Thoughts on the BCCA’s decision in Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia v. British Columbia (A-G), 2022 BCCA 163 on the jurisdiction of the Civil Resolution Tribunal of BC.
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David J. Bilinsky is a Practice Management Consultant and lawyer for the Law Society of British Columbia.
He is a Fellow of the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution (NCTDR) at the University of Massachusetts. He is also a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management and past Editor-in-Chief of ABA’s Law Practice Magazine.
For many years, David has been an adjunct professor at Simon Fraser University teaching a totally online, graduate level course in the Masters of Arts in Applied Legal Studies program. This MA program received the 2011 Award of Excellence from the Canadian Association for University Continuing Education. He has designed and has taught the first legal technology course in Canada for the University of Toronto Law School.
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