when lawyers worked to limit notaries. Ultimately, notaries united and as a result the Society of Notaries Public of British Columbia was incorporated in 1926. The expressed intent of the society was ...

B.C. Attorney General Niki Sharma introduced legislation ... its future with diligence and professionalism. If you require notary public services, Kelowna’s Rothwell Notary provides its clients ...

The new law means, in theory, you will be able to have broader access to legal services at a more affordable rate than lawyers. One stakeholder suggests lawyers opposed to the move wish to perpetuate ...

He says he’s worried the move, in its subjugation of the legal profession to the government, will put democracy itself on trial. “When people go to a lawyer, they are looking for an independent person ...

The Law Society of B.C. is pushing back against the province's plans to set up a new regulatory body that brings lawyers, paralegals and notaries under one umbrella, saying it will affect the ...

Attorney General Merrick Garland testifies on the president’s 2025 budget request for the Justice Department during a public hearing before a House Appropriations subcommittee. Javascript must ...

The office was so unhappy with their allocation that Attorney General Rossa Fanning ended up writing directly to Public Expenditure Minister Paschal Donohoe to seek extra funding. Their sister ...

In the coming weeks, the provincial government is expected to introduce legislation that would bring the services performed by lawyers, paralegals, and notaries under a single regulator—and ...

The CBABC is not opposed to bringing paralegals and notaries under “one modernized statute ... and “squarely situate the regulator in the public interest,” says BC Attorney General Niki Sharma. “The ...

B.C. Attorney General Niki Sharma ... and expand the scope of notaries public to cover more day-to-day legal matters. The Society of Notaries Public in B.C. issued a statement in favour of ...

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