SR Vol 25 No 1, January 2007 - Nova Scotia Barristers' Society

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Alberta Bound!Where energymeets peopleEnbridge Inc. is a leader in energy transportation, distribution and services in Canada and the United States and operatesthe world’s longest crude oil and liquids pipeline system.The company also has a growing involvement in natural gas transmission, liquids marketing, electrical power distribution,international energy projects and the provision of retail energy products and services.Enbridge offers very attractive compensation, benefits and relocation packages.Our client, Enbridge Inc.,is a leader in energytransportation, distributionand services in Canada andthe United States.Enbridge operates theworld’s longest crude oiland liquids pipeline system,and provides natural gas to1.7 million customers inOntario, Quebec and NewYork State.The company also hasgrowing involvement innatural gas transmission,liquids marketing, electricalpower distribution andinternational energyprojects.Enbridge’s continuedsuccess and growth hascreated these challengingcareer opportunities in theAlberta OfficeLaw DepartmentSenior and Junior Regulatory Legal Counsel (3 positions) Calgary, ABReporting to the Associate General Counsel, Liquids Pipelines, these positions will assist in providing advice and guidance onregulatory legal issues affecting all aspects of Enbridge’s petroleum pipeline assets. Your major responsibilities will involve preparationof complex applications, corporate regulatory strategy, submissions and interventions to federal, provincial and municipalgovernments and regulatory agencies. In addition, you will be actively involved in negotiating, drafting and reviewing complexcontracts and preparing legal opinions. Other duties include ensuring compliance with all applicable laws and protection of Enbridge’sassets and interests. You will advise on regulatory issues arising in relation to facilities, public/aboriginal consultation, land acquisition,real property, environmental matters, operations, tolls and tariffs, among others.The successful candidates will be versatile and broadly trained as regulatory lawyers with 5 – 12 years of relevant experience,preferably as lawyers in the oil or gas pipeline industry. The candidates must be members in good standing with a provincial lawsociety and be eligible for admission to the Law Society of Alberta.As well, our successful candidates must be pro-active team players who also have business acumen to help with regulatory strategyand filings on such proposed projects as:• Gateway Pipeline Project – petroleum and condensate pipelinesbetween Edmonton, AB and Kitimat, BC – approximate capital costs $4Billion• Southern Access Expansion – facilities modifications in Canada– approximate capital costs $200 Million• Southern Lights Project (Cdn and US portion) – Diluent pipeline fromChicago, IL to Edmonton, AB – approximate capital costs $920 Million(USD)• ACCE Project – Alida, SK to Cromer, MB Capacity Expansion Project– approximate capital costs $14 Million• Alberta Clipper – pipeline from Hardisty, AB to Superior, WI– approximate capital costs $1.8 Billion (USD)• Hardisty Merchant Tank Farm – 19 merchant hydrocarbon tanksapplication recently filed with EUB – approximate capital costs $300Million• Waupisoo Project – 380 km pipeline from Cheecham Terminal (nearAthabasca) to Edmonton Terminal and a diluent pipeline fromEdmonton, AB to Cheecham, AB – approximate capital costs - $400Million• Stonefell Project – terminal and pipeline facilities for the HeartlandUpgrader that includes supply and product tanks – approximatecapital costs $80 Million…plus many more energy related projects that Enbridge plans to pursue.Ref# 8728 and 8729.Junior Legal Counsel – Operations (1 position) Edmonton, ABReporting to Senior Legal Counsel, you will assist in providing advice and guidance on all corporate and commercial legal mattersaffecting the operations and acquisitions of Enbridge and its affiliates. Your major responsibilities will involve negotiating, drafting andreviewing commercial documentation, as well as advising on general operations matters, including employment matters, safety &environment, land acquisitions, construction contracts, builders liens, power contracts, tax and insurance, information systems,providing legal opinions, and assisting and coordinating outside counsel involved in litigation.The successful candidate must have 2 - 5 years of relevant legal experience and engineering or business experience would be anasset, but is not a prerequisite. The ability to communicate in an effective and nontechnical manner and excellent organizationskills are essential. The successful candidate will be a pro-active team player with excellent interpersonal skills and a keeninterest in becoming involved in the company's business. Ref#8727If you are interested in these opportunities, please submit your application and inquiries to:Alison Bennett, Manager Tel: (403) 205-3444 • Toll Free: 1-877-205-3444 • E-mail: abennett@zsa.cazsa.caC A N A D A ’ S L E G A L R E C R U I T M E N T F I R M T M26 The Society Record
