HEARSAYTHE DALHOUSIE LAW ALUMNI MAGAZINE Volume 32, 2009

Northern Perspective Practicing above the 60th parallel

CANADIAN LAWYERS ABROAD Zhiguo Gao Alison Hopkins’ summer Elected judge of in Bangladesh international tribunal

INNIS CHRISTIE destination A remarkable dhaka voice quieted Student internship abroad

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HeThe Dalhousiear Law Alumnisa Magaziney Volume 32 / 2009 contentsContents

Alumni Affairs...... 8

School News...... 28

1963 “The Bowling Alley” Studley Building Student Notes ...... 32

Dean The editors welcome contributions, Phillip Saunders, LL.B. ‘84 information, and ideas from alumni. Please direct your submissions to: Editors Professor John Yogis, LL.B. ‘64 Editor Hearsay Karen Kavanaugh Dalhousie, Faculty of Law Weldon Law Building Faculty News...... 38 Grapevine Editor 6061 University Avenue Marlene MacDonald Halifax, NS Canada B3H 4H9 Design and Production Weldon Award for Unselfish Public Service...... 20 Karen Kavanaugh tel: 902-494-3744 fax: 902-494-1316 2008 Alumni Reunion...... 24 E-mail: [email protected] Report on Giving...... 52 Mailed under Canada Post publications agreement 41890527 Grapevine...... 57

Obituaries...... 63  FROM THE EDITOR

There is a chill in the air in when Maggie takes me for my first walk of the day. The melancholy days of late summer are upon us—hopefully to be soon replaced by the autumn splendor that we have come to expect in this area of the country. The early morning frost on the pumpkin may, however, be an appropriate tie- in to our current issue. Three of our features have a direct link to the Canadian North. Professor A. Wayne MacKay (’78) gives us a legal perspective on Nunavut— Canada’s new frontier. At his suggestion we also contacted alumni working in the North to give us some of their unique perspectives. We also acknowledge the remarkable feat of David Shannon (‘91) in becoming the first person in a wheelchair to reach the North Pole. Finally, we are delighted to complement our northern exposure features with a fascinating account by John Ballem (’49) of his excursion to Antarctica. With this issue we also mark the closing of the 125th anniversary of the Law School. To commemorate this special occasion Hearsay has attempted to produce Professor John Yogis and Maggie Message from the Dean a running time line of the School’s past 125 years. In this respect it was assisted in large measure by John Wlllis’ A History of Dalhousie Law School; back pages of Ansul and Hearsay and other law school publications. While every attempt has been made to be accurate it is acknowledged that arbitrary choices may have been made in the selection of significant events in the School’s rich history. To accompany the “Time line” Hearsay also revisited two special additions of Ansul titled “In My Day” in which then dean Ronald St. John Macdonald (‘52) presented a series of reminiscences by alumni, and a few faculty, of their This academic year will be my final one Law, and will fund over 40 new scholarships with an average experiences and impressions of their time at Dalhousie Law School. We have as Dean of Law at Dalhousie, and as I look back over the last value of $12,000. The school will now have a scholarship several years, I am struck yet again by the tremendous support program second to none in Canada, and will provide a level reproduced in edited form many of these unique personal stories beginning and kindness shown by our alumni to the School, and to me of accessibility based on merit which is a great reflection Charles Morse with , a member of the School’s first graduating class. John Willis personally, over my term. We are truly fortunate in our friends, of the Weldon Tradition. In addition, there is support for remarked that these “vignettes which are full of flavour...give, as no formal and I thank all of you who welcomed me in your home towns, capital improvements, and a Schulich Academic Excellence history can, the feeling of what it was like to be there.” Hearsay has updated the in your firms and at many social occasions. Along with the Fund, administered through the Faculty, that will invigorate rare Macdonald collection—which ended in the late 1950s—with some additional challenges, this job is a privilege and a pleasure, and you, academic opportunities and provide support for exchanges and more recent material from its own pages, along with comments from the along with our students and faculty, have made it so. and internships. Over the last year we celebrated 125 years of excellence In October, as this magazine was going to press, we Dalhousie Law School’s 125th Anniversary Celebration video made possible by in legal education at Dalhousie, with dinners across the celebrated this wonderful gift at the Weldon Building (as William A. Rand (‘66) the generous contribution of . country. Speakers from recent and not-so-recent generations we will report fully in a subsequent edition). In honour and Of course, this issue contains our usual reports of what the alumni is up to, at Dalhousie shared their memories of their time in Halifax, recognition of Mr. Schulich’s support, the Faculty of Law has the goings on at Weldon—class reunions, faculty and student news—and much and these events will stand out for me as highlights of my become the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University. more. We greatly appreciated the many letters we received on our last issue which time in this office. In recognition of the anniversary, John This name maintains the original connection with the came from across Canada as well as the United States, England, Israel and Russia. Yogis and Karen Kavanaugh have put together a wonderful university, while celebrating a solid commitment to its very compilation of the history of the last 125 years as an insert bright future. Karen Kavanaugh and I enjoy hearing from you and encourage you to keep your to this edition, which I hope you will enjoy as much as I The creation of a law school at Dalhousie in 1883 was comments, suggestions and contributions coming. did. This Hearsay also, as always, celebrates the remarkable made possible by an extraordinary gift from George Munro, achievements of our students, faculty and alumni. The School, which funded the first Chair and allowed for the hiring of in my view, continues to go from strength to strength, and the Dean Weldon. I am confident that the equally extraordinary Sincerely, accomplishments set out in these pages are evidence of that. generosity of Mr. Schulich will transform the future of the We are also looking to the future with great confidence, School, while ensuring that we maintain the best traditions of and with excitement at new possibilities. As most of you will the last 125 years. already be aware, in October President Tom Traves and I were pleased to announce an agreement between the university and philanthropist Seymour Schulich for a precedent-setting gift of John Yogis (‘64) $20 million. This donation is designated entirely for the Faculty of Dean & Weldon Professor of Law

4 Hearsay 2009 Hearsay 2009 5 Letters to the Law School Write to Hearsay magazine: 6061 University Ave., Halifax, N.S., Canada B3H 4H9; email [email protected].

Dal Law’s great loss ies and some of the teachers are women! Dal Law Degree put to good use conversations have motivated me to do another school project at Oda Chafe in I know it comes to all of us but it was The late Peter Gzowski, who also had an I was keenly interested in all the stories what I have been doing as a lawyer and the Bale Valley region. All this was done too soon for Innis Christie. I am sure interest in literacy, was a patron and sup- and our far-flung community of interest- volunteer. under the supervision of John paying his that the Law School has been swamped porter of Frontier College. ing people who have gone through Dal Brenda and I also had a lovely gabfest own way. Not a single dollar of Partners’ with expressions of loss, praise and I would guess that Frontier College Law School. I thought The Ansul had luncheon with Diane Ashworth and Dale contributions go to administration. All appreciation for the contribution Innis has many illustrious alumni teachers, but long since ceased publishing, as I do get Godsoe. Since returning home I have was paid for by the volunteer members made to the law. But I wonder if anyone I bet Innis was one of the best. He will be Hearsay, but hadn’t seen The Ansul logo received letters of congratulations from of the Board. mentioned a feature of his life that had a missed. except for the fading copies of The Ansul classmates who could not attend the David and Anita Blackwood great influence on me. David Morris (‘64) from 1978 (the year I was editor), which reception. On Friday, I walked all over Port Hope, Ont. I am referring to Innis’s connection Victoria, B.C. are still sitting in my stacks of books at the campus and vicinity reliving in my with Frontier College. In case you are my parents’ house in Bedford. mind’s eye many great experiences. FONDLY REMEMBERED not familiar with it, Frontier College is It has been some time since I last corre- I will be showing the copy to my son, Your organization was impeccable. Thanks for the wonderful issue of an organization that for over 100 years sponded with you and other colleagues in hopes of convincing him that a Dal Our accommodation and visit were Hearsay. So nice to read about so many has been dedicated to teaching, mostly at Dal Law, and it is with a heavy heart Law degree can be put to many good splendid. Brenda and I thank you for This is a letter of congratulations for your people I know. I was a little bit shaken basic literacy, to workers in isolated that I do so now. Sitting at my desk in uses that range beyond the practice of your huge part in making this Weldon wonderful article, “A Swinging Judge,” to see that there were four obituaries of locations such as mining camps, lumber East Jerusalem I just read of Professor law, as your articles on our alumni illus- Award process such a marvelous experi- in the Summer 2008 edition of Hearsay people I knew, particularly Eric DeMont. camps, railway gangs or construction Christie’s passing in the latest issue of trate. Keep up the good work. ence for us, and for others. magazine. I have been involved in the I was very fond of him and had a great sites. In the late ‘50s or early ‘60s Innis The Ansul. I should like to pass on to you Carol Patterson (‘78) Thank you and congratulations for Halifax music scene as a drummer since deal of respect for him. He was the real was a labourer-teacher with Frontier and the rest of the Dal Law family my Moscow, Russia your excellent work! the mid-‘50s and can relate to many of old-fashioned family solicitor type of College at a remote mining camp in the condolences for this great loss. I had the David Newman (’68) the bands mentioned in your article. person. Alastair Bissett-Johnson, Simon Far North. As I recall, it was near Great privilege of studying labour law with Winnipeg, Man. Throughout the years there have been Gaum and Gaylen Duncan are all sad Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories. Professor Christie in my senior year at GREAT TO BE BACK a number of articles written about music losses. Labourer-teachers got no special treat- Dal (‘98-‘99), and was deeply impacted I was just in the process of composing a activities in Halifax, but I have never Lorne Rozovsky ment. They did the same work as the (to say nothing of being sufficiently in- letter to the Dean to express my thanks MEMORIES seen such an in depth article, with such Halifax men, for the same wages, and gave les- timidated) by his mastery and passion for for an unforgettable reception, hosted By now I expect you will have heard informative content. sons in the evenings and on days when the subject. Beyond doctrine, however, dinner and opportunity to visit with from others that the late Hector MacNeill You have certainly provided a major there was no work—as I recall this was there were those great teaching mo- Halifax friends, all thanks to the gener- McInnes was a graduate of the Class of segment of the history of music in our REUNION WEEKEND only one day a week. ments —sometimes deliberate, at others osity and kindness of the Law School 1956, and attended Harvard Law School fair city. The era covered in your article It was great returning to where this legal After hearing about it from Innis, I unintended—where he used a case study leadership and alumni. on a tuition scholarship (one of two in could be regarded as the most productive adventure all began and spending time too signed up with Frontier College and or anecdote to demonstrate the tools of My three years at law school and in the class of ’56 to be so honoured), from years in dance-band music in the history with some of those who were there at the spent two summers with them while at the trade: reason, fairness, good faith, Halifax were the most important forma- which he graduated with his LL.M. in of Halifax. We were most fortunate in beginning. It’s not often you get to hop law school, the first on a CNR ballast equity. Although labour law was never tive years of my adult life. This recent 1957. having musicians like Elmer MacDonald aboard a time machine. That I enjoyed it gang and the second on a dam construc- my field, the lessons learned in the time I visit [Spring Reception, March 2008] The article by Elmer MacDonald contributing to the musical activities at more than anticipated was no doubt due tion site in northern Manitoba. It was studied under Professor Christie remain confirmed how significant they were was interesting, especially for those of that time. You have managed to include a to the overwhelming sense that regard- what might be considered a life-altering to this day. as the memories came flooding back. us who vividly remember Don Warner very valuable collection of historic musi- less of roads travelled, we were, are experience and I suspect the same might Ardi Imseis (’99) How thrilled I was to speak to Andy and Pete Power and their bands. The cal content in your article and I will be and always will be, simply, classmates. have been true for Innis. I wonder if East Jerusalem MacKay, my Dean, without whom there lovely dancing lady on page 14 is Ethel keeping this specific issue as a collector’s Thank you Bill [MacDonald] and all who anyone involved in the Westray Mine never would have been a Centennial Hall (nee Smith), of Halifax. She and her item. attended. matter knew that Innis had worked Conference of Law Students to influence husband, Norm Hall, both graduated Artie Irwin Dave MacDonald (’68) underground in a hard rock mine. The CHAIR IN HUMAN RIGHTS the futures of 48 lawyers to be. How from Dal in 1955, she with a B.A., and he Halifax Hay River, N.W.T. experience may also have influenced his I was delighted to read in Hearsay that touching it was to be introduced by Bill with a B.Comm. I think the picture on desire to teach and given him a sense of a Chair in Human Rights Law has been [MacDonald] and to visit with Jim Gould page 16 as a “ball” at Dalhousie is a bit of BAIGENT INSPIRES BACK PAGE ERROR concern for the working man. created at the Law School due to the and Barry Black. a misnomer. Balls were formals in those We sincerely appreciated the Hearsay I think the photo on the back of the Hear- Frontier College is still around. It has generosity of Judge Sandra E. Oxner. What outstanding conversations I days, and long dresses were the style, but article on John Baigent (Summer 2008). say Summer 2008 issue was taken in 1964 changed its focus somewhat to keep up I think this is a splendid development. had with the law students. Many made a in the 1950s there were regular dances What a great candidate for the Weldon or 1965 [labelled 1962] because it contains with changes in the social structure of I also read with great interest the article point of coming to me to talk about what on the weekends in the Dal gym, (still Award. several members of the class of 1966. I the country. In our day most of the men on John Baigent, whom I remember well I had said and about their challenges and standing on the southeast corner of the John Baigent and his work with can identify four or five persons, includ- were new Canadians and now they seem from my teaching days at the School. aspirations. I was struck deeply by what campus at the end of Morris Street). Partners in the Horn of Africa inspired us ing George Khattar, Frank O’Dea, Roy to go to the big cities rather than isolated Congratulations on a fine issue. they said and by their passion for doing Sally Roper Lomas (’56) to build a school and library in Ethiopia. Logan, Bill Nelson and myself. work sites. I understand that many of Professor Sir Nigel S. Rodley something meaningful in the public inter- Midland, Ont. The results in Amhentu were so spec- Dick Thompson (’66) the programs are now offered in the cit- Colchester, England est with their law degrees to come. The tacular that last July we announced Etobicoke, Ont.

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“This emphasizes the need to be sensitive to the Inuit knowledge, philosophy, language and culture. This should be a vital part of training professionals such as teachers, nurses and lawyers.”

tions has largely been the path chosen. autonomy, becoming Canada’s third Nunavut Human Rights Act: Rights and The Inuit appear to prefer a co-operative territory and a separate entity from the Blending Cultures approach rather than an adversarial one. Northwest Territories. From the begin- The Nunavut Human Rights Act was That doesn’t mean there have been no ning there has been a local community given Royal Assent in 2003. While the Northern Exposure tensions. The early Anglican and Catholic focus in Nunavut, and decentralization Constitution Act of 1982 tended to lump missionaries not only replaced some of is an important principle of government. the Inuit in with the Aboriginals and the the traditional religions with Christianity The members of the Nunavut Legisla- Métis in Section 35 of that Act, the Hu- by Professor Wayne MacKay (’78) but also put the variations of the Inuk- tive Assembly represent the diversity man Rights Act gives more recognition titut language in written form, which of Nunavummiut and include women, to the distinct status of the Inuit. In this remains largely oral in nature. There are unilingual Inuit and English speakers regard, the Nunavut Act goes beyond its also challenges from foreign business and bilingual speakers. The model is one counterparts in the Northwest Territories interests, and while foreign economic of co-operation and reconciliation. and the Yukon. investment is important, it must also be There is a positive approach to While in some respects it is a typical balanced against the traditional lifestyle government, which tries to build upon human rights code, it does have some and protection of the land. Nunavut the strength and the diversity of the unique features that take the Inuit culture means “our land,” and the land is central people. This approach is expressed in into account. The Preamble expressly to the Inuit way of life. the Bathurst Mandate, which sets out includes “and makes special provision Nunavut has three official languages: the principles of healthy communities, for Inuit culture and values that under- Inuktitut, English and French. It is a huge simplicity and unity, self-reliance and lie the Inuit way of life,” whereas the land mass with a population of about continuing learning. Yukon and the Northwest Territories are PHOTO: DAVID WRIGHT 27,000, of which 6,000 live in the capital In this latter focus on learning, there is silent in this respect. In addition, this Act of Iqaluit. The legal structure has been a commitment to include the knowledge expressly refers to Canada’s international When Dalhousie Professor Wayne MacKay first visited Yellowknife in the Introduction largely a “foreign” imposition from the of the traditional ways of Inuit knowing, commitments. This is not the norm in the This has been a wonderful journey of south, and the outside control comes or the “qaujimajatuqangit” literally, what provincial human rights codes. early 1990s, it was at the invitation of the Northwest Territories Department discovery in every sense of the word. from the federal government. Nunavut the Inuit have always known. This em- Thus the Nunavut Human Rights Act of Education, which had invited him to speak to school board members and Many people from Dalhousie Law School is working toward provincial status, phasizes the need to be sensitive to the is a potential model for blending the Inuit teachers about education law issues, in particular how to have come to Nunavut to work and be but that is likely to be some time in the Inuit knowledge, philosophy, language culture and the human rights traditions part of this exciting political adventure. future. Historically, the Inuit were not and culture. This should be a vital part of from the rest of Canada in an effective provide an education structure that’s sensitive to aboriginal culture. It’s an honour to speak at the anniversary involved in making treaties with the training professionals such as teachers, and interesting way. It’s a modern human Then, on Nov. 28, 2004, Prof. MacKay gave a talk to Iqaluit’s Legal Aid dinner for the Legal Aid Clinic, which Crown, and because of their isolation the nurses and lawyers. rights code with a wide range of protec- has done such good work in the new smaller communities maintained a fair The Nunavut Government strives to tions, but it’s to be applied and inter- Society called “Nunavut: Canada’s New Frontier and Model of Legal Innova- territory. degree of autonomy. include traditional Inuit ways of know- preted in a way that is sensitive to Inuit tion for the World.” Three years later he was back in Yellowknife to attend a Self-determination for Nunavut came ing as part of the delivery of government culture and traditions. Politics, History and Culture in Nunavut week long conference of the Canadian Association of Statutory in stages. From the beginning it had a services. This is true for human resources The legal structure in Nunavut only culture, language and territorial base, and health and social services, and The Legal Dimension: Legal Aid Human Rights Agencies, where participants discussed aboriginal rights, makes sense in the context of the politics, which gave its people a distinct identity. would also be appropriate to apply to Legal aid is vital to the legal framework human rights and land claims. “I’ve always been interested in the North,” history and culture of the territory. One of the landmark developments was legal services. Today this system and the in Nunavut and crucial to the delivery of The Inuit people, referred to as the Nu- the Land Claims Agreement of 1993, past methods for communicating these justice in small communities. A review says Prof. MacKay. “Even though it’s within Canada, it’s very different from navummiut, comprise about 85% of in which the negotiators traded away values have been interrupted by outside of the Consolidation of Legal Services the rest of the country in legal, geographic and cultural terms.” the population, and the remaining 15% undefined title for more specific guaran- influences and new institutions. We must Act, as amended, doesn’t reveal the same are the Qallunaat. tees, including the following: retention of find ways to build these beliefs into what culture sensitivity as the Nunavut Hu- What follows is an edited adaptation of the speech Prof. MacKay prepared This sets the stage for either cultural 18% of the land; $1.1 billion to be shared we do today so that once again they form man Rights Act and is more of a “foreign for his 2004 presentation in Iqaluit. Hearsay also presents comments from clashes or a blending of the strengths among the 18,000 Inuit; and reserved the the value system for Nunavut. imposition.” I’m sure that great efforts alumni currently working and living in the Far North. of the two traditions. Co-operation and right to self-government. are made to apply it in a culturally sensi- reconciliation of the cultures and tradi- In 1999 Nunavut achieved significant tive fashion.

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Northern Exposure Six Dalhousie graduates reveal the rewards and challenges of what it’s like to work and live in Canada’s Far North

Dalhousie Professor of Law Wayne MacKay suggested that Hearsay contact some Dalhousie Law School alumni members working in the North to find out why they moved there and how they’ve adjusted to differences in the legal system, culture

and language—and what they miss about home. Here are six of their stories. — by Jane Doucet

dave wright ’07

Age: 33 the board of directors for the Akitsiraq Hometown: Halifax, Whitehorse and Law School Society, working toward a Edmonton second cohort of Northern and Inuit law Current position: Senior energy policy students. advisor, Department of Executive and What he misses about the South: “An Intergovernmental Affairs, Government unfrozen ocean, roads that go out of of Nunavut; formerly legal counsel, town, good draft beer, farmers’ markets Department of Justice, Government of and having access to a university Nunavut campus and all the energy and activities First impression upon arriving in Iqaluit: that go with it.” Legal aid services have operated inde- justice system, which is important to the line delivery of legal aid, to make the “I moved here in November of 2008, What’s unique about working in the pendently from the Northwest Territories local delivery of justice. Local Commu- application of justice more sensitive to and it was much more beautiful than I’d North: “We’re in a modern land claims since July 1, 2000, and are now provided nity Justice Councils or Committees are the needs of the local communities and anticipated. The land, sea and skyscape agreement context, which is heavily entirely by the Legal Services Board of made up of elders who help maintain a unique Inuit culture. are vast and scenic.” oriented toward natural resources— Nunavut. Legal aid became a territorial connection to the local culture and are Why he wound up in the North: “The wildlife, parks, conservation, land-use responsibility in 1971, when the federal widely respected within legal aid and the Conclusion Department of Justice position was management and planning, marine and government transferred the responsibil- justice system generally. Nunavut is an exciting experiment both an opportunity I couldn’t pass up. water access, energy and minerals. When ity for the administration of justice to the At least one lawyer from legal aid in terms of law as well as politics. Be- Working here is the perfect mix of all my I arrived I was very open about the type Northwest Territories. travels with the Nunavut Court of cause it is a new structure, it can benefit areas of interest and expertise—issues of environmental law and policy work I In 1979, the Legal Services Ordinance Justice on circuit to assist them. This is from what has gone before and be quite concerning the environment, natural wanted to do, and I was quickly brought (now Act) established the Legal Services in addition to duty counsel assigned innovative. Taking a positive attitude resources, development and First into it. I’ve worked on files pertaining to Board, which until July 1, 2000, adminis- on a rotation basis under the statute. about the future, it has made real efforts Nations and Inuit. I was also happy to wildlife management, water regulation, tered legal aid throughout the Northwest Private lawyers also provide services on to build on the strengths of both the tra- return to the North as an adult after polar bears, mining and contaminated Territories and Nunavut (as of April 1, a per diem basis and many contribute ditional Inuit culture and the Qallunaat. living in Whitehorse as a youth.” sites, all of which was very exciting. And 1999). Criminal and civil legal aid ser- to the free law line on a pro bono basis. There are still many things that need How Dalhousie Law School helped prepare the immersion into a new culture and vices are provided through a mixed Members from the legal profession can to be improved, and more resources are him: “It gave me a solid grounding in language has been rewarding on many judicare/clinic/staff lawyer system. also serve on the various regional legal needed if Nunavut is to achieve its ambi- Canadian law and helped prepare me for levels—seeing firsthand an extremely There are currently three legal services aid committees, which help ensure that tious goals. However, its efforts to date some of the energy and environmental different way of life and observing how clinics operating in Nunavut and a sub- services are tailored to the needs of the have been impressive, and there is much issues I’ve encountered here. Dal Law the Inuit have adapted in recent years to clinic office in the High Arctic. local communities. While there is room to celebrate. • also has a tradition of community more modernized lifestyles.” • There is also an enhanced role for for improvement, there are many good involvement. Here in Iqaluit, I sit on Justices of the Peace within the Nunavut things being done in respect to the front-

