As we reported in our previous What’s New post and in our Spring 2017 newsletter, Ryan Peck, HALCO’s executive director and lawyer, was awarded the 2016 Sidney B. Linden Award from Legal Aid Ontario.
An excerpt from Ryan’s acceptance speech has been published in Health Law in Canada and you can read it on our website: www.halco.org/sidney_b_linden_award-ryan_peck_acceptance_speech-healthlawincanada_37_4. The remarks address, amongst other things, the unique mandate of community legal clinics as well as HIV-specific issues.
Ryan has also been nominated in the Canadian Lawyer Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers survey: www.canadianlawyermag.com/current-survey.html. Voting is open until June 12, 2017.