Press Release
September 26, 2024
The Law Society of BC is pleased to share our 2023 Annual Report, which contains updates on our key priorities and accomplishments of the year. In this report, you’ll learn about how we’re advancing meaningful Truth and Reconciliation, Indigenous cultural safety, addressing gaps in mental health support and advocating for long-standing and emerging issues affecting the legal profession, including access to justice. You’ll also learn how we’re innovating through our core functions of licensing and regulating lawyers to uphold the ethical and competent practice of law.
Throughout 2023 and into this year, the Law Society also continued to liaise with government on Bill 21 – the Legal Professions Act. From our perspective, the Act contains flaws that would seriously compromise the independence of the legal profession and its regulator and we began legal action to challenge its constitutionality after it received Royal Assent this year.
Recognizing the challenges that lie ahead, we felt it was important to provide you with a more detailed view of what we do, how we do it and the impact we’re making in our province.
Read the Law Society’s 2023 Annual Report
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