Lawyer files complaint over smoking judge Using 'influence, financial means' to skirt regulations VANCOUVER - A British Columbia judge who wanted special ventilation for her chambers so she could smoke on the job has become the subject of a complaint to the Canadian Judicial Council that alleges her conduct has "unfairly brought the administration of justice into disrepute." Lawyer Dugald Christie's letter yesterday to the Ottawa-based council accuses Madame Justice Mary Southin of the B.C. Court of Appeal of using her position to encourage smokers to avoid or defy the law, and stirring up "amusement by some and amazement and...