Newsletter of the Ca nadia n Ba r Association (B.C. Bra nch) June/July 1995 Vol. 7 • No.3
INSIDE President's Message .•••• 2 Provincial Council Meeting Highlights .... 3 Registry Q&A ........••..... 4 Section Talk .....•....••..•..• 5 Charity Golf Tourney •• 8 PracticeTalk ••.•..•.•••••.••• 9 legislative Update ...... 11 Call for Goyer Award Nominations .••......... 15
B.C. BRANCH NAMES JOHN WADDELL AS NEW PRESIDENT ohn D. Wad dell of Stewart Wad dell Rapani & McLean in Victoria has been named President of the B.C. Branch for 1995-96. He succeeds Eric Rice, Q.C., of the Richmond firm Campbell Froh May & Rice, effective August 24. Waddell, a graduate of Queens University and the University of Alberta who practices in the area of civil litigation, has been actively involved in CBA activities for nearly 10 years. Currently Vice-President of the B.C. Branch, he has been an elected member of Provincial Council since 1987 and has served as Chair of a number of branch committees, including the Young Lawyers Section and the Communications Committee. At the national level, Waddell has served the CBA in a number of capacities, including being a member of the executive and as Chair of the National Membership Task Force. A director of the Canadian Bar Insurance Association, he also
is an honourary member of the American Bar Association Young Lawyers, an affiliate member of the ABA, and a director of the Victoria Civic Heritage Trust. Others elected to the B.C. Branch Executive Committee for 1995-96: Vice-President • Emily Reid, Q.C., Vancouver. SecretanJ-Treasurer • Kerry-Lynne Findlay, Vancouver. Past-President • Eric Rice, Q.C., Richmond. Executive Officers • Judith Milliken, Vancouver. • Mary Mowat, Victoria. • Greg Steele, Vancouver. • Gordon Turriff, Vancouver. Continued on page 10 CBA (B .C. Branch) Executive Committee members for 1995/96 are: (seated front row from left) Emily Reid, Q.C., Vice-President; john Waddell, President; Eric Rice, Q .C., PastPresident; Kerry-Lynne Findlay, SecretaryTreasurer; (standing back row from left) Executive Committee Officers Mary Mowat, Greg Steele, judith Milliken and Gordon Turriff.