Unfortunately, as Louise Arbour has pointed out, 283 there remains a prevailing
domestic judicial bias against applying the Charter to require governments to act in response to human rights crises of this sort.
Specific topics which have been covered in recent conferences include
judicial ethics; interpreters; delivering reasons for judgment; assessing credibility; social media; technology and search warrants; managing a provincial offence trial; effectively communicating an oral judgment; risk assessment and indicators of lethality at bail hearings; the Youth Criminal Justice Act; eye - witness identification; conducting pre-trials; specific issues at trials of regulatory offences; fly - in - courts, residential schools; application of Gladue principles; mistrials and
bias; accident reconstruction; search warrant issues;
domestic violence issues; orders for examination under the Mental Health Act; child apprehension warrants under the Child and Family Services Act; evidentiary issues; discrimination and harassment in the workplace; stress management; and pre-retirement planning.