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1971 Can. B. Bull. 1 (1971)

handle is hein.barjournals/cdnbb1971 and id is 1 raw text is: CANADIAN BAR DU BARREAU CANADIEN OTTAWA CANADA JANUARY 1971 JANVIER ONTARIO BRANCH MEETING Theme is changig responsiblity Ontario lawyers will take a hard look at their responsibility to society and their changing role, at the An- nual Mid-Winter Meeting of the On- tario B3ranch of The Canadian Bar Association in Ottawa, Feb. 4 to 6. John Hodgson, Vice-president of the Association for Ontario said, This is a time of drastic change in law and also in the attitude that people take to law. We lawyers can- not stand passively or indifferently on the sidelines - this responding to change is the theme of our program. In keeping with the general theme, the subjects to be discussed at the Ontario Branch meeting will include: Acceptable law in an age of dissent; Municipal law - The rights of the individual; On strike - The day of no government - Anarchy of liber- ty; and Trends for the seventies. The Hon. A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., Judge of The United States Dis- trict Court, Philadelphia, will be the keynote speaker at the Annual Din- ner. Judge Higginbotham, 42, was sworn in as a United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in 1964, to become the youngest person to be appointed a Federal District Judge within the past 30 years. He received his law degree at Yale in 1952 and holds degrees from seven other universities and col- leges. The meeting will open with a dis- cussion group on Acceptable Law in an age of dissent. The panel will be chaired by The Hon. Mr. Justice Bora Laskin, of The Supreme Court of Canada. Other members of the panel are W. R. Lederman, Law School, Queens University, Kingston; Ontario Attorney-General A. A. Wis- hart, and Judge Higginbotham. Subjects to be considered during the two-day meeting are: People power and police power - Must there be a conflict?; What is wrong with The Bankruptcy Act?; On strike - The day of no government - Anarchy or liberty?; Municipal law - The rights of the individual; Foreign investment in Canada's nat- ural resources; Cross-examining the female plaintiff in a matrimonial case; Trends for the seventies; The high cost of dying; Small craft risk in- surance; and Articling and The Bar Admission Course - Abolitioa or alteration? Administration of the Courts of Ontario will also be a topic of con- sideration. Ontario Law Reform Commissioners will explain and dis- cuss the terms of reference for the courts and will welcome suggestions from the bar in general for considera- tion by the commission. Seminars for the practising profes- sion will be dealt with Feb. 4 and The Law Society of Upper Canada will hold its Annual Meeting on the afternoon of Feb. 6. Seminar to consider role of computer technology in law practice The CBA Special Committee on Jurimetrics is holding a workshop seminar Feb. 12-13 in Ottawa. This meeting will bring together lawyers, academics and representa- tives of the computer industry for a broad assessment of the present state of the application of computer tech- nology to the practice of law. In addition to reviewing this dis- cipline, the group will also take a look at its future development and consider the most effective role for the CBA in this important field. 1

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