At the ribbon-cutting for the Kamloops facility Sept. 18, Vice President of National Hospitality Group Bryan Pilbeam, Kamloops North Thompson MLA and Minister of Health Dr. Terry Lake, Partner of National Hospitality Group Peter Armstrong, and Kamloops South Thompson MLA and Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Todd Stone.

The TRU Faculty of Law signed an agreement on Sept. 17 with Centrepoint BC, the Interiors’ first all-inclusive meetings facility designed specifically for conflict resolution. The five-year agreement establishes a partnership with the intent to raise the profiles and exposure of both organizations.

Through the new partnership agreement, TRU Law will benefit through visibility with many high profile senior arbitrators, dignitaries and professionals visiting Centrepoint BC’s facilities. In turn, the faculty will help promote Centrepoint BC within the legal community, locally and across the province as opportunity allows.

Developed by and for mediators and arbitrators with research into the needs of the legal community, Centrepoint BC offers serviced offices and boardrooms to the legal community for mediations, arbitrations and witness discoveries, and will also serve the business community. TRU Law was part of the discussions to fine-tune the vision for what is expected to be one of the flagship alternative dispute resolution centres in the province.

“We were exceptionally pleased to have been engaged by Bryan Pilbeam and the team at Centrepoint early on in the development process,” says Dean of Law Bradford Morse. “Their team wanted to ensure they were building a facility that would encompass all that the legal community would require in an alternative dispute resolution centre. The recent announcement by Centrepoint of a bursary to the benefit of students in the Faculty of Law at TRU is very exciting news and shows the true cooperative and supportive spirit of the Centrepoint team.”

To mark the official opening of Centrepoint BC’s Kamloops facility on Sept. 18, Centrepoint BC established an annual bursary in the amount of $800 to benefit Faculty of Law students in financial need. The grand opening was attended by over 70 members of the law community and guests.