher W. Morris C. Joan Dornian QC Harold F. G. Stevens, QC Stuart G. MacKinnon Donald H. McDougall, QC Hon. Justice M. Jill Hamilton Tim Matthews, QC Hon. Judge A. Peter Ross Peter K. Large Scott C. Norton, Marian V. 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Dan MacDonald *Deceased *Deceased Women Centres Connect 60 Hearsay 2010/11 Hearsay 2010/11 61  The Honourable Nicoll GRAPEVINE In addition he has been have made outstanding (Nick) Scaravelli of the elected to the Board of contributions to Share your announcements about family, career, travel or studies by emailing [email protected] or by way of fax 902-494-1316 Nova Scotia Supreme Directors of Offshore/ the practice and business Court transferred from Onshore Technologies of law. Halifax to the Pictou- Association of Nova Scotia Antigonish-Guysborough (OTANS), the industry Justice Jim Williams of the Lawyer magazine as 1968 Judge Bill elected as president of 2010. After more than 10 Court District in Novem- association for companies Supreme Court of Nova one of Canada’s Top 25 MacDonald retired from the Canadian College of years as Chief Judge of ber 2009. Justice Scara- that provide supply and Scotia was presented with Most Influential in the the Nova Scotia Provincial Construction Lawyers in the Nova Scotia Family velli was appointed to services to the upstream the Paragon Award in justice system and legal Court at the end of June August 2009. Mr. Ryan court, he has resigned the Bench in December of energy industry. Wylie Nov. 2009 at Destination Rodney Snow of Terry Roane, QC was profession. 2010. After a short time in was a founding Fellow to devote more time to 2006. also has been named Halifax’s Ambassador Whitehorse and partner awarded the Lexpert private practice, his legal of the College and has his private life. He will, as Halifax Maritime Program reception. in the Davis LLP Yukon Zenith Award in October career was spent in the been recognized in the however, continue to sit as Lawyer of the Year by The Paragon Award is Office became the new 2009. Lexpert honoured public service, including International Who’s Who a judge of the court in the Best Lawyers 2010. He is awarded to an individual president of the Canadian a select group of leading almost 10 years as Deputy of Business Lawyers, Yarmouth courthouse. a counsel in the Halifax whose achievements stand Bar Association in August women lawyers in Attorney General and Lexpert, and the Annual office of McInnes Cooper. out, and whose event has 1944 Dr. H. Reuben 2010. He is the first CBA business law or who have Deputy Minister. Most Directory of the Best Associate Chief Judge brought significant social Cohen, CC, QC President to hail from led in the business of law. was recently, Judge MacDonald Lawyers in Canada for his Robert Gibson retired and/or economic impact North of 60. awarded the Order of was instrumental in work in Commercial and from the Provincial Court to the community. Justice New Brunswick in March setting up Nova Scotia’s Construction Law. at the end of June, 2010. Williams led the charge 2010. Dr. Cohen is already first Mental Health Court He was first appointed on bringing the World a companion of the Order to the Bench in 1990 after Congress on Family Law 1958 Pat McDonald in Dartmouth. of Canada and a member was 17 years of practising & Children’s Rights to 1974 Dr. Fred Fountain, of the New Brunswick the guest speaker at the law in Nova Scotia. Halifax. CM, LLB, LLD, OC received Business Hall of Fame, as Canadian Institute of He was appointed as the Canadian Red Cross’s well as chancellor emeritus Forestry Annual General the Provincial Court’s 2009 humanitarian award of Dalhousie University Meeting & Conference Associate Chief Judge in for Nova Scotia. He takes 1976 Raymond Larkin, and recipient of numerous held in Sept. 2010 in 1999 and held that position great pride in his family’s QC honorary degrees from Jasper, Alta. He has ever since. has become a Fellow life-long support to the of the American college of 1980 Michael Baker of universities in Atlantic always been a teacher Hon. Brian Tobin Red Cross dating back to was Lunenburg was honoured Canada. of history and since his Peter McLellan, QC Trial Lawyers, one of the 1972 Daniel M. wartime relief work by appointed to the Board posthumously with the retirement as a high school partner at Stewart premier legal associations Campbell, QC his parents in the 1930s of Directors of Uranium Order of Nova Scotia 1948 William G. Chipman, administrator has written will be the McKelvey, was elected in North America. The and 40s. Dr. Fountain was Star Corporation in July in October 2009 after a QC was recognized for extensively on the fur 1969 Morris J. Haugg, Nova Scotia Barristers’ President of the Canadian induction ceremony took installed in May 2008 as 2009. Mr. Tobin is Senior two-decade career as a 60 years of service as trade, Voyageurs, David QC During three years of Society Council’s first vice- Association of Counsel place in October 2009 at Chancellor of Dalhousie Business Advisor with 1978 Michael F. Donovan, politician and provincial a member of the Law Thompson, First Nations semi-retirement Morris president for 2010-2011. to Employers in October the annual meeting of the University. Fraser Milner Casgrain QC cabinet minister. The late Society of Alberta at a and Pioneer