Please join West Coast LEAF and special guests for firsthand accounts of the Polygamy Reference case.    

WHAT:  Annual General Meeting at 5:30 followed by presentation at 6:00
WHO: Robyn Trask, counsel for the BCTF in the Polygamy Reference, Jim Quail, author, "Be Careful What you Criminalize", Janet Winteringham, West Coast LEAF co-counsel in the Polygamy Reference.

Light refreshments and cash bar will be provided.  Cocktail reception to follow.

Harry Kopyto, well-known legal activist, is back fighting the Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC), this time over the lawyer-controlled Society's newly acquired powers to regulate the paralegal profession.

Building on a swell of support for better regulation of the paralegal profession, the Ontario government passed the Access to Justice Act, 2006 (also known as Bill 14). The Act grants the Law Society -- a body comprised of lawyers traditionally tasked with governing themselves -- the formal authority for licensing paralegals. It also limits the scope of legal activities a paralegal can engage in, such as barring them from Family Court proceedings, and preventing them from doing a range of tasks related to real estate work, wills, and undefended divorces.