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Dennis Patterson (’72) Susan Hardy (’92)

because of the beauty of the land, which could explore new ways of practicing law which soon became the Government wrongs and the aboriginal perspective.” was buried in snow. I walked on the hard that provided an opportunity to apply of Nunavut. I was surprised to see What she misses about the South: “Reading surface to the top of a hill overlooking legal skills to social-justice issues.” that when the ice is melting, it turns a the Saturday paper on Saturday morning; the bay. It was exhilarating.” What he missed about the South when he beautiful peacock-blue colour. And the we don’t receive delivery here until about Why he wound up in the North: “When I was living there: “I can’t say that I felt town was more cosmopolitan than I had 3:30 p.m., and if the weather is bad, it was at Dalhousie Law School I helped terribly deprived of anything, but I did expected.” could be never. Spontaneous road trips; establish a student-run Legal Aid Clinic. miss the sun in winter. The darkness is Why she wound up in the North: “I was after a maximum of five kilometres you One of my professors, Ian Cowie, who quite daunting.” 32 when I moved to Iqaluit, to work must head back home or switch to Ski- helped establish the clinic, went on to What’s unique about working in the North: in what I felt was the biggest thing in Doo, dogsled, ATV, air or foot travel. work for Justice Canada, which had “The cross-cultural environment in aboriginal law at that time. I almost And extracurricular options; we do have participated in a pilot project to establish which one must work. It’s more than just didn’t apply because I was hesitant culturally diverse fun here, but it happens a Legal Aid Clinic in Frobisher Bay. He language, although that’s one big factor— about the harshness of the climate. two or three events at a time, at the most. Age: 60 contacted me, then I was interviewed on you have to get used to working with Arriving in May was an eye-opener; I What’s unique about working in the North: Hometown: Vancouver (now based) the phone by the local board and offered interpreters and learn how to pronounce wore a light jacket and shoes. We do have “The level of collegiality here is amazing. Current position: Consultant in public policy a job to set up the Frobisher Bay clinic. I your clients’ names. You quickly discover Age: 43 a warmer season, but it’s compressed Essentially everyone is working on the in the North; formerly Education Minister, was 27. I took a year’s leave of absence that the aboriginal majority has different Hometown: Toronto and P.E.I. between the first week of July and the same project, just at a different level or Minister of Justice and Premier of the from the Vancouver law firm where I values when it comes to conflict resolution, Current position: Legislative counsel, end of September.” aspect of it. The opportunities I’ve had Northwest Territories was working and ended up living in the and that orthodox legal-system processes Department of Justice, Government of How Dalhousie Law School helped prepare have been unparalleled compared to First impression upon arriving in the North: North for 25 years.” don’t work for the Inuit, so you have to Nunavut her: “In my first year I took a public law my colleagues in other parts of Canada. “It was April of 1975, and I had to wait two How Dalhousie Law School helped prepare adapt your practice to their ways. When First impression upon arriving in Iqaluit: course; it was one of the things that kept It’s a privilege to have an environment days in Montreal for a blizzard to subside him: “It was an exciting place when I was I was at the Legal Aid Clinic in Frobisher “It was warmer than I had expected! me in law school. The class was taught in my own country where this political so the plane could land in what was then there. The dean and faculty were open to Bay, I was a minority working with an My first visit was in May of 1998, for by Patricia Monture, who helped me development is happening and to Frobisher Bay in the Northwest Territories, innovation. I was looking for something all-Inuit staff and reporting to an Inuit a job interview with the Office of the appreciate this material through her experience the Inuit culture, which is which is now Iqaluit in Nunavut. When else out of my law degree, and the Law board. I quickly became immersed in the Interim Commissioner of Nunavut, focus on fundamental rights, historic vibrantly alive.” • I got there my jaw dropped to the floor School fostered an environment where I community and the Inuit culture.” •

Carla Ball (’06) Kate Darling (’07) and I had been anticipating a moonscape What’s unique about working in the North: on signs. I had absolutely no idea what What’s unique about working in the North: landscape—barren with just rocks and “I’m working in a territory that is 85% to expect. I knew that it was going to be “It’s a very close-knit legal community, water—but the tundra was covered with Inuit and for an institution that seeks cold, and that there were light and dark so it’s easy to make friends. On the 10- blueberries, lichen, mosses, small grasses aboriginal self-governance through seasons, but that’s about it.” seat passenger plane you’ll have defense and ground-creeping willows. The snow public government. The associated Why she wound up in the North: “The job lawyers and Crown prosecutors, plus the started the following week.” demands have been essential to my ad said it would involve flying to remote judge, court clerk, court reporter, Crown Why she wound up in the North: “I had development as a lawyer—it challenges locations in small passenger planes and witness co-ordinator and interpreter, so been looking for work in the North me to resist assumptions about what’s learning about a new culture in a unique the whole team gets know each other because I was curious about it, and I ‘right’ in law. What’s also interesting is part of our own country. That sounded quickly. The cultural experience has been wanted to work in a new government that most government departments work like an adventure, and indeed it is! We tremendous; we use interpreters in the where there might be room for a creative with a resident Inuit elder who assists set up court in school gymnasiums courtroom, and a panel of elders sits with approach to the law and where there the policy-makers to ensure they take or community halls and have limited the judge to provide background into the would be lots of responsibility early on in tradition into account; Nunavummiut resources. We carry our files in hockey family and to counsel the person who has my career.” have adapted quickly and efficiently to a Age: 29 bags that are conducive to the climate, been convicted. The community holds Age: 29 How Dalhousie Law School helped prepare governance system that was introduced Hometown: Halifax and we store our stationery supplies in a the elders in very high regard—what Hometown: Manotick, Ont. her: “I had been focused on international to them just 10 years ago. There’s also Current position: Crown counsel, Public trusty Ziploc bag!” they say is far more important than what Current position: Legal counsel, human rights law, which was a good work to be done at an international level. Prosecution Services of Canada How Dalhousie Law School helped prepare we say. I have learned so much in a short Legal and Constitutional Division, foundation, as were the research projects In May I spent four days in New York First impression upon arriving in Iqaluit: her: “I got a solid legal foundation that period of time. My plan is not to leave Government of Nunavut I worked on. It whetted my appetite to City representing Nunavut at the eighth “I stepped off the plane in November gave me great research and litigation my mark here but rather to gain what I First impression upon arriving in Iqaluit: learn more in my practice.” session of the United Nations Permanent of 2008 and the dry, cold air took my skills.” can from both the legal system and “It was overcast and really windy—and What she misses about the South: “Going Forum on Indigenous Issues, which was breath away. But I was so excited! What she misses about the South: “Family, the culture.” • the wind hasn’t stopped since! It was for early morning runs in February (it’s a rich experience—plus I got to shop!” • Especially to see a different language long drives, trees and heat!” the first week of September in 2008, way too cold!), surfing and beer on tap.”

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PAUL BACHAND ’89

“Living as a minority person within another culture showed me how the majority of Canadians DALHOUSIE LAW ALUMNI should welcome differences, not fear them.” REUNION Age: 50 How Dalhousie Law School helped prepare Hometown: Eastern Townships of Quebec him: “There’s a collegiality among Dal Current position: In private practice since students and professors, who always WEEKEND A. Anne McLellan 2004 (split between offices in Bayswater, welcomed challenging questions and the N.S., where he and his family now live, advancement of social justice. In my third and Yellowknife); formerly legal counsel year I had done some criminal-law work, 2010 and director, Legal Division, Department which was a good training ground.” of Justice, Government of the Northwest What he missed about the South when he Territories lived in Yellowknife full-time: “Family, First impression upon arriving in especially being so far away from Yellowknife: “I had no idea what to relatives who were getting older, which is expect. I had talked to a few Dal grads why we decided to move back.” who were working there, and I was What’s unique about working in the just for old times’ sake hoping I would be joining a close-knit North: “If you have an imagination and Class ’50 community and the law would be a force ambition, there’s a lot you can do—land for change. And it was.” claims, the court system, government Fred S. Fountain Why he wound up in the North: “A Dal practice, private practice. There’s an Class ’60 grad who had a firm in Yellowknife opportunity to have a very interesting came to recruit. At that time my wife’s and varied practice because the legal Class ‘74: parents were teaching high school in community is so small. I started working Class ’70 Yellowknife. I was 30, my wife was 27 for the government but now work Two members and our son was five. We decided to go closely with the Dene people and their on a two-year plan, and we stayed for corporations to get better political and Class ’85 receive the Order 15! With the government I worked as the economic deals from the government. I registrar of land titles, as a lawyer doing have a personal relationship with them as of Canada litigation and as executive assistant to the well. They are a very welcoming people Class ’90 The Honourable A. Anne McLellan and Minister of Justice. In 2000 I went back who have a tradition of sharing, even Dalhousie Chancellor Fred S. Fountain to a government practice, focusing on with outsiders. I think I am more tolerant recently received the Order of Canada. aboriginal law, self-government and land of differences now; living as a minority Class ’00 In July 2009 the Honourable A. Anne claim treaties.” person within another culture showed me McLellan, PC, was made an officer of the how the majority of Canadians should order “for her leadership and dedication welcome differences, not fear them. And as a politician and law professor, and her if ever I took myself too seriously, all I September 24, 25 & 26, 2010 contributions as a community volunteer.” had to do was look outside and I was In December 2008 Fred S. Fountain reminded about my place in nature.” • was named a member of the order For more information please contact Marlene MacDonald at [email protected] 902-494-5100 “for his contributions to the people of Nova Scotia as a community volunteer, philanthropist and dedicated fund raiser”. Dalhousie Law would like to extend its congratulations and is proud of the many successes of the Class of ‘74. •

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Judge Zhiguo Gao: elected judge of international tribunal by Jane Doucet Bridging the gap:

On Jan. 30, 2008, Zhiguo Gao 1989; at that time, Prof. Chircop was The Canadian was elected a judge of the International finishing his doctorate at Dalhousie as American Bar Tribunal for the Law of the Sea at a Gao was beginning his. “Since then we special meeting of the States Parties of have worked together on various projects Association the United Nations Convention on the on ocean management and maritime Canadians aren’t only successful hockey Law of the Sea. A member of the Chinese boundaries,” says Prof. Chircop, Bar Association, the Beijing-based Gao, who was pleased to hear of Gao’s players, singers, or scientists in the United now 55, received a J.S.D. (Doctor in appointment. “And over the years he has States—we’re also successful U.S. lawyers. the Science of Law) from Dalhousie also helped organize faculty visits both to The Canadian American Bar Association University in 1993. China and Dalhousie.” thirds majority (91) of the 136 States (CABA) was recently formed to meet the “The appointment is a testament The Tribunal was created in Hamburg, Parties that voted. needs of this unique group of lawyers and to Judge Gao’s work and a wonderful Germany, on Nov. 16, 1994. Consisting Prior to this appointment, Gao’s many to provide a resource for Canadian busi- representation of the benefits of of 21 judges, each elected for a nine- accomplishments have included research nesses and individuals looking for assis- Dalhousie’s graduate program,” says year term, it deals with disputes arising and work in Angola, Brazil, Canada, tance with U.S. legal matters. Phillip Saunders, dean of the law school. from the interpretation and application China, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, We hosted our first informal gather- “It’s the pinnacle of achievement for a of the Convention. A former deputy to Nigeria, Romania, the United Kingdom ing in Los Angeles in July and hope to scholar and civil servant working in this the Tenth National People’s Congress and the United States, mainly in the have our kick-off party in New York later area.” of China, Gao was the only candidate areas of ocean law and policy, natural this year. We also plan to establish a law Aldo Chircop, a professor of marine nominated; he was elected in one round resources legislation and international David Shannon: conquers North Pole and environmental law at Dalhousie Law of secret balloting, garnering 136 votes environmental law. • student essay writing competition and School, has been friends with Gao since and thus exceeding the necessary two- On April 11, 2009, David Shannon (‘91) became the first person with quad- annual award to recognize Canadians who riplegia and in a wheelchair to reach the North Pole. Along with expedition co-leader have excelled in the practice of law and/ Chris Watkins, David developed “Team Independence ‘09” to promote breaking or made an outstanding contribution to the barriers to accessibility and greater community inclusion. David and Chris reached law or legal scholarship in the U.S. the Pole after an arduous two-day trek with Chris pulling David’s wheelchair which The CABA was formed in February Career Development Office public interest careers survey was attached to a sled. David assisted with the aid of walking sticks. Upon reaching 2009 by Marko Zoretic (McMaster Uni- the Pole, David planted a disabled parking sign. “This sign represents all peoples who versity, Osgoode Hall Law School), Filko Rose Godfrey, director of Career Development and the Career Development Office (CDO) Student Commit- have faced challenges or adversity in their lives and have dreamed of overcoming Prugo (York University, Osgoode Hall Law tee, is updating the Alternative Careers section of its web site and seeking input from alumni currently work- them,” he says. “If we as people work together in our homes, our cities, our countries School), and Colin Heideman (Univer- ing in public interest careers. The goal of this project is to provide students with a realistic understanding of and in our global village, there is no dream that cannot be realized.” sity of Alberta, Vanderbilt University Law different public interest careers that are open to graduates of law school, and the steps that must be taken For the past 25 years David has been committed to policy development and legal School). CABA has quickly grown to nearly to find and secure employment in the field. Data collected from the survey will be compiled into a database advocacy for the protection of human rights and community integration for persons on the web site, and we are also hoping to have feature articles on individual alumni working in public inter- with disabilities. In 1997 he took his wheelchair 9,000 miles across Canada to raise 100 members. Our members are admitted est careers on the front page of the CDO web site. public awareness. He wheeled 10 hours a day and spoke directly to 20,000 people. The to practice in the U.S. and are all Canadian If you are an alumnus currently employed in a public interest career and would like to help the CDO with tour took 197 days. citizens and/or graduates of a Canadian this project, please call (902) 494-2068 or email [email protected] briefly describing your current David is the recipient of many awards and honours, including the Queen’s Jubilee university or law school. Law students can position, the development of your career, the different positions that you held leading up to your public Medal for his commitment to human rights and community service. He was the also join as student members. interest position and where you articled. Any advice that you would like to give current students considering founding chair of the Accessibility Advisory Council of Ontario and a member of the For more information, please visit our a career in the public interest will also be welcomed. • Ontario Human Rights Tribunal and serves on numerous boards and committees. website or write to president@canambar. Asked about future adventures, David states that he plans to reach base camp com. A detailed directory of our members at Mount Everest by tandem parachute, to be followed by an excursion to the can be found at www.CanAmBar.com. • [email protected] South Pole. • 16 Hearsay 2009 Hearsay 2009 17  ALUMNI AFFAIRS

The Road Less Travelled

“The wine “should turn some heads” and “could frankly hold its head up proudly among the best moscato d’Astis.”

energy rights. column in The Globe and Mail said that the “We both enjoy wine, and Gerry had a wine “should turn some heads” and that longtime dream of one day owning a it “could frankly hold its head up winery,” says Dara. The couple was taken proudly among the best moscato with the beauty of the Gaspereau region d’Astis.” of Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley and A unique opportunity to showcase moved there in 1997. They purchased an three of its limited edition wines occurred old farm close to the town of Wolfville, on Nov. 1, 2008, when Benjamin Bridge home to Acadia University. They also was a gold sponsor of a gala fund raising saw the potential of the area for growing dinner at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. high-quality grapes. They started In addition to a 2006 vintage of NOVA 7, growing grapes in 2000 and now have Benjamin Bridge also previewed its 2004 over 25 acres planted on the slopes Taurus, a beautifully intense red wine, overlooking the Gaspereau River. and Borealis, an icewine of exceptional Benjamin Bridge was selected as the quality. Sean Wood, respected wine name for the fledgling winery. It comes expert and columnist for The Chronicle Daughter Ashley graduated from Dalhousie from the name of a family who lived in Herald, proclaimed in his Nov. 6, 2008, in May 2009 Vintage partners the area in the 1700s. column that Borealis is “a new triumph With wine consultant Peter Gamble, for wine-making in Nova Scotia.” Gerry determined that the climate and sparkling wine that will rival the world’s Most recently the couple has soil conditions were particularly suited to finest. Gerry says that while the winery is introduced an elegant, very dry rosé, producing sparkling wines of a quality concentrating on the production of Nexus, that has been compared to rosé Gerry McConnell’s and Dara Gordon’s similar to those made according to the champagne-style wines, these wines need from the south of France. Limited Methode Champenoise from the classic to lay down for seven or eight years and quantities are available through the Nova Scotia winery sparkles grapes of the Champagne region of would not be ready until 2010 or 2011. NSLC and select private wine stores or France. “Early on we realized that the In the meantime Benjamin Bridge’s direct from the winery. climate in Nova Scotia was very similar first limited edition wine, NOVA 7, was While it may be another year or two Gerry McConnell (’70) and Dara Gordon outlets of three of their highly acclaimed and CEO of Halifax-based Etruscan to the Champagne region of France,”says introduced in 2008. The lightly sparkling before Gerry and Dara attain their (’79) had more than ample reason to Benjamin Bridge wines. Resources Inc.) Dara is a partner with the Gerry. “Our climate was on the edge, and wine conceived by Gamble sold out ultimate goal of introducing a bubbly in celebrate this past May. First and Gerry and Dara are co-owners of Halifax office of McInnes Cooper. She some of the greatest wines in the world quickly at select retail wine shops. It was the tradition of the finest produced in foremost, their youngest child, Ashley Benjamin Bridge vineyards, a new and also served on the federal-provincial have come from climates on the edge.” met with great enthusiasm by critics and France’s Champagne region, Benjamin McConnell Gordon, graduated from Dal innovative winery in Nova Scotia’s panel that recommended Nova Scotia Since 2002 this has become McConnell’s local wine lovers. Tony Aspler, perhaps Bridge is already playing a major role in with her bachelor of laws degree. picturesque Gaspereau Valley. Gerry first receive a multimillion-dollar financial passion. Renowned champagne expert Canada’s foremost wine authority, gave showcasing Nova Scotia’s potential as a Secondly, Gerry and Dara saw the latest left his Halifax law practice in 1987 to go settlement from the federal government Raphael Brisbois was brought on board NOVA 7 his highest rating of five stars, wine region to be reckoned with on the release in limited Nova Scotia liquor into the mining business. (He is president in exchange for its claim to offshore to assist in the development of a and Beppi Crosariol in his April 2009 national and international scene. •

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2009 Weldon Award for Unselfish Public Service Call for Nominations The Weldon Award for John Baigent, founder and executive director of Partners in the Horn of Africa, a Canadian charity working in Unselfish Public Service 2010 Ethiopia, was selected to receive the Dalhousie Law School Alumni Association’s 26th Weldon Award for Unselfish Public Service. This annual award, sponsored by the Dalhousie Law Alumni Association, is to honour a graduate of the Law Throughout his life Baigent has sought to improve the quality of life School for unselfish public service in the community. Established in 1983, this award is a tribute to the ideals of the disadvantaged in all the communities in which he has lived and of the school’s first dean, Richard Chapman Weldon, and a reminder of the Weldon tradition which had its worked. The veteran British Columbia lawyer was honoured particularly origins during his 31-year tenure as dean from 1883 to 1914. for his volunteer work in Africa and his commitment to the plight of Ethiopians. The African chapter of Baigent’s community service began in 1963, when he served as a volunteer and teacher in Ghana, West Africa, for Canadian University Students Overseas (CUSO). He also served as the organization’s first resident program co-ordinator for that country. Upon his return to Canada he worked as CUSO’s first director of West Africa programs. Baigent received a Sir James Dunn Scholarship to study law at Dalhousie in 1965. While at law school he ran CUSO training programs during the summer months. Following graduation in 1969 Baigent was 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 awarded a Viscount Bennett Scholarship and earned a master of laws at Lorne O. Clarke ‘51 Kimberly Pate ‘84 John Cuthbertson ‘79 Lee Cohen ‘80 Justice Robert Barnes ‘77 Dugald Christie ‘66 David Newman ‘68 Harvard University. He pursued a distinguished legal career in British Columbia where he specialized in labour and constitutional law. How- ever, Baigent never let go of his concern for Africa. “The country is hard Eligibility: A Dalhousie Law graduate to get out of your blood, and I persuaded my law partners to inaugurate Nominations: With your nomination please include a minimum of two letters of support along with John Baigent ‘69 a sabbatical program so I could get back there,” he says. the nominee’s curriculum vitae. In 1988, he took time away from his practice to work in Ethiopia for Selection: the World University Service of Canada. During this period Baigent fell A selection committee appointed by the board of directors of the Dalhousie Law in love with the country and its people. In 2001 he founded and became Alumni Association. executive director for Partners in the Horn of Africa. Partners has an Deadline: Nominations must be received by December 7, 2009. annual budget of approximately $1,000,000 and focuses on the areas of greatest need: building schools and health clinics, administering micro- My nomination for The Weldon Award of Unselfish Public Service: finance programs, providing care for HIV orphans, digging wells and building bridges. A unique feature of Partners is that 100 per cent of ______its donations are used for projects in Ethiopia. The directors work on a volunteer basis and all administrative costs are paid by the directors and Nominated by: a few key supporters. With all projects there is an Ethiopian partner that is required to cover 15 to 20 per cent of project costs, usually through the ______supply of labour or local materials. In return, the partner shares in all Telephone: e-mail: decision-making. Baigent believes this partnering will make a profound difference for the people of Ethiopia: “Real and lasting changes in the ______Third World have to involve local residents, empowering them to take charge of their own future.” Baigent now works full-time for Partners, Please return this form to: Karen Kavanaugh spending about half of the year in Ethiopia. Dalhousie, Weldon Law Building 6061 University Avenue, Halifax, NS B3H 4H9 The Weldon Award for Unselfish Public Service, sponsored by the Dal- tel: 902-494-3744 fax: 902-494-1316 housie Law School Alumni Association, was established in 1983 to serve [email protected] as a tribute to the ideals of the Law School’s first dean, Richard Chapman Weldon. The award will be presented to Baigent at his 40th Law School reunion on Oct. 2, 2009. • 20 Hearsay 2009 Hearsay 2009 21  ALUMNI AFFAIRS

