Actions and Commitments:
Exploring Stakeholder: "Federation of Law Societies"
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July 12, 2023
Manitoba law society to launch mandatory Indigenous training
NationTalk: Law360Canada – This fall, lawyers in Manitoba will have to start taking a new course on Indigenous culture as part of their law society’s competency mandate — something the regulator’s departing president hopes will start a “voyage of understanding and empathy.” As of Oct. 1, members of the Law Society of Manitoba (LSM) will...
October 11, 2022
Sustaining progress in Indigenous legal education
Since the release of the TRC report in 2015, momentum has been building toward Indigenous justice and reconciliation. But stronger and deeper commitments and actions are necessary. BY SCOTT FRANKS 11 OCT 2022 Education is vital to reconciliation, former Chief Justice Beverly McLachlin affirmed back in 2015: “Those involved with the justice system, be they judges, lawyers or justice...