Lindsay A. Waddell successfully represented the Human Rights Commissioner for British Columbia in the Commissioner’s first application for leave to intervene since her office was created. The Commissioner sought leave to intervene in the proceeding – a petition for judicial review of a BC Human Rights Tribunal decision involving the interpretation of family status discrimination under section 13 of the BC Human Rights Code - on the basis that the interpretation of family status discrimination under the Code clearly engages her statutory mandate. Mr. Justice Gomery found that the Commissioner had a direct and obvious interest in the legal issue, and that her submissions would assist the Court. Lindsay will represent the Commissioner at the hearing of the judicial review later this month.