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ON THE FRONT COVER
Nicole Byres, Q.C., graces this issue’s cover. Find out about her
remarkable career from Trail to Vancouver starting on page 333.
THE
VOL. 78 PART 3 MAY 2020
Entre Nous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
On the Front Cover: Nicole Byres, Q.C.
By Valerie Dixon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
Living in Self-Imposed Quarantine: Day 12
By Tony Wilson, Q.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
Fault or No Fault? My Run-In with The Chief Justice
By Mark Braidwood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
A Man Like Greer
By Hamar Foster, Q.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
New Arbitration Act Introduced in British Columbia
By Kenneth Glasner, Q.C., FCIArb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
A Short History of the Geneva Convention: Part II
By David Roberts, Q.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
The Inadequacy of the Consultation and Accommodation
Model in Pipeline Cases
By Michael P. Doherty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
Exits and Entrances
By the Honourable Catherine Crockett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
The Wine Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
News from BC Law Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
News from CLEBC Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
LAP Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
Announcing the 2020 Advocate Short Fiction Competition . . . 409
Peter A. Allard School of Law Faculty News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
UVic Law Faculty News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415
The Attorney General’s Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
Nos Disparus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423
New Books and Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453
Classified . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457
From Our Back Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459
Legal Anecdotes and Miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
Bench and Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469
Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479
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