Meeting the Legal Challenges of Policing in Canada

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How to meet public expectations and legal standards required by the criminal, civil and regulatory justice systems, within limited budgets, remains a daunting challenge for law enforcement agencies, police associations, oversight boards and lawyers working in these fields.

Join a dynamic faculty of leading authorities who will give you practical guidance and critical insights into important areas of key concern. Topics include:

• Drill down on police external oversight agencies
• Administrative vs criminal contexts, role of counsel and police associations
• Current top issues in prosecuting and defending in the criminal and disciplinary context including multi-party disclosure issues and parallel proceedings
• Police use of force and de-escalation and its relevance to the issue of criminal liability
• Changes to police use of force in dealing with mentally disturbed individuals
• Officer liability for suspect apprehension pursuits and on-duty good faith driving
• Impact of GPS, AVL, in-car cameras, police driving instruction and service training in relation to pursuits

Faculty

Program Chairs

• Peter Scutton, Justice Prosecutions Unit, Crown Law Office – Criminal, Ministry of the Attorney General (Ontario)
• Inspector Kevin Cyr, LL.M., Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Surrey, British Columbia
• Peter Brauti, Brauti Thorning Zibarras LLP

Keynote Panel:

• The Hon. Justice Michael H. Tulloch, Court of Appeal of Ontario, Independent Reviewer, Independent Police Oversight Review, Government of Ontario
• Jamie Klukach, Crown Law Office-Criminal, Ministry of the Attorney General Ont., Counsel to Independent Review
• Danielle Robitaille, Henein Hutchison LLP, Counsel to independent Review

Faculty includes:

• Judith Andersen, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
• Deputy Commissioner Kevin Brosseau, LLB, LLM (Harvard), RCMP, National Division
• Ian Bulmer, Deputy Director, Crown Law Office – Criminal, Ministry of the Attorney General (Ontario)
• Inspector Peter Callaghan, Toronto Police Service Professional Standards
• George Cowley, Counsel, Toronto Police Association
• Staff Sgt. Jim Farrell, In Service Training Section, Toronto Police College
• Lawrence Gridin, Brauti Thorning Zibarras LLP
• Tony Loparco, Director, Ontario Special Investigations Unit
• Joseph Markson, Markson Law Professional Corporation
• Kevin McGivney, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
• Gerry McNeilly, Director, Office of the Independent Police Review (Ontario)
• Chief Superintendent Bernard Murphy, Bureau Commander of Professional Standards, OPP
• Jason Nicol, Justice Prosecutions Unit, Crown Law Office – Criminal, Ministry of the Attorney General (Ontario)
• Brendan van Niejenhuis, Stockwoods LLP
• Marianne Wright, Counsel, Toronto Police Service

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