The National Symposium on Sexual Assault Cases in the Criminal Court: The Latest Developments in Law, Science and Practice

Faculty Agenda - Online Replay

Join a top tier, multi-disciplinary faculty and learn about the most recent developments in law, science and practice and how these impact on the prosecution and defense of sexual offences.

Topics Include:

• Conducting trauma informed investigations and prosecutions; understanding how sexual assault impacts a victim’s behaviour and memory ; questioning the science of trauma and its effect on witness reliability and memory
• Crown vs defence discussion concerning the admissibility of expert evidence about the effects of trauma on a complainant including a mock voir dire
• Cross-examination of the complainant; law, ethics and strategy
• Unique evidence admissibility issues in sexual assault trials, including issues relating to capacity to consent
• Top five new cases in sexual assault law
• Bill C-51: proposed changes to the law

Faculty

Chairs

• Jill Witkin, Counsel, Crown Law Office- Criminal, Ministry of the Attorney General (Ontario), Chair, Sexual Violence Advisory Group Education and Training Crown
• Frank Addario, Addario Law Group LLP

Keynote Speaker

• Lori Haskell, Ph.D, Clinical Psychologist, Private Practice, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto

• Meaghan Cunningham, Regional Sexual Violence Crown, East Region
  Criminal Law Division, Ministry of the Attorney General (Ontario)
• Teresa Donnelly, West Region Sexual Violence Crown, Sexual Violence Advisory‎ Group, Ministry of the Attorney General (Ontario)
• Lisa Dufraimont, Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
• Nathan Gorham, Rusonik, O’Connor, Robbins, Ross, Gorham & Angelini LLP
• Jamie Klukach, Counsel, Crown Law Office-Criminal, Ministry of the Attorney General (Ontario)
• Mabel Lai, Counsel, Crown Law Office- Criminal, Ministry of the Attorney General (Ontario)
• Daryl J. Mayers Ph.D., Toxicology Section, Centre of Forensic Sciences
• The Honourable Justice Shaun Nakatsuru, Ontario Superior Court of Justice
• The Honourable Justice David Paciocco, Court of Appeal of Ontario
• The Honourable Justice Renee Pomerance, Ontario Superior Court of Justice
• Danielle Robitaille, Henein Hutchison LLP
• Samara Secter, Addario Law Group LLP
• Jonathan A. Shime, Cooper, Sandler, Shime & Bergman LLP, Barristers & Solicitors

Agenda

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