National Committee on Accreditation (NCA)
http://www.flsc.ca/en/foreignLawyers/foreignLawyers.asp

– Foreign lawyers or Canadians with a foreign law degree who wish to become members of a Canadian Law Society must apply to the National Committee on Accreditation for an evaluation of their legal credentials and experience
– course is run though the University of Ottawa

Readings

• Supreme Court of Canada [SCC] cases
– are accessible from Case Law link on Law Library homepage,
– use free sources for SCC neutral citations [e.g. 2003 SCC 1] , i.e. CanLII [ http://www.canlii.org ] and Canada – Supreme Court Judgments [ http://www.lexum.umontreal.ca/csc-scc/en/index.html ] link for SCC citations

• Textbooks
Irwin Law [ http://www.irwinlaw.com ] texts provide good overviews.

• Exams [ http://www.library.ubc.ca/law/exams/examlist.html ]
– old UBC Law exams are available at this Law Library website
– NO answers are available for the exams; only the last 3 years are available
– UBC Law does not have access to NCA exams

• Student outlines or CANS (Condensed Annotated Notes) may be helpful
– CAVEAT: use these cautiously as they may be out of date or inaccurate
UBC LSS CANS [ http://www.ubclss.org/can_main.html ]
University of Victoria law students outlines [ http://web.uvic.ca/~lssweb/outlines ]

• Martindale-Hubbell International Law Digest (print only) [http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?dbcn=AEW-1903 ]
for Canada or British Columbia. There is a table of contents providing an overview of the areas of law covered.
Using this source, it is also possible to compare Canadian or BC law with that of another country by checking Martindale-Hubbell International Law Digest or to compare the law of an American state using Martindale-Hubbell Law Digest

The decision to acquit two Sikh men on charges of conspiracy and murder in the 1985 Air India bombing, R. v. Malik and Bagri is available from the Courts of British Columbia website here.

[Message from the Dean of Law at UBC]

To the UBC Faculty of Law Community:

The Faculty was saddened to learn of the passing away of Adam Albright, an adjunct faculty member and partner at Harris and Company. Professor Albright taught Labour Law at UBC for the past five years. He will be greatly missed by his former colleagues and students and our thoughts are with his family and friends. More information about Professor Albright’s career can be found at http://www.harrisco.com/_html/aboutus_ourlawyers_adam_albright.asp.

Services will be held in Toronto on Wednesday, March 9, 2005. In addition, there will be a Memorial at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 17, 2005 in the Park Ballroom of the Four Seasons Hotel, 791 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC.

A Memorial Fund is being established by Harris & Co. in Adam’s name to benefit students at the UBC Faculty of Law. If desired, donations may be made to the University of BC – Adam Albright Memorial Fund c/o M. Messenger, UBC Development Office, 6253 North West Marine Drive, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1.

Mary Anne Bobinski
Dean and Professor of Law
Faculty of Law – UBC
1822 East Mall
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1