Background
Day, David C. was born on July 2, 1944 in Saint John"s Newfoundland.
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David C. Day
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Memorial University of Newfoundland (Bachelor of Arts, Honours, 1964). Dalhousie Law School (Bachelor of Laws, 1967).
Career
Worked at Lewis, Day, Dawe & Burke (Saint John"s, Newfoundland) specializing in General Practice. Admiralty, Aviation, Construction, Corporations, Criminal, Family, Insurance Law, Litigation, Personal Injury, Real Estate, Wills and Probate. Trials and Appeals.
Admitted to the bar, 1968, Newfoundland.
Member, Editorial Board: Canadian Bar Review and of Canadian law report series and texts, practice books, and journals involving family law, legislation, litigation, forensic medicine and ethics.
Lecturer, National Judicial Institute. Federation of Law Societies of Canada national family and criminal law programmes.
Canadian Police College. The Canadian Institute.
Memorial University Continuing Studies Programmes (criminology), School of Social Work (introduction to law), and Faculty of Medicine (forensic medicine).
Law Society of Newfoundland Bar Admission Program (income tax). 1997 Occupant of Milvain Chair of Advocacy, University of Calgary. Member: Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family (Executive).
Criminal Lawyers Association.
The Osgoode Society; International Society on Family Law. Foundation for Legal Research (Panel of Judges, Walter Owen Book Prize).
American Bar Association. American Trial Lawyers Association.
History: Lewis, Day, Dawe & Burke was founded in 1968 by P. Derek Lewis Queen's Counsel, a private practitioner active since 1947 in the Law Society of Newfoundland and in the Province"s public life.
David C. Day Queen's Counsel since 1968, Jean V. Dawe since 1985 and Sandra M. Burke since 1989 have been associated as partners in practice with Lewis Queen's Counsel The firm has been counsel in many significant civil, constitutional, criminal and family law cases in the Province"s Supreme Court and from that Court to the Supreme Court of Canada.
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Member, Editorial Board: Canadian Bar Review and of Canadian law report series and texts, practice books, and journals involving family law, legislation, litigation, forensic medicine and ethics. Lecturer, National Judicial Institute. Federation of Law Societies of Canada national family and criminal law programmes.
Canadian Police College.
The Canadian Institute. Memorial University Continuing Studies Programmes (criminology), School of Social Work (introduction to law), and Faculty of Medicine (forensic medicine).
Law Society of Newfoundland Bar Admission Program (income tax). 1997 Occupant of Milvain Chair of Advocacy, University of Calgary.
Member: Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family (Executive).
Criminal Lawyers Association. The Osgoode Society; International Society on Family Law. Foundation for Legal Research (Panel of Judges, Walter Owen Book Prize).
American Bar Association.
American Trial Lawyers Association.