Bill No. 92, Act re Small Claims Court, was the final bill of theevening on May 21, 1980. There were but 15 members remainingin the chamber for discussion of the bill. Setting out theprinciple and object of the bill, Attorney General Harry How stated:The purpose of this court is stated in the preamble of the bill inthat I think all who have practised law and those who have perhapshad matters which they wanted to bring before the court,have oftentimes been frustrated by the fact that the costs of processingclaims through courts, of general use, has been consideredby some to be out of proportion at times, when the claimis small. Therefore, we come to the basis of this bill, it is a SmallClaims Court. (Hansard, 21 May 1980)He explained that the bill under discussion had been developedthrough consultations with consumer groups, the Law Reform AdvisoryCommittee, and input from the Barristers’ Society, who “werestrongly supportive of this legislation”.The Attorney General continued on to provide further details of a ratherunhappy and undesirable state of affairs in Nova Scotia. He spokeof individuals “who had small claims and who were frustrated by thethought that they had no court.” He noted that for many years, backinto the 1960s and perhaps long before, “...that although there was aso-called municipal court available in the statutory sense, that in thepractical sense it was [not] available because there were really no judgesthat were prepared to sit in judgment in respect of that court.”There is no doubt that reform of the court structure was long overdo in1980, and the establishment of Small Claims Court was only one partof a rethinking and restructuring that would take place over the nextdecade or so. Significant reform took place following the Report of theNova Scotia Court Structure Task Force (March 1991), chaired by ProfessorBill Charles, Q.C. of Dalhousie Law School. In a brief history of theNova Scotia Courts, which appears as Appendix 1 of the Charles TaskForce, it was noted that complaints were heard from the Bar Society asfar back as 1913 about the multiple framework of Justices, StipendiaryMagistrates, Municipal, City, County and Supreme Courts. It isapparent that these complaints fell on unlistening ears for many years.Magistrates Court, established in Nova Scotia in 1827, continued until1985. Municipal Court was in existence from 1888 to 1985.In discussion on the bill, one honourablemember took issue with thefact that the proposed legislationpermitted parties to be representedDavid BlaikieDalhousie Law Schoolby lawyers. The Consumers Association of Canada had recommendedthat lawyers be barred from Small Claims Court. David Muise,member for Cape Breton West, stated that:The Attorney General, in his opening remarks, said he hoped to simplifythe process and to make it informal, and I think that that thinkinghas been felled with one blow in Section 16 by saying that theperson may be represented by counsel. I disagree with that very strongly,although I am a lawyer. I feel that there is nothing that will muddy thewaters more or make it more formal than the presence in that systemof lawyers. I think that the system can be run very successfully and veryinformally without the use of lawyers.In a somewhat related critical vein, the honourable member from CapeBreton East, Jeremy Akerman, questioned the wisdom of section 6 (3)that requires small claims court adjudicators be “a practising memberin good standing of the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society.” He said thathe “had often thought that the introduction of more lay persons intothe judicial system would be no bad thing indeed.…” He praised as amodel to emulate, magistrates court in Australia, where the judges arelay persons, and explained, in part, as follows:You would not want, you know, and I say this with no disrespect tocoal miners or doctors, but you would not want a coal miner or doctorjudging a murder trial in which there were very complicated proceduresand some very complicated evidence, some tricky points of law. You justwould not want that to happen. But at other levels [such as a smallclaims court], it seems to me that we could involve more lay persons.Following a discussion and debate on these and several other concernsand questions, the bill passed second reading and was referred to theCommittee on Law Amendments, and eventually, of course, becamelaw. Most Nova Scotians would agree, I think, that Small Claims Courthas addressed quite effectively the fundamental concerns and needsidentified in 1980, perhaps in part because of, or no doubt in the eyesof some, despite, the fact the legislation requires adjudicators to be lawyersand allows parties to be represented by legal counsel.January 2007 27
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