Life. Haugg has completed of He is a partner in Cox & 2009. Mr. McLellan was a College in Boston, Mass. joined the Halifax Mr. Larkin is a partner in LLP in Toronto. Office of Cox & Palmer as Finance Minister became a dinner held in Dec. 2009. his memoirs—a story of an Palmer’s Halifax office founding director of CACE The Honourable Howard very public face of cancer 1961 George A. Caines, 18-year-old farm labourer and practises corporate and is its sixth president, the firm of Pink Larkin. counsel in October 2010. Wetston, QC was during the last three years QC, a partner in the immigrant from Bavaria, and commercial law. the first from Atlantic appointed chairman of 1979 Helen Foote of his life. Halifax office of Stewart who returns to school Canada. Peter has also has The Honourable R. John the Ontario Securities McKelvey, was appointed and obtains a law degree. been recognized in Lexpert, been appointed President Harper Commission in October Robert G. Grant, QC to the Board of Directors of Morris resides in Amherst , a Judge of the in Lawday’s Leading of The Nova Scotia Branch 2010. became a Fellow of the Emera Inc. in Sept, 2009. and Tidnish. Superior Court of Justice Lawyers and in the Annual of the Canadian Bar American College of of Ontario (London), was Directory of the Best Lawyers Association for the 2009- 1975 Anne Malick, QC Trial Lawyers, one of the appointed Senior Judge of in Canada for his work in 2010 year. Ms. Foote has premier legal associations the Family Court Branch Labour and Employment of Nova Scotia Legal Aid been active with the CBA in America. The induction (Toronto) in October 2010. Law. in Truro was presented since 1980, including as a with the Nova Scotia 1977 Hon. Justice Nancy member of CBA Council, ceremony took place in 1955 Purdy Crawford, Daniel A. Laprès had Barristers’ Society 2010 Bateman chair of the Family Law November 2009 during Richard MacKinnon was retired from CC, QC was recognized in an article published by Distinguished Service Section, member of the the Annual Meeting of the appointed a provincial the Nova Scotia Court of the August 2010 Canadian DC Insight, the Trade Award in June 2010. Professional Development College in Boston, Mass. court judge in November Appeal in August 2010. Lawyer magazine as Finance Quarterly of the Committee, and recently Mr. Grant, a partner at 2009 by Attorney General one of Canada’s Top 25 International Chamber of as Treasurer (2008) and Stewart McKelvey, has and Justice Minister Ross Most Influential in the Commerce (Paris) in the Vice-President (2008- been practising law for Landry. He has been a justice system and legal 1965 Senator James S. 1970 Eric Durnford, QC May 2010 issue. 2009). Foote is a partner the past 28 years in Nova practising member of the profession. Cowan, QC received an was named as Halifax’s at Heritage House Law Scotia as an advocate bar for 32 years and was Honorary Doctor of Laws Labour and Employment Office in Dartmouth. before courts and from Dalhousie University Lawyer of the year for a senior Crown Counsel administrative tribunals. with the Nova Scotia during the fall convocation 2010 by Best Lawyers. The Honourable Justice Paul Gale Pharo, QC was Public Prosecution Service in October 2009. Since Jamie Saunders received appointed to Provincial Gerald J. McConnell, QC in Port Hawkesbury. 1972, he has been actively the Law Day Award in Court, Lethbridge, AB in He will be sitting in engaged in the life of was appointed Chairman April 2010 on behalf of the December 2010. He has Wylie Spicer, QC was Bridgewater, NS. Alison Manzer Dalhousie University, of the Board for Nova CSCJA in recognition of was practiced general law, appointed as Independent where he has been a Gold. He has been a his work on Try Judging™. awarded the Lexpert including family, criminal, Adjudicator of the member and chair of a Director of Nova Gold He created a multi-media Zenith Award in Oct. civil litigation, real estate Marine Stewardship wide array of committees. since 1984. educational resource to 2009. The Zenith Awards and wills and estates with 1973 Chief Judge John Council, the world’s From 2000 to 2008, he was be used by high school were established the Stringam Denecky 1956 Sir Graham Day Comeau leading organization Chair of the University’s 1971 William L. (Mick) resigned his teachers and students that in 2009 to honour a Law Firm in Lethbridge was recognized in the Board of Governors. Ryan, QC, partner at position on September puts students in the shoes in certifying and eco- select group of senior since 1980. Margaret MacDonald August 2010 Canadian Stewart McKelvey, was of judges. labeling for sustainable women lawyers who fisheries in February 2009. was appointed the

