The Canadian Bar Association’s National Magazine has covered WiCCD’s Executive’s appearance on their podcast “Verdicts and Voices” in which Hamna Anwar, Kyla Lee and I were interviewed by award winning journalist Alison Crawford.
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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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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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Global News: B.C. government quietly changing legislation at centre of ICBC, MSP lawsuit Read More »
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.
…Kyla Lee in The CBA National: Supreme Court of Canada clarifies Good Samaritan lawRead More »
Kyla Lee in The CBA National: Supreme Court of Canada clarifies Good Samaritan law Read More »
The federal government has tabled legislation targeting repeat violent offenders, earning praise from some and skepticism from others.
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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…”
…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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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.
…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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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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