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==Barbara Findlay, QC, Canada==
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==Country==
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Canada
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==Birth - Death==
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==Description==
  
 
Barbara Findlay is a noted lesbian feminist lawyer committed to making the law work for everyone.  She is particularly noted in her ground-breaking equality rights cases argued at the highest court levels in Canada.  She has practised as a labour lawyer, worked for the Legal Services Society doing poverty law, and has been a member of the Faculty of Law at the University of British Columbia.  Barbara is a founding member of the provincial and national queer lawyers' groups in the Canadian Bar Association, called SOGIC (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Conference), and has been a member of LEAF (the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund) as a board member of West Coast LEAF and as a member of the National Legal Committee.  In 2001 she became the first openly gay lawyer in Canada to be recognized with a Queen's Counsel designation.  
 
Barbara Findlay is a noted lesbian feminist lawyer committed to making the law work for everyone.  She is particularly noted in her ground-breaking equality rights cases argued at the highest court levels in Canada.  She has practised as a labour lawyer, worked for the Legal Services Society doing poverty law, and has been a member of the Faculty of Law at the University of British Columbia.  Barbara is a founding member of the provincial and national queer lawyers' groups in the Canadian Bar Association, called SOGIC (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Conference), and has been a member of LEAF (the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund) as a board member of West Coast LEAF and as a member of the National Legal Committee.  In 2001 she became the first openly gay lawyer in Canada to be recognized with a Queen's Counsel designation.  
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Barbara Findlay is also a grassroots advocate and legal educator for the LGBT community.
 
Barbara Findlay is also a grassroots advocate and legal educator for the LGBT community.
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==See Also==
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* [[Practising LGBTQ Rights Lawyers]]
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* [[Feminist Activists Who Identify as Lesbian, Bisexual or Transgender]]
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* [[Marriage Equality Advocates in the LGBTQ Community]]
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==Further Research/Reading==
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* http://www.barbarafindlay.com/
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* http://transgenderarchives.uvic.ca/babarafindlay
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* https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/resources/professional-regulation/b.c.-lawyer-honoured-for-role-in-legal-fight-to-eliminate-discrimination-against-lgbtq2si-community/337115
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Latest revision as of 12:37, 17 February 2021

Barbara Findlay

Country

Canada

Birth - Death

Description

Barbara Findlay is a noted lesbian feminist lawyer committed to making the law work for everyone. She is particularly noted in her ground-breaking equality rights cases argued at the highest court levels in Canada. She has practised as a labour lawyer, worked for the Legal Services Society doing poverty law, and has been a member of the Faculty of Law at the University of British Columbia. Barbara is a founding member of the provincial and national queer lawyers' groups in the Canadian Bar Association, called SOGIC (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Conference), and has been a member of LEAF (the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund) as a board member of West Coast LEAF and as a member of the National Legal Committee. In 2001 she became the first openly gay lawyer in Canada to be recognized with a Queen's Counsel designation.

Findlay has represented the queer community in a number of landmark cases, including same-sex marriage in BC and establishing the right of two lesbian mothers to both be registered on their child's birth certificate. She has represented a transgender woman's right to be considered a woman in Nixon v Rape Relief; a lesbian couple's complaint against the Knights of Columbus for refusing to rent them a wedding hall; and an incarcerated transgender woman's right to have sex reassignment surgery and to be housed in a facility for women.

Barbara Findlay is also a grassroots advocate and legal educator for the LGBT community.

See Also

Further Research/Reading


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