62 Hearsay 2010/11 Hearsay 2010/11 63  GRAPEVINE deputy minister for Patrick J. Murray, QC was 2009. Mr. Downey is a in the Calgary office of the Department of appointed to Nova Scotia’s partner at Lewis Downey Borden Ladner Gervais. Finance in November Supreme Court in August Tornosky Lassaline His practice focuses on 2010. In addition to her 2010. He began his legal & Timpano in Orillia, administrative law and appointment as Deputy career at the Dalhousie Ontario. regulatory matters. Minister of Finance, Legal Aid Clinic in 1981 MacDonald will also sit and was also a past 1992 Burnley (Rocky) on the board of directors director of the Nova Scotia Jones received the Order of the Nova Scotia Liquor Legal Aid Commission. of Nova Scotia. Mr. Jones Corporation. Mr. Murray will sit in heads his own Halifax law Janice Stairs John Rogers C. Gavin Giles, QC 1989 Anne Emery Zhiguo Gao 1996 Deanne MacLeod Sydney, NS. became a , Chief was was firm devoted to human is putting his , board member of Nova Executive Officer at elected 2010 Atlantic Zone invited to speak and read rights, labour and criminal Dalhousie doctorate in a partner in Stewart Scotia Business Inc. in Stewart McKelvey, was President of the Canadian from her work at the 2010 law. science of law to good McKelvey’s Halifax office, November 2009. Ms. appointed to the board Red Cross and appointed International Festival use as a judge on the was named to Lexpert’s Stairs is vice president of governors at Acadia to the organization’s of Authors in Toronto. Geoffrey Litherland International Tribunal for prestigious list of “Rising and general counsel to University in Wolfville in national board of gov- She is the author of five was recently appointed the Law of the Sea. Based Stars – Leading Lawyers 1995 Amy Bradbury Etruscan Resources Inc. November 2009. ernors. A litigation partner published books in the managing partner in Beijing, he is also the Under 40” in November a mining exploration in the Halifax office of Collins-Burke mystery of Harris & Company. In director of the legal arm joined the firm of Ritch 2009. Ms. MacLeod’s area and development McInnes Cooper, Mr. Giles series, the most recent addition, in 2009 he was of the China Institute of Durnford in November of practice is corporate company with operations work with the Red Cross being Children in the retained by the United Marine Affairs. 2009. Ms. Bradbury has a commercial law. throughout Africa. A past spans more than a decade. Morning. She is at work decade of experience in Hon. Jim Prentice, PC, Nations Relief and Works partner with the law firm on the sixth book in the Agency for Palestine labour and employment, QC will become the Vice Clifford J. Shaw, QC is Gregory E. Lenehan Patterson Palmer (now of series. Refugees in the Near human rights and Chairman of CIBC and teaching business law McInnes Cooper), Ms. Dartmouth was appointed East to advise on their administrative law and a member of CIBC’s in the Bissett School of Stairs continues as counsel as judge of the provincial labour relations, and has has co-authored several Senior Executive Team in Business at Mount Royal to the Halifax office of and family courts in Nova travelled to the West Bank, papers on employment January 2011. Mr. Prentice University. He continues McInnes Cooper. Scotia in October 2010. Gaza, Israel, Jordan and law. most recently served as to practise banking and He has served as a Crown Lebanon as part of this Canada’s Minister of the insolvency law with Faber 1984 Bernard Hibbits is attorney with Nova Scotia work. Environment. Bickman Leon in Calgary. publisher and editor-in- Public Prosecution Service chief of Jurist, the Webby for the past 21 years. Laura Stewart Michael Statham 1981 Hon. Peter M.S. award-winning legal news was named was Bryson, a Judge of the service he created at the to Lexpert’s prestigious list named in Lexpert’s list of Supreme Court of Nova Pittsburgh Law School in of “Rising Stars – Leading “Rising Stars - Leading 1991 Cindy Ann Bourgeois Scotia in Halifax, was 1996 which now draws Lawyers Under 40” in Lawyers Under 49.” appointed Judge of the over 100,000 readers a was sworn in as the new November 2009. Ms. Mr. Statham is a partner Court of Appeal in August week worldwide. His Nova Scotia Supreme Stewart is a partner in at WeirFoulds LLP 2010. Justice Bryson was scholarship and teaching Court judge for Cape Gowlings’ Ottawa office in Toronto. His forte Del Atwood Tara Erskin and her appointed to the Supreme 1983 of New focus on how the Internet Breton in September 2009. and works in the areas of is complex business husband Brent Culligan Court of Nova Scotia in Glasgow was appointed and other media have professional defense and litigation. are thrilled to announce 2009. He has been a part- a provincial court judge historically shaped legal Melanie McGrath is the administrative law. the birth of their twin time lecturer at the law in November 2009. He thought and practice. new Director for the 1982 William Crosbie was 1987 Barb Howard 1994 Shawna Hoyte girls, Anya and Maeve school (1983-1993). was a senior Crown Lawyers’ Insurance appointed Ambassador to Ronald J. MacDonald, QC Culligan, on St. Patrick’s attorney with the Public published a young adult Association of Nova of Dalhousie Legal Aid Afghanistan in June 2009 Prosecution Service. He was elected president of novel titled The Dewpoint Scotia. received the inaugural Day, March 17, 2009. Ms. and will become Canada’s will be sitting in Truro, NS. the Federation of Law Show in 2010. This is in Honourable Lorne Clarke Erskin is a partner in the fifth head of mission in Labour & Employment Societies of Canada. He addition to the novella 1993 Eric Bremermann QC Access to Justice Kabul since Canada re- Dr. Gordon Hook Law Group of McInnes has is a Criminal Law Policy she published last year joined Stikeman Elliott Award, presented in established diplomatic Cooper in Halifax. completed his fourth Advisor with the Nova called