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Born in Iran, Judge Delaram Jahani didn’t speak English until she came to Canada at age 15. Her life has been a series of swift learning curves, with the latest being her transition from lawyer to Provincial Court judge in 2017.
The Provincial Court of BC has been holding court in Bella Bella, Klemtu, and Bella Coola on BC’s Central Coast for many years.
Provincial Court Judge Stella Frame answers questions about her recent education leave.
You were on Education Leave for a few days during the reduction in court services caused by the pandemic. Tell us how that came to be?
The year was 1984. The Office of the Chief Judge had asked Administrative Judges around the province to have photographs taken of the judges in their districts. The judges in the Cariboo District convened a meeting to discuss the project.
Which recently retired BC Provincial Court judge is a published author with two books to his credit – one of short fiction and the other of poetry? Literary reviewers have described him as “a writer of exceptional talent” and “an elegant literary stylist” who uses “language as taut as an Emily Dickinson poem” with both “musicality” and “razor wit”.