Former Supreme Court Justice William Stevenson dies at 87
Former Supreme Court Justice William Stevenson, who helped start the Alberta Law Review, served on four courts and shaped the careers of generations of lawyers, died in Edmonton on July 7. He was 87.
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/CNW/ - The Honourable David Lametti, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, today announced the following appointment under the judicial.
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Even though Ardith Walkem was wearing a suit and pulled a big, rolling lawyer’s briefcase behind her on her very first day in court, people made the wrong assumptions about her.
Walkem, a member of the Nlaka’pamux First Nation, was a young lawyer in the late 1990s representing two hunters in a trial in Duncan, in Vancouver Island’s Cowichan Valley. Walkem arrived at the courthouse early that morning, where she was promptly approached by an RCMP officer.
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