Notes for Monday LLP as a Partner in the March 2010 by the Legal relations with Afghanistan successful year as the Scotia Department of about a retiring old-school information Society Tim Daley was elected as Toronto office in October Hon. Judge Pierre Leon in 2002. Mr. Crosbie has executive secretary of Justice. lawyer and her first novel, of Nova Scotia. She 2nd Vice President of the 2010. His practice Muise 1997 Andrea Johnson held a number of senior the Asia/Pacific Group Whipstock, which was was honoured for her was appointed Nova Scotia Barristers’ focuses on corporate and management positions on Money Laundering published in 2001. She commitment to making a member of the Nova was named in Lexpert’s list Society for 2010-2011. He commercial law. within government. (APG), a multi-lateral currently resides in Bragg justice accessible to Scotia Supreme Court in of “Rising Stars - Leading Marjorie Hickey, QC is a partner with GPMD August 2010. He moved Lawyers Under 49.” Ms. organization consisting Creek, Alberta. Carmen Diges, a partner at everyone. received one of the Timothy Gabriel, QC Law in New Glasgow. up to the Supreme Johnson is a partner at of 40 member countries McMillan LLP was named Lexpert Zenith Awards was appointed judge to James Kenney Court after a period as Fraser Milner Casgrain in (including Canada, recently to Lexpert’s prestigious list in Oct. 2009. Lexpert the Nova Scotia Family a provincial judge when Ottawa. China, India, Japan and published a book entitled of “Rising Stars – Leading honoured a select group of and Provincial Court he was hailed as Nova the United States) and Canadian Victims of Lawyers Under 40” in leading women lawyers in in September 2010. He Scotia’s first Metis Judge, five observer countries Crime: Critical Insights. November 2009. Ms. business law or who have was twice elected to the who is able to conduct (including the Russian It is published by CSP/ Diges’ practice is focused led in the business of law. Nova Scotia Barristers’ Federation, UK and Women’s Press (Toronto). trials in both English and 1985 Jean M. Dewolfe on international corporate She practises as a partner Society Bar Council and France), based in Sydney, of French. Wolfville was appointed a finance, mergers and with McInnes Cooper was appointed to Queen’s Australia. 1988 Philip J. Jenkins provincial court judge in acquisitions and natural with a focus on regulatory Counsel in January. has been appointed November 2009. She has resources. and liability issues for vice-president of RBC been a partner in the firm Alan L. Ross was awarded professions. Dominion Securities. Prior Muttart Tufts Dewolfe and the Zenith Award in 2010 to his appointment, he Douglas Downey was Coyle since 1990 with a as a rising star among served as an investment named to Lexpert’s Suzanne Rix was primary focus in family Lexpert’s “Rising Stars – advisor, also with RBC prestigious list of “Rising honoured in November law. She will be sitting in Leading Lawyers Under Dominion Securities. Stars – Leading Lawyers 2010 as a rising star Amherst, NS. 40.” Mr. Ross is a partner Under 40” in November among Lexpert’s top 64 Hearsay 2010/11 Hearsay 2010/11 65  GRAPEVINE

Canadian lawyers under 2000 Ben Durnford 40. Ms. Rix is a partner received the Lawyer with Cox & Palmer’s of the Decade Award, Halifax office and practises presented by reachAbility in the area of immigration in June 2010. Mr. Durnford law. was honoured for his outstanding commitment 1999 David Fraser to the organization, which was named to Lexpert’s provides services and prestigious list of “Rising programs to individuals 2001 Joseph Burke Michael P. Simms Tandiwe Nyajeka Kyle Peterson Krista Smith Megan Blaikie 2009 Nicholas Caughey Todd Schindeler Stars – Leading Lawyers with disabilities. He recently and and his joined the joined joined Under 40” November previously was named became a partner in the returned to McInnes Stephane Gauthier were wife welcomed their firm of Ritch Durnford the firm of Burchell joined the litigation Stewart McKelvey in 2009. Mr. Fraser, an Volunteer Lawyer of Halifax office of Cox & Cooper’s Halifax office as married on August 15, son Kolton Joshua on in November 2009. Ms. MacDougall in Truro as group at WeirFoulds LLP, the Halifax office in associate in McInnes the Year by the same Palmer in January 2010. a partner, having served 2009 at her parents’ home Christmas Day 2009, Smith served as a clerk at an Associate in November Toronto in 2010. November 2010. Cooper’s Halifax office, organization. Mr. Burke practices several years as senior in Halifax. In attendance, weighing in at 7 lbs. 4 the Nova Scotia Court of 2009. is widely recognized insurance and general counsel at a major oil and on this sunny day were oz. Mr. Peterson joined Appeal and articled at a FRIENDS OF THE LAW as one of the country’s Basia Dzierzanowska litigation. gas company. Professors Phillip Girard Fasken Martineau major Toronto firm before SCHOOL leading privacy and became a partner with and Archie Kaiser; the DuMoulin LLP in joining Ritch Durnford. Jamie Van Wart technology lawyers. In McInnes Cooper in was outdoor ceremony was September 2009 and Alexa McDonough February 2010, McInnes February 2010 and serves appointed a youth court officiated by Nova Scotia is practising in the , Cooper announced the clients in the Halifax