Saturday, November 1st, 2008
Save the Date!
Join Law Union members and other experienced criminal counsel for a workshop on cross-examination of expert witnesses, police officers and in cases involving identification evidence.
1:00 – 4:00pm
University of Toronto Faculty of Law
Co-sponsored by Downtown Legal Services
Annual General Meeting
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
6:30pm
Friends’ Meeting House
60 Lowther Avenue, Toronto
(Closest subway: St. George)
Social Gathering to Follow
Non-members Welcome!
Friday, March 28 and Saturday, March 29
Read more for full schedule…
FRIDAY EVENING KEYNOTE
Alex Neve, Secretary General for Amnesty International Canada (English Speaking):
“The insecurity of human rights: Canadian law and practice in the ‘War on Terror’”
7:00pm
Bloor Street United Church
300 Bloor Street West at Huron (2 blocks east of Spadina subway)
$10 (students $5, unwaged PWYC)
After: socialize at the Fox & Fiddle Pub, 280 Bloor Street West
SATURDAY PANELS
***Please Note New Location!***
Hart House, University of Toronto
7 Hart House Circle (Museum subway), Second Floor
Wheelchair accessible – Childcare available
9:00 – 10:30
Right to Housing: Making it Legally Binding
Peter Rosenthal: Lawyer, Roach Schwartz & Associates
John Fraser: Program Director, Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation
Tracy Heffernan: Staff Lawyer, Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario
Chair – Jennifer Ramsay, Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario
Canadian Mining: Resisting Exploitation at Home and Abroad
Eric Gillespie: Lawyer, Cunningham & Gillespie
Charis Kamphuis: Law student, Osgoode Indigenous Intensive Program
Mining Watch Canada
Chair – Ryan White, Law Student
10:45 – 12:15
Police Chases: Any Justification? A Debate
Bob Kellermann: Criminal defence lawyer
Howard Morton: Criminal defence lawyer and former Chair, Special Investigations Unit
Pam McConnell, City councillor & member, Police Services Board
George Cowley Director of Legal Services, Toronto Police Service
Mike Abbott: Director of Uniform Administrative Services, Toronto Police Association
John Sewell, Toronto Police Accountability Coalition
Chair – Paul Copeland: Lawyer, Copeland Duncan
Walking Our Talk: Legal Practice that Reflects our Politics and Values
Juan Carranza: Civil lawyer and founder, Carranza Barristers and Solicitors,
Gitanjali Lena: Criminal defence lawyer and sole practitioner
Amy Wah: sole practitioner, administrative law
Chair – Mac Scott: Immigration consultant, Carranza Barristers and Solicitors
International Solidarity: The Role of Lawyers in Grassroots Struggles
Amina Sherazee, Barrister and Solicitor
Amparo Torres: Colombian labour activist and refugee
Moira Gracey: Lawyer, Carranza Barristers & Solicitors
Chair – Mike Leitold: Lawyer, Roach Schwartz & Associates
1:45 – 3:15
Environmental Refugees: The New Exodus
Laura Westra: Professor Emerita (Philosophy) University of Windsor; Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Ottawa Law School
Amina Sherazee, Barrister and Solicitor
Sima Sahar Zerehi: Status Now Campaign
Chair – Mac Scott: Member, No One Is Illegal; Immigration consultant, Carranza Barristers and Solicitors
Feminist Criminal Law: Theory and Practice
Marlys Edwardh: Criminal defence lawyer, Ruby & Edwardh
Justice Rebecca Shamai, Ontario Court of Justice
Diane Oleskiw: Criminal defence lawyer, Scott & Oleskiw
Gitanjali Lena, Sole Practitioner
Chair – Adriel Weaver: Criminal defence lawyer, Ruby & Edwardh
3:30 – 5:00
Plenary Session – Choice, Access and Women’s Activism:
Abortion Rights Twenty Years after Morgentaler
Judy Rebick: Sam Gindin Chair in Social Justice and Democracy at Ryerson University; author of Ten Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolution
Kathleen Howes: Staff Lawyer, CAW Legal Services Plan; Past President, Catholics for a Free Choice, Canada
Irina Ceric: Steering Committee Member, Law Union of Ontario; Board Member, Choice in Health Clinic
Chair: Tanya Gwen Thompson, student-at-law, Ruby & Edwardh
Fees: $35 for all panels ($10 students, unwaged PWYC) or $10 per session ($5 students, unwaged PWYC)
Registration begins at 8:30am; Law Union memberships available at the door.
Party Saturday night – location TBA at conference
For more information: 416-964-8126; lawunionconference @ gmail.com