The Latest Developments in Detention, Arrest, Interviewing and Interrogation: Law and Practice

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Get practical advice and a comprehensive up-to-date understanding of investigative powers, their limits, and evolving practices. Topics include:

• Implications of the SCC’s decision in R. v. Fearon: police search powers incident to arrest and their limits
• Interview and interrogation: reducing the risk of unreliable confessions
• Ensuring a voluntary and constitutionally obtained statement
• “Mr. Big,” R. v. Hart and the altered legal landscape
• Notes, videos and police testimony: dealing with technological change
• Right to counsel and right to silence in practice
• Vulnerable persons in interviews and interrogations

Faculty

Keynote Speaker

• Jerome Kennedy, Q.C., Roebothan McKay Marshall, St. John’s, NL
  “False Confessions & False Pleas: Motives, Consequences and Safeguards”

Chairs

• Timothy E. Moore, PhD, C Psych, Professor & Chair, Department of Psychology, Glendon College, York University
• Alan N. Young, Associate Professor, Director of the Innocence Project, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

• The Hon. Justice Patrice Band, Ontario Court of Justice
• Craig Bennell, Professor, Psychology, Carlton University
• Maggie Brown, Assistant Crown Attorney, Ministry of the Attorney General (Ontario)
• Philip Campbell, Lockyer Campbell Posner, Barristers and Solicitors
• Amanda Carling, National Legal Education Counsel, Association in Defence of the Wrongfully Convicted
• Brian Cutler, Associate, Dean and Professor of Social Sciences & Humanities, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
• Kevin Cyr, LL.M., Corporal, Royal Canadian Mounted Police
• Dr. Padraig Darby, Chair, Research Ethics Board, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health; Member, Ontario Review Board
• Lisa Dufraimont, Professor, Faculty of Law, Queen’s University
• The Hon. Justice Michelle Fuerst, Ontario Superior Court of Justice
• Julianna Greenspan, Greenspan Partners
• Philip Kotanen, Deputy Crown Attorney, Ministry of the Attorney General (Ontario)
• Jeffery R. Manishen, Ross & McBride LLP
• The Hon. Justice Heather A. McArthur, Ontario Court of Justice
• John McInnes, Crown Counsel, Ministry of the Attorney General (Ontario), Crown Law Office – Criminal
• Craig A. Parry, Barrister & Solicitor
• Jonathan Rudin, Program Director, Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto
• Christopher Sherrin, Associate Professor, Western Law, University of Western Ontario
• Detective Inspector James Smyth, OPP Criminal Investigation Branch
• Detective Kerry Watkins, Toronto Police Service

Agenda

• Latest Developments in Detention, Arrest Interviewing and Interrogation: Law Practice

  Original Date: March 27, 2015

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  • 8:15 am
    Registration and Continental Breakfast
  • 9:00 am
    Welcome and Introduction
  • 9:05 am
    “Mr. Big” and the Altered Legal Landscape of Confessions

    Moderator
    The Hon. Justice Michelle Fuerst, Ontario Superior Court of Justice
    Timothy E. Moore, PhD, C Psych, Professor & Chair, Department of Psychology, Glendon College, York University
    Maggie Brown, Assistant Crown Attorney, Ministry of the Attorney General (Ontario)
    Lisa Dufraimont, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Queen’s University
    Philip Campbell, Lockyer Campbell Posner, Barristers and Solicitors
    
    • Post R. v. Hart, the “Mr. Big” decision: What can we expect in the future with respect to the admissibility of confessions to undercover operators?
    • Balancing prejudice vs. probative value
    • Assessing the reliability of “Mr. Big” confessions
    • Abuse of process: When does police conduct become coercive?

  • 10:00 am
    Police Record Keeping and Public Interaction: The Impact of Changing Technology

    Moderator
    The Hon. Justice Patrice Band, Ontario Court of Justice
    Craig Bennell, Professor, Psychology, Carlton University
    Kevin Cyr, LL.M, Corporal, Royal Canadian Mounted Police
    Philip Kotanen, Deputy Crown Attorney, Ministry of the Attorney General (Ontario)
    Craig A. Parry, Barrister & Solicitor
    Detective Kerry Watkins, Toronto Police Service
    
    Traditionally, records have consisted of written notes. New technologies (e.g. in-car and lapel cameras), and the public’s increasing appetite to record police interactions are having a critical impact on record keeping and the issues that flow from it. This highly experienced panel will address the following:
    
    • How do these different forms of record keeping co-exist?
    • How should discrepancies between written notes and electronic records be dealt with by the Courts?
    • How will police testimony be affected?
    • What are the implications of R. v. Fearon, which stipulates that police must take detailed notes of their examinations of cell phone information?
    
    There will be a 15 minute refreshment break during this session.

  • 12:00 pm
    Luncheon and Keynote Address

    Jerome Kennedy, Q.C., Roebothan McKay Marshall, St. John’s, NL
    
    “False Confessions & False Pleas: Motives, Consequences and Safeguards”

  • 1:15 pm
    Detention and Arrest: Changes in the Legal Landscape

    Moderator
    The Hon. Justice Heather McArthur, Ontario Court of Justice
    Jeffrey R. Manishen, Ross & McBride LLP
    John McInnes, Counsel, Ministry of the Attorney General
    (Ontario), Crown Law Offi ce - Criminal
    Alan N. Young, Associate Professor, Director of the Innocence
    Project, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

    •  The ss. 8,  9 and 10 Charter implications of detention and arrest
    • R. v. Fearon and police powers to search cell phones incident to  arrest
    • Detention and the reasonably necessary test: R. v Aucoin
    • Reasonable suspicion, safety searches:  R. v. MacDonald, R v. Mackenzie and R v. Chehill
    • The right to counsel post Suberu and Sinclair and R. v Taylor
  • 2:00 pm
    Interviews and Interrogations: Reducing the Risk of Unreliable Confessions

    Moderator
    Timothy E. Moore, PhD, C Psych, Professor & Chair
    Department of Psychology, Glendon College, York University
    Brian Cutler, Associate Dean and Professor of Social Sciences &
    Humanities, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
    Detective Inspector James Smyth, OPP Criminal
    Investigation Branch
    Detective Kerry Watkins, Toronto Police Service
    Julianna Greenspan, Greenspan Partners
    
    • What are the dangerous risks associated with the Reid technique?
    • Scientific approaches to interviewing: avoiding unreliable statements
    • What can participants in the criminal process do to minimize
    the risk of false confessions?
    • The signifi cance of post-confession analysis

  • 3:00 pm
    Refreshment Break
  • 3:15 pm
    Vulnerable Persons in Interviews and Interrogations

    Christopher Sherrin, Associate Professor, Western Law, The University of Western Ontario
    Jonathan Rudin, Program Director, Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto
    Dr. Padraig Darby, Chair, Research Ethics Board, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Member, Ontario Review Board
    Amanda Carling, National Legal Education Counsel, Association in Defence of the Wrongfully Convicted
    
    • Who are the vulnerable?
    • Why and in what specific ways are certain groups vulnerable?
    • The potential consequences of vulnerability, including legal, emotional and social
    • How well do the current rules protect the vulnerable from self-incriminating statements?

  • 4:15 pm
    Latest Hot- Button Issues and Q & A Period

    The Chairs and a panel of speakers from the day’s proceedings will discuss new and hot cases and issues not otherwise covered under the main topics.
    
    There will also be a lively Q & A

  • 4:45 pm
    Program Concludes

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