Access Pro Bono's Board of Directors has named the organization's annual Lawyer of the Year Award for Representation Services in honour of the late Allan Parker QC.

The Allan Parker QC Award for Representation Services is now a companion award to the Dugald Christie Award for Advice Services, and both awards will be presented annually in March at APB's Appreciation Breakfast.  Past winners of the Award have been: Jennifer Spencer, Brent Olthuis, Troy McLelan and Catherine Brink.

Allan Parker QC was admired inside and outside of BC’s legal community for his relentless passion for law and social justice.  He served the public interest in many diverse ways throughout his storied legal career, including as a poverty law lawyer in Nanaimo, as a teacher of the Law Society of BC’s Professional Legal Training Course, as the manager of the Legal Services Society of BC’s former LawLINE service, as a Provincial Court mediator, and as an architect of the Law Foundation of BC’s Legal Advocacy Training Course.

He was best known in BC’s pro bono community for having led the Western Canada Society for Access to Justice in the critical years following Dugald Christie’s own untimely passing in 2007, and for having steered the organization toward its monumental 2010 merger with Pro Bono Law of BC into APB.  Allan was appointed as Queen’s Counsel in 2010.  He passed away on June 13, 2012.