Mr. Clive Ansley

Attorney, Arvay Finlay Barristers, British Columbia

Mr. Clive Ansley holds law degrees from the University of Windsor and the University of London. He has practiced with law firms in Vancouver, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Shanghai, with 19 years of practice in Asia, and now heads up Arvay Finlay's Courtenay office. Mr. Ansley speaks and reads Mandarin Chinese. His areas of specialization include commercial litigation, constitutional and human rights, international investment and trade law, maritime law, shipbuilding contracts, business law, immigration, and criminal law. In 1985 he became the first foreign lawyer to establish an office in Shanghai.

Mr. Ansley taught Chinese Law for six years at the University of Windsor and the University of British Columbia. He also taught in the Law Faculty of Shanghai's Fudan University in 1984 and still holds the title of Advising Professor at that institution. More recently, he taught International Economic Law at Shanghai's Tongji University. Mr. Ansley has studied the new Chinese legal system since its inception in 1979, and has published and lectured widely on Chinese law. He has also appeared in a number of foreign court proceedings as a recognized expert on Chinese law. In April of 2003, Mr. Ansley joined Arvay Finlay, a prominent Canadian litigation firm renowned for its landmark victories in a number of human rights cases. After a long career representing foreign corporate concerns in China, Mr. Ansley now dedicates most of his working time to his lifelong interest in human rights.

Mr. Ansley will give a speech entitled "A White Horse is not a Horse; A Chinese Court is not a Court".  The thrust of the presentation will be to demonstrate the completely fraudulent nature of the Chinese "court" system by documenting the lack of independence and corruption of the courts, the control of the courts by the CCP, the fact that "Those who hear the case do not make the judgment and those who make the judgment have not heard the case", the fact that constitutional guarantees in the Chinese constitution can be set aside with a stroke of the pen at the whim of the Chinese Communist Party.