The Law Society of B.C. is standing by its mandatory Indigenous coursework, denying it contains inaccuracies about residential school burial grounds, as alleged by a criminal defence lawyer who launched a defamation claim in February.
In its March 10 response to a claim from Victoria-based lawyer James Heller, the society disputes allegations it was wrong to promote a statement found in coursework. The material had claimed 215 children’s bodies were definitively located in an unmarked burial site at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, based on 2021 ground-penetrating radar findings from the Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc Nation.
Last September, Heller sought to have the society amend the language to state that was not
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