crown attorney in the Justice Corrine Sparks Government Relations former provincial and appointment of Mr. Fraser office. Halifax office of the Public (‘79). The couple resides Group. federal New Democratic as a partner, working in Prosecution Service in in Montreal, QC, where Party leader, received an 2006 Adam Church their Halifax office. December 2009. Ms. Nyajeka has recently is Honorary Doctor of Law returned to school to currently working in Degree from Dalhousie Michelle McCann joined 2002 Tonya (Flood) pursue graduate studies at Ottawa as the Senior University during its fall J. Gregory Clooney joined the Halifax office of Fleming joined Birchcliff McGill in Public Relations Policy Advisor to the convocation on October Stewart McKelvey as an Stewart McKelvey in Energy as general Management. Minister of International 17, 2009. Bobbi-Jo Dow Baker associate in the Halifax November 2010. counsel. Ms. Fleming was Trade. In spring 2010, Mr. currently of Stratford, 2007 Satpal (Tony) office in November 2009. previously at the Calgary Jonathan Shapiro and his Church was named by Muriel Duckworth, PEI, joined the law firm Bhurjee joined Miller office of Osler, Hosking & wife, Valerie, welcomed Embassy, Canada’s foreign LLD was recognized of Carr, Stevenson & Thomson in Edmonton Harcourt LLP, having been a baby girl on August 13, policy newsweekly, as one posthumously with the MacKay, in Charlottetown as an associate in October with the firm since she 2009. Samantha weighed of the “60 Most Influential Order of Nova Scotia, in in 2008. She was married 2009 after completing his Ryder Gilliland was named first joined as a summer in at 6 lbs., 12 oz. in Canadian Foreign October 2009, for being a to William Baker, of articles at a major Calgary to Lexpert’s prestigious student in 2001. Policy.” longtime crusader against Mary Hamblin was named list of “Rising Stars – Lakeville, PEI in October law firm. war and an advocate for 2009. They currently live one of “The Top 10 New Leading Lawyers Under Jillian Ryan was appointed social justice. in Stratford, PEI. Her Food and Beverage 40” November 2010. Mr. a Crown attorney in Truro, current practice focus is Innovators” in the May Gilliland is a partner in the the Public Prosecution corporate/commercial, 2010 issue of Food in Toronto Office of Blake, Service announced in wills and estates, property Canada magazine. Cassels & Graydon. August 2009. In 2006, Jarvis Googoo carried Gordon McGuire was transactions, and she joined Blackburn the 2010 Olympic Torch awarded a scholarship Sarah Kirby property/corporate/estate joined the English in Enfield, where through the community by the Harold G. Fox related litigation. Ritch Durnford law firm in she maintained a general of Whycocomagh, Nova Education Fund in January 2010 and practises practice and also did per Scotia, right next to his Canada. Starting in 2004 David R. Melvin with the Maritime Law diem work as a Crown home community of September 2010, he will was appointed by the Isabelle French joined Group. She was named in attorney. 2008 Roula Athanasiou We’koqma’q. spend a year in pupilage Government of Canada to Ritch Durnford as an the Maritime Law Section under barristers at the the Payments in Lieu of associate in November joined Burchell Hayman of the publication “The Angela Vivolo became a Inns of Court in London, Taxes Dispute Advisory 2009. Ms. French is Parish as an associate in Best Lawyers in Canada” partner at Borden Ladner England. Panel for a three-year working on her Master July 2009 and practises in for 2008 and 2009. Gervais in March 2010. term commencing June of Laws at Dalhousie the litigation group. Her area of practice is Jason Kohn and his wife 2010. David continues University. commercial litigation. Carol are thrilled with the to practise in the areas new addition, and sister of litigation, corporate- Michelle MacDonald Elias Metlej joined 2003 Mala Joshi for Samantha, and are en- and commercial, estate and was appointed a Crown McInnes Cooper as a joying raising their lovely her husband Mark real estate law with his attorney in the Port partner in the firm’s daughters in Richmond Lomaga announce the colleagues at Livingstone Hawkesbury office of the Halifax office in September Hill, Ontario. The older arrival of their beautiful & Company in Dartmouth, Public Prosecution Service Paul Thorne joined 2010. His practice focuses one is Samantha Brooke daughter Jaya Alexandra Nova Scotia. in August 2010. Burchell Hayman Parish Kohn (born Dec. 7, 2005) in the areas of commercial Lomaga born on July 19, as an associate in the and residential real estate 2010. The family lives in and the baby is Chloe commercial practice Nasha Nijhawan joined Candy Palmater transactions. Toronto where Ms. Joshi is a Hannah Kohn (born Sept. Scott Barry group. Paliare Roland Rosenberg is an intellectual property joined Stewart recovered lawyer who 9, 2009). He is teaching at a Rothstein LLP as an litigator with Ridout & McKelvey in their turned from the courts to college in Toronto. associate in 2010 after Maybee LLP and Mr. Charlottetown office in the comedy stage. She is summering and articling Lomaga is practising both November 2009. the creator, producer and with the firm. star of The Candy Show academic and community which is currently in its dermatology. first season of production for APTN.