ALUMNI IN PRINT: JOHN BALLEM ’49

reached South Georgia, landing on the (identified by a red bill and strip of white having on the penguin population found, fantasy land of icebergs in the Couverville south side of the island and having to on its head), the adelie (solid black head) if anything, it was beneficial. Penguins Bay. Giant icebergs, streaked with the climb a mountain to reach the whaling and the chinstrap (an elegant black line aren’t bothered by humans, but skuas are brilliant green of old ice, rising from the On the Trail of Shackleton station. But that was not the end of the below its beak) are the ones that spring and tend to avoid the more popular spots. sea, icebergs like small castles, and a ordeal. The dispatched whaling vessels to mind when “penguin” is mentioned. Port Lockroy has to be one of the graceful arch big enough to sail under. were defeated by the ice. It was early December, summertime liveliest places in Antarctica, in people There are some 8,000 pairs of penguins on Fascinated by Shackleton’s quest, Calgary’s John Shackleton then raised money in in Antarctica, and the nesting season and penguin terms. Named after a French Couverville Island. Leaping through the the Falkland Islands for another rescue was well underway. Unlike their larger politician who supported an expedition water, the gentoos fished for krill off the Ballem travelled to Antarctica, marvelling at the attempt but this, too, was unsuccessful. cousins, the emperors, to eliminate the to the region, it is the headquarters of shore, then climbed to their rookery high One of the last pictures showed threat of predators, lay their single egg the Antarctic Heritage Trust and has a on a hill. penguins and people that have defined the continent Shackleton in Punta Arenas, standing and raise the chick in the harsh, -70 C and souvenir shop and a small staff. It is also The entrance to Deception Islands outside the mansion, now the Hotel colder winter—the other species breed in an astonishing demonstration of just how leads to a vast inlet that is the crater of “We have just learned that Plan A The paintings portrayed Endurance Jose Nogueira, where I was staying, the summer months. The eggs had been tolerant penguins are of humans. Isolated an active volcano that is reputed to erupt won’t work,” the exuberant tour guide entering the Weddell Sea in December and that houses the Shackleton Bar. The laid and a few downy chicks were spotted from the rest of the world, they don’t every 40 years. We were there on the 38th announced. “The landing strip on King 1914 and becoming trapped in pack ice in Chilean government and the people of under a brooding parent bird. Walking perceive us as a threat. Their nests, made and took comfort from the margin of George Island is covered with mud and January 1915. As was the case with Arctic Punta Arenas got behind the effort and along the rocky beach, we saw a Weddell of rocks, since that is the only material error. It sent clouds of steam rising from wet snow, so our chartered jet can’t land exploration, the hope and expectation was commissioned the Chilean cutter Yelcho seal. The giant animal didn’t let us disturb available, surround the small wooden the water. Those of our party who had there. But there’s a Plan B.” Of course that the ship would be released from the to rescue the men left on Elephant Island. its slumber. buildings. Two nests with chicks crowd the foresight to bring swimsuits went for there would be a Plan B. When travelling grip of the ice at the end of the Antarctic The cutter, with Shackleton on board, Returning to the ship, we were told either side of the doorway. Bemused and a dip. in the Antarctic, there has to be a Plan B, winter and the expedition could continue. arrived Aug. 30, 1916, justifying the faith the weather wasn’t promising where we charmed, we watch a gentoo present his Decrepit tumbledown buildings and and Plans C and D as well. But the ice began to crush Endurance, of the men who never doubted their were in the South Shetland Islands so we mate with a rock to add to their nest. a crumbling flat-bottomed dory on the Plan B promised to be more exciting forcing the 28 men to abandon ship on leader would come back for them. Every would sail across the Bransfield Strait to Later that afternoon, as we headed beach were reminders the island was once than the original. Tomorrow we would Oct. 27, 1915, and set up camp a mile or so man who had set out with Shackleton the Peninsula. The map of Antarctica is south, I heard the familiar crash and boom a thriving whaling station. A disastrous be airlifted to King George Island in a away on the ice. From there, they watched from England two years before survived. covered with the names of early explorers of ice against the hull. We were in pack ice decline in the whale population due to Hercules of the Uruguayan air force. The Endurance break up and slip beneath the There were many epic voyages in and others who played a role in the at the entrance to the Lemaire Channel. over-exploitation and the ban imposed by briefing session went on to deal with other Weddell Sea on Nov. 21, 1915, some 280 the Heroic Age of polar exploration discovery of “the last place on earth.” We stopped for a while before the captain the International Convention on Whaling matters: how to don the life preservers in days after first becoming trapped. in the early 20th century. A few may Edward Bransfield charted this region decided it was safe to go into the channel. brought an end to that. The dory would be case we had to ditch in the Drake Passage; Fascinated, I went from painting to have equalled, but none surpassed, in 1820. Sailing out of Maxwell Bay that Everyone on board was delighted with much the same as the longboat Shackleton maintaining the required distance from painting, showing the crew finally being Shackleton’s Trans-Antarctic Expedition. evening, I saw the Three Brothers on the the decision as we crunched our way and his companions sailed to the island the penguins; zodiac protocol; and other able to launch the three lifeboats in April As we droned smoothly on in the far shore. As I took a photo, my thoughts through the narrow, ice-choked passage of South Georgia. After an exploratory stuff we needed to know. 1916 and sail and haul them to Elephant Hercules, my thoughts reverted to were on the Three Sisters in the Canadian with towering cliffs on both sides. We hike on Deception, we made a quick stop I lingered behind as the meeting Island, so named because of the elephant Shackleton and his five companions Rockies. made a landing on Peterman Island at the on nearby Half Moon Island to pay our broke up and the other 35 members of seals found there. There they made camp, battling the turbulent seas in their The Grigory Mikheev began to pitch and end of the channel, the zodiacs picking respects to the chinstraps nesting there. the “Fly and Sail” expedition filed out hunting seals and penguins for food. open boat. In our four-plus-hour flight, rock as we left the bay and it persisted their way around floes of blue ice. Two Appropriately enough for a summer’s of the Shackleton Bar. I wanted to study In 1995 I was near Elephant Island but we crossed into Antarctica, which through the night. Sticking a scopolamine young elephant seals were sleeping day in Antarctica, it began to snow as the paintings that covered the walls. was prevented from landing by Force encompasses everything south of the patch behind my ear, I climbed into peacefully in the pit their body heat we sailed out of Half Moon Bay and They depicted every stage of Sir Ernest 7 winds. Still I was able to see through 60th parallel. my bunk. (Scopolamine is a drug used created in the snow. headed for King George Island where the Shackleton’s Trans-Antarctic Expedition, binoculars the rocky beach where the We had a soggy but safe landing to make zombies in Haiti, but it also We were just north of the Antarctic Hercules waited. • beginning with Endurance, his three- longboat would have been launched on Frei Station, a large scientific prevents seasickness.) Circle, and this was as far south as we masted ship with an ice-strengthened hull, to begin Shackleton’s incredible rescue establishment operated by Chile. The base Everyone was on deck when we would go. More spectacular sights were Reprinted with the permission of the Calgary sailing from Plymouth, England, on Aug. voyage. While temporarily safe on the is Chilean, but it’s not Chilean territory. anchored off Trinity Island and the crew in store for us as we headed north. None Herald. 8, 1914. island, Shackleton knew they were Under the Antarctic Treaty, sovereignty began to lower the zodiacs. Getting out of could be more spectacular than the Shackleton had once planned to be hopelessly stranded. No ships would pass claims have been deferred indefinitely. the zodiac can be tricky because the bow the first man to reach the North Pole but by, and no radio could summon help. The A short zodiac ride brought us to the is nudged up against the smooth, wet was deprived of that distinction when nearest habitation, the whaling station on “sail” part of the expedition, the Grigory face of a boulder. That’s not a problem Robert Peary made it to the Pole in April South Georgia, was 1,500 kilometres away, Mikheev anchored offshore. As adventure for the gentoos that were nesting on JOHN BALLEM, Q.C., LL.D., a wartime navy pilot and a1949 1909. Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian across the most storm-tossed stretch of cruise ships go, the Grigory Mikheev was top of a cliff. On the beach, skuas, the Dalhousie Law graduate, is a Calgary lawyer and novelist. As a lawyer, explorer, won the race to the South Pole ocean in the world, with waves cresting to comparatively small, at only 70 metres penguins’ deadliest predators, patrolled he has specialized in oil and gas law and has published many articles in December 1911, beating his rival, the 15 metres. long. the shoreline. The stocky, brown member on that subject. He is also the author of the well-known textbook, The celebrated and ill-fated Robert Scott, by I had made four crossings of the Drake Our first zodiac landing took place of the gull family not only preys on the Oil and Gas Lease in Canada. He was recently awarded a Distin- one month. By way of a consolation prize, Passage and knew how awesome those that afternoon, on nearby Ardley Island, eggs and chicks but also forces adult birds guished Service Award for legal scholarship by the Law Society of Shackleton was determined to become the waves could be. I marvelled at Shackleton where three species of penguins were to disgorge the fish they have caught. Alberta and the Canadian Bar Association Alberta. His latest novel (his first man to lead an expedition across the and his five companions setting sail in a nesting. There are 17 species of penguins Surprisingly, a survey of the impact 13th), Murder On The Bow, will be published in the spring of 2010. continent of Antarctica. 6.7-metre open boat. After 16 days they in the world: these three the gentoo the increasing number of tourists was

22 Hearsay 2009 Hearsay 2009 23  ALUMNI AFFAIRS

Fall Reunion PHOTOGRAPHS BY NICK PEARCE 2008

On Friday, Sept. 26,

2008, the law school’s Annual Alumni Dinner brought together members of the classes of ‘58, ‘68, ‘83, ‘88 and ‘98. A boisterous host of over 250 alumni, faculty and friends of Dalhousie enjoyed

a meal of maple-glazed salmon topped with a generous serving of wry humour from guest speaker Chief Justice Joseph Kennedy (‘68). The dinner, hosted by Dean Phillip Saunders, kicked off the Annual Alumni Reunion. The rest of the weekend included tours of the Law School and class dinners throughout downtown Halifax. •

24 Hearsay 2009 Hearsay 2009 25  ALUMNI AFFAIRS Class ‘88 Reunion 2008 Class Photos

Class ‘83

Class ‘68 Class ‘58

Class ‘98

26 Hearsay 2009 Hearsay 2009 27  SCHOOL NEWS Lectures

Barbara Walker- Chief Justice Peter Hogg: eminent Cynthia Williams: Yukiko Asada: to Kim Pate: delivers Renshaw: CTOs from MacDonald: legal scholar lectures on delivers Osler each according to Horace E. Read a policy perspective a pre-exam pep talk judicial salaries Business Lecture their needs Memorial Lecture

Throughout the academic year, the Late March is, by any estimation, a tough Within the legal community, there are As the world struggles to pull itself In health care, it is generally accepted that Dostoevsky once wrote that the degree of Health Law Institute presents a program time of the year for law students. A time few scholars as widely known and out of the worst financial crisis in the potential for expenditure is virtually civilization in a society can be judged by of eight lunchtime seminars on current when the comfortable chatter of Weldon respected as Dr. Peter Hogg. A leading nearly a century, questions about the limitless. All societies face a dilemma entering its prisons. If that is indeed true issues in health law and policy. fades into an eerie, church-like silence voice in the field of constitutional law, standards to which we hold our banks when it comes to distributing health then, according to Kim Pate, we are in One of this year’s distinguished as students prepare to face a day of Dr. Hogg is cited by our Supreme Court seem increasingly relevant in our day- resources that are finite. As Canadians, serious trouble. Delivering the 32nd an- speakers was Barbara Walker-Renshaw, reckoning for all those missed classes and more than twice as often as any other to-day lives. As Professor Cynthia A. we have accepted that distribution should nual Horace E. Read Memorial Lecture, a partner in the Health Law Practice late-night Domus parties. scholar, and his writings are a staple of Williams discussed in this year’s Osler be carried out according to a needs-based Pate spoke of grave and fundamental Group at the law firm Borden Ladner As Law Hour’s final speaker of the legal casebooks across the country. Business Law Lecture, responsible and approach. But, how do we determine problems in how our prison system treats Gervais LLP. Walker-Renshaw’s year, Chief Justice Michael MacDonald Thus it was hardly surprising that, when ethical business practices shouldn’t where resources are most needed? offenders, using striking tales of brutality presentation addressed the development had his work cut out for him. Facing Dr. Hogg paid a visit to Dalhousie, the cost the banks money. Indeed, for most On Jan. 30, Dr. Yukiko Asada, from and alienation to illustrate her point. and use of Community Treatment an overstressed and undernourished student community packed in to get a institutions it makes solid financial sense Dalhousie’s Department of Community Pate acknowledged that, according to Orders (CTOs) in different provinces audience, he delivered a rousing pep talk glimpse of the man whose writings have to keep ethically clean. Health and Epidemiology, conducted her research, Canada had the best prison and regions of Canada. CTOs are a reminding the weary students that this had such a profound influence on their Prof. Osler pointed out that the a seminar on this issue. She presented system in the world, but maintained that relatively recent legislated mechanism too would end, that it’s always darkest education. current financial crisis can be traced to her own theories on how demographics this fact only made her findings more for managing the community treatment before the dawn and that a good lawyer The standing-room only crowd was shoddy accounting standards. But rather should be broken down, and how best disturbing. Discrimination based on of mentally disordered patients. thrives under pressure. easily charmed by the affable New than greater government intervention, to analyze and predict where health care race, gender and disability are ingrained Legislation governing CTOs was Quoting sources as diverse as Zealander, who gave an engaging speech she argued that banks should be left to resources are most in need. into our system, and many prisoners are introduced to reduce the number of Shakespeare and the Eagles to hammer on judicial salaries. Dr. Hogg scoffed self-regulate since, ultimately, it’s in their Her presentation included some unaware of their rights. “revolving door” involuntary admissions his point home, Justice MacDonald at the idea that judicial compensation financial interest. intriguing facts, generating lively Although she painted a grim picture, for patients whose condition typically waxed eloquently about the central commissions are the only way to protect As a success story, Prof. Williams discussion. For instance, it was found that Pate determined to leave her audience improves with in-hospital treatment but importance that lawyers have in a judges from political manipulation, pointed to the Equator Principles, a men are more likely to assess their health on an upbeat note by ending her speech then deteriorates on discharge into the democratic society. He reminded the pointing out that with their $260 000 non-binding set of environmental and negatively than women. In the same with a musical montage. Though the community. The mandatory nature of students that around the world and salary federal judges were hardly social standards that a number of banks vein, wealth was found to be connected effect may have been slightly more sur- CTOs is not without controversy, Walker- throughout history, lawyers have been scrabbling to make ends meet. He also have volunteered to follow. By adopting with increased pessimism, leading one real than the speaker had intended, it Renshaw explained, as she explored the persecuted and imprisoned for standing rejected the idea that such salaries these principles, banks ensure that they audience member to conclude that “rich nonetheless added a touch of levity to the use of CTOs from a policy perspective. up for just causes, and that a strong and are necessary in order to lure the best can maintain an image as benevolent men are whiners.” otherwise somber event. Her presentation was very timely, as she independent judiciary is the greatest legal minds away from more lucrative institutions. But beyond mere public Another interesting observation from Above all, Pate’s speech demonstrated highlighted for the audience differences defence society has against tyranny. corporate work, citing a Revenue Canada relations, these principles make solid an examination of provincial health tables that, although it’s not the easiest subject and similarities in the various provincial MacDonald finished his speech with report which indicated that two-thirds of financial sense. Sustainable, ethical found that while Newfoundland had to discuss, the condition of our prisons and territorial statutes in light of recently a list of do’s and don’ts for the students, federal judges had received a substantial business practices minimize risk and the some of the country’s highest rates of is a topic of vital importance. No calling enacted legislative provisions for CTOs advice drawn from his own years on the pay hike with their appointment. threat of instability, and companies that heart disease, obesity and diabetes, the can be nobler than that which seeks to in Nova Scotia.• bench. It was a rousing harangue, and a “It’s a good gig,” he said of the follow these guidelines are naturally province had by far the lowest incidence improve the lives of the downtrodden. speech that struck just the right note for judiciary, “there’s no doubt about it.” better choices for investment. of stress in the country. Pate’s work, though revealing an ugly the classroom of exam-weary students. • Moments of levity aside, it was a treat for While the system is far from perfect, Prof. The lecture addressed an issue of vital side to our society, is nonetheless an in- the assembled students to hear one of the Williams made a strong case that it’s the importance to all Canadians and served as a spiring example of selfless work toward a brightest and most influential minds in best way to move forward. • reminder that, at the national level, health is better world. • the country speak. • ultimately all about the numbers. •

28 Hearsay 2009 Hearsay 2009 29  SCHOOL NEWS Lectures Milestones acknowledged

Weldon’s hallways came alive on brief stopover. Friday, June 12, as faculty gathered to His sentiments were expounded celebrate career milestones for some of upon by the retiring Professor Jennifer their colleagues, while bidding a fond Bankier, who herself commented on farewell to others. Professor David Blaikie, the wonderful collegiality that exists who stepped in as the event’s emcee among Dalhousie’s faculty and students after Dean Saunders was unexpectedly while relating anecdotes about just how Alan Hutchison: Justice Binnie: a view Sir Dennis Byron: delayed on a business trip, put the collegial things could get among the staff Professor Philip Girard events into perspective with an emotive when alcohol was involved. the ethics of unethical from the Supreme Court work of the Criminal introduction. Also retiring this year is Professor Paul behaviour Tribunal for Rwanda Among those honoured were Professor Thomas. Unfortunately, he was unable to Philip Girard and Lisa Drew, both of attend the festivities due to an emergency Professor Hutchison began by boldly For a law student, there are few more On Tuesday March 10, Dalhousie Law whom were celebrating 25 years at meeting. stating that cheating and lying were part valuable experiences than the opportuni- School was pleased to welcome Sir Dalhousie. In receiving his award, Prof. All of the speakers were firm in stating of the legal profession, claiming that fun- ty to hear a Supreme Court Justice speak. Dennis Byron, president of the Interna- Girard mused upon the serendipitous their profound affection for Dalhousie, damentally “that’s what lawyers do.” He Thus it was with considerable excitement tional Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. circumstances that had first brought him and it was a wonderful affirmation of the then posed a series of legal-fact scenarios that Dalhousie welcomed the Honourable Sir Byron was invited to give the inau- to Atlantic Canada, falling in love with warm and harmonious atmosphere that to his audience and asked whether a Justice Binnie on March 5. gural Yogis and Keddy Chair in Human the university on what was meant to be a exists at the Law School. • response that was unethical (or even il- Justice Binnie delivered a speech that Rights Law special lecture. legal) could be justified. To the chagrin of focused on the importance of civil liber- After briefly reminding the audience many, his answer was a forceful yes. ties and the need to thrash out a balance of the chilling facts of the genocide, Professors Jennifer Bankier and David Blaikie Prof. Hutchison claimed that unethi- between freedom and security. Sir Byron went on to discuss the work Sheila Wile retires after 20 years cal behaviour was justified in the face of Justice Binnie pointed out that total that the tribunal had done in the 15 an equally unethical opposition and in security is an impossibility and compared years since its inception. Although the After 20 years as secretary to the graduate program, Sheila Wile retired on June an unethical profession. He compared current fears about terrorism to Cold War number of perpetrators indicted had 30. Sheila began her career at Dalhousie with short stints at Physical Plant and the practice of law to the notion of “just anxiety about communist infiltration. been relatively small, Sir Byron was at Shirreff Hall, but in 1989 she found her true home at the Law School and never war,” where acts such as killing and Today’s threats are by no means unique, pains to point out that the trials had looked back. Although Sheila has fulfilled various other functions along the destroying property become righteous and although the dangers are inarguably been lengthy, citing one case in particu- way, such as secretarial supervisor and secretary to the Finance Committee and because of their context. Since lying and real it’s fundamentally important that the lar that lasted more than 400 days, with the Tenure and Promotions Committee, looking after the graduate program cheating were part of the legal profession government act in a restrained manner, some 200 witnesses and 13,000 pages of was her core responsibility and the one she most enjoyed. Seeing the students just as killing was a part of war, all that particularly when its actions might have evidence. through from first contact to admission to completion of their degrees was was left to be established was where the a chilling effect on our fundamental civil According to Sir Byron, these rigor- always interesting and sometimes challenging, and many students over the line ought to be drawn. Even a just war ideals. ous standards were one of the tribunal’s years benefited from a “closed-door” session with Sheila where they related their must obey the Geneva Conventions—so In times like this, it’s important that most important achievements, since problems and received the necessary encouragement and assistance. Lisa Drew and Linda Aiken to what degree is a just lawyer permitted the judiciary act as a counterbalance, they set a precedent for future prosecu- Sheila was always particularly concerned to ensure that non-Canadian to cheat? working against the natural inclination of tions. Other important contributions students found their way securely through the system, helping those who hailed In the course of his speech, Prof. the executive to push a security agenda discussed were the precedent set in from such countries as Bhutan and Brazil. Always one to enjoy a good party, Hutchison delved into the legal philoso- as far as they can. Although he was care- defining and applying what qualified Sheila helped organize various potluck dinners and receptions in the course of phies of H.L.A. Hart and Machiavelli ful to focus on foreign rather than domes- as genocide and singling out conduct the year, and Weldonites frequently benefited from her homemade shortbread in order to explain his position. But, as tic examples of such abuses, it was clear that was so abhorrent; it was more than cookies. the talk drew to a close, this observer that his arguments about torture, unlaw- a mere side effect of war; it was a war Sheila’s contributions to life at Dalhousie were recognized in 2003 when she could not help but wonder if perhaps ful detention and freedom of speech were crime. received the Rosemary Gill Award for outstanding service to students by an the lecture was designed to elicit the directed at our domestic agencies. Sir Byron noted that, while this area employee in a non-teaching role. Students, faculty and staff will miss her deeply exact response it did. Rather than launch Concluding, Justice Binnie reminded of the law remained in its infancy, it but wish her well in her retirement. Sheila says she will not miss the commute a defence of legal ethics, could Prof. the students that these were issues of tre- was one of the most important develop- from Fall River and she’s looking forward to spending more time with her Hutchison have decided to attack them mendous importance and urged them to ing areas. Only through the application children and granddaughter and pursuing other interests. • and shock Dalhousie’s legal community involve themselves in these fundamental of justice could the world truly account Sheila Wile and David Blaikie into mounting a spirited defence of its debates. • for crimes of the past. • own? •

30 Hearsay 2009 Hearsay 2009 31  STUDENT NOTES

Moots Smith Shield Jessup

Sean Van Helden, Emily Beaton, Freedom-Kai Phillips and Bruce Lee-Shanok put on a terrific performance in London, Ont. They were in second place at the end of the preliminary rounds and faced off against the University of Ottawa in the final. Freedom and Bruce lost this very hotly contested round, and Ottawa went on to place first overall in the moot. Also, thanks goes out to the many judges, practitioners and faculty who helped the team by sitting for practice benches. In the Jessup, perhaps more than any other moot, the quality of a team’s performance is directly tied to how rigorously the moot- ers were tested in practice. • (From left) Emily Beaton, Bruce Lee-Shanok, Sean Van Helden, Professor Robert Currie and Freedom Kai-Phillips.

