Topic:                Artificial Intelligence and Civil Liability

Date:                   Wednesday, April 22, 2026 – 5:00pm to 7:30pm

CPD:                   2 hours of credit

Location:         Maple Room – Sticky Wicket Pub (food provided)

Topic:                 Artificial intelligence is increasingly embedded in everyday decision-making, generating predictions, recommendations, and automated actions that affect individuals and organizations. While these technologies offer significant benefits, they also create new risks when errors or failures cause harm to persons or property. Tort law faces new challenges when autonomous or semi-autonomous systems play a causal role in harmful events, raising complex questions about responsibility, causation, and legal accountability. In response to these emerging issues, the British Columbia Law Institute launched its Artificial Intelligence and Civil Liability Project in 2021 to examine how the common law of tort may need to evolve to provide fair remedies for AI-related harm. At this session, the report’s authors will discuss the project’s key findings and present several of its law reform recommendations, drawing on the work of an interdisciplinary committee and extensive stakeholder consultation.

 Presenters:   Gregory Blue K.C., Law Institute of BC

                           Prof. Robert G. Howell, Faculty of Law, UVic

Tickets                $55 in person purchaser here (click) or  $75 remote attendance  purchaser here (click).

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Professional Development Credits: This course offers up to 2 hours of Professional Development Credits (See “How to get CPD Credit” below).

Cost: The cost of the event is $55.00 per person in person, or $75.00 for remote attendance,  paid to the “Victoria Bar Association”, either by:

1. Pay online through the Inns of Court event page at www.Vicbar.ca (click link); or

1. Pay manually by sending a cheque payable to “Victoria Bar Association” at ATT: Darren Williams, 210-174 Wilson St, Victoria BC V9A 7N6

How to get PD Credit

To get the 2 PD Credits, this is the process after the event has completed:

1. Find Law Society “Member Services”
2. Select “Member Portal” and enter your information
3. ‘Login’
4. Under “Education” select “Continuing Professional Development (CPD)”
5. Type the group study name of “Inns of Court” into the “Course/Group Study” name box (leave dates out as this is set up with a date range)
6. In the Course/Group Study box type in ‘Inns of Court”
7. From the Drop down menu select “Inns of Court – Victoria Bar Association”
8. Select “Inns of Court Victoria Court (18 Credits) Jan.1 – December 31, 2026” or something similar as the name is undergoing a slight change.
9. DO NOT TYPE IN THE NAME OF THIS COURSE WHEN APPLYING FOR CREDITS. YOU WILL NOT FIND IT. YOU DO NOT NEED THE NAME IN ORDER TO CLAIM YOUR 2 HOURS OF CREDIT.
10. Under “Record your CPD hours” type ‘2’
11. Under “Completion Date” type in the date you took the course

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