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1972 Can. B. Bull. 1 (1972)

handle is hein.barjournals/cdnbb1972 and id is 1 raw text is: CANADIAN BAR DU BARREAU CANADIEN OTTAWA, CANADA FEVRIER 1972 FEBRUARY Conference looks at the Law What was billed as open-ended, multi-disciplined deliberations about law and law reform unrolled in Ot- tawa during the first few days of February. Sponsored by the Department of Justice, the first National Conference on the Law brought together 350 thinkers, social workers, academics, businessmen, students, public ser- vants, as well as lawyers and judges. Through the four-day program they examined such issues as the environ- ment, consumerism, technology, the media, the family, civil liberties, mi- nority groups, poverty, administrative tribunals and the role of the public in the parliamentary process. Kickoff for the conference came in the plush surroundings of the National Arts Centre where Prime Minister Trudeau discussed his government's record in applying the law to con- temporary problems. Wednesday morning, Feb. 2, dele- gates met in the second plenary ses- sion where Australian legal scholar, Julius Stone, spent 90 minutes dis- cussing Law, Society and Social Justice. His remarks were followed by a panel consisting of John Seeley from the Centre for the Study of Demo- cratic Institutions in California; Leon Dion, from Laval University; and Manitoba's Chief Justice, Samuel Freedman. Prof. Stone's speech and the panel led into 20 workshop discussions in the afternoon to which participants were arbitrarily assigned in order to bring a number of disciplines to bear on the theories advanced during the morning session. That evening a panel discussion in the Government Conference Centre looked at the New Advocacy. Panel Chairman, G. Arthur Mar- tin, former Treasurer of the Law So- ciety of Upper Canada, characterized the old advocacy as endorsing the right of every individual to have his case put forward in the best possible way in order to secure the best possi- ble disposition of the case. Gail Stewart, an Ottawa economist who now directs the Public Policy Concern organization, entered a plea for lawyers to liberate themselves in order to restore their own essential humanity. Donald Santarelli, Assistant Deputy Attorney General in the U.S. De- partment of Justice, described the paradox created for the U.S. legal system by their Constitution which sets up each of the three arms of gov- ernment as checks and balances on the others. He went on to say that the function of judging the relevance of certain laws had devolved on the judiciary because of the reluctance of the legis- lative arm to act. Panelist L.-P. de Grandpr6 - president-elect of the CBA - ques- tioned whether a lawyer who, in his pleadings, espouses a cause is truly acting as an advocate. Conference panelists Gail Stewart, G. Arthur Martin, Donald Santarelli and L.-P. de Grandpre. -uPI photo 1

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