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Indigenous Court elders from the Squamish Nation, joined by representatives of the BC Provincial Court and the Ministry of the Attorney General, welcomed Malaysian government officials and community elders on July 3, 2024.
If people need to bring a family law dispute to BC Provincial Court, their first court appearance is a virtual family management conference. When lawyers attend these conferences with their clients, they can play a big role in making them effective.
Muriel Sasakamoose, a Kamloops Cknúcwentn First Nations Sentencing Court elder for the last eleven years, has been awarded an honourary doctor of letters degree by Thompson Rivers University. Now 86 years old, Dr. Sasakamoose has been a lifelong advocate for equality and justice.
Many Provincial Court judges bring a wide range of life experience to their work in the Court. It can help them understand the circumstances of the people they judge and appreciate their diversity. But Judge Alexander Wolf’s experience before he was appointed a judge must be among the most varied and wide-ranging.
If you think of a BC Provincial Court judicial justice as a person without legal training who decides cases of little importance, you’re out of date.