Canadian Corporate/ (From left) The Honourable Elizabeth Roscoe, Melissa Hamilton, Shaun MacMillan, Cindy Locke, Bruce Lee-Shanok, Justice Thomas Cromwell and Joel Pink, QC Securities Melissa Hamilton Bruce Lee-Sha- The Smith Shield recognizes the high level of achievement in in Advocacy. Runners up and (From left) Justice Kathryn N. Feldman mooting by four third-year students who participate in the an- nok were awarded the Leonard A. Kitz Prize in Advocacy. (Ontario Court of Appeal), Chrissy Gian- noulias and Bill O’Reilly (from Davies nual competition. The moot was held before a bench composed of Joel Pink, Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP), Danielle The winners of this year’s Smith Shield were Cindy Locke QC, president of the N.S. Barristers’ Society, the Honourable Toigo, Ken Jennings, Jennifer Hodgins, and Shaun MacMillan. They were awarded the A.S. Patillo Prize Thomas Cromwell and the Honourable Elizabeth Roscoe.• Dan McGruder, Professor Mohamed Khimji (Photo courtesy of Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP)

McKelvey Cup Laskin Memorial The Dalhousie Law School team of Jennifer Hodgins, Ken of arrangement and the attempt by certain holders of notes to Jennings, Dan McGruder and Danielle Toigo beat 12 other law prevent court approval of the transaction. Four students from Dal Law participated in the McKelvey Cup The 2009 Laskin Moot, a bilingual moot in constitutional and schools from across Canada for their first-place finish. The The final round was argued before Justices Kathryn N. in Moncton in February 2009. The problem in this case was administrative law, was hosted by the University of Western moot took place at the Federal Court of Appeal in Toronto on Feldman, Robert A. Blair, and John I. Laskin of the Ontario prosecuting or defending a charge of dangerous driving causing Ontario in London, Ont. on Feb. 27 and 28. Mooters Jen Bond, March 6 and 7. Court of Appeal, along with Lucien Bouchard, PC, GOQ death. The Dalhousie defence team of Gerry Quigley and Katy Josiah MacQuarrie, Ashley McConnell-Gordon and Mahdi The team’s faculty supervisor, Mohamed Khimji, said, “For (former premier of Quebec) and Lawrence Ritchie (vice-chair of Sweet placed second, defeating the Crown team from UNB. Shams, coached by Prof. Philip Girard, wrapped their heads me, the best part was watching four young people transform the OSC). Gerry also won the award for best opening statement. The Dal- around a problem dealing with a challenge to the federal themselves from students into professional advocates in just The only competition of its kind in Canada, the annual housie Crown team of Cindy Locke and Mike Scott placed third, judicial appointments process launched by a disappointed two months’ time. The University can be very proud of them as Corporate/Securities Moot provides an opportunity for top defeating the defence team from the University of Moncton. applicant. The team placed fourth overall out of the 20 teams they certainly represented us well.” students from Canadian law schools to debate current legal Mike also won the award for best cross examination. The team in attendance and was awarded the third-place prize for the The problem argued by the team was designed to test the issues in corporate and securities law with senior practitioners prize overall went to the University of Moncton Crown team best factum. Jen Bond was judged to be the fourth-best oralist boundaries of the recent landmark decision by the Supreme from Toronto law firms and corporations, regulators from who faced off against UNB. The McKelvey Cup is the regional out of a field of 80. • Court of Canada in the BCE bondholder litigation. It involved the Ontario Securities Commission and judges. The moot is trial competition for the Sopinka Cup. • a proposed transaction whereby a corporation would “spin- sponsored and administered by the Toronto law firm Davies off” one of its subsidiaries to its shareholders by way of a plan Ward Phillips & Vineberg. •

32 Hearsay 2009 Hearsay 2009 33  STUDENT NOTES

Students participate in 1 2 2 3 fellowship program

For the past five years Dal Law students have benefited from The Borden Ladner Gervais’ fellowship program. This initiative provides grants to top performing first-year law students to undertake legal research initiatives under the direction of Domus Legis: faculty members. Former students Keri Gammon (‘06), Melissa Insanic (‘07), Re-energized and reborn David Mollica (‘08), Jeff Haylock (‘09) and current student Erin 4 5 5 6 Tolfo (candidate ‘10) have all participated in this program. In 2003 the legendary Domus house, which had once “The BLG Fellowship program offers first-year law played host to the likes of Lord Denning and Justice Wilson students an invaluable, hands-on learning experience and an and provided a home away from home to generations of opportunity for law schools to secure top performing first-year law students, was torn down to make way for university students to perform much needed legal research,” explained expansion. At the time there was talk of moving, of finding a Norm Letalik (LL.M.’80), Managing Director of Professional new house and a new direction, but nothing came to fruition. Excellence at BLG. “By supporting first-year law students early The society floundered, seemingly without purpose or in their careers, BLG is providing work opportunities to help direction. promising students and support the law school’s efforts to Today, that changes. With a young and energetic new attract talent for university research.” executive, Domus is committed to reestablishing itself at 7 The Fellowship Program, established in 2004, arose out of the heart of Dalhousie Law’s social community. As the first 8 9 10 BLG’s commitment to strengthening university-based research step in the drive, Domus held a series of “Summer Social” at law schools across Canada. Over the past five years the events in Canada’s major legal centers which brought program has awarded 100 fellowships, totaling $1 million, to together alumni as well as current and incoming students. promote legal research at law schools. The Summer Socials were a tremendous success, and we Starting in 2009, the renewed BLG Fellowship program hope to harness the energy of those events in an upcoming will award a total of 20 grants worth $12,000 each year to fund raising drive, with the aim of securing a new house by law students who have completed their first year. Fellowship September of 2010. If all goes according to plan, and with recipients will be chosen by the individual law schools based your support, this should be the last year that Domus is upon their academic achievements. • without a domicile. • 11 12 13 13 David Steeves: Wins Race and the Law Essay Prize

The Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society new Race and the Law Essay Prize recognizes outstanding DISCRETIONARY AWARD WINNERS 2008 scholarship by students of Dalhousie Law School, pertaining specifically to race and the law. 1. Daniel McGruder Robert E. Bamford Memorial Prize Created by the Race Relations Committee (RRC), the new annual prize is sponsored by the law 2. Jillian Brown/Kristen Van Alpen Eunice Beeson Memorial Prize firm of Stewart McKelvey. “There is important work being done by students at Dalhousie on 3. Jessica Irving The A. William Cox Memorial Award issues of race and the law,” explains Bedford lawyer Barbara Darby, a member of the RRC’s 4. Nasha Nijhawan Muriel Duckworth Award 5. Adam Picotte/Edward Wang William Johnston Grant Q.C. Memorial Award paper prize subcommittee. “We hope it will invite more students to give consideration during 6. Jillian Allen David M. Jones Memorial Award their academic study to issues of race and encourage them to develop their race literacy. 7. Derek Schnare Elizabeth May Award for Environmental Service 14 The 2009 prize winner was David Steeves (LL.M.‘09), for his submission “Maniacal Murderer 8. Lindsay McFadden Sarah MacWalker MacKenzie Clinical Law Award or Death Dealing Car: The Case of Daniel Perry Sampson 1933-1935.” Sampson, an African- 9. Jennifer Bond NSBS Presidents’ Leadership Award Nova Scotian veteran of the Great War, was arrested and tried in the mysterious 1933 deaths of 10. Christine Muir Judge Fran Potts Award 11. Andrew Johnston The Francois-Michel Proulx Memorial Award two young brothers whose bodies were found near railway tracks on the outskirts of Halifax. 12. Gordon McGuire Horace E. Read Award A lawyer and member of the bar societies in both Nova Scotia and Alberta, Mr. Steeves 13. Hilary Kennan/Jenny Rodopoulos The Dawn Russell Community Commitment Award graduated from Dalhousie Law School in May with a Master of Laws degree. He also holds 14. Ashley Thomas Judge Corrine E. Sparks Award in Law for Excellence and Service a Bachelor of Laws degree from Dal and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mount Allison University. He presently resides in Toronto and is pursuing a career in litigation while developing further work for publication. •

34 Hearsay 2009 Hearsay 2009 35  STUDENT NOTES It’s not every day a law Alison Hopkins: summer in Bangladesh school gets a $20-million gift

The night before final exam began I Needless to say, taking part in this the third day, they were practising their received a phone call — I had been program broadened my perspective. English and asking all kinds of questions It is our great pleasure to confirm that an agreement has been reached between Dalhousie and philanthro- chosen for an internship with Canadian It challenged my creativity to develop about life in Canada. Lawyers Abroad in Bangladesh. I had education programs in a country with I have to admit everything didn’t pist Seymour Schulich for a precedent-setting gift of $20 million, entirely dedicated to our law school. To less than a month to prepare to go, but I low literacy rates. Working with FEIRP go as smoothly as I would have liked. put this in perspective, the largest previous gift to a Canadian law school of which we are aware was in the was so excited to have this opportunity showed me the difficult tasks faced by It took awhile getting used to being amount of $7.5 million. to test the waters of a career in interna- development programs and allowed me stared at (young white women are not an tional legal development. to work with both high-level government everyday sight in Dhaka) and I missed For the summer of 2008 I worked in parties and local Bangladeshi people. my shorts in the forty degree weather. Students will be the major beneficiaries of the donation, with the greatest portion of the gift dedicated to 41 Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh and The Leaders of Influence (LOI) pro- But I also learned so much. I was given one of the largest cities of South Asia gram aims to enhance the capacity of an opportunity to network that many new scholarships with an average value of $12,000 each. We will now have the best scholarship program with a population of 12-million. While religious and secular leaders of influence others only dream of, from brunch with in Canada. We expect the first of these scholarships, which will acknowledge academic merit, community there I worked with the Asia Founda- to contribute to national development the British High Commissioner to sitting service and financial need, to be awarded during the ’09/’10 academic year. This new support means we will be able to offer a Dalhousie legal education to qualified students who may otherwise never have the Canadian-trained chance to attend law school. lawyers are respected in the international A new Schulich Academic Excellence Fund, administered through the Faculty, will be available to support community, particu- many initiatives, including student exchanges and internships, clinical education (including the legal aid larly in the areas of clinic), professional development, research initiatives, course development, library holdings and more.

constitutional and Our site will continue to be known as the Weldon Law Building, and the Sir James Dunn Law Library will legal development. continue to bear the name of one of the university’s early 20th century benefactors.

tion on two projects: the Fair Elections In recognition of Mr. Scuhlich’s support, the Faculty of Law will become the Schulich School of Law. The and Institutional Reforms Project official logo will continue to include the Dalhousie name and the current crest. (FEIRP), and the Leaders of Influence Program (LOI). In the past two years FEIRP has Mr. Schulich has supported several Canadian universities (the Schulich School of Business at York University, grown in importance as Bangladesh Alison presenting Leaders of Influence certificates in Sylhet has been under emergency rule since the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Western Ontario, the Schulich School of suspended national elections in January and democratic reforms. Much of my ex- in on meetings with the U.S. envoy to Engineering at the University of Calgary, and the Schulich School of Music at McGill University) and interna- 2007. It was an intense time to be in the perience with the program centered on a South Asia. My legal training will be an country as the first round of elections three-day training session with one hun- important part of what I can bring to tionally (the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology). Ours is the only since 2001 were held. FEIRP played an dred Muslim Imams in a northern city. In my work in international development. Canadian law school to benefit from his philanthropy. important role in linking the interna- a country where 90 per cent of people are Canadian-trained lawyers are respected

tional development community with a Muslim, the Imam plays a highly influ- in the international community, particu- coalition of 33 local NGOs. The project ential role in the community. During the larly in the areas of constitutional and This gift is a demonstration of confidence in our faculty, students and staff, and of the focused on voter and civic education, training sessions we spoke to the Imams legal development. I will take what I have excellence of the education we have offered since 1883. Mr. Schulich’s generosity will as well as election observation. I will about a number of issues: from the ben- learned at Dalhousie and my summer admit, I had certain expectations about efits of play in children’s schooling to the with Canadian Lawyers Abroad and the allow us to carry on with renewed vigor far into the future. the voting process as well as the cor- importance of inoculations and family Asia Foundation, to do what many of us ruption that exists through much of planning. Working with the Imams was intended on doing with our law degrees South Asia, however I was genuinely a unique experience. In the beginning by taking small steps to make this world impressed with the commitment to the Imams were very unsure of me and a better place. — Alison Hopkins democracy by many of the citizens. sat as far away as possible. By the end of

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Justice Cromwell: Congratulations to former faculty member Teaching excellence recognized

In February 2009, past and present faculty members attended the formal Steve Coughlan receives Barnett Award public swearing in ceremony in Ottawa of Justice Thomas A. Cromwell Honoured at this year’s Spring Reception was Professor Steve Coughlan, who to the Supreme Court of Canada. received the 2009 Hanna and Harold Barnett Award for Excellence in Teaching First Professor Wayne MacKay, Dean Phillip Year Law presented by first-year student Melissa Grover. Saunders, Professor Bill Charles and Confessing himself to be a “busybody” with a ceaseless need to correct and Professor Brent Cotter (University of advise others, Prof. Coughlan declared his gratitude for what would otherwise be a Saskatchewan) joined Justice Cromwell “hideous social maladaption” was considered an asset now that he was a professor. at the Supreme Court to congratulate The Spring Reception also honoured part-time teachers Tim Hill, Aiden Mead and him on his appointment. Justice Cindy Murphy. Cromwell, born in Kingston, Ontario, was educated at Queen’s University, the Royal Conservatory of Music and Jennifer Llewellyn is honoured for teaching excellence earned his LL.B. at Oxford University. Professor Jennifer Llewellyn is well-known for her ability to captivate and inspire He was a much-admired professor of students. Her talents were honoured at this year’s Spring Reception when she was law at Dalhousie from 1982 to 1992 presented with the Dalhousie Law Students’ Society and Alumni Association Award for and from1995 to 1997 before his Excellence in teaching. appointment to the Nova Scotia Court In a moving presentation, student Jade Buchanan praised her abilities, stating that of Appeal. • her lessons “were not just about teaching us the law but about helping us develop as healthy human beings.” Prof. Llewellyn stated that she was “touched and truly honoured” by the recognition and praised the help and inspirationby Professor she had Paul received Thomas from her colleagues, particularly Professors Pothier and Murphy. • Your support helps Dal students reach further. The Dalhousie Fund – enriching the law student experience.

Welcome to a new faculty member

Geoffrey Loomer is delighted to return to Halifax and join the Dal Law faculty, where he will be teaching a variety of tax law courses. Professor Loomer spent his youth in Halifax and other parts of the Maritimes before relocating to the West Coast. He obtained his BSc in Economics from the University of Victoria in 1994 and his LL.B. from the University of British Columbia in 2000, spending two years in the interim with the Bank of Canada. He clerked with the British Columbia Supreme Court in 2000-01 and then practiced in the tax group of McCarthy Tétrault LLP until 2006. Geoffrey received a BCL from the University of Oxford in 2005 and, after making the decision to leave full-time practice, returned to Oxford to pursue a DPhil in international tax law. He expects to complete his doctorate later this year but will retain his association as a Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation. His research interests and publications involve the intersection of tax law, corporate law and public law. This year will be an exciting one since Geoffrey and his wife, Lindsay, are expecting their first child. •

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Vaughan Black DAVID BLAIKIE SARAH BRADLEY ALDO CHIRCOP STEVE COUGHLAN ROB CURRIE MICHAEL DETURBIDE RICHARD DEVLIN

In the summer of 2008 Professor Professor Blaikie taught Professor Bradley has continued to Professor Aldo Chircop was Steve Coughlan taught his usual 2008-09 was a busy and exciting Professor Deturbide continued to Much of Professor Devlin’s Vaughan Black taught a course Civil Procedure, Professional pursue her teaching and research on sabbatical during 2008-09. selection of Criminal Law, Crimi- year for Professor Rob Currie. serve as Associate Dean, Academic, time this year focused on issues in Judicial Remedies at the Responsibility and ADR this year. interests in the business law area He continued as co-editor of nal Procedure and Criminal Law In July 2008 he was the only in 2008-09. He oversees the relating to legal ethics and the University of Sherbrooke. In the In February, he travelled to this year, with a particular focus the Ocean Yearbook, now in its Problems, and was pleased to have academic invited to participate academic administration of the regulation of the legal profession. ULTY PROFILES C ULTY fall term he was on sabbatical Hue City, Vietnam, where he co- on corporate law and finance. 23rd volume. Remembering a been selected as this year’s winner as a faculty member at the law school, including academic He is the co-editor of a new book leave writing a book on foreign taught at Hue University (with This year, she taught courses Dalhousie colleague who died of the Hannah and Harold Barnett National Criminal Law Program regulations and policies, grades Lawyers’ Ethics and Professional

FA currency obligations, due for Professor Diana Ginn) on the in Business Associations and recently, he co-edited with Teaching Award. He continued to presented by the Federation and student issues. He also sat Regulation and co-author of two publication later this year. In the subject of conflict resolution. He Corporate Finance and is getting Ted L. McDorman and Susan co-edit the Criminal Reports, the of Law Societies of Canada in on the Credentials Committee of articles, “The End(s) of Self- winter term he turned to teaching and Professor Ginn, collaborating ready for two new courses in 2009- J. Rolston The Future of Ocean Criminal Law Essentials e-Letter, and Charlottetown. He gave papers the Nova Scotia Barristers Society Regulation (?)” (2008) 45 Alta L. with courses in Conflicts of Law with academics from Vietnam, 10: Mergers and Acquisitions and Regime-Building: Essays in Tribute the It.Can Newsletter on Law and on the right to counsel under and the Board the Commonwealth Rev. 169-216 (with P. Heffernan) and Animals of the Law, and he Singapore, India and the Current Issues in Corporate Law, to Douglas M. Johnston. He Technology. In addition, his books the Charter and international Judicial Education Institute and and “Fitness For Purpose: also chaired hearing panels for Philippines, are developing a which will focus next year on the published a series of articles on Criminal Procedure (Irwin Law) mutual legal assistance, as well as was the Canadian representative Mandatory Continuing Legal Dalhousie’s Senate Discipline proposal for a book on conflict legal issues related to multinational Arctic governance from papers and 2007 Annual Review of Criminal co-chairing workshops. In the fall to the Board of Trustees of the Law Ethics Education for Lawyers” Committee. He published papers resolution in Asia. To that end, business corporations. presented at conferences in Law (Carswell) both appeared. He he delivered invited papers at the School Admissions Council. (2009) 87 Can Bar Rev.773-804 on court jurisdiction and factual he attended a conference in New Her writing for the year Belgium, Germany, Sweden and helped chair a retreat among insti- Canadian Council on Internation- He also taught Taxation Law [with J. Downie]. Professor Devlin causation and had a paper on York City in May on resolving included the first published the United States. With Professor tutional teaching award winners al Law conference in Ottawa and and negotiated a new agreement has also been working on another the former subject presented business disputes in China. analysis and commentary on VanderZwaag, he finalised a at UNBSJ in the fall, and gave the IT.Can’s annual conference, this with Carswell for the publication paper with Professor Downie on at an international conference A book he co-wrote with the Nova Scotia Companies Act, report for the Arctic Marine keynote speech at the Golden Key year held in Halifax, as well as a of the Canadian Journal of Law and “Lifelong Learning and Legal on the law of causation held in Professor Ginn, a primer on the which is one of the oldest and Shipping Assessment process induction ceremony. In addition seminar on electronic evidence Technology (CJLT). He serves as co- Ethics Education.” He has given Aberdeen, Scotland. Throughout law for religious institutions in the most unique general incorporation of the Arctic Council and led a he gave a CLE presentation (with that Rob and colleague Steve editor, with Professor Reynolds, of papers relating to the regulation the year he served as an advisor United States, will be published statutes in Canada. For many Marine & Environmental Law Rob Currie) on electronic evidence Coughlan gave to the Nova Scotia the revitalized CJLT. of the legal profession at various to the Federal Department of in the fall by Continuum Books in years, the unique features of Institute research team, which to the Nova Scotia Department Department of Justice. Professor Deturbide produced conferences hosted by Queen’s Justice and the Law Commission New York. He is writing a volume the NSCA have made Nova co-operated with European of Justice, Civil side, spoke about Professor Currie’s primary a report for the federal Department University, McGill University, of Ontario on matters relating of Halsbury’s Laws of Canada on Scotia a jurisdiction of choice counterparts in producing a remedies to a conference of Nova research and consulting work of Justice on the Convention on the the University of Toronto and to private international law and the law of damages (Lexis Nexis). for corporations involved in book entitled Understanding and Scotia judges and gave a talk on continues to be in the area of Use of Electronic Communications Carleton University. He was also sat on the editorial board of the David is also involved as inter-provincial and cross-border Strengthening European Union- extraterritoriality and the Internet international and transnational in International Contracts. He recruited to join the editorial Journal of Private International co-editor of a book with Darrel transactions, but its ancient Canada Relations in Law of the Sea (with Rob Currie and former Dal criminal law, and there is some was also invited to speak at a board of the international journal Law. • Pink, Executive Director of the provenance and anachronistic and Ocean Governance. He faculty member Teresa Scassa) to danger that his book on these number of venues, including the Legal Ethics. Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society, elements have often proven presented a paper at a meeting an IT.Can conference. • topics will be published in the fall University of King’s College School The other major focus for and Justice Thomas A. Cromwell, challenging and counter-intuitive convened by the International of 2009. He has been regularly of Journalism, and at a conference Professor Devlin has been judicial Supreme Court of Canada. The for non-specialist advisors and Seabed Authority at Chatham consulted by the media on inter- entitled “A Free Press and an education. He has continued book, a collection of essays to students of corporate law alike. House in London, England, national extradition cases. He also Independent Judiciary” at which his work on judicial capacity be published by Irwin Law, will Professor Bradley attended the and assisted the UN Group of enjoyed coaching Dal’s Jessup he gave a presentation on the building in Vietnam with the present a balanced discussion and annual Canadian Workshop on Experts on the Scientific Aspects Moot team to a strong finish at challenge of new technologies for Judicial Academy and the critique of lawyers and lawyering Commercial and Consumer Law of Marine Pollution in peer the Canadian competition in the judiciary and participated in a Supreme People’s Court. He has in Canada. He continues to serve held this year in Winnipeg, and reviewing a document for the London, Ont., in March, and con- panel discussion. He also gave local continued to collaborate with the as a director of the Johnson attended the Conducting Empirical UN General Assembly. He taught tinues to enjoy teaching Evidence, and national media interviews on National Judicial Institute giving Scholarship Foundation, an Legal Scholarship Workshop coastal law and policy modules Civil Procedure and International technology law issues. a paper on Fundamental Breach American foundation based at Northwestern University in at universities in Uruguay and Criminal Law. • Professor Deturbide continued in Contract Law to the Civil Law in Florida, which assists Chicago. She is currently writing Mexico and gave a series of to serve as Associate Director of the Programme. He has also served disadvantaged people to attain an a comment on the Supreme Court lectures in Taiwan on the Law and Technology Institute. He as a member of the Planning education. He is also on the board of Canada’s analysis of fiduciary invitation of the Canadian Trade also chaired the Studies Committee Committee for a new “Sophomore of directors of the Presbyterian duties in the BCE case and Office in Taipei. • and served on the Admissions Programme: The Art and Craft Record, a magazine published pursuing an empirical research Committee and Tenure and of Judging” being developed by for the Presbyterian Church in project relating to the governance Promotions Committee. • the N.J.I. to be offered in August Canada. • of business trusts. • 2010. •

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JOCELYN DOWNIE Meinhard Doelle ELAINE GIBSON DIANA GINN PHILIP GIRARD MICHAEL HADSKIS Elizabeth hughes ARCHIBALD KAISER

This past year brought a trip to Meinhard Doelle is an Associate Professor Gibson was excited to This year, Professor Diana Ginn Philip Girard taught two sec- Professor Michael Hadskis taught Elizabeth Hughes continued in Professor H. Archibald (Archie) Croatia to speak at the World Professor where he specializes return to teaching Tort Law and taught Administrative Law and tions of Property in 2008-09 the core Health Law course and her role as Assistant Dean of Kaiser continues to enjoy his teach- Congress on Feminist Approaches in environmental law. He is the Damage Compensation for the Law and Religion. and coached the Laskin Moot. acted as the faculty supervisor the Faculty of Law. She taught a ing assignments, Criminal Law, to Bioethics on judicial reason- Associate Director of the Marine first time in 10 years, as well as Her research and writing His article “Politics, Promotion, for the Health Law Placement course in Youth Law, focusing Criminal Procedure and Mental

