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CBA National: The sisterhood of ‘gender sellouts’

There aren’t many women criminal defence lawyers in Canada who specialize in impaired driving cases, but Kyla Lee of Acumen Law in Vancouver is one of them.

Working in a male-dominated field means she faces criticism that her male colleagues don’t seem to. 

“It’s so much easier for people to attack us for defending people facing these offences, because you can call us ‘scum’ who put killers back on the road,” Lee, the past chair of the CBA’s criminal justice section, told the Verdicts and Voices podcast recently. 

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Global News: B.C. government quietly changing legislation at centre of ICBC, MSP lawsuit

The B.C. government is quietly changing legislation that is at the centre of a class action lawsuit making its way through the courts.

The suit, filed in 2020, alleges that the province is illegally using ICBC to tax people for health-care costs by essentially double-dipping on MSP premiums.

The suit says the practice has cost ratepayers hundreds of millions of dollars and driven up insurance costs for decades.

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Kyla Lee in The CBA National: Supreme Court of Canada clarifies Good Samaritan law

While the Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act (GSDOA) ensures immunity from charges for simple drug possession during an overdose, the Supreme Court of Canada says that protection must also extend to arrests.

That’s the finding of a 6-3 decision, which also determined that the search conducted after the arrest in the case before the court was unlawful.

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Kyla Lee on CBC’s On The Coast with Gloria Macarenko: Soapbox Social: John Rustad’s leadership under question again

On the Coast’s Soapbox Social panelists Mo Amir and Kyla Lee weigh in on the growing unrest in the B.C. Conservative Party and the future of its leader, John Rustad.

“I think it was quite shocking. I think it shows a lot of the discord that we’ve been hearing rumblings about within the party and in particular the criticism of John Rustad as leader. But it also feels like we’ve seen this play before. I feel like this is very similar to what happened with Kevin Falcon beforehand. People leaving the party, criticisms of his leadership… It just seems like the rightwing politicians can’t get their act together no matter what party they’re in…”

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Kyla Lee on CBC’s On The Coast with Gloria Macarenko: Soapbox Social: Public safety and health care

Our Soapbox Social panel discusses Prime Minister Carney’s approach to bail reform, the BCGEU strike and the state of women’s healthcare in the province.

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Kyla Lee on CBC’s On The Coast with Gloria Macarenko: Soapbox Social: Public safety and health care Read More »

Verdicts & Voices: The sisterhood of “gender sellouts” in criminal law: Anita Szigeti, Hamna Anwar and Kyla Lee

This episode is a panel discussion with Anita Szigeti of Anita Szigeti Advocates, a Toronto firm that focuses on mental health and the law; Hamna Anwar, a criminal lawyer at Lindsay Law in Toronto; and Kyla Lee, who specializes in impaired driving cases at Acumen Law in Vancouver. They are all members of Women in Canadian Criminal Defence (WiCCD), an organization Szigeti founded to support and advocate for female and gender-non-conforming criminal defence lawyers.

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Kyla Lee on CBC’s On The Coast with Gloria Macarenko: Soapbox Social: Vancouver Park Board, extortion in Surrey

Mo Amir and Kyla Lee discuss extortion in Surrey, and the latest developments on the abolition of the Vancouver Park Board.Share Show 

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Kyla Lee in CBC News: B.C. considering ‘Xavier’s Law’ to crack down on drivers who cause death

The government of British Columbia says it is looking at options to get tougher on drivers involved in fatal crashes after the premier spoke to the family of a 12-year-old killed on Vancouver Island this past summer.

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Kyla Lee on CBC’s BC Today with Michelle Eliot: How to navigate road rage on the streets

A road rage incident in North Vancouver has sent one person to hospital and another into police custody. Atlas Driving School instructor Sean McDonald joins the show to talk about how to deal with road rage. We also talk to registered psychotherapist and author of The Rise of Rage, Julie A. Christiansen, and lawyer Kyla Lee, who will discuss what the law says about road rage.

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