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120 VOL. 72 PART 1 JANUARY 2014 THE ADVOCATE Free Desktop Access to the Complete Advocate Archives For assistance, contact Courthouse Libraries BC 604-660-2841 or librarian@courthouselibrary.ca The Advocate archive (1943 to present) has been digitized and is now available via HeinOnline. Members of the Law Society have free desktop access to HeinOnline through the Courthouse Libraries BC’s “Lawyers Reading Room.” Step 1: Go to Courthouse Libraries BC’s website at: http://www.courthouselibrary.ca/ and click on the Lawyers’ Reading Room. Step 2: To sign up for Reading Room access, follow the instructions on the log in page. Step 3: Log in. Once you are logged in, click on the logo. Step 4: Click on Advocate (Vancouver Bar Association), listed under Subscribed Libraries. To search the Advocate, click on the Search tab at the top and enter search term(s) in the Quick Search box. HeinOnline also has Field Search and Advanced Search options. To browse the issues simply expand the volumes by clicking on the + sign.
THE ADVOCATE VOL. 72 PART 1 JANUARY 2014 121 NEW JUDGE By R.C. Tino Bella Andrea Brownstone From those of us settled contentedly (some might say smugly) on the west coast, it is often a portent of profound intelligence that someone has moved here from the colder parts of the country. In Andrea’s case, the route was somewhat circuitous, but ultimately the more gratifying because of it. Born and raised in Winnipeg, she demonstrated early indications of that intelligence by graduating from high school at age 16, followed by a B.A. in English literature from the University of Manitoba. As her dalliance in arts neared its completion, however, parental pressure and student poverty compelled her, like many, to make a suitable career choice. Although her childhood ambition had been to become an interpreter at the UN, she quickly recognized that her lack of fluency in another language was probably a major obstacle (once again that irrepressible intelligence was at work). Ultimately, she attributes her decision to pursue law to a day when her Shakespeare prof was looking out the window toward the U of M law school, lamenting that some of his best students ended up “over there”. She decided not to stick quite so close to home, and both her legal career and her odyssey began with her move east to attend Osgoode. It was a somewhat dissonant beginning for the eventual emergence of a barrister that she was awarded Osgoode’s graduating prize for highest combined marks in commercial law, business law and tax. Nevertheless, it was a third-year semester at the Parkdale Community Legal Services clinic that sparked her desire for the stimulation of litigation. Articles followed at a boutique firm in Toronto, where she remained following her call until she married and moved to pursue general litigation in Edmonton (it gets worse before it gets better). Before long, to her considerable chagrin, she found herself with
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