ULTY PROFILES C ULTY ing about pregnancy and choice & Environmental Law Institute her seminar course in Advanced focused primarily on law and Professionalism: Sir Wilfrid course. Michael also took on the primarily on child protection, Disability Law in the Law School and about the power of money and the Director of the Marine & Negligence: Medical Malpractice. and religion and alternative Laurier’s Judicial Appointments” Competition Administrator role adoption, aboriginal child welfare and Legal Issues in Psychiatry in in bioethics research. This was Environmental Law Programme. She had a busy year, including dispute resolution, although appeared in a festschrift for the for the 2008 Trilateral Moot Court and youth criminal justice. the Residency Training Program FA a wonderful opportunity to see From 2000 to 2006, he served appearing before the House of she also updated a chapter on late Peter Oliver, editor-in-chief of Competition. As well, he oversaw She was a guest lecturer for of the Department of Psychiatry. a new and complex part of the as a non-governmental member Commons Standing Committee “Employment Law and Dentistry” the Osgoode Society. In it Profes- and delivered health law educa- the first year Legal Research and He has recently published several world and to reconnect with col- of the Canadian delegation to on Health to critique Bill C-11, (co-authored with Malcolm Boyle) sor Girard argued that while Sir tion in the Faculty of Medicine at Writing course and supervised comments/articles in the Criminal leagues from all over the world the UN climate change negotia- the Human Pathogens and for the second edition of Dental Wilfrid deployed political patron- the M.D. and post-graduate levels LL.B. and graduate students Reports: “L.M : A Hard Case Makes who share a commitment to tions. He continues to follow the Toxins Act. She subsequently Law in Canada, edited by Professor age in a traditional manner with and oversaw the health law cur- as they wrote papers relating for Bad Sentencing Law”; “McNeil: advancing the interests of women negotiations and is currently appeared before the Senate Jocelyn Downie, Mr. Michael regard to his appointments to ricula in the Faculties of Dentistry to youth and media and youth A Welcome Clarification and Ex- in and through bioethics. collaborating on an international Standing Committee on Social Hadskis, Ms. Karen McEwan and trial-level judgeships in Canada, and Health Professions. criminal justice. In the upcom- tension of Disclosure Principles”; Thanks to funding from the project on the climate regime’s Affairs, Science and Technology Dr. William MacInnes. he made a significant break with Professor Hadskis actively ing academic year she will be and “Patrick: Protecting Canadi- Nova Scotia Health Research compliance system. to critique a revised version of the This spring, she and co-author the past when it came to judicial pursued his research interests in supervising the Nova Scotia ans’ Privacy Interest in Garbage: Foundation and the Canadian From January to May 2008, same Act, amended in part due Professor David Blaikie submitted posts at the appellate level. Here the areas of regulating human Supreme Court and Court of Ap- ‘A step too far’ for the Supreme Institutes of Health Research, Jen- Professor Doelle was a visiting to her earlier intervention. The their book Legal Guide for American he strongly favoured promotion biomedical research and neuroim- peal clerkship programs, as well Court. ” nifer Llewellyn and Prof. Downie scholar at the Environmental Law Health Law and Policy seminar Religious Institutions to the of the senior incumbent judge, aging ethics. He co-edited the as the Judge’s Weekly Clerkship He has delivered guest lectures were also able to bring together Center of the IUCN in Bonn, Ger- series she organized received publisher Continuum. Diana regardless of party affiliation, second edition of the text Dental program for third-year students. for the Nova Scotia Bar, the Cana- a remarkable group of leaders in many. He currently serves on the much critical acclaim, with an Ginn is also completing a volume and helped the cause of judicial Law in Canada and contributed Professor Hughes provided aca- dian Mental Health Association the fields of relational theory and federal provincial environmental average of 90 people attending on Religious Institutions for independence in so doing. With a chapter to this book titled “The demic counselling and advice to (C.M.H.A.), several university health law and policy to discuss assessment panel for the Lower each seminar. Halsbury’s Laws of Canada. Jim Phillips, Professor Girard Regulation of Dental Research.” many students on a wide range of departments, the N.S. Criminal their draft chapters of a book on Churchill hydroelectric project In terms of scholarship, As part of a CIDA-funded wrote “A Certain Mallaise: Har- Professor Hadskis also authored issues over the course of the year Lawyers’ Association and the Ca- the intersection of these two fields in Labrador and is collaborating Professor Gibson published project involving Dalhousie rison v. Carswell and the Limits several peer-reviewed journal and says student contact is one nadian Council of Administrative to be published next year. This on an interdisciplinary research articles/chapters in the areas of University and universities from of the Postwar Settlement,” an articles, including a paper titled of the best aspects of her job. She Tribunals. His volunteer commit- project highlights an extraordi- project on forest governance. patient safety, public health and the Philippines and Vietnam, in-depth historical case study of “Canadian Research Ethics attended conferences on class- ments have involved participation nary strength of our local talent: He has written on a variety health information laws. She Diana Ginn lectured on conflict this famous case on shopping Boards, MRI Research Risks, and action proceedings and electronic in Boards of the C.M.H.A., N.S. eight of the 12 members of our of environmental law topics, presented to the Newfoundland/ management at the Vietnam centre picketing. It will appear in MRI Risk Classification” that ap- discovery and is involved in Division; the Health Minds Coop- dream team for this book were including climate change, energy, Labrador superior court judges National University, and (with a collection edited by Judy Fudge peared in the July/August issue aspects of the new civil procedure erative; reachAbility; the Mental right here at Dalhousie. invasive species, environmental on medical malpractice. She was Professor Blaikie) co-taught & Eric Tucker on leading cases of IRB: Ethics & Human Research. rules project, working with the Health and the Law Advisory Teaching, supervising a tal- assessments and public participa- co-principal applicant (along a module on conflict management in labour law. Professor Girard In September, Professor Hads- judiciary to develop electronic Committee of the Canadian Mental ented crop of graduate students, tion in environmental decision- with researchers at McMaster in the Masters of Coastal Zone was also named to the Minister kis delivered a talk titled “Giving civil procedure forms and online Health Commission; and the Ca- managing a diverse group of re- making. His most recent books and University of Ottawa from a Management program at Hue of Labour’s list of arbitrators for Voice to Research Participants: assistance that will make the rules nadian Association of Independent search grants, writing an eclectic are: Environmental Law: Cases and range of disciplines) on a research University in Vietnam. They also Nova Scotia. • Should IRBs Hear from Research and procedures more accessible Schools. set of articles and continuing to Materials; The Federal Environ- proposal to examine access to developed a curriculum and Participant Representatives?” at and understandable to self-repre- His family is thriving, with his play soccer rounded out a most mental Assessment Process, a Guide health data for research purposes teaching materials for future use in the Society of Clinical Research sented litigants. partner, Judge Anne Derrick, being enjoyable year. • and Critique” and From Hot Air to in light of legal and ethical norms. this module. Professors Ginn and Associates 18th Annual Confer- She continues as a member very busy with the Provincial and Action: Climate Change, Compli- The proposal, intended to run Blaikie are currently developing ence in Nashville, Tenn. • of the Armbrae Academy Board Youth Court; Elspeth (25) doing ance and the Future of International for four years, was ranked first a proposal for a book on Conflict of Governors and with her work her articles in Criminal Law in Environmental Law. • in its pool; a funding decision is Management in the Asian Context. with animal-rescue organiza- Vancouver; Catriona (20) finishing pending. • In 2008-09, Professor Ginn tions. • her B.A./B.Sc. at McGill and Freya completed her seventh year as (16) enrolled in Grade 11 at Halifax the Law School representative Grammar School. • on the Nova Scotia Law Reform Commission. •

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HUGH KINDRED BILL LAHEY JENNIFER LLEWELLYN A. WAYNE MACKAY MOIRA L. MCCONNELL ANN MORRISON CHIDI OGUAMANAM DIANNE POTHIER

During the past year Professor In 2008-09, Professor Lahey Professor Llewellyn continued Professor MacKay suffered a In 2008-09 Professor McConnell The library continues to expand This past year Professor Oguama- In 2008-09 Professor Pothier Hugh Kindred continued to teach enjoyed teaching Public Law as Director for the Nova Scotia detached retina in July 2008. taught two first-year contract its services and has been able, nam taught a summer course in was on a reduced teaching load, aspects of marine and Health System Law and Restorative Justice Community After five surgeries the retina law classes and an upper-year with support from the Technology indigenous knowledge and IP as teaching only Constitutional Law. transportation, international Policy and guest lecturing in the University Research Alliance. In remains attached and his vision seminar course, Law of the Sea. Institute at the Law School and the 2008 Distinguished Interna- Beyond teaching, she participated ULTY PROFILES C ULTY trade and international law. In faculties of Management and addition, she completed work with is returning slowly. He returned She also continued with supervi- the European Union Centre of tional Scholar at Case Western in a two-part (September 2008 pursuit of these legal interests he Health Professions. Another the United Nations Development to the Law School in January sion of graduate students at the Excellence at Dalhousie, to add Reserve Law School in Cleveland, and May 2009) workshop on 2009, teaching Education Law FA undertook a collaborative study highlight was hosting the Programme drafting a National Law School and at other univer- specialized books to its collection. Ohio. He participated in the an- relational theory and health care; of the comparative regulation Honourable Allan Blakeney Restorative Justice Policy for and organizing the Read Lecture. sities, including students at the The library was able to add an nual IP Scholars Roundtable at Dianne’s contribution concerns of maritime security by Canada during his tenure as Visiting Jamaica. She also undertook a Professor MacKay published Copenhagen Business School and area of “soft seating” thanks to the Iowa Drake University, Des resource allocation. She also gave and the European Union (EU) Fellow in Law and Public Policy. project with Professor Downie on “Social and Economic Rights a doctoral candidate at the Uni- the efforts of the Class of ’57 in Moines; returned to Iowa for the three different presentations for presentation before officials In November, he was the guest Relational Theory & Health Law in Canada.” (Supreme Court versity of Bergen Law School. She honour of their esteemed teacher Annual Summer Institute on IP, outside the Law School on the of the EU Commission in of the Bertelsmann Stiftung at and Policy which was awarded Law Review). He also published remained active with the Marine and mentor, the Honourable Lorne Biotechnology and Agricultural duty to accommodate pursuant Brussels in December 2008. He the International Regulatory funding by CIHR for two author’s on this same topic in the April & Environmental Law Institute Clark Q.C., former Chief Justice of Sciences. In the earlier trip, he to human rights legislation. A also co-authored a paper with Reform Conference, held in workshops (Sept/June) and will 17, 2009, Lawyers’ Weekly. In projects, including a European Nova Scotia. spoke on Pharmaceutical R&D revised version of one of these is Professor Rob Currie about the Berlin, where he participated on result in an edited collection. February 2009 he presented to Commission funded project on EU Professor Morrison continued and Global Public Health Crisis. published in (2009) 59 UNB Law fragmentation of the international a panel comparing regulatory She is currently co-directing a the commissioners and staff of Canada activities in ocean gov- to teach first-year Legal Research In summer, his paper was on Journal, 95-108. Dianne has also law of state jurisdiction from reform in Canada, Germany joint project of the Alliance of the Canadian Human Rights ernance, a Donner Foundation- and Writing assisted by Cynthia Agricultural Biotechnology as been active in LEAF (the Women’s a Canadian perspective for a and the United States. Professor NGO’s on Crime Prevention & Commission advocating the funded Russia-Canada compara- Chewter. The advanced legal a Public Health Incentive for Legal Education and Action Fund) Colloquium on International Law Lahey lectured on Medicare Criminal Justice and the Kroc statutory addition of social tive study, as well as consultancy research class taught with Cyndi Developing Countries. His other and will be counsel for LEAF in in Domestic Courts in Oslo in and constitutional law in the Institute for Peace (Notre Dame) condition. He wrote “Power, projects on Arctic shipping and Murphy of Stewart McKelvey speaking engagements included an upcoming intervention in the May 2009. “Excellence in Health Series” on “Reconciliation, Restorative Parliament and Prorogation: other projects developed in coop- Sterling and Scales was, again, as an invited presenter to the 77th Federal Court of Appeal. The Professor Kindred’s current (sponsored by the Dalhousie Justice & Peacebuilding”. She also A Canadian Political Drama” eration with the Health Law Insti- a rewarding experience with 17 Annual Couchchin Institute on case concerns the implications for research includes a team project School of Health Administration). presented at several conferences for the Dec. 12, 2008, online tute. She also continued to work enthusiastic third-year students. Public Affairs Conference, Oril- section 15 of the Charter of the on the assertion of extraterritorial An essay based on that lecture is and workshops including: the publication Jurist. He presented with the UN as a special advisor In addition, she taught Legal lia, Ont., August 2008; keynote Supreme Court of Canada’s 2008 jurisdiction by Canada, which being published in the book based “Putting Law to Work: Famous on the following: “French to the director, International La- Bibliography at the School of speaker at the African Studies decision in R. v. Kapp, where two is funded by an award from the on the series. He wrote a chapter Cases in Labour Law” Workshop Immersion and Inclusion,” bour Standards Department, ILO, Information Management. She was Symposium, University of Brit- of Professor Pothier’s published SSHRC of Canada. In connection on the role of law for a new book (Victoria), the International Fredericton – July/08; “The Geneva, primarily in connection delighted once again to participate ish Columbia, November 2008; articles were cited. Her brief with this project, he led a faculty on Canadian health care and Institute for Restorative Practice Media’s Right to Offend,” with activities to encourage the in the I.B. & M. program in May. invited speaker at the Bioeth- comment on the SCC decision seminar on “Canadian court revised the chapter on law and Conference (Toronto), Canadian Kings College, November/08; ratification and implementation Professor Morrison was ics Speaker Series and to the in Kapp was published in the remedies for international human Medicare for the new edition of Association of Law and Society “Inclusive Education: The Long of the Maritime Labour Conven- the chair of the 2009 Canadian Global Health Conference, both Lawyers’ Weekly in the fall of 2008. rights abuses.” • Canadian Dental Law, edited by Winter Meetings (Halifax), the Journey,” Halifax, December/08; tion, 2006, and in connection with Association of Law Libraries in Dalhousie University. He was • Professors Downie, Hadskis and National Judicial Institute’s Race “A Canadian perspective on the recently adopted IMO Ship annual conference held in Halifax. engaged by the Maritime Aborigi- others. As a member of the Health and the Law Program (Halifax), Inclusion” at an International Recycling Convention. She is a co- She continues to be on the board nal Congress as a lead resource Law Institute, he worked with the Restorative Justice and Schools Symposium, Sao Paulo, Brazil, editor of Ocean Yearbook and is an of the International Association person in a learning session on IP, Nova Scotia Health Professions Conference (Yarmouth), the April/09; “Collective Bargaining: associate editor of the Yearbook of of Law Libraries, a member of Access and Benefit Sharing under Regulatory Network on an Canadian Law and Society The Supreme Court as Oracle,” International Environmental Law. In the Canadian Association of Law the Convention on Biological innovative collaboration (funded Annual Conference (Ottawa) Halifax Intergovernmental May she was elected to member- Libraries and will be attending the Diversity. Professor Oguamanam by the Department of Health) and the National Restorative Conference, May/09; and ship in the International Academy annual conference of the American was a consultant and facilitator to develop an inter-professional Justice Conference (Kingston, “Setting the Direction Minister’s of Comparative Law. Professor Association of Law Libraries in to IDRC co-sponsored Workshop approach to the regulation of Jamaica). She was also a keynote Forum” Edmonton, June/09. He McConnell will be on sabbatical Washington. On the home front, on African Indigenous Knowl- health professionals. • at the National Conference on was reappointed to the board in 2009-10. She is preparing two she is happy to say that she is edge and IP at the University of Restorative Justice in San Antonio of the Canadian Civil Liberties major publications: a book on looking forward to spending Ibadan, Nigeria. He was the win- Tex. Professor Llewellyn was Association and became a the Maritime Labour Convention more time with all seven of her ner of the 2009 BLG Researcher honoured to receive the Law member of the Nova Scotia Bar 2006 and a book on national laws grandchildren when she retires Fellowship for his Project on School’s teaching award this year.• Society’s Discipline Hearings affecting activities in the EEZ and in 2010. • Intellectual Property and Global Committee. He became Queen’s on the Continental Shelf. • Counsel in May 2009. • 44 Hearsay 2009 Hearsay 2009 45  FACULTY NEWS

GRAHAM REYNOLDS DAWN RUSSELL ROLLIE THOMPSON ESMERALDA M.A. THORNHILL DAVID VANDERZWAAG christian L. wiktor SHEILA WILDEMAN FAYE WOODMAN

Professor Reynolds joined the Professor Dawn Russell, former Rollie Thompson started the Professor Thornhill views Professor VanderZwaag Professor Wiktor and Ted L. Professor Wildeman contributed a Faye Woodman is the creator of faculty in July 2008. This past Dean and current holder of the past year buffeted by the twin 2008-09 as a year of heightened continues to teach International McDorman (Dalhousie LL.B chapter to the 2008 volume a new course to be introduced at year, he taught property law and Purdy Crawford Chair in Business legal storms of change in spousal ‘race’ consciousness by the Environmental Law and to direct ’79) wrote an essay on “The Administrative Law in Context, the Law School next winter. It is intellectual property law. He is the Law, was appointed in February support guidelines and civil N.S. legal profession because the Marine & Environmental Law ULTY PROFILES C ULTY Publications of Douglas Millard edited by Colleen Flood and on Elder Law and will explore co-editor in chief of the Canadian 2008 by the federal Minister of procedure rules. The final version in February 2009 the Barristers’ Institute and enjoyed another Johnston” (1960-2008), a tribute Lorne Sossin. She continues to the legal and related social and Journal of Law and Technology, a Finance to the seven-member of the Spousal Support Advisory Society unveiled in the Law Courts busy year. Lectures were given to his outstanding contribution do research on the assessment of economic issues of the aged. In

FA member of Dalhousie University’s Expert Panel on Securities Guidelines was released by the a portrait of the first African Nova at various venues including to international legal scholarship, decisional capacity at law, both May she attended the CBA and Law and Technology Institute and Regulation in Canada. Her work federal Department of Justice, Scotian lawyer, James Robinson Coastal Zone Canada 2008 which appeared in The Future in connection with her doctoral Queen’s Law Schools conference the faculty liaison to Dalhousie on the Expert Panel in many ways at the July 2008 National Family Johnston, (www. courts.ns.ca/ (Vancouver), Arctic Frontiers of Ocean Regime-Building, a thesis and in furtherance of three on elder law. In attendance were Law School’s student-run intel- represented a continuation of her Law Program in Deerhurst, Ont. swearingin_videos_archive/ Science Conference (Tromsø, collection of essays to honour grants in which she participates. a number of individuals from the lectual property law society. prior work on the Crawford Panel Next came a thorough revision swearing_in_videos_archive_ Norway), International Conference Douglas M. Johnston, published She facilitated a day-long work- Nova Scotia Elder Law section In early 2009, Professor on a Single Canadian Securities of the LexisNexis annotated Civil page.htm) and its Race Relations on Maritime Delimitation (Taipei), by Nijhoff in 2009 (pages 739- shop on the assessment of capac- who have volunteered to be Reynolds co-founded the Halifax Regulator. The Expert Panel Procedure Rules, which he edits, as Committee co-sponsored with IUCN World Congress (Barcelona), 765). ity to make psychiatric-treatment involved in the course. Intellectual Property Group (HIP released its final report, Creating a result of the complete rewriting Stewart McKelvey the first Annual Caribbean Conservation On March 26, 2009, at the decisions at the Cape Breton The CBA course was the Group), an association of lawyers, an Advantage in Global Capital of the Nova Scotia Rules. Race and Law Student Essay Symposium on Marine Ecosystem- annual meeting of the American Regional Hospital in June 2008. • second visit to Kingston for professors and students in the Markets, on Jan. 12, 2009, following The Advisory Guidelines Competition. As the first Johnston based Management (Barbados), Society of International Professor Woodman this year. Halifax area who are interested in 10 months of work on how to weren’t really done, as Professor Chair in Black Canadian Studies International Symposium Looking Law (ASIL) in Washington, Earlier in the year she presented issues of intellectual property law improve the structure, content Thompson has been completing (1996-2002), Professor Thornhill Beyond the International Polar Professor Wiktor attended a a paper at a workshop on fiscal and information technology law. and enforcement of securities a Cher-style “farewell tour” for was a designated speaker at the Years (Akureyri, Iceland) and an panel discussion of Douglas M. equality entitled “Gender-based The HIP Group will meet two to regulation in Canada. Professor most of the year (without the public unveiling and she served on EU-Canada Workshop on Law Johnston’s book The Historical Analysis of Proposed Pension three times per year. Russell has also been engaged in costume changes). In September the Essay Competition Jury. Such of the Sea (Brussels). He taught Foundations of World Order: The Reforms in British Columbia/ Professor Reynold’s research work with co-editor and co-author 2008, he spoke about them to the institutional initiatives should a short course on International Tower and the Arena (Nijhoff, Alberta, Ontario and Nova this past year has focused on Professor David VanderZwaag International Society of Family inspire policy-makers in Ocean Law and Governance at 2008), which received the Scotia.” Professor Woodman the question of to what extent and other colleagues from the Law in Vienna. He also spoke to academic and public arenas. Hue University in Vietnam. prestigious ASIL Certificate of continues to represent the faculty individuals should be able to Dalhousie Marine & Environmental family law audiences in Nova Papers delivered outside N.S: Professor VanderZwaag co-led Merit for Scholarship, presented as vice-chair of the University legally participate in the process Law Institute, on a book entitled Scotia, Newfoundland and Labra- Battle-scarred Lessons from the with Professor Chircop the writing to the brother of Judith Johnston, Pension Advisory Committee and of engaging with and creating cul- Recasting Transboundary Fisheries dor, Ontario and British Colum- Canadian Front: Racial Hostility to of a technical report, Governance who was seriously ill at Victoria, she had made both written and ture using the copyright-protected Management Arrangements in Light of bia, as well as doing a national Curriculum Change in the Academy of Arctic Marine Shipping, as and passed away in May 2009, oral representations to the Nova expression of others. In 2009 Pro- Sustainability Principles: Canadian and CBA online education program. (Philadelphia); Black Identity in a contribution to the Arctic three years after her husband. Scotia Pension Review Panel. • fessor Reynolds received a grant International Perspectives, which will The new Rules came into Pushkin (Atlanta); Race-Based Council’s Arctic Marine Shipping While in Washington, from the Foundation for Legal be published in the fall of 2009. This effect on Jan. 1, 2009. That meant Advocacy (Vancouver). Conferences Assessment. He co-edited a book, Professor Wiktor met with his Research to further his research in spring she completed her work on that the Civil Procedure course attended: National Round Table Understanding and Strengthening publisher from Nijhoff, together this area. the Senate Review of the Dalhousie and materials also had to be on the Approved Common Law European Union-Canada Relations with treaty experts from the Professor Reynold’s spoke at a University Faculty of Continuing completely revised last summer Degree, Conference to Establish in Law of the Sea and Ocean U.S. State Dept. and the United variety of events during 2008-09, Education and a two-year term by the procedure professors. “The Women’s Court”, and the Governance, and a special-issue Nations. After spending some including a CBA-NS Intellectual on the Nova Scotia Premier’s Professor Thompson also taught 14th Annual Assembly of African “Ocean Governance in the 21st time at the Library of the Property Section Meeting and as Excellence Award Selection a number of Tier 2 sessions to Descendants of Central America. Century” for the International U.S. Senate, Professor Wiktor part of the Torys Technology Law Committee. She continues to teach litigators on the new Rules. He Ongoing duties: Administrative Journal of Marine and Coastal continued legal research as a Speakers Series at the University Business Associations, Securities completed his “year of pro- Law, International and Domestic Law. He continued as regional returning visitor at the University of Ottawa. • Regulation and International Law cedure” by attending the 2009 Human Rights Law, Critical Race editor (Arctic) for the Yearbook of of South Carolina Law School in and to be involved in a variety conference of the International and Legal Theory, Pre-Law International Environmental Law. Columbia, S.C. • of community and professional Association of Procedural Law, module, and the First Year OTL A co-edited book (with Professor activities, one of the most pleasant held in Toronto. • lecture, The Implications of ‘Race’ Russell), Recasting Transboundary of which is her work as chair of and Culture for Legal Education Fisheries Management Arrangements the Maritime Rhodes Scholarship and the Legal Profession, Faculty in Light of Sustainability Principles, Selection Committee. • Committees, Senate and Senate was accepted for publication • Steering Committee. • 46 Hearsay 2009 Hearsay 2009 47  FACULTY NEWS Recently Retired

tive of the Canadian Association of University Teachers, as chair Paul Thomas retires after over 30 years of service Jennifer Bankier retires of the CAUT Status of Women Committee, as President of the Dalhousie Faculty Association and as a member of Dalhousie’s office for cleaning. When the door was opened, hundreds of Equity Committee. unopened letters fell into the hallway. (Letters were delivered The theme of access to justice is an obvious element in her to faculty in those days through mail slots adjacent to office equality, class action and university scholarship, where access doors.) Those who knew Art will remember that his office was to justice and equality of treatment play a major role. Her work little more than a storage room and that his “working offices” in these areas has been well received. For example, her writings were the faculty library and his chair in a corner of the Law on class actions were cited by the Supreme Court of Canada in School’s foyer. support of a significant change in the law of class actions. Her Paul was recognized for his enthusiasm, dedication and article on equity and torts was published in the Supreme Court outstanding service to students. In 1994 he received the Law Review. Dalhousie Law Students’ Society and Alumni Association Award In 2003, Professor Bankier was selected to receive the Sarah for Excellence in Teaching. Shorten Award by the Council of the Canadian Association Paul made it a career goal to have the school’s name known of University Teachers. This award recognizes women who internationally by delivering papers and keynote addresses have made outstanding contributions to the promotion of the around the world. Perhaps his most challenging assignment was advancement of women in Canadian universities. The award delivering lectures on mediation techniques to post-Soviet-era recognized the national importance of Prof. Bankier’s scholarly government employees in Budapest. This was done with the work in the areas of academic freedom, the inclusive univer- aid of a translator and slides generated with the assistance of a sity, employment equity, affirmative action and human rights, Hungarian-born student at the School. and that throughout her career, both locally and nationally, as Paul has served for some years as honorary legal advisor to a scholar teacher and advocate, she has worked to eliminate the international Looking After Children Project. This project systemic barriers to the advancement of women in universities, deals with the evaluation of placement strategies to produce in particular aboriginal and racialized women. better outcomes in foster care. This has led to a number of Jennifer has a variety of interests outside of academia and publications and keynote addresses at Oxford, Dublin and her professional pursuits. She has a scientific bent and is fasci- Melbourne. nated by volcanoes and tornados. Her interest in tornados she Paul has administered the School’s pioneering Judges Clerk’s traces to childhood nightmares and fears sparked by watching Program for many years. In this credit program, students are On June 12 the Law School held its annual year-end reception. The the movie The Wizard of Oz. placed with the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia and the Nova occasion provided an opportunity for colleagues, students and friends It is Jennifer’s belief that knowledge dispels fear and so Scotia Court of Appeal. to mark the retirement of one of its long-serving female members, Pro- she has learned as much as she can about tornados. She has

