Joseph Arvay delivers 26th annual Viscount Bennett Memorial Lecture at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton
He was involved in one of New Brunswick’s highest profile legal cases.
Now, Joseph Arvay will be the guest speaker at the 26th annual Viscount Bennett Memorial Lecture at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton.
Mr. Arvay was counsel for the Canadian Human Rights Association in its Supreme Court intervention on the Malcolm Ross anti-Semitic propaganda case in New Brunswick. A litigator in private practice, his lecture title is Confessions of a Social Justice Litigator: Lessons Learned, Lessons Shared.
Sponsored by the UNBF faculty of law, the lecture will take place on Thursday, Feb. 10, at 5 p.m. in Room 2 of Ludlow Hall at 41 Dineen Dr. A reception will follow and the public is welcome.
Mr. Arvay, a graduate of the University of Western Ontario’s Law School and Harvard University Law School, has a passion for access to justice and legal aid. He has been involved in hundreds of constitutional and public law cases. After leaving the University of Windsor Law School where he was a professor, Mr. Arvay joined the Ministry of the Attorney General in British Columbia on the eve of the implementation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He spent nine years working on almost every major constitutional law case in B.C. before starting his own practice.
Mr. Arvay, whose practice also involves aboriginal litigation, received the Canadian Bar Association’s (CBA) Walter Tarnopolsky Human Rights Award and the CBA’s Equality and Diversity Award in B.C., for his contribution to justice and the legal profession.
Prior to the lecture, Mr. Arvay will participate in a panel discussion, scheduled from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Room 2 of Ludlow Hall. The topic is The Duty to Consult Aboriginal People and Resources Development and Regulation: A Panel Discussion on the Impact of the Haida Nation and Taku River Decisions.
Participating with Mr. Arvay on the panel is Neil Craik, a professor in the law faculty at UNBF; New Brunswick crown prosecutor Bill Richards; Betty Ann Lavallee, the chief of the New Brunswick Aboriginal Peoples Council and Darrell Paul, the executive officer of the Union of New Brunswick Indians.
The lecture was established under the terms of the will of Viscount Bennett, who was born in Hopewell Cape, N.B. The late Richard Bedford Bennett had a long career as a lawyer, politician and statesman. He served as prime minister from 1930 to 1935 and in 1941 was raised to the peerage of the United Kingdom.
Original Article is from the University of New Brunswick website: http://www.unb.ca/news/view.cgi?id=675
