28 - Sunday, December 10, 1989 — North Shore News

GLASS HOUSE STUDIO

Church’s new windows the work of local firm

THE MEMORIAL stained glass windows recently installed and dedicated at the North Lonsdale United Church are the creation of The Giass House Studio of Campbell, Mac-

Farlane & Co.

The business is co-owned by Justin Campbel! and Robert Mac- Farlane. Said Campbell, ‘‘Ar- chitects, designers and contractors are beginning to recognize art glass as a viable medium to add a unique touch to commercial or res- idential buildings. With glass we can add warmth and life to a lobby or entranceway."

A three-panel screen divider by MacFarlane was recently featured in a week-long juried glass art ex- hibition organized by the newly- formed Glass Arts Association of B.C. The piece, now installed in a West Yancouver home, was featured in Award Magazine along with a screen incorporating leaded and sandblasted techniques by Glass House employee Andreas Mladek.

For more information call the studio at 980-5611.

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ACCORDING TO a survey con- ducted by Office Assistance, most senior personnel officials are firm in their belief that men and women are equally loyal to their employers. But nearly a third think otherwise.

Fifty-one per cent of those who responded were women under the age of 40, 24 per cent were over 40, 14 per cent were men under 40, 11 per cert were men over 40, An average 72 per cent of respondents

Earnings up for BC Rail

THE BRITISH Columbia Railway group of companies announces unaudited consolidated net income of $50.7 million for the first nine months of 1989, compared with $41.2 million for the same period in 1988.

Railway operating income for the period ended September 30, 1989 was $68 million, compared with $61.7 milion for the first nine months of 1988. Revenues rose to $249.4 million for the first nine months of 1989 from $247 million during the corresponding period in £988.

The use of iarger railcars and a decline in coal shipments led to a three per cent decline tn carloadings, though this was par- tially offset by an increase in log and newsprint carload increases. Overall loadings for the first nine months of 1989 were 165,272, against 170,050 in the same period last year.

BC Rail Lid., the railway operating subsidiary of the British Columbia Railway group an- nounces unaudited net income of $2.7 million for the first nine months of 1989, after interest payments of $65.8 million paid primarily to British Columbia Railway Company and BCR Pro- pertics Lid. This compares with a net loss of $§.3 million for the first nine months of 1988.

felt that managerial employees show the same loyalty to their organizations regardless of sex.

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But an average 25 per cent of senior personnel officials in Van- couver were convinced that women managers are more loyal than men. Only five per cent felt men were more loyal than women.

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Tan Enterprises Ltd. of North Vancouver.

The money will be used to establish a manufacturing facility through the purchase of necessary equipment, machinery and office facilities.

The company plans to manufac- ture glass fibre reinforced concrete flotation units including fish pens and floating dock used in the aquaculture industry and for jetties and marinas. The business is ex- pected to create six full-time jobs in addition to two existing full- time positions.

The money comes from a pool of federal assistance available through the Native Economic De- velopment Program.

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THE LAW Society of B.C. is in- viting public comment on contiz- gency fees. The fecs are agree- ments that pay a lawyer a percent- age of any court award or s:ttle- ment. They are frequently used in ICBC and other personal injury claims, product liability cases and wrongful dismissa! actions.

Recent amendments to the Legal Profession Act empower the Law Society to establish maximums for contingency fees and to prescribe the form and content of contingent fee agreements.

To give your input, send a writ. ten submission to the Contingency Fees Committee, Law Society of B.C., 300-1148 Hernby Street, Vancouver, V6Z 2C4, by Friday, Dec. 15.

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LAWYERS AND

CONTINGENT

FEES

If you are injured in an automobile accident, it would be wise to retain competent fega! counsel as soon as possible. The initial discus- sion with your lawyer should involve the fees to be charged for his

services.

The contingent fee contract is perfectiy tailored to personal injury damage claims since it provides that your lawyer is paid only if and when you have recovered damages in your case and then only as a percentage of the amount actually recovered. Unlike an hourly rate fee, if there is no recovery under a contingent fee agreement, the lawyer receives nothing for his services. On the other hand, the lawyer may receive a great deal, if the recovery is substantial.

The percentage fee charged obviously will vary from lawyer to lawyer and there is no ‘‘fixed amouit’’as to what a lawyer can or should charge. Each agreement is a matter of negotiation between you and your own counsel. A rough rule of thumb, however, would be a fee charge of 25% of the damage amount if the case is set‘led before trial, and 30% should a trial be necessary. Anyone being charg- ed percentage fees greatly in excess of those amounts Ought to seriously

reconsider their fee agreement.

Contingent fees, like other lawyer's fees, may be reviewed by a Registrar of the Court to determine whether the agreement is fair and reasonable, and the Registrar has power, in appropriate cases, to modify or cancel a contract if he deems it unfair at the time it was

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