66 Hearsay 2010/11 Hearsay 2010/11 67 IN MEMORIAM Carl H. Young passed away Aug. 17, 2010. was in the Air Force during the Second World and was co-author of Sexual Orientation and He grew up in Dartmouth, NS and entered War and after graduating from law school Canadian Law (1996). He is survived by his the Canadian Armed Forces in the Second became a member of the Nova Scotia and partner, Thane Ehler. 1934 William Harry Jost, 98, of Annapolis 1949 John Bishop Ballem, QC, 84, Michael George Whalley, QC, 86, died on World War and served both in Canada and Ontario bar associations. He is survived by his Mary Elizabeth Koskie, 77, Royal, peacefully passed away on Sept. 26, passed away on Jan. 9, 2010. After his law Sept. 1, 2009. He joined the RCAF and was overseas. After graduating from law school, wife, Sheila Ann (McCarthy), and their four 1973 (nee 2009. He was born in Sydney, educated at degree he obtained his Master of Laws degree posted overseas and served as flight lieutenant Carl moved his family west to Alberta to begin children. McInnes) passed away in Toronto, Ont. on Sydney Academy and Dalhousie University; at Harvard University. John was a counsel during the Second World War. He was shot the next phase of his life at Chevron. He held Aug. 24, 2009. She was a former educator and John Hedley MacIntosh, QC he practised law first in Halifax then Ottawa, in Gowlings’ Calgary, specializing in oil and down over Hamlin, Germany in Sept. 1942. He many positions in his 30 years with Chevron, 1962 lawyer during her life in Edmonton, Halifax Ont. and Moncton, N.B., returning to Halifax gas law. Throughout the course of his career, was captured and held as prisoner of war until finishing his career as a vice-president. One of died in Brockville, Ont. on June 28, 2010. He and her native Toronto. She is survived by her for private practice for the majority of his he appeared frequently as counsel before 1945. He returned to Nova Scotia and went on his most significant accomplishments was his obtained his bachelor of laws degree from daughter and son. career. He was predeceased by his wife, regulatory tribunals and courts on matters to study and practise law in general practice crucial role in The Hibernia offshore oil field. Dalhousie University in 1962 and went on to Frances Elizabeth, and their son Peter. pertaining to energy law and the oil industry. for five years; Supernumerary Magistrate for practise law for 48 years. He is survived by his 1979 Dara L. Gordon, QC passed away Welsford Graham MacArthur, QC In 2009, the Law Society of Alberta and the five years and City Solicitor for the City of 1953 wife of 47 years, Jean Stewart MacIntosh, and on Dec. 27, 2009. Ms. Gordon was a member 1935 Charles Read Lorway, Sr., 97, passed Canadian Bar Association of Alberta awarded Sydney from 1959 - 1987. He was appointed passed away on Feb. 22, 2010, in Halifax, N.S. his two children. of McInnes Cooper’s Board of Directors and away July 15, 2009 in Sydney, N.S. Born in John the Distinguished Service Award for Q.C. in 1974 and continued practising law well During his university years, he spent summers partner in the Halifax office. She represented John Basil Blanchard, 72, Sydney, he was the son of the late C. Richard Legal Scholarship. He is survived by his wife, into his 80s. He is survived by his wife, Meryl with the Canadian Army in the Canadian 1964 passed the government of Nova Scotia in its Lorway of Sydney and Louise Lorne Read Grace, and their four children. (Patterson) and their three children. Officer Training Corps where he became a away Feb. 9, 2010, in Halifax, N.S. After negotiations with Canada on the sharing of Halifax. Survived by his wife, the former lieutenant. He worked with the military’s legal high school graduation he attended St. FX of offshore resource revenues. She was also Wayne McKie and four children. He was John (Jack) Edmund Harris, QC, 89, passed 1951 Justice Charles Denne Burchell, department in Ottawa and provided training University where he met his first wife, Elinor Lead Counsel for the Government of Canada predeceased by his son, Jim. away on Feb. 27, 2010, in Oakville, Ont. Jack 82, died on June 17, 2010. During his law in military law. Welsford articled with what MacAllister and then Dalhousie University relating to the financing and construction of practised law for more than 60 years. He career he served in many public services was then McInnes, MacQuarrie, Cooper in where he completed a law degree, following the Confederation Bridge. Ms. Gordon was a th Halifax. Shortly after he was lured to Montreal 1939 Harvey A. Veniot, QC, 93, passed attended his 60 Law School Reunion Dinner such as attorney for the Cape Breton in the footsteps of his father and many director of the Atlantic Lottery Corporation by the insurance industry. By 1968, he moved away on Oct. 2, 2009. Stevedore, scholar, in October 2009 at Dalhousie University as Development Corporation and was founding generations of Blanchards. John went on to and chair of the Nova Scotia Gaming to the Toronto head office of the Insurance entrepreneur, lawyer, politician, RCMP officer, a guest of Dean Phillip Saunders. Jack had board chairman of Cape Breton University, practise law in Montreal as legal counsel for Corporation from 1995 until 2000. She also Bureau of Canada as general counsel. In the and judge (retired). After graduating from been a flight lieutenant in the RCAF as well a the Graham Bell Institute and New Dawn Petrofina/Petro Canada. Following retirement helped her husband, Gerry McConnell, set late 1970s Wels returned to Halifax where law school and a short stint with the RCMP, dedicated volunteer to the city of Mississauga. Enterprises. In 1989, he retired from the in 1984, John travelled the world for two years up the Halifax-based junior mining company he worked with the firms McInnes Cooper he returned home to Pictou to start his legal He is survived by his wife, Leta, and two Supreme Court of Nova Scotia. The recipient with his second wife, Janet Cowperthwaite. Etruscan Resources Inc., and Benjamin Bridge Robertson and Armsworthy Lynch. In 1980, he practice. He entered politics in 1953 and was children. Jack is predeceased by his first wife of an honorary Doctorate of Law from Cape He is survived by two sons. Vineyards in the Gaspereau Valley. was appointed Queen’s Counsel. first elected as a PC candidate in 1956, serving of 48 years, Muriel Grace. Breton University, his special avocation was Thomas J. Burchell, QC John Kenneth Poirier, 53, Pictou West for the next 18 years as MLA. He music. 1969 passed away 1984 passed Donald Archibald Mercer, QC 1955 John Thomas Ward Dyke, 79, was appointed Speaker of the Nova Scotia passed on Aug. 8, 2010. After law school Tom articled away suddenly on Jan. 15, 2010, in Halifax. House of Assembly from 1961-1968. He retired away on Oct. 27, 2010. Don spent most of Ronald Charles Caldwell, 84, passed passed away in Thunder Bay, Ont. on Oct. with Burchells. In 1985, Tom was appointed N.S. He joined the legal department at from the practice of law and in 1978 he was his life in St. John’s, Newfoundland where away in London, Ont. on Nov. 5, 2009. He is 23, 2008. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts Queen’s Counsel. Tom was elected president the Nova Scotia Power Corporation upon appointed to the Magisterial Bench. He retired he raised his family, practised law and was survived by his wife of 56 years, Janet (Scott) degree at Victoria College in Toronto and at of the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society for the completing his articles. He worked extensively for the second time in 1986. actively involved in the community. During Caldwell and their two children. graduation he was awarded a scholarship 1997-98 term, and served on the executive on the team tasked with implementing the his career he served as president of the Law to Oxford College in London, England for a committee of the Nova Scotia Barristers’ privatization of the Power Corporation. He John C. McNair, QC year. Upon his return to Canada he enrolled in 1941 Donald DeBlois Anderson, QC, 93, Society of Newfoundland, president of the died on Jan. 28, 2010. Society for a number of years. He has acted then moved to the Nova Scotia Association of Dalhousie University after which he returned passed away on Jan. 12, 2010 in Halifax, N.S. Federation of Law Societies of Canada, John practised law in Fredericton for 32 years as Chair of the Trust Accounts Committee, Health Organizations, where he worked for to Thunder Bay. After law school, he went on active service as president of the Newfoundland Branch of and was appointed to the Federal Court of Chair of the Discipline Committee, Chair the past 13 years as a consultant specializing an officer in Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer the Canadian Bar Association, and was an Canada, Trial Division in Ottawa in 1983. He of the Discipline Policies and Procedures in labour negotiations in the health care sector. George MacGregor Mitchell, QC passed Reserve. After, he spent two years in Sydney, executive of the Canadian Bar Association. In retired from the Federal Court in 1990. He Committee, and Chair of the Discipline John is survived by his wife, Louise Walsh away Aug. 5, 2010. He began his law career Cape Breton in the shipping and coal mining 1986 Don was awarded Citizen of the Year in was an avid enthusiast of the outdoors and Hearing Subcommittee. He is survived by his Poirier, Q.C. and his two sons. with Rutledge, MacKeigan, Cragg and businesses. Don then moved to New York St. John’s. devoted to his family. wife, Sonja Burchell (Meisner, Andersen), two Downie, becoming a partner with MacKeigan, Gregory Charles Nearing, 48, City where he practised admiralty law and sons and two stepsons. 1986 Edward (Ted) R. Rettie Cox, Downie and Mitchell in 1965. In 1970, he did post-graduate studies at the New York of Seabright, died 1952 Lowell A. Allen, 83, born on passed away on Nov. 15, 2009 in Lethbridge, entered politics and from 1971-73 he was the Louis Edward Moir Graduate School of Law. When he returned to March 2, 2010. During the Second World Prince Edward Island in April, 1926, died in passed away on Dec. Alta. Gregory was called to the bar of the Speaker of the House, Nova Scotia House of Halifax, Don established his own law office War, he trained at ROTC. He served with the Kingston, Ont. on Sept. 25, 2009. Educated 5, 2009. During the Second World War he Northwest Territories in 1987 and to the bar Assembly; from 1973-76 he was the Minister and also Elland Agencies. He subsequently Canadian Intelligence Corp and NISEI, rising at Acadia University and Dalhousie Law was stationed with the Medical Corps in of Nunavut in 1999. He practised criminal of Development, Province of Nova Scotia; joined the Dartmouth law firm Drury, Heustis, to the rank of captain. After his law degree School, he was a retired vice-president of Labrador; later he became an air gunner. After law and worked as a Crown prosecutor and from 1976-78 George was