Kathleen joined the BC Law Institute and Canadian Centre for Elder Law in June 2015 and helped to accomplish considerable work and progress. As Executive Director, Kathleen helped to raise BCLI’s profile within the access to justice sector and ensured BCLI’s presence within the law reform sector nationally and internationally.

Kathleen is grateful for the new relationships and friendships she has established with so many. Her tireless efforts have strengthened the organization’s operations and helped position BCLI to be able to ensure its participation in the opportunities ahead from access to justice to the ongoing evolution of how BCLI and CCEL carry out their independent, non-partisan law reform work. On behalf of the Board, we thank Kathleen for her commitment to ensuring an orderly transition in the coming months. The Board will announce its executive search early in the new year. 

Thomas L. Spraggs, Chair    |    Kathleen Cunningham, Executive Director

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During my undergraduate degree, I did a minor in Gerontology.  Throughout law school, I focused my research and writing on health care and older adults, including researching the laws surrounding restraint use in older adults in BC and Ontario, pension supports for caregivers of the elderly, and patient comprehension in the context of informed consent.  My master’s thesis examined what legal supports existed for caregivers of the elderly in Canada and Australia.  I used the lens of relational autonomy to analyze home care and caregiver supports and made policy recommendations for increasing supports for informal caregivers in Canada.

During my first week I will be attending the Reducing Elder Abuse in BC: Together in Action Conference. I am looking forward to spending the summer working with Krista James at the CCEL and the rest of the BCLI team.  

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Gregory Blue, LL.B., LL.M., has more than 28 years of legal experience in private practice, government, and law reform.  Mr. Blue has experience and expertise in numerous fields, including privacy law, maritime law, civil litigation, international trade law, wills, estates and trusts, energy and natural resources as well as having worked in law reform on either a full or part-time basis for over 18 years.  He has linguistic abilities in English, French, Russian and German.

For more information, read the media release here.

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