Paul and Moira in Brisbane in 2007 In retirement Paul will continue his law practice but looks fessor Jennifer Bankier. Professor Bankier came to the school in 1982 traveled to the American states and been involved in chasing forward to travelling (particularly in the Patagonian section of at a time when there were few women faculty. She has been nation- tornados. She once saw five in one day. One giant of a tornado Paul Thomas came to Dalhousie in 1976, having previously Argentina colonized by Welsh people two centuries ago) and ally recognized for her dedication to academic freedom and universal was in Kansas. Hello Dorothy. Knowledge overcomes fear. taught at the University of Manitoba. There he was also director honing his photography skills. His latest goal is to be able to equality. Prof. David Blaikie (LL.B.’92) commented on Prof. Bankier’s She has also developed a great appreciation and love for lit- of The Legal Research Institute and chief research officer of the draw really well. • numerous contributions and interests. The following is an abridged erature and culture. Although agnostic with respect to all things Manitoba Law Reform Commission. He was called to the bars version of his remarks. metaphysical, she loves many of the old Christian hymns. One in England (Lincoln’s Inn), Manitoba and Nova Scotia. of her favorites is the hymn Jerusalem, based on a poem by Wil- During his time at Dalhousie, Paul served as associate From her graduation in 1974 until today, Prof. Bankier’s career, liam Blake. Jennifer’s favorite lines are “I will not cease from director of Dalhousie Legal Aid Service, associate dean of the interests and pursuits reflect a strong and unyielding commit- mental fight, nor shall my sword sleep in my hand.” Law School as well as chairing most of the School’s committees ment to issues of access shared by many of her generation. It Jennifer is too young to retire. But she has much to keep her over time. He was also active at the university level, co-chairing was her belief that by becoming a lawyer she would be able to busy and productive. There are scholarly projects she plans the University Grievance Committee under Dalhousie’s first have a career where she could help to provide improved access to pursue. As noted she has other interests, scientific, literary, collective agreement. He also chaired the Senate Academic in some of these contexts for members of historically disadvan- cultural. Retirement will give her time—time to rest and focus; Appeals Committee for a number of years. taged or oppressed groups. time to enjoy life. Her core and lifelong commitments will re- Paul has many fond memories of his time at the Law School. After graduation, she articled with the Ontario Labour Rela- main, I am certain. The sword will not sleep in her hand. He recalls meeting Arthur Foote —an exceptional mind who tions Board and clerked for the Ontario Supreme Court. From Her house in St. Margaret’s Bay has a beautiful view of taught family law from memory—when he came to interview in 1976 to 1979 she was a legal research officer for the Ontario Hackett’s Cove. In recent years trees have grown up and now Halifax. He believed they hit it off. Paul wrote to Art a number Law Reform Commission Class Action Project. She became obscure the view of the ocean. I asked her about that. Will she of times from Winnipeg without response. He wondered if he a law professor, first at Wayne State University and then at cut down the trees, trim them a bit, move to a new house? No, had caused offence. Nothing was further from the truth, and Dalhousie. She has taught and published in the areas of Torts, none of these things. She plans to stay where she is, but perhaps they taught and published together for a number of years. Paul Equity and Trust, Women and the Law, Intellectual Property build another floor on her house and thereby have a view past was associate dean after Art died. It fell to him to open Art’s Call Day at Lincoln’s Inn, July 20, 1972, London, England, Denning, M.R., presiding and American Constitutional Law. She has served on the execu- the obstructions, and gain a clear view of the ocean. •

48 Hearsay 2009 Hearsay 2009 49  GIVING BACK

Atlantic Canada Unions Arbitrators Heenan Blaikie Reunion Class Gifts Innis Christie: Canadian Union of Public Ad+Rem Alternative Dis- Brian Burkett Stewart McKelvey Employees pute Resolutions Services John Craig For many years it has been a tradition a tribute Peter McLellan CB Building Trades Arbitracan Henry Dinsdale at Dal Law for reunion-year members Brian Johnston Labourers International David J. MacDonald Cheryl Edwards to give back to the Law School in the George Caines Union of NA Arbitration Sandra J. Gallagher form of a class gift. Class members This spring, to honour the passing of a “leading light” Level Chan LIUNA Ontario Provincial Etherington Arbitration Douglas Gilbert in Canadian labour and employment law, an endowed Rick Dunlop District Council Margeson Wilson and Jeff Goodman have pooled their resources and funded David Farrar Mainland NS Building and Veniot Law Mark Newton projects such as student awards and fund to support the Innis Christie Distinguished Robert Grant Construction NS Teachers’ Paula Knopf Arbitrators Maureen Quinlan bursaries, audio-visual equipment for Visiting Professorship and Symposium in Labour and Catherine Lahey Union Christopher Albertyn Michael Smyth newly renovated classrooms, chairs for Employment Law was created. This prestigious new Grant Machum UA of Plumbers & Susan Ashley professorship will bring a leader in the field of Labour Don McDougall Pipefitters Alan V.M. Beattie Raven, Cameron, classrooms and new computers—all Murray Murphy David Beatty Ballantyne & Yazbeck for which the Law School is extremely and Employment Law to Dalhousie to deliver a series Nancy Murray Government/Provin- Beth Bilson LLP/S.R.L. grateful. We thank the following classes of lectures and a regional symposium. It will also create Richard Petrie cial Organizations Jules Bloch for their generosity: a hub of knowledge and leadership in the area of John Plowman NS Department of Labour Donald Carter Cavalluzzo Hayes labour and employment law at Dalhousie Law School. John Rogers and Workforce Develop- James Dorsey Shilton McIntyre & Rosemary Scott ment Claude Foisy Cornish LLP Class ’58 establishes Support of this initiative has been tremendous Rebecca Saturley NS Department of Finance Brian Langille — encompassing local and national labour litigation Alison Strachan Belinda Kirkwood Nelligan O’Brien Payne a new bursary and practice groups, government department, unions, Mark Tector Faculty & Friends Willliam Kydd LLP colleagues and friends. Ian Wallace Bruce Archibald R. Lorne MacDougall Professor Bill Charles led the way as he Class of ‘57 (from left): Hanson (Sonny) Dowel Q.C., Douglas Pittet, Patricia Harris Q.C., the Honourable Vaughan Black Peter John MacKeigan Sack Goldblatt Justice David Gruchy, the Honourable Justice Merlin Nunn and, seated, the Honourable Lorne O. Clarke and his former classmates pledged to Dalhousie Law School would like to thank the Pink Larkin David Blaikie John Alexander MacLellan Mitchell LLP support an endowed fund to support following extraordinary leaders whose passion and David Bruce Richard McLaren a new bursary here at the Law School. Class of ’57 pays tribute to the commitment to success and has raised over $500,000 McInnes Cooper Helenanne Carey Bruce Outhouse Litigators, Friends towards this initiative: John MacPherson Aldo Chircop Andrew Sims Eric Adams Proceeds from this fund will be George Cooper Stephen Coughlan Howard Snow Gita Anand awarded to one or more students who Honourable Lorne O. Clarke Malcolm Boyle John Cuthbertson John Stout Harry Arthurs demonstrate financial need as they As part of their 50th Reunion celebrations, members of the Class of ’57 made a gift to Ronald Pink (’73), Pink Larkin Thomas Cooper Robert Currie Laura Trachuk Roger Barrette enter the Law School. • the Law School in honour of their former professor Lorne O. Clarke. Peter McLellan (’73), Stewart McKelvey Fred Dickson Peter Darby Kevin Burkett Terry Roane (’79), Cox and Palmer John Graham Richard Devlin Laurence Hebb They rallied and raised funds to furnish The Hon. Lorne O. Clarke Corner in Edwin Harris Donna Franey Central Canada Daniel Ish Class ’68 remembers the Sir James Dunn Library. The corner is a comfortable sitting area meant for quiet John MacPherson (‘76), McInnes Cooper Larry Hayes Philip Gerard Audrey Macklin conversation, relaxed reading or to collect one’s thoughts. Brian Johnston (‘80), Stewart McKelvey Nancy Key Elaine Gibson Koskie & Minsky James MacPherson fellow classmates Lorne Clarke is the last surviving faculty member to teach the Class of ’57 and he Larry Steinberg (‘75), Koskie Minsky Derek Key Dale Ives Bernard Fishbein Denis Magnusson Brian Langille (‘75), UofT, Faculty of Law Robert Mann Hugh & Sheila Kindred Craig Flood James Phillips has made a lasting impression on the young minds of that time. As class member Pat Ian Pickard Lorraine Lafferty Graham Williamson Michel Pilcher Harris remarked, “What we remember most about Lorne Clarke was his intelligence, Ray Larkin (’76), Pink Larkin William Lahey Alan Minsky Pamela Pilcher his fairness, his compassion and his concern that his students would leave his courses Eric Durnford (’70) Ritch Durnford Cox & Palmer Moira McConnell Elizabeth Mitchell Wayne R. Smith with a thorough and well-ordered knowledge of the subject matter and therefore Terry Roane David Michels Larry Steinberg Donald Thompson The Dalhousie Law School also wishes to offer special Jamie Eddy Robert Mitchell Stephen Wahl Scott G. Thompson better equipped to enter the legal world.” Sarah Gauthier Pottle Mary Jane Mossman Steve Waller A reception was held in July to officially open the corner with the unveiling of a recognition to the lawyers and partners at the following Christopher Peddigrew James Oakley Fillon Wakely Thorup J. Gerald Godsoe Robert MacLellan portrait of Mr. Clarke. • firms for their outstanding contributions: Rebekah Powell Stephen Pitel Angeletti LLP The Class of ’68 provided additional Andrew Taillon Dianne Pothier Brett Christen British Columbia More than $50,000 in contributions: Graham Reynolds and Alberta support to a scholarship and a prize Boyne Clark Barristers Dawn Russell Mathews Dinsdale fund in memory of two classmates. The Osler, Hoskins and Pink Larkin & Solicitors George Sutherland & Clark Lindsay A Parcells J. Gerald Godsoe Scholarship Fund Harcourt room Stewart McKelvey Rollie Thompson B. Richard Baldwin Law Corporation was established in memory of J. Gerald Lorman Education David Thomson Stephen C. Bernardo Services Sheila Wildeman William S. Cook Christine Boyle Godsoe A timely and much appreciated gift from law firm Osler, $25,000 to $50,000 in contributions: , who contributed greatly to Rhonda Wishart David Francis Patricia Gallivan public policy issues in Canada. This Hoskins and Harcourt allowed the Law School to make McInnes Cooper Merrick Jamieson John Yogis Joseph Liberman Charles Joseph Meagher scholarship is awarded to scholars extensive improvements to Classroom 204 last summer. Sterns Washington David Wallbridge Mark D. Mills accepted to the LLB program who have Upgrades were made to the desks, lighting, flooring, $10,000 to $25,000 in contributions: William G. Phelps ventilation, audio-visual equipment and chairs. This is Cox Palmer Ritch Durnford Ian St. John Prairies shown a particular interest in Canadian public-policy issues. The Robert B. the first major refurbishment for this classroom since the Stockton Maxwell Brent Cotter Weldon Building opened its doors nearly 45 years ago. A special thank you goes to senior partners Fundraising continues for this worthy initiative and we & Elliott MacLellan Memorial Prize in Business Eugene Scheibel Law was established in memory of Purdy Crawford (’55) and Al Meghji (’88), who played a key role in securing financial support for welcome your gifts. Please contact, Diane Chisholm NS Private Sector Robert B. MacLellan the renovation. at 902-494-5112 and [email protected] or give Anne McLellan and is awarded to a Employers Council student specializing in business law. • With the Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt Room, the law firm has made a lasting contribution that will on-line at www.dal.ca/giving. enhance the learning environment of generations of law students to come. •

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

CLASS GIVING 2008-2009

1935 1955 1959 1965 1970 Maurice G. Smith, QC Jerald W. MacKenzie 1979 J. Scott Mackenzie, QC Suzanne L. Pelham Belliveau Hon. Dr. Arthur L Thurlow, OC John W. Alward, QC J. Stuart Campbell Dr. George T. Cooper, CM, QC Richard W. Cregan, QC Professor Bruce H. Wildsmith, QC Brian L. MacLellan, QC Michael F. Boland Stephen J. MacNeil Charles S. Reagh Miles G. Atkinson, QC Hon. Justice John M. Davison Art Donahoe, QC Hon. Chief Judge Patrick H. Tim Matthews, QC Brent Cotter, QC Denise J. McMullen Hon. Geoff Regan, PC, MP 1941 Dr. Purdy Crawford, CC, QC Hon. Justice Jean Forget Hon. Theodore E. Margeson Curran 1974 Frank A. Mason Hon. Judge Anne Crawford James R. Morris John M. Rogers, QC Donald D. Anderson, QC Hon. Constance Glube, QC,ONS,OC Hon. Justice Walter Goodfellow Eric B. Durnford, QC Ian R. Campbell Stephen A. Mattson, QC John H. Cuthbertson, QC Bill Nearing Fae J. Shaw The Hon Justice J Doane Hallett Hon. James Lewis 1966 Pierre M. Hebert Hon. Justice Tamarin Dunnet Paula M. McPherson Hon. Justice Patrick J. Duncan A. Brian Oliphant Ann Marie Simmons 1943 Ian M. MacLeod, QC Calvin Murdoch Mayo Noella A. Brennan Fisher, QC S. Clifford Hood, QC Hon. Justice Deborah Gass Hon. Justice Gerald R. P. Moir D. Suzan Frazer Sean T. O’Neil Ronald A. Stockton Lorne MacDougall, QC Hon. Arthur J. Stone, QC Elizabeth Strong Reagh, QC Hon. Justice J. Armand DesRoches E. A. (Ted) Horton Jeremy Gay Stephen K. Mont Thomas E. Hart Elaine S. Peritz G. Arthur Theuerkauf David A. Stewart, QC Joseph A. F. Macdonald, QC D. Ceri Hugill James A. Gregg Elizabeth A. Mullaly Jeffrey Kuhnreich P. Geoffrey Plant, QC Patricia J. Thomson 1947 1956 C. Barry Sullivan Paul M. Murphy, QC Kathleen D. Marrie Mark C. Johnson Robert M. Purdy, QC William M. Leahey Paul E. Radford Natalie Vukovich Dr. James M. Hendry* James R. Chalker, QC John G. Myers Dennis Perlin Douglas J. Livingstone Peter C. Stolniuk Brian F. Maltman Philip G. Rogers Gregg A. Yeadon Hon. T. Alexander Hickman, OC George T. Hanrahan 1960 William A. Rand Kenneth J. Ross Bruce T. MacIntosh John D. Stringer, QC Marian H. McGrath Professor Dawn A. Russell Paul F. Mosher Hon. Robert C. Hebb Richard A. Thompson John M. White Hon. Justice Beryl A. MacDonald Anthony L. Sweet Paul D. Michael A. Robert Sampson 1984 1948 Hon. Peter Power Hon. Justice Arthur Lutz Hon. James C. MacPherson David C. Tarnow Hon. Justice Rosemary E. Nation Clifford J, Shaw, QC Janet M. Chisholm William Chipman, QC T. Bradbrooke Smith, QC Hon. Justice K. R. MacDonald 1967 1971 William L. Mouris James A. Titerle Maureen B. O’Connell Helen T. Soudek John S. Fitzpatrick Philip H. G. Walker, QC Marvin D. Wentzell, QC Stuart G. MacKinnon Hon. Justice Leo D. Barry Christopher C. Breen Hon. Justice Kathryn Neilson Collins Parker Philip J. Star, QC Andrea D. Gillis Hon. Judge John MacLellan R. Diane Campbell Hon. Justice M. A. Cameron Daniel J. O’Connor 1977 Terry L. Roane, QC Marlene G. Stones, QC Peter B. Gorgopa 1949 1957 Douglas F. Smith Robert Kelly Professor Brian C. Crocker, QC Hon. Justice Elizabeth Roscoe Tom Akin Angus G. Sinclair Paul L. Walter, QC Mark A. Greenberg John E. Harris, QC Hon. N. Robert Anderson J. Robert Winters, QC John C. Lovett, QC Hon. Judge William Digby Glenn A. Smith Hon. Justice Robert L. Barnes Clifford A. Soward Pamela J. Webster Lester D. Lee David J. Waterbury, QC S. David Bryson, QC* Janette M. MacDonald Hon. Judge William J. Dyer Paul R. Stokes, QC Hon. Justice Nancy J. Bateman Hon. Judge Alan T. Tufts Cdr A. Vance Wirth Shirley P. Lee John E. Carstairs 1961 John P. Merrick, QC Don Gibson Hon Judge Barbara Beach Ray Wagner Rhonda G. Wishart Robert R. MacArthur 1950 Alan F. Caule, QC Lionel Alberstat, QC Hon. George J. Mullally Hon. Judge Barrett D. Halderman* 1975 Janice M. Bruni Ron MacDonald Bob Lyall Jim Donahoe George A. Caines, QC Walter O. Newton, QC Sydney B. Horton* Alexander S. Beveridge, QC Hon. Judge John D. Embree 1980 1982 Margaret M. MacKenzie Hon. David Gruchy Milton H. Grant Professor H. Leslie O’Brien, QC Hon. Justice Douglas L. MacLellan Douglas J. Black, QC Steven R. Enman Lorne H. Abugov Gregory D. Auld Professor Candace E. Malcolm 1951 Enid I. Lesser David I. Matheson, QC David B. Ritcey, QC Walter A. McEwen Hon. Justice C. Richard Coughlan Daniel T. Gallagher John P. Andrews Clare F. Barry Gillian D. Marriott Hon. Lorne O. Clarke OC, ONS, QC George H. MacNeill, QC Mr. John M. Stewart William E. McKeown M. E. Donovan Hon.Justice Kenneth C. Haley Roger J. Aveling Robert W. Carmichael Moira L. McConnell Maj. John A. Commerford Hon. John R. Nichols 1962 Professor John A. Yogis, QC Derry Millar R. Gary Faloon, QC George R. Lohnes, QC Kenneth L. Baggs Margaret J. Carter-Pyne Douglas K. McLean Hon. Justice Malachi C. Jones M.C. Justine O’Brien Alan V. Beattie, QC Peter A. Milliken, MP Beatrice Fejtek Hines Colin P. MacDonald J. Helen Beck A. Mark David, QC John A. McMillan, QC George C. Loucks H. David Peel Malcolm H. Bradshaw 1968 Tarcisio Nella Bruce M. Graham Blair MacKinnon Florence E. Boody Glen V. Dexter Ken Mills Hon. Angus L. Macdonald, QC William B. White, QC Helenanne Carey, QC Donald R. Brown, QC S. Bruce Outhouse, QC Craig M. Harding Philip Mullally Hon. Judge Flora I. Buchan Andrew E. Drury Donna L. Morris Hon. John C. McNair, QC Professor Innis M. Christie, QC* Mary Jane Dodge, QC John W. Pearson Gregory S. Hildebrand Ray E. O’Blenis Anthony L. Chapman, QC Vincent A. Gillis Donald C. Murray, QC 1958 Senator Frederick J. Dickson Pat Furlong Hon. Judge Michael L. Phelan William J. Honeywell Hon. Judge Michael B. Sherar Valerie A. Dyer Kenneth L. Godfrey Jim Musgrave, QC 1952 Dr. William H. Charles Hon. Chief Justice Robert Heather A. Grant Graham W. Stewart Professor Brian A. Langille Elizabeth J. Shilton Anna J. Fried Scott P. Gray Kimberly J. Pate Lowell A. Allen Professor Peter E. Darby Ferguson Hon. Justice Raymond J. P. Halley H. Edward McFetridge Hon. Justice Frans F. Slatter Frank R. Gronich Hon. Justice Lois R. Hoegg Richard J. Payne Edwin A. LeBlanc, QC Matthew Epstein Hon. Justice Charles Haliburton Hon Judge D. William MacDonald 1972 Rizpah A. Morrow T. Ann Smiley Brian G. Johnston, QC Nancy J. Jenkinson Ken Pike Dr. James S. Palmer, CM, AOE, QC Hon. Justice Donald M. Hall Lawrence J. Hayes, QC J. Douglas MacEachern G. Wayne Beaton, QC Laurie S. Pascoe Robert C. Stewart, QC Barbara J. Jones-Gordon Nola D. Keeler Heather J. Rae Johnson Dr. Donat Pharand Hon. Judge George F. Inrig Laurence D. Hebb, QC William R. McColm William J. Leslie, QC Justice Paul J. Pearlman Alison Taylor Love J. Stuart Koskie Robert A. Lehodey, QC Maureen E. Reid Hon. Gerald A. Regan, PC, QC E. June Karlin W. Ross Mollard Hon. Justice R. McIntyre Hon. John V. MacDonald Professor Michel Poirier Norman G. Letalik Kathryn E. Racine Larry Stordy Hon. Justice William Marshall Robert E. Radford, QC Senator Wilfred P. Moore, QC, LLD J. Fraser B. Mills F. T. Mark Pujolas 1978 Mark E. MacDonald, QC G. Douglas Sealy Penelope Y. Tham 1953 Hon. Justice Hilroy S. Nathanson* Hon. Justice Eugene A. Scheibel Irwin G. Nathanson, QC Jeffrey L. Schelew Hon. Justice M. Heather Frank Archibald James A. MacLean Toshimi A. Sembo Jeremy A. Thomas Hon. Justice Hiram Carver Hon. Joseph W. O’Brien Wayne R. Smith David G. Newman, QC Hon. Justice J. Sinclair-Prowse Robertson Hon. Chief Justice Edmond Michael W. Miller Janice A. Stairs Hon. Judge Pamela S. Williams Harold F. G. Stevens, QC Joseph M. Pelrine Hon. Chief Justice Clyde K. Wells Hugh K. Smith, QC Peter C. Stickney Wendell J. Sanford Blanchard Cdr C. James Price Steve Waller Hugh R. Williamson Hon. Ronald Stevenson Douglas G. Pittet Hon. Judge James C. Wilson Michael S. Schelew Elizabeth T. Callaghan David A. Proudfoot Hilary A. Whitmey Hon. Stuart G. Stratton, QC Ernest A. Reid 1963 1969 Andrew S. Wolfson, QC Professor Howard G. Snow Joseph A. Cameron Mark S. Rosen Michael J. Wood, QC 1985 Eric G. Tennant A. David Case, QC John J. Ball M. Estelle Theriault, QC Elizabeth A. Ellis James G. Spurr Deborah A. Armour 1954 Hon. Justice Gordon A. Tidman David F. Curtis, QC Margaret A. Brown 1973 Janet D. Willwerth David S. Green David J. Stoesser 1983 Taska-Anne M. Carrigan Hon. W. Dan Chilcott, QC Arthur J. Unsworth Harold H. MacKay, QC John M. Green Stephen J. Aronson Peter R. Greene Del W. Atwood Brenda J. Christen Hon. Judge Kenneth L. Crowell Hon. Arthur C. Whealy Hon. Justice Ian McLellan Morris J. Haugg, QC O. Noel Clarke, QC 1976 Roger B. Langille, QC 1981 Brian W. Derrah Stephen G. Coughlan Lawrence J. MacLean Harvey A. Newman Steve Konchalski Sheldon S, David Hon. Judge Jean-Louis Batiot Peter E. Loucks Emily M. Burke Guy Desmarais C. Joan Dornian Joel R. Matheson, QC Hon. Judge Robert J. White Paull N. Leamen James E. Dorsey, QC Roberta J. Clarke, QC Mary E. Meisner, QC Patrick I. Cassidy James A. Graham Jay C. Humphrey Hon. Gordon H. McConnell Ronald A. MacDonald Assoc. 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Dr. Ralph Medjuck, QC, Dr. John Ballem, QC, of Gowling Chairman & CEO of Centennial Senator Donald Oliver has Daniel M. Campbell, QC became Lafleur Henderson LLP, received Group Ltd. was inducted into the received the Black Business the new Second Vice-President the Distinguished Service Award Junior Achievement Nova Scotia Initiative’s Board of Directors of The Nova Scotia Barristers’ in Legal Scholarship from the Business Hall of Fame in June Award of Business Excellence Society at the Society’s Annual Law Society of Alberta and 2009. As the man responsible for in June 2009. He has spent 40 Meeting in June 2009. the Canadian Bar Association changing the city’s skyline, he can years as a barrister, teacher, (Alberta). Earlier this year, take credit for many of Halifax’s entrepreneur, advocate and University of Toronto Press prominent buildings including statesman. Senator Oliver published the 4th edition of The Lord Nelson Hotel, Park established and leads two 1973 his “well-known and highly Victoria, The Prince George Hotel companies and is considered an authoritative” legal text, The Oil as well as many of the city’s office expert on corporate governance. and Gas Lease in Canada. buildings, senior citizen’s facilities and apartment buildings. Bruce left behind a successful He has also given a great deal of time to his community including 1965 1952 serving as Chairman of the law practice, 47 bow ties and Neptune Theatre Foundation, Director of the Canadian Mental an endowment to Dalhousie. Health Association and the Nova David W. Drinkwater was Scotia Human Rights Foundation, appointed Chairman and Head of as well as council member for the Rothschild Canada in April 2009. Bequests to Dal ensure happy endings. Halifax Board of Trade, among Mr. Drinkwater has led senior Legacy gifts speak to your experience at Dalhousie and all it has meant to you – many others. He has received business, financial and legal numerous accolades for his teams at Nortel, Ontario Power an education and a lifetime of memories. Your gift could support a bursary fund, business acumen and community Lloyd Robert Shaw, President Generation, and Bell Canada. Dr. James S. Palmer, CM, AOE, service including an honorary & CEO of IWK Health Centre Prior to that, for many years, he or strengthen the program within one of your preferred faculties, like Law. QC of Burnet, Duckworth & Doctorate of Law from Dalhousie, Foundation was named one of was a partner at the law firm of Palmer LLP, was inducted into The Queen’s Jubilee Medal, as the recipients of the Top 50 CEO Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt. Giving back to Dal through a bequest, large or small, helps to ensure lifelong the Calgary Business Hall of well as the Tourism Industry Award for 2009 from the Atlantic success for the generations that follow. Fame in May 2008 and received Association’s Tourism Vision Business Magazine. the Canadian Council for the Award. Advancement of Education (CCAE) 2008 Friend of Education Award in June.

