Signage at Vernon’s courthouse is set to move in the 21st century following a tweet by a Vancouver lawyer.
Visiting lawyer Kyla Lee was disturbed to find separately signed male and female barristers rooms at a recent visit to the courthouse. The Vancouver-based lawyer tweeted about her experience and her tweets, sent out on Easter Sunday, managed to find their way to B.C. Attorney General David Eby.
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Lee said when she arrived at the Vernon courthouse she was surprised to find a tiny windowless room labelled “lady barristers,” while the male barrister’s had a far superior space upstairs.
“I’m standing outside the door, [and] it says on the door ‘I’m not welcome there,'” Lee said. “I felt angry and confused and insulted and sad.”
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