Sentences with phrase «of crown counsel»

I was at first, a federal representative, and then a «Member at Large» on moving to the Office of the Crown Counsel in Vancouver, and later to Legal Aid Ontario in Toronto as its first Director of Research at LAO LAW.

Rick Woodburn, president of the Canadian Association of Crown Counsel, said the Jordan and Cody rulings put the spotlight on elected governments to act quickly, or see more murder and sexual assault trials thrown out of courts that can not cope with all the demands.

Unlike Poundmaker, who was sentenced to three years in the Manitoba Penitentiary, Yellow Mud Blanket was released by the court on the recommendation of Crown counsel; see Sandra E. Bingaman, The North - West Rebellion Trials, 1885 (MA Thesis, University of Saskatchewan [Regina], 1971)[unpublished] Appendix A at 206; see also Sandra E. Bingaman, «The Trials of Poundmaker and Big Bear, 1885» (1975) 28 Saskatchewan History 81; Blair Stonechild and W.A. Waiser, Loyal till Death: Indians and the North - West Rebellion (Saskatoon: Fifth House, 1997); Bob Beal and R.C. Macleod, Prairie Fire: The 1885 North - West Rebellion (Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers, 1984).

Richard was appointed to the Regional Panel of Crown Counsel in 2010 and was re-appointed in 2015 for another five years.

The majority agreed with the trial judge regarding the characterization of four distinct periods of delay as: (1) delay caused by actions of the co-accused and their counsel; (2) institutional delay and «some lack of focus» on the trial by Crown counsel; (3) a death in the family of Crown counsel that resulted in an adjournment; and, (4) failure of the Crown to disclose an expert's report that «blindsided» the defence.

Chambers is delighted to announce new appointments to the Attorney General's Panel of Crown Counsel.

He has had plenty of success INSIDE the courthouse for his clients and that translates into an advantage for you because it means that any of the Crown Counsel involved in your criminal or driving offence case will know that it would be best to deal with Jamie Butler by offering YOU the best and fairest possible resolution OUTSIDE the courtroom by way of plea deal.

An Ontario Court judge with a history of improper interjections «usurped the role of Crown counsel» during a trial last year, the Superior Court has found.

Instead, the trial judge was usurping the role of Crown counsel,» Superior Court Justice Kenneth Campbell said this week.

Chambers is delighted to announce Michael Armitage has been appointed to the C panel of the Attorney General's Panel of Crown Counsel, with effect from 28 February 2017.

Not exact matches

Crown counsel announced Monday it will pursue criminal charges against Green Party of Canada Leader Elizabeth May, Burnaby - South MP Kennedy Stewart and dozens of other anti-pipeline protesters.

When some of us said that girl needs to be condemned and not celebrated for the mindless thing she did, you guys shrugged off all wise counsel and crowned her.

Crown counsel are agents of the Attorney General, who are central in maintaining public confidence in the legal system.

Cameron had been Crown counsel with the constitutional law branch of Manitoba Justice since 2004 and was senior Crown attorney of criminal prosecutions from 1989 to 2004.

[1] Crown counsel also have a constitutional role to provide objective advice and legal interpretation to the State consistent with the rule of law.

Bayne identifies a number of instances where the prosecution crossed the line in the Felderhof case, but he notes that Crown counsel «bore no discipline measure of responsibility for its role in the Felderhof incivility.»

Its membership consists of corporate counsel employed in virtually every industry in Canada, encompassing public and private businesses, non-profit organizations, municipalities and crown corporations.

Prior to arriving at CUCM, I acted as Crown Counsel for the federal Department of Justice, Canada.

As Crown counsel, he conducted criminal appeals as well as criminal trials in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and the Ontario Court of Justice.

That jail over-crowding in terrible conditions such as in Toronto's Don Jail, soon led to plea bargaining as we know it now, wherein the Crown's recommendation as to length of sentence is taken as a «presumptive sentence» — a rebuttable presumption for defence counsel to overcome.

Defence counsel was not required to cross-examine either officer because on this first trial date the investigating officer indicated to the Crown and the defence that two other police witnesses were at the scene around the time of the arrest and their evidence had not been disclosed.

Crown counsel and defence lawyer Tonii Roulston submitted an agreed statement of facts during his sentencing.

He has a sub-specialty in government work and was on the Attorney - General's «A» panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown between 2004 and 2012.

- Reduction in the number of advocates used in cases and a requirement for litigators to provide «adequate support» to counsel in the Crown Court.

It also raises some questions about Crown counsel's approach to the Rules of Court.

Mr. McKinnon acts as external counsel and litigation counsel to a number of Provincial Crown agencies and departments.