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Jean Whalen was appointed as Marjory Miller has relocated Judge to the Family Court and to Hong Kong to take up the Provincial Court of Nova Scotia in position of Transactions Adviser January 2009 and will be based in and Head of Risk Management, Sydney. She is one of the founding HSBC Insurance, Asia Pacific. members of the Black Lawyers’ She will be stationed in Hong Association of Nova Scotia, has Kong, with travel to India, been the Vice-chair of the Race China, Vietnam, Taiwan, J. Ronald Creighton, QC became Wylie Spicer, QC, a McInnes Rodney A. Snow, Managing Peter M. Willcock has been Relations Committee of the Nova Malaysia, Singapore, and Korea. Nancy MacCready-Williams, CEO Susan MacKay and her husband, the President of the Nova Scotia Cooper Partner, was appointed Partner with Davis LLP appointed a Judge of the Supreme Scotia Barristers’ Society and a She will assist the business Workers’ Compensation Board of Brian MacAdam (B.Comm ’98) Barristers’ Society at the Society’s President of the Canadian Bar Whitehorse, Yukon Office became Court of British Columbia in June member of the Sexual Harassment with its acquisition and joint Nova Scotia was named one of were delighted to welcome their Annual Meeting in June 2009. Association for Nova Scotia second Vice-President of the 2009. He practiced law with Committee of the Nova Scotia venture activity, and with deals the recipients of the Top 50 CEO little boy, David Alban MacAdam, (2008-09). He was also recently Canadian Bar Association at the Harper Grey LLP in Vancouver Community College. implementing core programs of Award for 2009 from the Atlantic into the world on November 27, appointed by the Province of CBA annual meeting in Quebec from 1983 until his appointment compliance, corporate governance Business Magazine. 2007 in Halifax. He weighed 7 lbs. Nova Scotia to the Board of City in August 2008. He serves to the bench. He has contributed and risk management in the 13oz. All signs so far point to him Directors of the Art Gallery and on the CBA Executive and will to countless professional region. having great vocal projection, a is a member of the Board of the become President of the CBA in education courses and 1988 1990 trait likely inherited from both Nova Scotia Hearing and Speech 2010-11. Rod practices in the areas publications and has also served sides of the family. Foundation. of corporate, commercial, mergers on the Board of Directors for and acquisition law. the Continuing Legal Education Society for many years. 1989 1993 Fred S. Fountain, CM, LLB, LLD, 1981 OC was appointed a Member of 1983 the Order of Canada on October 23, 2008 for his contributions to the people of Nova Scotia Kate Harris and her team from Andrew D. Little joined Bennett as a community volunteer, the law firm of Harris Neonakis Jones LLP as Partner, Litigation, philanthropist and dedicated Steven Zatzman, QC, received his joined Patterson Law in July 2008. Toronto after spending 15 years fund raiser. Queen’s Counsel designation on Ms. Harris, part-time Faculty at at another major Canadian Law May 11, 2009. Dalhousie University, practices Stephanie Cleary, QC was Firm. Mr. Little served as a law Barry Mason, a partner with in the areas of taxation, estate appointed a Judge of the clerk for Madam Justice Claire Presse Mason Law Office, Marjorie A. Hickey, QC became planning and business law. Provincial Court of Alberta L’Heureux-Dube at the Supreme Bedford, received the Community 1976 the new First Vice-President Trinda L. Ernst, QC, Kentville on October 22, 2008 by Alison Court of Canada. Service Award from The of The Nova Scotia Barristers’ lawyer, elected to be next second Redford, Minister of Justice and Canadian Bar Association-Nova Society at the Society’s Annual vice-president of the Canadian Attorney General of Alberta. Scotia Branch in April 2009. Meeting in June 2009. Bar Association and will assume The Honourable Judge Cleary 1991 Mr. Mason has been chair of the second vice-presidency at presides in Fort McMurray the Rocky Lake Development the Canadian Legal Conference Provincial Court where she hears Association for the past six years, in Dublin in August, 2009. A criminal, family, child welfare and working to get rinks, soccer fields, David W. Hooley, QC was member of the CBA for 28 years, civil cases. She has relocated to and gyms built in Bedford. appointed Chair of the Atlantic Ms. Ernst has been a partner since Fort McMurray with her husband, Provinces Chambers of 1992 in the firm of Waterbury Dr. Padraic McCombe (M.D. Dal Commerce. Mr. Hooley is a Timothy C. Matthews, QC, a Newton. Her practice focus Al Meghji led the tax litigation ’95) and their two sons, James (9) partner in the law firm of Cox partner at Stewart McKelvey, is wills and estates, elder law, team at Osler to be named the and George (5). & Palmer, Charlottetown, PEI. Halifax, earned the Distinguished corporate/commercial law, and North American Tax Litigation He is a chamber volunteer; Service Award for his exceptional real estate law. Firm of the Year for 2008 by the Cindy Bourgeois, a managing past president of the Greater contributions to the Canadian Bar international Tax Review at an partner with the Hicks Lemoine Charlottetown Area Chamber of Association’s goals. award ceremony held October Law Office in Amherst, has been Commerce, past president of the 2, 2008 at the Waldorf Astoria in appointed to the Supreme Court PEI Chamber of Commerce and a New York City. of Nova Scotia in Sydney and will director of the Canadian Chamber be sworn in during a ceremony in of Commerce. early July 2009.

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Barry C. Lake has joined McInnis Pierre L. Muise, was sworn- Dr. Robert Astroff, is president Cooper’s St. John’s office as a Julie Cameron recently joined Jared Schwartz has joined in as Judge of the Nova Scotia of Astroff Consultants Inc., Partner. His practice focuses on MacIntosh, MacDonnell & Patterson Law and practices in all Sharon Avery joined Cox & Farrah Carrim joined the St. Marc Dunning joined Wickwire Provincial and Family Courts at an educational consulting both corporate and commercial MacDonald in New Glasgow, aspects of business law. Palmer’s Halifax office as an John’s office of Cox & Palmer Holm as an Associate and a ceremony in Digby, NS on June firm offering strategic advice law and real property and land NS. She practices in the areas of Associate. Sharon’s practice as an associate practicing in practices in the areas of Advocacy 29, 2009. He will be Nova Scotia’s for applicants to professional planning. Family and Criminal Law. focuses on corporate and the areas of Administrative & Dispute Resolution, Energy & first Metis Judge as well; he will and undergraduate university 2005 commercial law. Commercial Litigation, Corporate The Environment, Construction, be the first Acadian to serve programs in Canada, the United & Commercial, Labour & Labour and Employment. on the provincial court bench. States and overseas. Robert would Adam Church has recently Employment and Natural Marc is a director of both He has served as President and love to hear from classmates at been appointed Senior Policy Resources & Energy. the Environmental Service Director of the Yarmouth County [email protected] Advisor to the Federal Minister Association of Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society, and as Senior of Public Safety, the Honourable and Clean Nova Scotia, and Crown Attorney with the Public Peter Van Loan. Previously, he lectures on environmental law at Prosecution Service in Yarmouth 1999 carried on a general law practice Dalhousie Law School. responsible for French-language with the Annapolis Valley firm prosecutions in the province. of Waterbury Newton, where Karl Seidenz has achieved the Marty Dolan (LLB/MPA, 2004) Scott W. Lytle has joined the firm he was also a part-time federal status of Partner at Macleod and Christie Greenlaw (LLB, of Boyne Clarke as an associate on prosecutor. 1996 Dixon LLP located in Calgary. 2004) were married on June 14, the Family Law Team. Karl practices civil litigation 2008 in Ottawa. Chris & Marty and dispute resolution and want to thank their many friends Gordon Cudney and his wife has developed expertise in from Dalhousie who attended the Alex Taggart are thrilled to tort/liability defense claims, ceremony. They also want to give announce the birth of their son David Fraser, Associate McInnes professional liability and extra special thanks to Professor Jed Thomas Cudney on December Andrew Gough joined the firm Cooper was elected President discipline matters and commercial Christie for introducing them in 12, 2008 in Ottawa. Despite many of Huestis Ritch in Halifax and of the Canadian Information litigation. first year contracts class! phone calls from Robbie Kimball practices in the areas of insurance Technology Law Association. As suggesting that Robert would defence and general litigation. President, David will oversee David R. Melvin was appointed be a distinguished handle for Christa M. Hellstrom, partner, the association’s successful by Halifax Regional Council to Joyce Diamond has joined the little guy, they settled on Jed. Stewart McKelvey (Halifax) was conferences, training programs 2002 the Board of Commissioners Wesley J. McMillan is now the law firm of MacIntosh, Alex and Gordon both are both named to Lexpert’s prestigious and other activities. of the Halifax Regional Water practicing with Harper Grey MacDonnell & MacDonald in lawyers in the business law group list of “Rising Stars”, one of its Commission for a two-year LLP in Vancouver. Wes practices New Glasgow, NS. at Gowling Lafleur Henderson “Leading Lawyers Under 40” in term commencing April 1, 2009. with the condominium pre- LLP in Ottawa and, in fact, work Canada. In addition to balancing Incorporated under the Halifax sale litigation, commercial and down the hall from each other. the challenges of her work with Regional Water Commission Act, securities litigation groups. They can’t wait to bring their little her teaching responsibilities the Commission is authorized to guy out to Halifax to visit Weldon at Dalhousie Law School, she own and operate water supply and introduce him to a place that donates her time to community and wastewater facilities for the he may call home as a member of Morgan Hicks joined Wickwire organizations, as well as to the benefit of the residents of the the class of 2035. Holm as an Associate and her Nova Scotia Barrister’s Society Andrew J. Wadden accepted a Halifax Regional Municipality. areas of practice are Family, as a mentor and is a member of new position with Johnson Inc. David continues to practice with Immigration, Advocacy & the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal Heidi Leslie joined Stewart (Unifund Claims) as in-house his colleagues at Livingstone & Nicholas Mott joined Wickwire Dispute Resolution. Liaison Sub-Committee. McKelvey in their Halifax Litigation Counsel in July 2009. Company in Dartmouth, NS, Holm as an Associate and office practicing in the areas practices in the areas of real of Technology and Intellectual estate, banking and finance. Property, Corporate/Commercial Public – Private Partnerships.

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1940-1949 Alexander Hendry Hart , G. Perry “Jonnie” Bauchman ‘49 Flight Assessors School. In the political forum, he Q.C. ‘47 was born in Regina, SK. After having Lieutenant passed away on November 26, was past president of the Halifax City and pursued undergraduate studies at Dalhousie, 2008 at the age of 88. He was born in Windsor, County Progressive Conservative Association; Joseph Herschorn called to the he enrolled in the Canadian Army and served ON in 1920. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian treasurer for ten years of the Nova Scotia Nova Scotia Bar in June 2009 with the Royal Canadian Artillery until 1945. Air Force in 1941. He went on to become a Progressive Conservative Party; former vice- Spitfire pilot in the Second World War and president of the PC Association of Canada joined the Halifax office of Cox After the war, he returned to Dalhousie and completed his law degree. After having begun served in England and North Africa. He met and in 1963, was elected chairman of the and Palmer as an associate on the his law career with the Attorney General’s Rosemary Jefferies while serving on the same 21 member Resolution Committee of the litigation team. office in Halifax, he moved to Montreal squadron, and they married. He received four National PC Party. In later years, he was a to begin a career with Canadian National years of education as a discharge allowance at columnist with the Halifax Chronicle Herald. Railways. Upon being promoted to the war’s end from the Government of Canada, Donations can be made to A.W.Cox Memorial position of Senior Vice-President, he moved to and, thanks to his intense drive, managed to Scholarship Fund – Dalhousie Law School or Vancouver where he held positions including complete undergraduate qualifications and Alzheimer Society of Nova Scotia. Sara Josselyn joined McInnes Sarah Pottle joined Cox & Palmer Myles Bilodeau joined Patterson President of the Vancouver Board of Trade, law school in those four years. He worked Kenneth McNeill Matthews ‘49 , Cooper in their Halifax office in their Halifax office as an Law as an association and will be and International President of the Pacific for Simpson Hearst Insurance in Halifax 86, Truro, and Moncton, and for the Federal Business passed away on September 25, 2008. He was as an associate practicing in the associate practicing in the areas focusing on tax planning for the Basin Economic Conference. On retiring from CN in 1981, he moved to London, England, Development Bank in Halifax, St. John’s, and born in Millerton, NB. During the Second areas of Corporate Finance & of Administrative, Immigration, owner/manager. where he represented British Columbia as Montreal. He and Rosemary eventually retired World War, he served as an RCAF Pilot Securities and Corporate and Labour & Employment. Agent General to the United Kingdom and to Victoria, BC. During his retirement he Officer and Flight Instructor with the British Business Law. Europe. Upon returning to Canada he enjoyed authored his autobiography, Spitfire Pilot. Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Following his retirement years with wife, Janet, on the war, he received a Wings Scholarship Melissa MacAdam joined the Arthur William “Bill” Cox ‘49 Vancouver Island. passed away and entered Dalhousie Law School. He Litigation Team at Patterson Law. October 8, 2008. He was born in Saint John, was a Senior Partner with Patterson, Smith, Dr. James McLeod HendrY ‘47 passed away NB, in 1921. He attended Acadia University. Matthews & Grant, Truro, and predecessor peacefully on January 29, 2009 at Queensway and served as an officer in the Canadian firms from 1949-1985. He was appointed to Carleton Hospital. Born in Halifax on August Officers Training Corps. Following graduation Queen’s Counsel in 1964. He was appointed 18, 1919 he was the beloved husband of with a B.A., he was posted to Europe where to the NS Supreme Court in 1985; he served Shirley Agnes Hendry (nee Weatherby) for he served in the Canadian Army. In 1945, as a highly respected Justice of the NS 55 years. He served his country as Lieutenant he studied law at New College at Oxford Court of Appeal from 1985 to his retirement Mark J. Charles joined Boyne Commander, Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer University before returning home to attend in 1997. He served as the President of the Dalhousie Law School. In 1982, he received an N.S. Barristers’ Society; Fellow, American Matthew Stokes joined the Clarke in July 2009 as an Reserve from 1939-45 and was a brilliant scholar earning his B.A. and LL.B. (Dalhousie), Honorary LL.D. from Dalhousie University. College of Trial Lawyers; Canadian Chair, Halifax office of Cox & Palmer as associated on the Business Law LL.M. (Harvard), LL.M. and SJD (Michigan). He practiced in various law partnerships, International Society of Barristers; President, Kyle MacIsaac joined McInnes an associate. He practices in the Team. He was an accomplished professor of law from Murray Hart and Cox and later Cox Sable Gas Systems, Limited; Member, Cooper in their Halifax office areas of Corporate & Commercial (Dalhousie and Ottawa) and an esteemed Palmeter and Rogers. He joined the Rutledge Federation of Insurance Counsel; Member, MacKeigan Firm in 1963, later Cox Downie, Defence Research Institute; Honorary Ellen Sampson public servant (National Energy Board). and practices in the areas of Financial Services, Banking & joined Patterson Nunn, Goodfellow, which evolved into the Solicitor Colchester Regional Hospital; and Insurance Industry, Labour and Insolvency and Real Estate. Law as an associate and the Lawrence Melville MacLeod ‘47 passed Cox Palmer firm in 2007. He received his President, Dalhousie Alumni, Truro branch. Employment and Litigation. Litigation Team in commercial away at the Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital, Queen’s Counsel in 1965 and in 1977 became He served on the executive of the Progressive and family law. Burlington, on June 9, 2009, in his 89th year. a Fellow of the American College of Trial Conservative Party of Canada. Donations may He was the beloved husband of the late Lawyers and an Honorary Member of the be made to the Colchester Regional Hospital Katharine ‘’Kay’’ MacLeod. American Bar Association in 1981. He was Foundation or the Sir James Dunn Law 2008 Andrew Sowerby called to the a member of the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Library, Dalhousie University. Nova Scotia Bar in 2009 joined Hon. William L. M. Creaghan ‘48 died on Society and was president from 1971-1972. Hon. Lloyd Soper Justice ‘49 Bryen E. Hebert joined Boyne Cox & Palmer’s Halifax office as October 1, 2008. He was a Second World He chaired the committee that led to the of the Supreme introduction of Provincial Legal Aid in Court of Newfoundland St. John’s, passed Clarke in July 2009 as an associate an associate. Andrew’s practice War veteran, lawyer, Member of Parliament and judge. Born in 1922, he was a decorated Nova Scotia in 1971. On the national level, away on March 6, 2009, at the age of 89 years. to practice law on the Family Law focuses on litigation. • veteran of the Second World War. He was the he was a founding director and president of His wife, Elizabeth, predeceased him in 1998. Team. registrar of probate court for Westmorland the Law Societies of Canada. He served as He is survived by his daughter, Jennifer at County, alderman at large for the city of a member of the Canadian Bar Association St. John’s; his sons Nick (Marie Matheson) at (CBA) council for several years. He was Gander, Chris (Linda) at Port au Port West, Beth Newton joined Patterson Moncton from 1952 to 1958, elected to the House of Commons and served as Member president of the Nova Scotia Branch, National and Jon (Norah Lee) at St. John’s; and his Law as a litigation associate. Congratulations to the following lawyers on receipt of Queen’s of Parliament for Westmorland County Treasurer, National Vice-president, and then grandchildren Robin, Hilary and Katie Soper, Counsel designations presented by The Honourable Mayann E. from 1958 to 1962. He was appointed Judge in 1980, becoming National President. He Emma, Sarah and Philip Hann, Lynsey and Francis, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, at a ceremony in of the County Court for Northumberland, served 38 years as solicitor for the Union Graham Soper. of Nova Scotia Municipalities. In 1966, Bill Angele Bilodeau joined Patterson Halifax on May 11, 2009: Gloucester and Restigouche counties in 1962 and of Queen’s, Sunbury and York counties was the first recipient of the Distinguished 1950-1959 Vincent P. Allen, Q.C. ‘50 as an associate in Estate Planning in 1968, then appointed a Judge of the Court Service Award presented by the Nova Scotia passed away October 5, 2008 after a short Joshua Arnold, QC – LLB ‘89 and Taxation. of Queen’s Bench of New Brunswick, Trial Branch of the CBA. In 1997 he was made an illness. He was born in 1925 in Halifax. At an Craig Botterill, QC – LLB’83 Division, in 1979, where he served until Honorary Fellow in the Law for the Future early age, he was drawn to music and acting, Maurice Chiasson, QC – LLB ‘88 his retirement in 1997. At the request of the Fund of the CBA and in 2002, he received playing the harmonica and piano by ear, and the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal. He was James Chipman, QC – LLB’91 Minister of Justice and Attorney General of even composing many pieces of music and Canada, in recognition of his long years of a member of St. Matthew’s Church, past songs, including a piano concerto. He became John Graham, QC – LLB’88 devoted service, the Governor General of president of the Halifax Red Cross and a regular performer on CBC radio, having David Parker joined Boyne Clarke Wayne MacKay, QC – LLB’78 Canada declared Judge Creaghan would chairman of the combined Red Cross; past a recurring role in a daytime series called president of the Saraguay Club; member as an Associate and practices in Harvey McPhee, QC – LLB ‘84 retain the title of “honourable” following “The Gillans.” He was a founding member of his retirement. He was awarded a Doctor of the Royal United Services Institute (NS), The Atlantic Players. He attended St. Francis the area of personal injury law. Matthew Napier, QC – LLB ‘82 of Laws Degree by St. Thomas University Halifax Club, The North British Society and Xavier University and later graduated from Kathryn Pentz, QC – LLB ‘83 in acknowledgment of his service to the a member of the executive committee of the Dalhousie Law. In 1956 he opened up a law Michael Power, QC – LLB ‘75 community in 2002. Board of Governors of Acadia University office, where he practiced general law and Peter Rogers, QC – LLB ‘85 as well as serving with the Nova Scotia sometimes acted as Crown Prosecutor. He

