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156 VOL. 72 PART 1 JANUARY 2014 THE ADVOCATE The training, “Next Steps: Working With the Full Team Approach”, will enable participants to adapt a California-style team-based model to the unique characteristics of B.C. collaborative practice, including trust building, powerful communication strategies, the critical role of case manager and dealing with impasse. Please contact Devlin Farmer for information regarding the training at or visit . Cabinet has conferred the honorary title of Queen’s Counsel on the following recipients below: Robert Tadashi Banno Diane Mary Ellen Bell Daniel Raymond Bennett David James Edward Bilkey Daniel William Burnett Nicole Marie Byres Dale William Darychuk James Andrew Dowler Lorne Arthur James Dunn John Robert Esson David Alexander Jardine James Wilfred Hogan Andrew Brent Kerr Jeffrey James Lowe Deanna Grace Ludowicz William Shawn Maclagan Timothy Edmund McGee Geoffrey Stuart Moyse Kevin Patrick O’Neill Robert Michael John D. Orr Michael Leslie Pearce Dennis Clarke Quinlan Elaine Elizabeth Reynolds Clark Murray Roberts Kerry Lynn Simmons Laurence Ralph Stinson Michael Tammen James Alan Vanstone John Ian Gardiner Waddell Sandra Joan Watson Robert Victor Wickett Angela Ruth Westmacott The Vancouver Bar Association held its annual general meeting at the Hotel Vancouver on November 21, 2013. The election results saw the annual change in officers and a slate of newly elected members at large. Richard Pearce (Webster Hudson & Coombe LLP) takes over as president, while Timothy Hinkson (Guild Yule LLP) assumes the title past president, joining a long line of esteemed members of the bench and bar who have held this post. Mark Fancourt-Smith (Lawson Lundell LLP) was elected as vice president, while Carolyn MacDonald (KPMG Law LLP) was acclaimed as secretary-treasurer. The six newly elected members at large are Andrew Aguilar (McMillan LLP), Aaron Atkinson (Harper Grey LLP), Kerry Burgi (Borden Ladner Gervais LLP), Colin Edstrom (Harris & Company LLP), Alexis Omichin-
THE ADVOCATE VOL. 72 PART 1 JANUARY 2014 157 ski (Hammerberg Lawyers LLP) and Darren Stewart (Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP). Congratulations to all for successful campaigns. Finishing off their mandated terms as members-at-large, in addition to Ms. MacDonald and Mr. Fancourt-Smith (both mentioned above), are Sarah Batut (Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP), Andrew Brine (Harper Grey LLP), Stephanie Gutierrez (Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP) and Nicholas Tsoi (Slater Vecchio LLP). The Vancouver Bar Association is indebted to these individuals for their two years of service. Also departing from the board in late 2013 were Patrick Cleary (Alexander Holburn Beaudin & Lang LLP), the past-past president, and Michael Bain (Hamilton Howell Bain & Gould) who, having assumed the reigns of this magazine as editor, decided it was time to hang up his hat as secretarytreasurer after 10 years of service to the VBA (well shy of the record held by his predecessor, Miriam Kresivo, Q.C., who lasted 14 years). Amendments to the U.K. Defamation Act, which came into force on January 1, 2014, deal with a website owner’s liability for defamatory comments posted on his or her sites. The new provisions provide that website operators have to notify posters of a complaint of defamation. Upon notification, authors of the comments have five days to issue a written response outlining whether they consent to the removal of the comments from the site. A failure to respond places website operators under the obligation to delete the comments within 48 hours of that five-day deadline expiring if they are to avoid exposure to liability. When notifying authors that their comments are subject to defamation complaints, website operators would have to conceal the identity of the complainant from those authors if such anonymization is sought by the complainants. In cases where the authors do not consent to the removal of the comments, those individuals or businesses are required to inform website operators of their name and address and tell the operator whether or not they consent to the handing over their details to the complainant. A complainant must be informed by the operator within 48 hours of an author’s response and of the content of that response. Website operators are then required to delete comments from their site within two days of receiving a notice of complaint if it has “no means of contacting the poster” through a “private electronic communication” channel, such as via e-mail. If authors who do respond to website operators’ notifications of a complaint fail to provide details of their full name and address, the operators are required
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