21st Annual FB Wickwire Memorial Lecture in Professional Responsibility and Legal Ethics

Event date: 
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 16:30
Location: 
Weldon Law Building, Room 105, 6061 University Avenue, Dalhousie University

The Schulich School of Law and the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society present the 21st annual FB Wickwire Memorial Lecture in Professional Responsibility and Legal Ethics.

This year's event will be a panel discussion on Access to Justice: Reality, Rhetoric and Recommitment with the Hon. Justice Thomas Cromwell (Supreme Court of Canada), Professor Trevor Farrow (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University), and Ms. Emma Halpern (Equity Officer, Nova Scotia Barristers' Society). The moderator will be Mr. Dan Campbell QC (President, Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society)

This event is free to the public.

Contact: Loomer, Lindsay at 902-494-3065

Frederick B (Ted) Wickwire was educated in Halifax and received his Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1959 and his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1962 from Dalhousie University, and practiced in the field of corporate and commercial law with a special interest in property rights. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1978. His service to Dalhousie University involved thirteen years as a member of the Board of Governors.

He was senior partner in the firm of MacInnes Wilson Flinn Wickwire. In 1977, he was appointed the first Chairman of the Nova Scotia Legal Aid Commission. Mr. Wickwire worked tirelessly to ensure that Nova Scotia barristers maintained a level of uncompromised professionalism. To this end he served as chairman of the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society's Legal Ethics Committee, and oversaw the creation of a new handbook on ethics and professional conduct for Nova Scotia lawyers. His service to the legal profession culminated in his election as President of the Barristers' Society in June 1990, a position he held at the time of his death on March 22, 1991.

For his work with both the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society and the development of Legal Aid in Nova Scotia, he won the Weldon Award for Unselfish Public Service from the Dalhousie Law School Alumni Association posthumously in October 1991.