Judge Mary Southin was reputed to have had one of B.C.’s sharpest legal minds

Frustrated residents in suburban Richmond, B.C., confronted the city’s mayor at a town hall Tuesday night, angry that they were just now learning of a B.C. Supreme Court case that throws their private property rights into question.After a presentation by city solicitor Anthony Capuccinello on the August Cowichan v Canada ruling that established Aboriginal title over a parcel of land in the southeast of the city, residents living in the area were invited to ask questions.