Lecture: Do Good Work: Legal Skills & Social Justice

Public interest advocacy, and other litigation on behalf of vulnerable and marginalized groups, can transform the legal landscape. But to be effective, such advocacy must be both rigorous and creative in utilizing basic legal skills to build an evidentiary record and argue for advances in legal doctrine. This lecture will discuss what practical and strategic issues to keep in mind when litigating constitutional cases that advance the rights of vulnerable groups.

Guest Speaker: Catherine Boies Parker, KC

Livestream: Available here on YouTube

Speaker Bio: Catherine Boies Parker, KC is called to the Bars of British Columbia, Ontario, and Yukon. Her areas of practice include constitutional, aboriginal, administrative, privacy, and environmental law, as well as labour and employment law.

Catherine has appeared at all levels of Court, and before numerous administrative and regulatory tribunals.  Catherine provides litigation and policy support for a wide range of public bodies, and conducts workplace investigations for both private and public clients. Catherine is a frequent guest lecturer on topics such as constitutional law, privacy law and civil liberties. She is  the founding president of the Pacific Centre for Environmental Law and Litigation, a  former director of the Mary Manning Centre, Child Abuse Prevention and Counselling Society of Greater Victoria and a former Chair of the ORCA Children’s Advocacy Centre Society.

Catherine was awarded the 2008 Contribution to the Law Award from the Victoria Bar Association in recognition of her work on a case involving the Charter rights of Victoria’s homeless. In 2009, she received a Human Rights Honours Award, sponsored by the Vancouver Island Human Rights Institute and presented by the Honourable Stephen L. Point. In 2016, Catherine received the George S. Goyer QC Memorial Award for Distinguished Service, and in 2017, she was honoured with the designation of Queen’s (King’s) Counsel.

Event Details

When:
Time:
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM CST
Location:
MLT Aikins Lecture Theatre (Room 150), College of Law, 15 Campus Drive

Contact

Katie Richard, USask Law Alumni Relations and Events Coordinator

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