Course Chairs
William A. Buholzer — Young Anderson, Vancouver
Olga Rivkin — Bull, Housser & Tupper LLP, Vancouver
Featured Speaker
Kim Carter — Ombudsperson for the Province of British Columbia, Victoria
About the Course Chairs
William Buholzer is a partner at the firm of Young Anderson, where his practice focuses on land use and planning law, building regulation, and other local government issues. He worked for several years as a city planner in Alberta and BC. He is a graduate of the UBC School of Community and Regional Planning and the Faculty of Law at UBC, and was called to the BC bar in 1991. Bill is the author of British Columbia Planning Law and Practice (Butterworths), a co-author of CLEBC's British Columbia Real Estate Development Practice Manual, and the author of the “Planning and Zoning” title in Halsbury’s Laws of Canada (2008). He is a past Chair of the Municipal Law Section of CBABC, an associate member of Continuing Studies at Simon Fraser University, and an adjunct professor at the UBC School of Community and Regional Planning. In 2010, Bill was elected to the College of Fellows of the Canadian Institute of Planners in recognition of his contribution to the planning profession. In 2011, he was awarded the Local Government Management Association's Distinguished Partnership Award for his ongoing contribution to the work of LGMA's Approving Officers Committee.
Olga Rivkin, Associate, Local Government at Bull, Housser & Tupper LLP in Vancouver, is a solicitor practicing in the areas of local government, real estate, environmental law, and information and privacy. On a day to day basis, her practice includes assisting clients with a variety of zoning and planning matters, as well as other matters arising in the operation of local governments (such as freedom of information requests, procedural issues, and legislative drafting).
Having a particular interest and experience in complex developments involving overlapping regulatory jurisdictions, Olga has been involved in such projects as the development of agricultural land, development in or near streams or wetlands, phased developments on reserve land, construction of independent power projects, sewer and water utilities, and other projects where knowledge and interpretation of broad regulatory schemes is required. Olga was called to the BC bar in 2005.
About the Featured Speaker
Kim Carter, Ombudsperson for the Province of British Columbia, has a broad background in criminal, international, and administrative law. She has appeared as counsel before the Federal Court of Canada, the Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada, and the Supreme Court of Canada.
Kim received her LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1979 and completed her Master’s of Law at the University of Ottawa in 2005. She served as a logistics officer of the Canadian Forces Reserves from 1975 to 1981, and after her call to the bar in Ontario, she transferred to the regular force as a legal officer. In addition to providing legal advice on a wide range of administrative issues, she acted variously as defence counsel, prosecutor, and appellate counsel. Kim was the Director of International Law for the Canadian Forces from 1991 to 1995 and acted as Senior Canadian Forces Counsel during the Somalia Commission of Inquiry.
Kim has worked in Canada and overseas in many capacities including leader of the Canadian War Crimes Investigation Team responsible for conducting on-site war crimes investigations in the Former Republics of Yugoslavia for the UN Commission of Experts in 1993. She was also a member of the Canadian delegation during negotiating sessions for the International Criminal Court in New York. In 1999, then-Colonel Carter was appointed the first independent Director of Military Prosecutions for the Canadian Forces. In 2001 she was appointed by Governor-in-Council as a military judge and in 2002 became Canada’s first female Chief Military Judge until her retirement from the Canadian Forces in 2006.
Kim was appointed Ombudsperson for the Province of British Columbia on May 15, 2006 for a six-year term, and she was reappointed for an unprecedented second term by the Legislative Assembly on May 9, 2012. As Ombudsperson, Kim has introduced an innovative early resolution program to assist in achieving fair and timely resolutions for individuals and authorities as well as establishing an active systemic investigation team that has produced a number of public reports on areas ranging from lottery prize security to home and community care programs for seniors.
Faculty
Alyssa D. Bradley — Young Anderson, Vancouver
William A. Buholzer — Young Anderson, Vancouver
Kim Carter — Ombudsperson for the Province of British Columbia, Victoria
Kathleen T. Higgins — Bull, Housser & Tupper LLP, Vancouver
Pamela J. Jefcoat — Valkyrie Law Group LLP, Vancouver
Francesca V. Marzari — Young Anderson, Vancouver
Olga Rivkin — Bull, Housser & Tupper LLP, Vancouver
Lynda M. Stokes — Murdy & McAllister, Vancouver
Kathryn Stuart — Stewart McDannold Stuart, Victoria
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Many years ago, CLEBC published The Community Charter: B.C. Local Government in Transition to introduce legal practitioners to BC’s new municipal enabling legislation. This successful paperback guide to the Charter was prepared by Bill Buholzer, a highly-regarded lawyer and author whose work on behalf of local governments is well-known throughout the province. Bill updated our publication several times over the past ten years, but it continued to focus on the Community Charter. This new (2013) edition, Local Government in British Columbia, is really a new publication: it is a comprehensive look at both the Community Charter and the Local Government Act, that adds references to important case law, addresses new legislation like the Auditor General for Local Government Act, provides entirely new chapters on local government incorporations, local elections, and legal attacks on local government decisions, and removes information on the transition from the Municipal Act that is no longer required. Bill has also added a new chapter on his preferred area of legal practice, planning and land use management.
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