September 27, 2019
Dementia + Decision-Making
August 26, 2019
Modernizing the Child, Family and Community Service Act Project
Overview The Modernizing the Child, Family and Community Service Act Project has two dimensions: (1) a focused review of the Child, Family and Community Service Act to identify outdated provisions and operational incompatibilities and gaps within the statute itself and with legislation that intersects with this act; (2) comparative legal Read more…
February 20, 2019
Pension Division Review Project
Overview The Pension Division Review Project is dedicated to a review of part 6 of British Columbia’s Family Law Act. When a spousal relationship breaks down, the Family Law Act provides for the division of family property between the spouses. Pensions represent a particularly complex form of property to divide Read more…
February 8, 2019
Annual Report 2019
August 6, 2019
Finding similarities and differences in Finnish and British Columbian legal systems
From May 28 to June 12, 2019, the Canadian Centre for Elder Law was pleased to host visiting scholar Katja Karjalainen, LL.D. from the University of Eastern Finland. In the blog post that follows she discusses her experiences as she begins the comparison of our two jurisdictions’ approach to what Read more…