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received his Queen’s Counsel in 1970. In 1980, After practicing law he joined William M. served as a member of the council of the New later St. Paul’s Anglican Church. He began his reading, golf, sailing, bird-hunting, racquet Sydney Brunswick Horton ‘71 passed away he was appointed Registrar of Probate, and Mercer retiring as a Director and Management Brunswick Law Society, president of the Saint career in the ministry, however an opportunity sports and was an avid card player. Bridge and on August 15, 2008. He had a curious and presided over that court for the next 15 years. Consultant. John Law Society, director of the Canadian to teach summer students one year led him to poker games with friends were pastimes he intellectually complex mind that manifested He wrote and published a book on wills and Transport Lawyers Association, member of his true love and calling as a teacher. The early enjoyed even throughout his illness until his itself in his law career, musical interests, probate law that became a best seller. Raymond Alvin Barlett ‘57, died October 29, the National Council for the Administration of years of his career were spent at the Halifax sudden hospitalization. His passion was his conversations, study of languages, care for 2008, at home in Truro at the age of 84. He was Justice in Canada, and as a guest lecturer at the Academy, then he moved to Queen Elizabeth work and he considered himself a fortunate this earth and the puns that he so enjoyed. His Erik Nielsen ‘50, who served as deputy prime educated at Acadia University, the University University of New Brunswick Law School. High School upon its opening in 1942. Here man to so enjoy the undertaking that provided spirituality was a vital part of who he was and minister in Brian Mulroney’s Conservative of British Columbia and Dalhousie University. he taught, coached sports teams and was later his livelihood and always enjoyed the many he reached back to readings in both Western government, died at his home in Kelowna, He oversaw the welfare of the Springhill H. David Peel, ‘57 born in Edinburgh, Scotland, principal until his retirement in 1972. wonderful people he encountered throughout and Eastern schools of thought to form his B.C. He was 84. Known best as “Yukon Mining Disaster survivors and traveled died May 3, 2009 in Vancouver, BC of cancer. his career. As a respected law professor unique and ever-evolving world view. He Erik,” Nielsen was the territory’s longest- extensively, going to Israel several times. He David was raised in Truro, NS. Following Arthur G. H. Fordham, Q.C. ‘61 was highly and dean (Dalhousie Law School), author, was a quiet source of strength, care, humour serving MP. He represented the Yukon for the served in the RCAF and was a former Family high school, David lived with family in respected by Premiers and other Members of arbitrator and public servant, his contributions and generosity to his family, friends and Progressive Conservatives for three decades, Court Judge. He was also a former member of California to attend a year at Whittier College. the Legislative Assembly past and present. to the legal field were many. “Geef gij ons de colleagues. from 1957 until he resigned in 1987. In the Good News Bible Chapel. He returned to Canada and graduated with When he died suddenly on May 4, 2009 at kracht voor de strijd die ons wacht” addition to being Mulroney’s deputy between a B.A. and an LL.B. both from Dalhousie. He age 72 he was Assistant Clerk of the House of 1984 and 1986, Nielsen also held ministerial Selden David Bryson, Q.C. ‘57 passed away studied for his Doctorate of Jurisprudence Assembly. He graduated from Dalhousie Law Franklyn W. Cordon, Q.C. ‘62, age 74, of Ben Yomen Simon ProssiN ‘71, passed away portfolios in defence, public works and on June 10, 2009. David was born in Halifax from the Université de Paris. He received School in 1961, and initially practiced with the Halifax, died on November 21, 2008. He was on February 20, 2009 at Sunnybrook Hospital. fisheries and oceans. He was also president in 1932. He did his undergraduate degree at his JD in 1959 and joined the Department of law firm now known as Stewart McKelvey born in Halifax. He practiced law since 1963 As a youth, in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, he was of the Privy Council. A disagreement over Dalhousie University, where he acquired a External Affairs. His long, distinguished career Stirling Scales. He was recognized for his and was a semi-retired associate of Blois, much involved in Canadian Young Judea at the way Mulroney managed the government lifelong passion for literature and language. with the Canadian Foreign Service spanned expertise in real property law. He wrote papers Nickerson and Bryson. He was appointed the Local, Regional and National levels. He prompted Nielsen to write his 1989 Upon graduation he was the co-recipient the years 1959 to 1994. During that time he on real property law for the members of the Queen’s Counsel in 1979. He was active in the was the founding President of the Atlantic autobiography The House is Not a Home. of the Malcolm Honour Award, the highest served at Canadian Embassies in Ankara, law society. After several years in private Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society and lectured Jewish Council and served as Program Nielsen has been described as sharing a award offered to any graduating student at Madrid, Prague and Moscow. He served as the practice, Art joined the public service of the for the Bar Admission Course. He served as Director at Camp Kadimah, as well as on sense of humour with his younger brother, Dalhousie. David was a star running back Canadian Ambassador to Czechoslovakia from Province, first as a lawyer in the Department of a member of the Nova Scotia Law Reform the Executive of many Jewish organizations comedian and actor Leslie Nielsen. “Erik for the football team. In 1954 he received the 1981 to 1984, and as the Canadian Ambassador the Attorney General. He was an advisor to the Commission. His many community activities including the Zionist Federation and the has got a fantastic sense of humour,” Leslie Climo Trophy, awarded annually to the top and Head of Delegation to the Negotiation Provincial Tax Commission. Art next moved included serving as a Director of the Oakfield United Israel Appeal. He served as Executive Nielsen said in a 1991 interview alongside athlete. As a part of the 1954 Dalhousie football on Conventional Forces in Europe, and to to the Legislative Counsel Office. For about Golf and Country Club and Committee Chair of the Canadian Jewish Congress from 1987 to his brother on CBC Radio’s Morningside championship team he was inducted into the the Negotiation on Confidence and Security- twenty years he was involved in drafting Bills of the Shaar Shalom Congregation. He joined 1990 before undertaking his current position program. In that same interview, Erik Nielsen Dalhousie Sports Hall of Fame in its inaugural Building Measures, in Vienna from 1988-92. for the Government and Opposition Members Keith Lodge No. 17, Halifax, in 1963, and as Executive Director of Jewish National Fund revealed that their father had a stint in the year, 2004. Throughout his university years Also in Vienna, he served as the Ambassador to introduce in the House of Assembly. He also became Master in 1970 and served as chairman in Toronto. He was extremely devoted to Israel circus before he immigrated to Canada to he served in the COTC (Canadian Officers of Canada to the Conference on Security and served as the legal advisor to committees of of the Scholarship Committee for 10 years. and involved in many Jewish and non-Jewish work as an RCMP officer. “It’s in our genes,” Training Corps), which enabled him to travel Co-operation in Europe, at the Forum for the House of Assembly including the Private In 2008, Keith Lodge presented him with community activities. he said. “Our father was a clown in a circus, in Canada and ultimately to France where Security Co-operation from 1992-94. From and Local Bills Committee. While still serving the Meritorious Service Award. He was the for heaven’s sake.” he spent a year studying at the Université de 1994 until he retired in 1998, he served as the as Legislative Counsel, he was also responsible Grand Representative to the Grand Lodge of Matthew Ryan, Q.C. ‘72 died on February Paris, La Sorbonne. David practised law his Inspector General of the Canadian Security for the administration of Provincial Elections. Israel. He had been a member of the Scottish 5, 2009. He was born in North Sydney, NS. Jessen DeWolfe Wentzell ‘51 passed away entire career at Blois, Nickerson and Bryson Intelligence Service of the Department of the More recently, he served as Assistant Clerk of Rite since 1974 and served as Commander-in- He attended school in North Sydney and peacefully in his 88th year on February 1, 2009 where he became a title partner. He taught Solicitor General in Ottawa. the House of Assembly. He provided advice Chief of the Nova Scotia Sovereign Consistory Monastery and graduated from St. Francis in the presence of family at the Glebe Centre- property law at Dalhousie for 25 years. He was to the Speaker of the House and to individual from 1991 to 1993. In Calgary in 1996 he was Xavier University in 1969 and went on to Bronson Place 2. He was a proud veteran of Chair of the Board of the Abby Lane Hospital Hon. Hilroy Nathanson, ‘58, 76, of Halifax, members. His official role was to sit on the coroneted an Honorary Inspector-General of Dalhousie Law School. He returned to North the Second World War and was a former city during its construction. As a board member of died December 26, 2008. Born in New Glasgow floor of the House when it was in session, and the Supreme Council of Scottish Rite Masons. Sydney and began practicing at the law firm alderman and past president for the Rideau the Saint Paul’s Home for Girls, he successfully in 1932, he graduated from the University to maintain the official record of proceedings. He had been a member of Philae Shriners of Ryan & Ryan where he remained until he Kiwanis. advocated for the funding of group homes. of Kings College, Halifax, and Dalhousie Art also wrote An Overview of the Procedures since 1978. He served as Potentate in 1999 and became ill in August 2006. He was a long-time At Dartmouth Academy he participated in Law. He was Vice-Principal of Park School and Practices of the Nova Scotia Legislature. President of the Cabiri in 2004. He served as member of the Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Donald Henderson Hatherly, Q.C. ‘56 of the implementation of Halifax’s first French in Dartmouth for two years in the early He participated at the National level in the Philae’s legal advisor for 16 years. Barrister’s Societies, a past President of North Granville Centre, passed away in Annapolis immersion programme. He coached football at ‘50s. Then, for 23 years, he practiced law in Uniform Law Conference of Canada, the Sydney Rotary Club and a member of the Royal on April 23, 2009, from complications QEH and Dalhousie. During his working years Sydney, where he was President of the Cape Canadian Election Officers Conference, and Seaview Golf and Country Club. he often said, “This will be the year I go to following surgery. He was born in 1930 in Breton Barristers Society and Vice President the Canadian Parliamentary Association, 1970-1979 Blair William Green ‘70 passed France.” In his retirement, he was finally able Douglas Sampson ‘72 Medford, Mass. He grew up in Truro and of Temple Sons of Israel. He also served as earning the respect of colleagues across the away suddenly on September 29, 2008 at the passed away a lengthy to fulfill this dream, traveling with, wife, Carol graduated with a B.A. from Mount Allison the President of the Kinsmen Club of Sydney country. Outside the law, Art enjoyed music. Henderson General Hospital, Hamilton after a battle with dementia/alzheimers in Granite to Paris each spring. University and later attended Dalhousie and Chairman of the Cape Breton Advisory Recently he was the Chair of the Board of brief illness, two weeks after his 65th birthday. Ridge, Sittsville, ON on March 6, 2009, at the Law. His legal practice involved both Crown Board of the CNIB. He was appointed Queens Governors of the Maritime Conservatory. He age of 66. He was born in Halifax. Frederick Ralph McDonald ‘57 Prosecutor and private practice in Bridgetown. passed away Counsel in 1975. He was a member of the Law also participated in the work of the Symphony Hon. Barrett Douglas Halderman ‘71 Richard G. Fitzsimmons ‘75 He also served on the Bridgetown Town peacefully in Ottawa on January 6, 2009 after Reform Advisory Commission and then 1st Nova Scotia Foundation. Art was a member of died on January 2, 2009. He grew up in passed away on Council. a short battle with cancer. He was born in Vice-President of the Nova Scotia Barristers the Cathedral Church of All Saints, and was Shaunavon, SK. He attended the University Friday, March 13th. A graduate of Bishop’s, Ottawa. He graduated from Dalhousie Law Society. In 1982, he was appointed a Justice of a lay minister in the Church for more than 15 of Saskatchewan where he obtained his Oxford and Dalhousie Universities he was a David Balfour Meynell, Q.C., ‘56 passed away and retired from the Public Service after many the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia. He served years. The passing of Arthur G. H. Fordham, Bachelor of Arts degree. He was an instructor proud Canadian Rhodes Scholar. It was his on Oct. 5, 2008. He was born in New York of years working in both the Department of on the Board of Governors of Shaar Shalom Q.C. is a great loss to the Province but it is a with the Co-op College from 1966-67, was greatest pleasure and honour to champion Canadian parents and was educated in the US Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Congregation and the University of Kings greater loss to his wife of 45 years, Pat. Woodrow Lloyd’s assistant from 1967-68, the rights of others, his good work will be and Canada. He attended schools in Rothesay, the Department of Justice. College. He was also a member of the Halifax was an assistant to T. C. Douglas from 1971- continued by his colleagues at Fitzsimmons Innis McLeod Christie, Q.C., ‘62 NB and Bernardsville, NJ, then earned his B.A. Management Board of the CNIB. passed away 72 and was the legal secretary for the Crown and Company. He was a poet, a story-teller, Deno P. Pappas, Q.C. ‘57 with Honours from Acadia University (Cox died on April 19, on February 9, 2009, at the age of 71. He was Corporations from 1973 to 1976. Legal Aide a painter, a musician, an orator, a scholar, a 2009 after a battle with a lengthy illness. He leader, a sportsman, an historian and a mentor. Medal and Trophy winner) and then attended 1960-1969 Dr. Leonard B. Hannon ‘60 born November 8, 1937, in Amherst to the late captured his attention from 1976 to 1978 in was born in Saint John, NB. He graduated Dalhousie Law. His summers were spent with passed away peacefully on July 6, 2008 in the Alice and Harold Christie. He was a wonderful both Weyburn and Saskatoon. He practiced nd with his Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Vincent Frederick Lambie ‘75 passed away the COTC, culminating as a 2 Lieutenant, Charlottetown Hospital at the age of 100. He husband to Jeanne; father to Merran (Steve), law for 20 years with Holt, Munkler and Laws from Dalhousie University. He acted on January 22, 2009, at the age of 81. In 1945 Platoon Commander with the Royal Winnipeg was one of ten children. He was educated at Mike (Sally) and Loren (Peter); grandfather Halderman in Humboldt, SK. His appointment as the solicitor and common clerk for the he won a scholarship to Royal Roads Naval Rifles in Hanover, Germany. He was called to Dalhousie University where he graduated to Kit, Liz, Max and Laine. He will be greatly to the Provincial Court necessitated a move to City of Saint John prior to becoming one of College, where he graduated in 1947. For 28 the bar in Nova Scotia and Ontario. He was with a Bachelor of Arts in 1929 and a Master missed by brothers, Fred (Carol) and Garth Melfort in March of 1999 where he served as the founding members of the law firm, Clark years he sailed on ships including HMCS very involved with the Canadian Institute of Arts in 1941. In 1960, Dalhousie awarded (Carole); sister, Clare (Brian); and brother-in- Provincial Court Judge for eight years. Drummie. He was named Queen’s Counsel Ontario, Crescent, Warrior, Magnificent, of International Affairs and the Progressive him an honorary Doctorate of Laws. A deeply law, Bert (Henny). A great pleasure was time in 1975 and earning a life membership with Prestonian and Cayuga. He earned the Korean Conservative Party where he left his mark religious man, he was an active member of St. at “the Shore” with family and friends. He the New Brunswick Law Society. He formerly War Medal (1953) and the International during the Fredericton Conference of 1964. Mark’s Anglican Church in his early years and loved life and had many interests, including 64 Hearsay 2009 Hearsay 2009 65  IN MEMORIAM

Commission for Supervision and Control gamer, history buff, collector and exceptionally Paper Co., The Dominion Forest Service and Medal for service in Indo China (1959-60). gifted photographer. the Canada Power and Paper Corporation. After retiring from the navy as a lieutenant In 1934, he became Provincial Forester and commander, he attended law school. He in 1948 the Deputy Minister for the Nova 1990-1999 Donna Sue Hollister ‘94, 64, of also served as chairman of the Nova Scotia Scotia Department of Lands and Forests. In Mineville, died at home on March 2, 2009. She 2004 he received an honorary doctorate from 1937-2009 Horse Racing Commission. After retirement, was born in Wills Point, Texas. She attended he served as honourary legal counsel to Dalhousie University. Baylor University and joined the US Navy the Shearwater Aviation Museum and the where she met her husband John. After their Canadian Naval Memorial Trust. Barbara Jane Newman ‘06, 78, passed away A fond farewell to Innis M. Christie, Q.C. wedding, she moved to Dartmouth where she November 23, 2008, after a long battle with was a teacher at Caledonia Junior High School Alzheimer’s disease. Born in Peterborough, 1980-1989 Hon. Michael G. Baker, Q.C. before starting her family. Upon seeing her ON. She graduated from Western University ‘80, Minister of Finance, of Lunenburg, passed own children through public school, she joined in 1952 and later came to Halifax to become away on March 2, 2009. After graduating them at university, returning to law school a lieutenant officer of the Royal Canadian from law school he practiced law at Hennigar, and graduating at age 50. Donna practiced Navy. In 1961 she went to teach English Wells, Lamey & Baker and acted as Mahone family law with great compassion for six years. and become a guidance counselor at Prince Bay Town Solicitor. He was a past president of She was a supporter of Orenda Canoe Club, Andrew High School in Dartmouth. Along the Lunenburg County Barristers Association; Dalhousie Legal Aid, The Stephen F. Lewis with her late husband, Norman she became former member of the Nova Scotia Barristers Foundation – Grandmother to Grandmothers, very active in fund raising within the Society Council and a former director of and Adult Literacy. Donna also touched lives community. Many projects she was involved the Marine Atlantic. He was appointed to around the world, as she along with nine other with were The Children’s Aid Society, Bishops the Queen’s Counsel in 1999. He was first girl friends started a chapter of Grandmothers Landing, the creation of the education elected to the Legislative assembly in 1998 to Grandmothers, under the umbrella of the centre at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the and re-elected in 1999, 2003 and 2006. His Stephen F. Lewis Foundation to benefit those Newman Memorial Gardens at the IWK, Cabinet duties have included Minister of in Africa affected by AIDS. the cerebrovascular surgery program at the Finance; Minister of Transportation and QEII and developing the Norman Newman Public Works; Minister of Aboriginal Affairs; Adrian Beringer Campbell ‘95 passed away Centre for Entrepreneurship at Dalhousie Minister of Justice; Minister responsible October 3, 2008, in Windsor, following a battle University. In recognition of her contribution for Communication Nova Scotia; Minister with cancer at the age of 38. Adrian was a and commitment to the community, she was responsible for the Administration of the great proponent of fitness. He excelled in awarded an honorary degree from the Nova Human Rights Act and the Utility and numerous sports and in particular, hockey, Scotia College of Art and Design in 1998 and Review Board Act; Minister responsible for running and cycling. He was an accomplished a Doctor of Laws from Dalhousie University the Regulations Act; Minister responsible cyclist and marathon runner, a provincial, in 2006. for the Insurance Act, the Securities Act; and national and world athlete and the proud five- Minister responsible for Part II of the Worker’s time winner of the Arnold Robinson 2-miler. Compensation Act. He has also been chair of Adrian attended Windsor Regional High FRIENDS OF THE LAW SCHOOL the Treasury and Policy Board. He served as School, McGill University before attending A Celebration of the Life of Innis Christie would say in his loud, unmistakable Bar Society’s presentation to his father in the MLA for Lunenburg; former member on Dalhousie Law. He was a partner in TMC Dorothy Gemmel Donald was held at the Dalhousie Arts Centre voice with its infectious laugh — and a ceremony at the Law School in January. the Board of Directors of Family and Children LAW, Kentville,. Adrian served on the board (Groff) 1916 – 2009 on the afternoon of February 14th, 2009. a persona that dominated any room — The presenter, Ray Larkin (LL.B. 1976), Services of Lunenburg County, the Canadian of Directors of Kings Meadows Foundation, passed away in Melville Gardens Nursing th Human Rights Tribunal and the Waterloo Department of Health and enjoyed his role as a Home, on April 4, 2009. Born in Lethbridge, Innis who passed away on February 9 ‘Sing no sad songs about me. Come on had stated that Innis had “contributed Lutheran Seminary; former Vice-Chair of the minor hockey coach. AB, she was a daughter of the late Colin and was one of the most highly respected in, sit down, have a drink, and let’s talk more to labour and employment law in Katharine Groff and beloved wife of the late South Shore Residential Tenancies Board and members of the law faculty for over 35 or play a game, and then eat.’” Darby Nova Scotia than anyone else; anyone the Lunenburg County Regional Housing Robert T. Donald, former Dean of Law at 2001-2009 Vincent Chew ‘01, died Authority. On February 13, 2009, the New Dalhousie University. Her sense of humour, years, and served as dean from 1985 also described Innis as a “man for all else was not even close.” Mike said the tragically on September 25, 2008 as the result Justice Centre in Bridgewater was dedicated in wisdom and unquenchable zest for life led her to 2001. seasons.” He stated that amongst his words “not even close” had a special of a road accident in Berlin, Germany, at the his honour. to be admired and adored by her family and Dean Phillip Saunders acted as Master many accomplishments “Innis was a meaning for him. He recalled that as age of 32. Formerly of Nova Scotia and British many treasured friends. Columbia, he was the son of Dr. Ken and of Ceremonies. He said that Innis had brilliant scholarship student, a highly an articling clerk it was hard not to cite Peter Duncan Darling, Q.C., ‘81 passed away Rosalind Chew. While in Halifax, he was an Julie Dergal November 2, 2008, in Halifax, following a , 66, passed away in the hospital left an indelible stamp on the school respected teacher, academic, Chair of “Christie arbitration decisions in every active volunteer in the local music scene. He battle with cancer. He was born in Vancouver on April 9, 2009. Born and raised in Kentville, in terms of curricular development, the Nova Scotia Labour Relations Board, labour law memo I wrote. His authority previously worked with the 15th Asian Games and grew up in Calgary, Winnipeg and she was the only daughter of the late Charles in Qatar, and the Commonwealth Games in physical environment and perhaps, most Deputy Minister of Labour, member was just too significant to ignore.” Mike Montreal. After law school he obtain his LL.M. and Lillian Joseph. She was a graduate of Melbourne, Australia and at the time of his significantly, in rescuing the school year of the Canadian Anti-Inflation Appeal also spoke of his father’s devotion and in 1989 from McGill University. Peter and his Mount St. Vincent University, and dedicated 25 death was working with the European Sports law partners built the firm of Huestis Ritch, in years of her life to working at Dalhousie Law and spearheading the school’s rebuilding Tribunal, a highly effective Dean of commitment as a spouse, father, brother, Council. Halifax. His legal interests were wide-ranging, School. She was a character. She definitely had following the near disastrous fire of the Law, a giant in the labour law field, an grandfather and to all members of his with particular focus on admiralty and a way with words, and could make anyone G.W.I. “Wilf” Creighton ‘04, passed away summer of 1985 which followed closely arbitrator, and a mentor to many across extended family. He concluded, “He had insurance litigation. laugh regardless of the situation. She was a August 17, 2008 in Halifax at the age of very unique woman with a generous soul. on the heels of Innis’ appointment as Canada, including me.” an incredible ability to make them all 104. Born in Halifax in 1904, he attended Mary Olding Hebb ‘81 of Head of St. dean. Dean Saunders said, “Innis lost no Personal tributes were also paid by priorities and, above all that, laugh hard the Halifax Academy and then Dalhousie Judith Elizabeth Johnston Margaret’s Bay, passed away on January 27, passed away on time taking charge — he grabbed the bull Innis’ brother, Fred; daughter, Merran: and live in the moment.” University where he obtained a Bachelor of 2009, at home at the age of 71. She was born May 10, 2009. Born and raised in Rochester, Arts degree in 1926. He then studied forestry by the horns and just made it happen.” and sons, Mike and Loren. Mike Amongst many moving moments in Halifax. She had a private law practice in N.Y., she earned her teaching degree at Oberlin at The University of New Brunswick in Innis’ former colleague, Peter Darby, Christie (’94) noted that his father had during the Memorial were a reading of Halifax until her retirement five years ago. College. While teaching in New Haven, Conn., Fredericton and graduated in 1929 with a she met Professor Douglas M. Johnston, who spoke fondly about his friend of many recently received two major awards - Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If” by Innis’ Bachelor of Science in Forestry. Between 1931 Bruce M. Cooper ‘82 passed away in Ottawa ultimately preceded her in death by three years. He remarked, that if Innis were the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society 2008 granddaughter, Kathleen Cloutier (“Kit”), and 1934 he pursued postgraduate studies on November 10, 2008 after a battle with years. With Douglas as an international law in forestry in Germany at the University present: Distinguished Service Award, and the and a rendition of the song “If I Can Help colorectal cancer. He obtained a B.A. from professor, they traveled extensively and lived of Munich and at the Schools of Forestry “He would be genuinely humbled 2008 University of Toronto Bora Laskin Somebody” by Murlita Williams, a family McGill, an LL.B. from Dalhousie Law and an in many parts of the world. Their longest at Eberswalde and Tharandt. Before his LL.M. from McGill. He was a lawyer, senior periods of residence were in Canada, primarily by what has been said and the size Award for Outstanding Contributions to friend and former law school employee. appointment with the Province of Nova policy advisor (Indian & Northern Affairs in Halifax and Victoria. • and diversity of the huge audience in Labour Law in Canada. Mike said that he Mascagni’s Intermezzo was performed by Scotia, Wilf had worked with the International Canada, Lands Operational Policy Unit), a war attendance. Very quickly, though, Innis had been particularly impressed at the the Rhapsody Quintet.•

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