Course Chair
Tina L. Dion — Barrister & Solicitor, Tsawwassen
About the Course Chair
Tina L. Dion is a member of the Kehewin Cree Nation located in northern Alberta. She obtained her BA from the University of Alberta in 1994 and LLB from UBC in 1997. Tina clerked with the Navajo Supreme Court in Window Rock, Arizona prior to commencing her articles in Vancouver with Orris Burns in 1998, and was called to the BC bar in 1999. In 2014 she was called to the Alberta Bar.
From January 2000 to April 2006, Tina worked with the First Nations and Aboriginal Law Group at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP in Vancouver. From 2006 to 2012, she was in-house legal counsel with the Tsawwassen First Nation. From 2002 to 2012, Tina was an adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Law, UBC, where she taught the First Nations Self-Government course. In May, 2008, she obtained her Doctoral Degree in Law from the University of Arizona.
Tina is appointed by the Province to self-regulating professional boards. As a sole practitioner, she is the co-chair of the Aboriginal Lawyers Forum, as well as a contributing writer to the BC Administrative Law Practice Manual (CLE Society of BC).
Featured Speakers
The Honourable Chief Justice Christopher E. Hinkson — Supreme Court of BC, Vancouver
The Honourable Douglas Campbell — Federal Court, Ottawa
Professor John Borrows — Faculty of Law, University of Victoria, Victoria
About the Featured Speakers
The Honourable Chief Justice Christopher E. Hinkson of the Supreme Court of BC, Vancouver obtained an LLB in 1975 from the University of BC. He was admitted to the BC bar in 1976 and is a past member of the Yukon Territory bar. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1990. Chief Justice Hinkson was appointed to the Supreme Court of BC in 2007 and to the Court of Appeal for BC in 2010. Prior to his appointment, he practiced with Harper Grey LLP (formerly Harper Grey Easton & Co.) in Vancouver from 1976 to 2007, and was appointed Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers in 1997. His practice included medical malpractice, personal injury, professional negligence, commercial litigation, human rights litigation, and administrative law.
The Honourable Douglas R. Campbell is a judge of the Federal Court, Canada, and, prior to his appointment to the Court in 1995, was a judge of the Provincial Court of BC for 22 years. During that period, he served as Administrative Judge for the Lower Mainland Family Courts. Between 1989 and 1994, he was appointed to lead the Western Judicial Education Centre (WJEC), an education program for Western Provincial and Northern Territorial judges directed at building knowledge and understanding of people not well served by the justice system: women, Aboriginal people, and members of racial, ethnic, and cultural minorities. The success of this equality education effort in Canada resulted in his participation in developing and delivering similar initiatives with judges in Australia, Fiji, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Palestine between 1997 and 2012.
Professor John Borrows, JD, LLM (Toronto), PhD (Osgoode Hall Law School), LLD (Hons.)(Dalhousie), FRSC, is Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law at the University of Victoria Faculty of Law. Prior to joining the faculty, he was Professor and Robina Chair in Law and Society at the University of Minnesota Law School and Professor; Law Foundation Professor of Aboriginal Law and Justice at the University of Victoria Faculty of Law; Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto; Associate Professor and First Nations Legal Studies Director, University of BC Faculty of Law; and Associate Professor and Director of the Intensive Programme in Lands, Resources and First Nations Governments at Osgoode Hall Law School. He teaches in the area of constitutional law, Indigenous law, and environmental law. Professor Borrows is a recipient of an Aboriginal Achievement Award in Law and Justice, a Fellow of the Trudeau Foundation, a Fellow of the Academy of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada (RSC), Canada's highest academic honor, and a 2012 recipient of the Indigenous Bar Association’s Indigenous Peoples Counsel (I.P.C.) for honor and integrity in service to Indigenous communities. John is Anishinabe/Ojibway and a member of the Chippewa of the Nawash First Nation in Ontario, Canada.
Faculty
Kim Baird — Kim Baird Strategic Consulting, Tsawwassen
Anja P. Brown — Vice-Chair TFN JC, Mandell Pinder LLP, Vancouver
Dale Drown — CEO, Metis Nation British Columbia, Abbotsford
Aaron S. Bruce — Ratcliff & Company LLP, North Vancouver
Tina Dion — Barrister & Solicitor, Tsawwassen
Lisa C. Fong — Ng Ariss Fong, Lawyers, Vancouver
Renee Collins-Goult — Manager, Executive Support, Law Society of BC, Vancouver
Elizabeth C. Hunt — Elizabeth C. Hunt Law Corporation, Williams Lake
Angeline S.B. Nyce — A. Nyce Law Corporation, North Vancouver
John R. Rich — Ratcliff & Company LLP, North Vancouver
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