7th Annual Justicia Awards for Legal Reporting
Société Radio-Canada’s TV show Enjeux and the Vancouver Sun's Peter McKnight are this year's recipients of the Justicia Awards for Legal Reporting.
The Awards are sponsored by the Law Commission of Canada, the Canadian Bar Association and the Department of Justice Canada and are given for "outstanding journalism that fosters public awareness and understanding of any aspect of the Canadian justice system and the roles played by institutions and participants in the legal system".
Enjeux won an Award for its March 2006 program "Tribunal des Toxicomanes" that dealt with Vancouver's groundbreaking Drug Treatment Court. McKnight won his Award in the print category for his column that showed how hard it is to come up with any clear definition of what "judicial activism" really is, if it even exists at all.
The winners were honoured over the weekend at the Canadian Bar Association's annual conference in St. John’s, the capital of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Other awards handed out by the Association at this year's annual meeting included:
The Awards are sponsored by the Law Commission of Canada, the Canadian Bar Association and the Department of Justice Canada and are given for "outstanding journalism that fosters public awareness and understanding of any aspect of the Canadian justice system and the roles played by institutions and participants in the legal system".
Enjeux won an Award for its March 2006 program "Tribunal des Toxicomanes" that dealt with Vancouver's groundbreaking Drug Treatment Court. McKnight won his Award in the print category for his column that showed how hard it is to come up with any clear definition of what "judicial activism" really is, if it even exists at all.
The winners were honoured over the weekend at the Canadian Bar Association's annual conference in St. John’s, the capital of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Other awards handed out by the Association at this year's annual meeting included:
- Robert V.A. Jones Canadian Corporate Counsel Award to Montreal corporate counsel Sylvie Grégoire and Robert Lebeau
- CBA President's Award to Brian C. Midwinter, a champion of legal aid funding
- John Tait Award of Excellence to David Frayer, Q.C., General Counsel with the Department of Justice Canada’s Winnipeg office in recognition as an outstanding Canadian public sector lawyer
- Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Law to University of Ottawa Prof. Constance Backhouse for outstanding contributions to legal scholarship
- CBA Touchstone Award to Charlottetown lawyer Daphne E. Dumont for her contributions in promoting equity in the legal profession
- Tarnopolsky Human Rights Award to University of Ottawa Prof. Errol Mendes for contributions to domestic and international human rights
- Young Lawyers Pro Bono Service Award to Pamela R. Kovacs, an associate at the Regina firm of McKercher McKercher & Whitmore LLP, for legal services benefiting the community
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Conference (SOGIC) Hero Award to Vancouver lawyer barbara findlay, Q.C. for services to gay and lesbian people
- Walter Owen Book Prize to McGill University Prof. Frédéric Bachand for his book entitled L’intervention du juge canadien avant et durant un arbitrage commercial
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