Directors

Dale Darychuk   President & Chair

Dale practices law in the areas of personal injury and estate disputes.  His law firm of Darychuk Deane-Cloutier operates the Small Claims Pro Bono Duty Counsel project in Port Coquitlam.  He is also the supervising lawyer for the Tri-Cities SHARE Legal Advocate program.  Further information regarding Dale and his practice is available here.

Kay Vinall   Vice-President

Kay practices in the areas of wills and estates and family law, in association with another sole practitioner.  She has a lengthy history of volunteer work with not-for-profit groups providing assistance to persons with mental illness and their family members, and a keen interest in the provision of pro bono services.

Phil Dougan   Secretary & Treasurer

Phil is a practicing strata law and estate litigator.  He has been a director of APB or Access Justice for over a decade, and before that worked with Dugald Christie to initiate pro bono clinics and the continuing non-lawyer volunteer program.  He does a lot of pro bono work as part of his practice, and otherwise is married to Pam, and they together oversee their eight children (thus far).

Angela Ammann

Angela has a general law practice and is a partner with Vanderburgh & Company, which provides legal services throughout the Cariboo-Chilcotin area.  She is the President of the South Cariboo Bar Association, Chair of the Williams Lake & District Boys & Girls Club, and regularly provides legal advice at APB’s Williams Lake Clinic.

Angus Gunn

Angus Gunn is a commercial litigator whose practice emphasizes appellate advocacy, arbitration proceedings, public and administrative law matters, and corporate commercial disputes.  He regularly appears on behalf of pro bono litigants in BC’s courts.  An adjunct professor at UBC’s Faculty of Law since 1999, he also lectures for the Continuing Legal Education Society of BC.  He was a director of Pro Bono Law of BC from 2007 until 2010.  Further information regarding Angus and his practice is available here.

Tish Lakes

Patricia “Tish” Lakes is the Executive Director of the Okanagan Advocacy and Resources Society in Kelowna.  She has extensive lay advocacy and non-profit administration experience and has worked in poverty law advocacy for over twenty years, both managing and providing direct services.  Tish has assisted in setting up lay advocacy services in three BC communities and has joined in several provincial systemic advocacy efforts to improve administrative justice processes.

Caroline Nevin

Caroline is the Executive Director of the BC Branch of the Canadian Bar Association, and has more than 25 years of experience in communications, business and association management in BC and Alberta.  Committed to excellence in association management, she has earned a Masters of Business Administration, the Canadian Society of Association Executives (CSAE) designation of Certified Association Executive, as well as a Graduate Diploma in Business Management from Athabasca University.

Bibhas Vaze

Bibhas is a human rights lawyer with a strong interest in the issue of access to justice for the poor and marginalized.  He conducts a broad-based criminal practice at Conroy & Company in Abbotsford, and generally engages in civil litigation against public authorities, including on behalf of prisoners and against corrections systems.  He holds an LL.B from UBC and an LL.M from Columbia Law School, where he was recognized as a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar.