2009 Cherniak Cup

The 2009 Cherniak Cup was won last night by Meagan Williams, a second-year student. Justice Helen Rady of the Superior Court of Justice presided over the final rounds, which were also scored by Earl Cherniak Q.C. of Lerners LLP, Doug Ferguson of Community Legal Services, and Andrew Camman of Polishuk, Camman & Steele. [read more]

Doctoral student supervised by Law faculty wins major award

Charles Maina, a doctoral student in Library and Information Science at Western, has won the prestigious Association for Library and Information Science Education Eugene Garfield Doctorial Dissertation Competition Award for his doctoral disseration. His supervisor was Law Professor Margaret Ann Wilkinson. [read more]

Public vaccination clinic on campus Friday

The Middlesex-London Health Unit will be holding an on-campus H1N1 vaccination clinic on Friday, Nov. 20 at the Althouse Faculty of Education Building and it will be open to anyone who wants to be immunized. [read more]

BLG Client Counselling competition draws record number of students

The annual Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Client Counselling Competition was held at the law school on November 16. The competition is inspired by, and linked to, the American Bar Association (ABA) Client Counseling Competition, which began in California in 1969 and now involves almost 100 schools from across Canada and the U.S. [read more]

IPIT students meet with pre-eminent IP Justice

The Intellectual Property, Information and Technology (IPIT) Law Area at Western Law received an invitation from the Kitchener Waterloo branch of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) to attend a special presentation on November 11 by pre-eminent intellectual property authority Justice Hughes of the Federal Court. [read more]

Abella on the legacy of her report

Supreme Court of Canada justice Rosalie Abella, one of Canada's foremost experts on human rights law, spoke on "Reflections on the Abella Report: 25 Years Later" at the 2009 Koskie Minsky Lecture in Labour Law on Oct. 30th. [read article]

"Justice Unleashed: Bringing Law to the Masses"

The Hon. Mr. Justice Harvey Brownstone speaks about his new book "Tug of War: A Judge's Verdict on Separation, Custody Battles, and the Bitter Realities of Family Court" as part of Western Law's Distinguished Speaker Series.
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Torys LLP Negotiation Competition

Second-year students Shane Attersley and Kevin Wall were named champions of the Torys LLP Negotiation Competition, the runners-up were second-year students Keri Wallace and Jennifer Organ. Both teams will now represent Western Law at the American Bar Association’s Regional Negotiation Competition. [read more]

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