Attorney General Anderson, Dickie & Kimball, where he was he pursued a career as a diplomat. From Brascan Corporation (now Brookfield Asset the war, he studied at Acadia and Dalhousie defence attorney. He also held the position of and Minister of Education, Province of Nova a senior partner until his retirement. Don is 1971 - 1974 he held the dual position of High Management). universities. He worked with Eli Lily, and executive director of the Legal Services Board Scotia. He returned to a legal career in 1979 survived by his wife, Helen (Read), and their Commissioner to Malaysia and Ambassador then joined the insurance agency Jack & Co. of the Northwest Territories for a number of as a partner with Cox Downie, until his five children. to Burma. In 1975, he lectured on foreign Daniel Allan Soberman, 80, passed He returned to Dalhousie at 43 to earn his years. He served as treasurer and president of affairs at Queen’s University before retiring away on July 17, 2010 in Kingston, Ont. He retirement in 2001. law degree. He set up his own law practice, the Northwest Territories’ Law Society prior 1948 HON. GORDON LEAVITT SHAW HART, to Seabright with his wife, the late Lois Adele graduated from Dalhousie University with his Moir, Thompson and Ashley. In 1975, he was to the Territories separation, president of the (Angus) Rettie. 1957 William Patrick MacIsaac, 76, appointed a judge of the Family Court for the 85, died on Sept. 28, 2010. After a brief stint history and law degrees and then went on to Nunavut Law Society and various positions passed away on May 27, 2010. He established Province of Nova Scotia. He was elected to in the navy, he graduated from law school, receive his Master of Laws degree at Harvard with the Canadian Bar Association. Gregory Arthur Martell Townsend, 93, passed a private practice in Saskatchewan. In 1980, the Halifax City Council in 1964 and served married his sweetheart, Catherine (Katie) University. He co-founded the Faculty of Law is survived by his wife, Diane Buckland, and away on May 8, 2010. Born in Louisbourg, he left private practice to begin working as as deputy mayor and on many municipal MacKinnon, and they moved to Dartmouth, at Queen’s University in 1957, was appointed three children. N.S., he graduated from the Sydney Acad- a criminal defense lawyer with Legal Aid committees. He is survived by his wife, where they raised six children. In 1967 Gordon Dean from 1967 to 1977 and taught there until emy High School, Acadia University with his Saskatchewan. In 1997, he was made Queen’s Mildred (Bishop), and 10 children. John David Crawford, 58, was appointed to the Trial Division of the N.S. his retirement in 2001. In recognition of his 1988 of Bachelor of Education degree and later his law Counsel and in 2004, received a special Supreme Court, and in 1978 was elevated to many contributions to Queen’s University Sheldrake Lake, died on Feb. 16, 2010. degree. Arthur served in the Royal Canadian certificate and a lifetime membership in the 1972 Randall Robert Duplack, QC the Court of Appeal, where he served until and the Faculty of Law there, he received Originally from Brantford, Ont., he moved Air Force during WWII and after law school Law Society in recognition of his 35-plus “Randy”, 62, his retirement in 2000. In 1973, Gordon led an Honorary Doctorate in 2008. He was a died on Dec. 11, 2009 in Halifax. to Halifax in 1976. He was an active member practised law in Calgary, Alta. from 1949 until years as a practising lawyer. After retiring an early environmental Royal Commission, renowned legal scholar and published author. Following a brief career in private practice, of the Nova Scotia Flying Wheels for several his retirement in 1988. as a legal aid lawyer in 1998 he returned to investigating the pollution of Chedabucto Randy joined the Nova Scotia Department years. He worked for the Bank of Commerce, private practice with Andrews Benko Rondeau Bay by the grounded tanker, Arrow. In 1994 of Justice. He held a decade-long tenure as Casino Nova Scotia and most recently for the Hawkins Pyle Evanchuk and MacIsaac. he served on the NAFTA softwood lumber a lawyer for the Nova Scotia Human Rights Nova Scotia Department of Labour Standards. tribunal. Commission. He was also a certified mediator, He is survived by his wife, Teri, and his son, 1959 Charles Barry Sullivan, 86 passed teacher; and public lecturer. Randy maintained Kyle. away in Burlington, Ont. on Nov. 25, 2009. He a lifelong commitment to human rights issues

68 Hearsay 2010/11 Hearsay 2010/11 69 1989 Scott Andrew Gillis, 45, passed away on May 2, 2010 in Kentville, N.S. After graduating from law school he joined the firm Waterbury Newton of Kentville and became partner in 1999. A member of the Canadian Bar Association and Atlantic Provinces Trial Lawyers Association, he was a standing agent for the Department of Justice Federal Prosecution Service from 2001 until his death. He was a past member of the Regional Assessment Appeal Court for Kings, Annapolis and Digby counties. He was a member of the Board of Directors and past chair of the Valley Disability Partnership Society and chair of the Client Services Committee for the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada, and received several awards for his contributions as a person with Multiple Sclerosis. In 1999, he was the recipient of a Certificate of Appreciation from the Town of Kentville. He is survived by his parents, extended family members and close friends.

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