CPD training

SHARP: BC Labour Relations Board: When is it an option for unionized employees with workplace sexual harassment grievances?

Unionized employees who experience workplace sexual harassment, including sexual assault, may have concerns about how their union is supporting them during workplace sexual harassment investigations and grievance processes. 

In this 1.5 hour webinar, Jennifer Glougie, Chair and Jennifer O’Rourke, Staff Lawyer, will discuss what the BC Labour Relations Board (the Board) is and what its mandate is with respect to individual employee complaints, including those filed by individuals who experience workplace sexual harassment. The Board presenters will discuss the rights under the BC Labour Relations Code that self-represented individuals most often access: specifically, s. 12 (duty of fair representation), s. 10 (internal union affairs), and s. 99 (review of workplace arbitration decisions). They will provide practical information on related processes and legal framework, time limits, evidentiary proof, standard of proof, the relevant legal tests and the process for making applications for internal reconsideration of the Board’s decisions. 

This 1.5 hour webinar is presented in partnership with Community Legal Assistance Society’s SHARP Workplaces (Sexual Harassment Advice, Response, and Prevention for Workplaces) Legal Clinic. The presentation will be aimed primarily at roster lawyers for SHARP Workplaces and Stand Informed Legal Advice Clinic. However, other lawyers, advocates and law students are welcome to attend. 

Participants in this webinar may claim up to 1.5 hours of CPD credit with LSBC. 

Presenters: 

Jennifer Glougie, Chair, and Jennifer O’Rourke, Staff Lawyer, BC Labour Relations Board

When

March 6th from 12:30 to 2:00 PT

To register:

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9817049256549/WN_Nmehd3olQhOXkteI6I9_rw#/registration

CDAS: Ubi jus, ibi remedium: Section 24(2) of The Constitution Act, 1982

Courthouse Library and the Criminal Defense Advocacy Society (CDAS): Ubi jus, ibi remedium: Section 24(2) of The Constitution Act, 1982

The shift in section 24(2) jurisprudence from the deterministic ‘two-box’ Collins/Stillman framework to the more contextual approach in Grant presents a formidable challenge to judges who must grapple with determining questions of admissibility. Judges must consider Charter rights to give meaning to the maxim ‘ubi jus, ibi remedium’ for without a remedy there is no right.

In Canada, the law of evidence is modified by federal and provincial statutes including The Charter of Rights and Freedoms. However, the law of evidence remains primarily a creature of common law and follows a familiar, and often frustrating, refrain – all relevant evidence is admissible unless it is not.

During this presentation, Nicole O’Byrne will analyze the historical and jurisprudential influences that inform contemporary interpretations of subsection 24(2) and will also examine current issues relevant to determinations of the admissibility of illegally obtained evidence, including electronic evidence, police (mis)conduct, and involuntary confessions.

Nicole O’Byrne, PhD is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick where she teaches Evidence, Criminal law, Advanced Evidence, Canadian Legal History, and Indigenous-non-Indigenous Relations.

Participants may claim up to 1.5 hours of CPD with LSBC.

Presenters: 

Nicole O’Byrne, PhD is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick where she teaches Evidence, Criminal law, Advanced Evidence, Canadian Legal History, and Indigenous-non-Indigenous Relations.

When

March 12th from 12:30 to 2:00 PT

To register:

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/8217093156213/WN_iC9AHCzXTK6x4…

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