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Cheryl D’Sa will speak at today’s Women in Litigation Symposium in Vancouver, put on by The Advocates’ Society. The sold-out full-day event will take place at UBC Robson Square and will include topics such as a View from the Bench with Madam Justice Saunders, Madam Justice Griffin and Madam Justice Sharma. Ms. D’Sa is delighted to be included in such an event which supports women in the legal profession.

We are so proud to announce that our managing partner, Cheryl D’Sa, has become the first visible minority woman President of the Vancouver Bar Association in its 125+ year history, at the AGM held on November 29, 2018. We are also delighted to report that our colleague, Rachel Barsky, was also elected director.

Joven Narwal has been invited by the Canadian Bar Association and the Vancouver Bar Association to speak, along side Joseph Groia, about the Supreme Court of Canada’s recent decision setting aside Mr. Groia’s conviction for incivility, the importance of resolute advocacy and the line between uncivil conduct and professional misconduct. The event is taking place at the Law Courts Inn on Friday October 19, 2018. Registration: https://www.cbapd.org/details_en.aspx?id=bc_civ1018&utm_source=Sep_04_2018&utm_medium=Immigration&utm_campaign=News+Jobs

We are delighted to report our victory on behalf of a client who was accused of a serious aggravated assault in Downtown Vancouver that was the subject of much media attention. Our client was found not guilty of the offence after a full trial. In advancing our client’s interests, we also successfully argued in a pre-trial motion that our client’s rights were breached when the Vancouver Police Department obtained information from a database maintained by the BarWatch program without a warrant, which is the first time that this argument had ever been made.

Joven Narwal has again been invited to speak at Infonex’s Annual Professional Regulation and Discipline Conference. In its 23rd year, RegPRo is a marquee event and leading forum to address cutting edge issues facing professional discipline bodies, across the full spectrum of professions.

Narwal Litigation LLP is pleased to welcome Sara Clouston as our new associate as well as Angela Boldt and Jenny Musyj as our articled students. Sara, Angela and Jenny are great additions to our team. We are delighted that talented and energetic young lawyers and students like them continue to choose Narwal Litigation LLP.

Narwal Litigation LLP is delighted to announce that Joven Narwal has been nominated and elected a Life Fellow of the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation.

Vancouver – We are pleased to announce that our client was found not guilty of serious drug trafficking related charges after the court found that our client’s rights were breached by the police.

As reported in the Vancouver Sun, the BC Securities Commission has stayed $35 million in penalties as a result of our successful argument in the BC Court of Appeal last year. Here is a link to the story: http://vancouversun.com/business/local-business/b-c-securities-regulator-quietly-stays-penalties-of-more-than-35-million

Vancouver Criminal Defence Lawyer, Joven Narwal, published “An ADR Approach to Compensating the Wrongfully Convicted”, as a letter to the editor in the November 2017 issue of ‘The Advocate’. Established in 1943, the Advocate is a leading journal for both academic and informative writing for lawyers and legal scholars throughout British Columbia. An excerpt from the article is below: