The Ontario Law Society has decided it will NOT accredit graduates from TWU, the law school in BC which requires students and staff to sign a covenant that includes requiring them to abstain from gossip, obscene language, prejudice, harassment, lying, cheating, stealing, pornography, drunkenness and sexual intimacy “that violates the sacredness of marriage between a man and a woman". (That is: no gay sex,married or not).
Nova Scotia's law society considers the issue today.
B.C.'s law society voted in favour of accrediting TWU graduates this month, but that fight is not over. Lawyers have petitioned to have the matter reconsidered at a special meeting of the entire profession. The petition required 600 signatures; Michael Mulligan, the lawyer organizing the petition, says there are over 1300 signatures so far.
TWU was granted accreditation by the Federation of Law Societies but still requires the individual approval of each provincial law society. TWU expects to open in 2016.
Nova Scotia's law society considers the issue today.
B.C.'s law society voted in favour of accrediting TWU graduates this month, but that fight is not over. Lawyers have petitioned to have the matter reconsidered at a special meeting of the entire profession. The petition required 600 signatures; Michael Mulligan, the lawyer organizing the petition, says there are over 1300 signatures so far.
TWU was granted accreditation by the Federation of Law Societies but still requires the individual approval of each provincial law society. TWU expects to open in 2016.
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