Georgialee Lang has practiced as a trial and appellate lawyer in Vancouver, Canada for 30 years. She has been blessed with great clients, wonderful colleagues and exceptional cases. Her website is at georgialeelang.com. Her present focus is on appeal work, litigation strategy, arbitration, mediation and writing legal and political pieces.
George Chuvalo was a Canadian professional boxer of some renown, winning five heavyweight Canadian titles and was a two-time heavyweight world title challenger, sparring with the likes of Mohammed Ali, Joe Frazier and George Foreman.
In Chuvalo v. Chuvalo, 2018…
The parties in Parviziv. Taherzadeh, 2024 BCCA 205, were in the midst of their 10-day trial when an issue arose as to the value of a property, alleged by Mesbah Taherzadeh to be excluded property. The issue on appeal was…
The court’s observation in June 2021 that the litigation between TO and DO was “fast and furious…heading for a very lengthy and expensive trial” was prescient, a legal journey with 4 hearings in the Superior Court, and the sad death…
The Bye’s divorced in 2010. In 2015 they entered into a consent order for child support for their two children, who were then 10 and 12 years old. The youngest child turned 19 in August of 2019 and the eldest attained…
The practice of law is both a profession and a business. Many lawyers can rely on their winning track record and high ethics to gain a reputation that engenders word-of mouth referrals.
Other lawyers buttress their status in the profession…
Nova Scotia’s Children and Family Services Act provides authority for the Minister of Community Services to supervise and manage Nova Scotia’s child protection legislation and to appear in court with respect to any matter arising pursuant to the legislation. Each…
In Davidson v. Davidson, 2024 BCSC 331, the parties separated after eight years of marriage. In a consent order in September 2020, they agreed that Allan Davidson would purchase the parties’ family home in Fort McMurray and assume the mortgage…
In 1990 Park Avenue family practice doctor, G.Peta Carrera, hired his girlfriend, Manhattan lawyer, Christine Anderson, to represent him in a civil suit where he was accused of sexually molesting a patient.
Because they had been together for ten years,…
One common thread throughout mankind is the endemic ugliness of racism.
Human history is rife with examples: early Romans subjugated the Jews; slavery was rampant; India’s caste system ostracizes the untouchables; Japanese immigrants to Canada and the United States were…
A high-conflict parenting situation led to a 10-day trial where despite the father’s primary care of their young daughter for over three years, custody was reversed and the father, who lived in Regina, was granted parenting time in Saskatoon three…
