November 10, 2020
Vote Now in the 2020 Bencher Election
With less than a week left to vote and over a quarter of ballots cast, be sure to make your voice heard and cast a vote for your candidates of choice in the 2020 Bencher Election.

Help with Voting

Check your email for your username and password from eBallot, the independent, anonymous online voting platform the Law Society is using to administer the Election. 

If you voted in the 2017 Bencher Election, you may already have your Member ID and password auto-completed on the login page for eBallot. To access the 2020 ballot, you must enter your latest password provided in an email from eBallot. Logins using the old password will be directed to the 2017 ballot only. 

If you have not received the email with your username and password, check your Junk/Spam folder for emails from Noreply@eballot.com. 

If you need to change your email address with the Law Society, follow these instructions to receive your credentials.

More Information

Visit the Bencher Election website to review candidate profiles or find out more information on voting.  

Results of the Election will be announced shortly after voting closes at 4:30 p.m. on November 16.
Court of Queen's Bench Announcement

Recent amendments to the Alberta Rules of Court have prescribed new forms of Affidavit of Applicant for Divorce (Form FL-23) and Affidavit of Applicants for Divorce (Joint) (Form FL-24) effective November 1, 2020. It is the responsibility of litigants or their counsel to ensure that, starting on November 1, 2020, they are fully complying with these new forms.

However, to ensure continued access to justice for litigants, a grace period will be observed until January 1, 2021 before the requirement for compliance will be strictly enforced. Therefore, though you are encouraged to use the new forms, if a document is submitted for filing in the previous format of Affidavit of Applicant, such document will be accepted for filing by the Clerk of the Court for the duration of this grace period. After January 1, 2021, the requirements of compliance may be more strictly enforced.

While the PDF versions won’t be ready for November 1, Microsoft Word versions of those two new forms will be posted on November 1 when they take effect. Once the new fillable-PDF forms are ready, they will replace the Word versions of the forms.

After November 1, when the new forms take effect, the updated forms will be found by clicking on these URLs:

Form FL-23, Affidavit of Applicant: https://cfr.forms.gov.ab.ca/form/CTS3840.pdf
Form FL-24, Affidavit of Applicants (Joint): https://cfr.forms.gov.ab.ca/form/CTS3841.pdf