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Recorded Seminar: “The Most Important Cases of 2022 Every Criminal Litigator Should Know [with Steven Penney]”
Recorded: 02 December 2022, 98 min.
To wrap up the year, Professors Penney and Sankoff join forces once again to examine the most important cases from the second half of 2022.
In this exciting and interactive seminar, the two Professors count down the cases you need to know about in order to excel in practice!
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Recorded Seminar: “Rectifying Injustice: Battles that Need to Be Fought Again”
Recorded: 4 November 2022, 58 minutes
The doctrine of stare decisis is a cornerstone of our legal system. It provides predictability and allows all parties to know the answer to important legal questions. But it can also entrench injustice. When a Supreme Court decision sets down a new rule, it provides a firm and seemingly unshakable way of looking at a legal problem. Unfortunately, Supreme Court precedents are not easily challenged, and they can have hugely negative ramifications for criminal defendants. Sometimes the residual unfairness created by a particular precedent can linger for decades.
In this seminar, Professor Sankoff explains why it is sometimes important to challenge the established orthodoxy and provide a tool kit for how this can be done. Then he provides eight examples of rules that are causing injustice to accused persons, and advocate for lawyers to rectify them by bringing legal challenges that contest the status quo.
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Recorded Seminar: “Ethical Considerations for Counsel Representing Indigenous Clients”
Recorded: 30 September 2022, 72 minutes
In cases like Gladue and Ipeelee, the Supreme Court has reiterated the importance of ensuring that the interests of Indigenous offenders are properly represented. What does that mean on the ground? In this seminar, Jonathan Rudin explores how and why Gladue operates, considers the important role of counsel in determining the foundational requirements for 718.2(e)(sentencing) and 493.2 (bail) and explains how counsel needs to communicate with Indigenous accused. In addition, he highlights a useful road map for communicating the client’s cultural background to the court and provides tips for a hearing in which the client is self-identifying as Indigenous, but there is a significantly lack of correlation between their assertion and a tangible connection to the Indigenous Community.
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Recorded Seminar: “Bail Pending Appeal: Tips, Strategies and Concerns”
Recorded: 9 September 2022, 99 minutes
Most criminal lawyers know quite a bit about obtaining bail for a client. With the presumption of innocence in hand, most clients SHOULD be released. But what happens once they’ve been convicted? The answer is that almost everything changes. Obtaining bail pending appeal is a complex task with evidentiary, substantive and procedural requirements. What are the best strategies in obtaining judicial interim release? If you ever have plans to conduct a summary conviction appeal or appeal to the highest court of the province, you NEED to understand what to do.
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Recorded Seminar: “Sexual Assault Update”
Recorded: 15 July 2022, 79 minutes
The law governing sexual assault trials evolves more quickly than most people can keep up, and the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in JJ changed things in dramatic ways. In this seminar, Professor Sankoff looks at how the JJ case will change sexual assault law, especially in how “myths and stereotypes” need to be addressed, and then explores how to conduct s 278.92 applications after JJ.
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Recorded Seminar: “An Introduction to the Youth Criminal Justice Act” with Emma Rhodes
Recorded: 17 June 2022, 86 minutes
11am MST, Friday, 17 June 2022
So you want to represent a youth charged with criminal offences? It’s not just a matter of knowing the criminal law. The Youth Criminal Justice Act sets out a host of different evidentiary rules, procedures and penalties where young offenders are concerned. If you want to do your client justice, you need to understand how things change when your client is under 18 years of age. In this seminar, Emma Rhodes gives you a detailed overview of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, providing insight into what you need to watch out for when dealing with teens and young adults.
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Recorded Seminar: “Dangerous Driving or Dangerous Defences?” with Kyla Lee
Recorded: 3 June 2022, 75 minutes
Dangerous driving cases have numerous complexities. The substantive law is challenging to follow, evidentiary perils abound. In this seminar, Kyla Lee of Acumen Law in Vancouver, who specializes in defending accused persons charged with driving offences, helps you navigate the hurdles of a dangerous driving trial.
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Recorded Seminar: “Challenging and Admitting Electronic Evidence,” Peter Sankoff with Gerald Chan
Recorded: 6 May 2022, 91 minutes
Many of our rules of evidence date back decades if not centuries to a time when little, if anything, was recorded and stored. Back then, evidence was led almost exclusively through the viva voce testimony of witnesses drawing on imperfect memories. Now, criminal courts are flooded with text messages, videos, social media screen captures, cell tower records, and all sorts of other digitally recorded evidence. How can we ensure the courts remain relevant and accessible to parties seeking to adduce electronic evidence while also guarding against the danger of digitally manipulated data?
In this seminar, Peter Sankoff and Gerald Chan explore these questions and discuss the legal principles that counsel and the courts need to be aware of when dealing with electronic evidence, including hearsay, authentication, and the best evidence rule.
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Recorded Seminar: “Bad Character Evidence and Direct Relevance”
Recorded: 8 April 2022, 82 min
Most lawyers know about character evidence and how it can be admitted when it qualifies as similar fact evidence. More challenging are the times in which it can be admitted despite having no similarities whatsoever to the facts charged. The rules of “direct relevance” are challenging, and vary depending upon whether the accused testifies or does not. In this seminar, Professor Sankoff details everything you need to know about bad character evidence tendered against the accused that does not qualify as similar fact evidence.
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Recorded Seminar:”Blockades, Injunctions and Emergency Measures: Sifting Through the Legal Implications of the ‘Freedom’ Convoy”
Recorded: 18 March 2022, 85 minutes
FREE
In January 2022, the “Freedom” Convoy rolled into Ottawa and stayed for weeks. It also blocked borders in several Canadian provinces. The federal government eventually relied upon the Emergencies Act to restore order. Along the way, the public discourse was replete with discussions of the criminal law, injunctions and the right to protest. What did this seminal event mean for Canada and for the right to free expression, the rule of law and our future as a country? Find out the answers to some of these questions with this incredible panel of experts, consisting of Emilie Taman, Carissima Mathen and Peter Sankoff.
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Recorded Seminar: “Regulatory Searches and Inquiries” with Professor Steven Penney
Recorded: 11 March 2022, 95 min
Professor Penney explores the complex Charter issues arising when law enforcement officials obtain evidence in the regulatory context. Topics covered include the criminal/regulatory distinction; expectations of privacy in regulatory domains; the reasonableness of regulatory searches; compulsory reporting; protection against self-incrimination; and use and derivative use immunity.
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Recorded Seminar: “Ottawa Dispatch: ‘Freedom’ Convoy Coverage with Caryma Sa’d”
Recorded: 15 February 2022, 74 minutes
FREE
Since the “Freedom” Convoy rolled into Ottawa in late January, lawyer Caryma Sa’d had been on the front line, documenting it all. In this riveting Q & A she shares what she has seen, tells what she has learned and tries to make sense of it all. Professor Sankoff and Caryma also discuss what charges they anticipate, and where we can go from here.
Caryma Sa’d is a prominent Toronto lawyer and political commentator whose cases and commentary have been featured by local, national, and international media outlets. Her legal work focuses primarily on criminal law and landlord/tenant matters.
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