An Alberta lawyer is asking the province’s top court for a new hearing in his constitutional challenge against the Law Society of Alberta’s mandatory professional development requirements, arguing the training is ideological.
Lawyers for Roger Song submitted a factum to the Alberta Court of Appeal on Oct. 2, appealing Court of King’s Bench Justice Sherry Kachur’s September 2025 decision dismissing his challenge against the Law Society of Alberta’s (LSA) “mandatory ideological training and professional requirements,” according to the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF), which is representing Song.
“His appeal challenges the dismissal of his constitutional case against the Law Society of Alberta’s mandatory ideological training and professional requirements,” the JCCF said in a statement. …