98 I refer to the Crown's cavalier attitude toward the seriousness of the police misconduct and abuse to which T had been subjected demonstrated by Crown counsel's decision to have Officer Vander Wier sit at the counsel table after the trial judge's ruling on the voir dire.

We counsel clients through investigations by a wide range of agencies and prosecution authorities, including the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), the National Crime Agency (NCA), the police and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), as well as overseas agencies such as the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

With respect to the Crown, the Court stated that the function of the Crown is to be «assistant to the Court in the furtherance of justice, and not to act as counsel for any particular person or party»: Boucher v.

The appointment of 13 provincial court judges, 32 Crown attorneys, 16 duty counsel (i.e. - lawyers who are paid by Legal Aid), and 26 court staff;

Crown Attorney's have a mandate to prosecute these types of cases and without some type of leverage (that being a problem with their case that they can not fix, highlighted by defence counsel), a Crown is likely to not even offer a plea to anything less than initially offered on the Crown screening form (that being anything less than the mandatory minimum).

Acted as Associate Counsel to the Oppal Commission with respect to an inquiry into the police investigations into the missing and murdered women of the downtown eastside between 1997 - 2002 and Crown counsel's decision to stay charges against Robert Pickton iCounsel to the Oppal Commission with respect to an inquiry into the police investigations into the missing and murdered women of the downtown eastside between 1997 - 2002 and Crown counsel's decision to stay charges against Robert Pickton icounsel's decision to stay charges against Robert Pickton in 1997.

He was acquitted of two counts of counselling to commit murder in 2014, the acquittal was upheld before the Ontario Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada denied the Crown's application for leave to appeal in 2016.

In the present case, the Court of Appeal reviews the special relationship between accused and defence counsel and the role of the Crown.

Defence counsel Daniel Brown hit the nail on the head when talking about the causes of trial delay: shortage of judges and crowns, lack of court space and delayed disclosure.

The consideration being urged is similar to the Gladue report, which judges, defence counsel, or Crown Attorneys are able to request during pre-sentencing or bail hearings of Aboriginal offenders.

He has recently been appointed to the Attorney General's A Panel of Counsel to the Crown.

Benton pointed out the LSS was not part of the commission, which was a joint initiative of the Canadian Bar Association B.C. branch, the Law Society of B.C., the Law Foundation of B.C., the B.C. Crown Counsel Association, the Vancouver Bar Association, and the Victoria Bar Association.

The Law Society of British Columbia has fined a Smithers criminal lawyer $ 6,000 for challenging his client to a physical fight and later sending that client's confidential information to Crown counsel.

Zakher Marine International's Rabah Bashir was crowned junior corporate counsel of the year after clocking up a number of notable achievements in his short time at the company.

In the face of these hurdles, savvy defence counsel are strongly cautioned to tread carefully in future plea negotiations with crown counsel.

Charter of Rights and Freedoms: The Crown brought a dangerous offender application; following the hearing and submissions, counsel for Donald Joseph Boutilier served a notice of constitutional question in relation to several amendments to s. 753 of the Criminal Code.

To prove such a serious allegation, defence counsel would almost certainly need to have access to confidential crown instructions and / or historical trends demonstrated by other cases — neither of these pieces of evidence are likely to fall easily into defence counsel's lap.

Schwann had been a senior Crown counsel with the civil law division of the Saskatchewan Ministry of Justice from 1984 to 2007.

The key distinction between the Crown's position and the respondent's position in the appeal was what kind of evidence could be considered corroborative for the purpose of establishing threshold reliability, the respondent's counsel, Richard Fowler, of Fowler and Smith in Vancouver, told Legal Feeds.

«You can put whole cases on memory sticks, instead of handing judges five to ten bankers» boxes of materials,» says Nils Jensen, crown counsel for the British Columbia Prosecution Service.

A former Crown Counsel prosecutor in the areas of securities fraud and general commercial crime, he has notable expertise in civil jury trials.

For their part, judges had begun to schedule judicial pre-trials as well as to take firm control of their lists of cases and their courtrooms, ensuring that the Crowns, police and defence counsel were living up to their responsibilities.

Following the Otkritie trial, Anton was instructed in several related enforcement proceedings, including in relation to committal of various individuals to prison for contempt of Court; an application (as sole counsel) for the disclosure of documents to the City of London Police and Crown Prosecution Service; and applications for the sale of properties in St John's Wood belonging to two of the defendants.

She has also served as an assistant chief crown prosecutor and lead counsel for the Criminal Justice Division of Alberta Justice and Solicitor General.