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On the front cover: Arthur L. Close, Q.C.(British Columbia Law Institute's retired executive director)(Testimonial)

Publication: The Advocate
Publication Date: 01-JUL-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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For over 35 years, Arthur L. Close, Q.C., has been both the face and the heart of law reform in British Columbia. He retired as executive director of the B.C. Law Institute in March of this year, and this is a suitable time to look back and celebrate his remarkable accomplishments. born, did...

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Alberta Arthur not come to B.C. until he was age 25, to study at UBC's Faculty of Law. He was the gold medallist of the class of 1969. But law was not Arthur's first love, and before he settled on it he was torn between engineering and the possibility of a career in the theatre. (For a period he was a member of a repertory theatre company based in Lincoln, U.K.) This might explain, to those he has astonished with his encyclopedic memory of law, his equally amazing ability to warble (if not always on key) vast amounts of vintage Kern and Gershwin, as well as his regal presence and commanding voice.

The B.C. Law Reform Commission (the "BCLRC") became fully operational in 1970. It...

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