QUEER AND TRANS LEGAL HISTORY & CURRENT ISSUES,
MULTIPARENT AND FAMILY ISSUE IN POLYAMOROUS FAMILIES
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barbara findlay, QC, The Law Office of barbara findlay, QC.
Catherine Wong, Saltwater Law
Moderated by: Lisa Nevens
Director at Large - CBABC Board of Directors
CBABC SOGIC Co-Chair
Department of Justice Canada
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| Time: |
Thursday, February 18, 2021 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm (Pacific Time) |
| Fees: |
Complimentary for all members of the Bar.
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| CPD Hours: |
2 Hours of Approved Continuing Professional Development in BC.
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Synopsis
barbara findlay, QC, leads a whirlwind tour through queer and trans legal history from the days of criminalization through legalization, human rights and Charter cases, to arrive at topical issues: emerging family forms, current practice directives, conversion therapy and identity documents, and more. Catherine Wong will then delve further into emerging family law issues in multiparent and polyamorous families.
About barbara findlay, QC
barbara became a lawyer in 1977, attaining her law degree from UBC after completing a B.A. at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, and an M.A. in sociology at U.B.C. She has a broad range of legal experience, practicing as a union-side labour lawyer; working for the Legal Services Society (legal aid) doing poverty law, and in policy-making capacities. She has been a member of the Faculty of Law at UBC and now runs a general practice. In her non-lawyer capacity, barbara has done political work and advocacy around issues of oppression, including sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia and disability.
As a member of AWARE (the Alliance of Women against Racism Etc.) and as a member of Across Our Differences, barbara has done hundreds of unlearning oppression workshops for groups ranging from workplaces to university classes to legal audiences. It is her conviction that, "unless we work as hard on the ways we are privileged - whether by white skin, by heterosexuality, by able- bodiedness, or by economic advantage – as we do on the ways we are oppressed, equality will never come."
About Catherine Wong
Catherine offers specialized family law legal services relating to marriage and cohabitation, guardianship and parenting, fertility law, separation and divorce, and property division and support. She is a certified family law mediator and is also a collaborative divorce practitioner. Her law practice has a particular focus on fertility law, working with the trans+ community, and on working with polyamorous families. In addition to presenting on matters related to fertility law, she is also asked to consult on fertility law matters by other family law lawyers in the context of cohabitation and separation. In addition to her family law practice, she also has a small criminal and family law appellate practice.
Catherine strongly believes in being an active member of her communities and has served on a number of boards and organizations including the City of Vancouver LGBTQ2S+ Advisory Committee and the Just Society Committee of EGALE, Out on Screen, which produces the Vancouver Queer Film Festival and operates Out in Schools, and is an executive member of CBABC's SOGIC Section.
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