Sentencing: Current Issues and Effective Advocacy

This 4-hour program is CPD accredited for 2h and 45m of Substantive Content and 75 minutes of Professionalism content (including 60 minutes of EDI for Ontario).Video rental period lasts 180 days.

Sentencing is our collective response to crime. Through sentencing, we strive to denounce crime, rehabilitate offenders, prevent future crime, and repair harms caused. It is a legal practitioner’s delicate task to weigh the circumstances of an offence against the offender’s moral accountability and craft proportionate sentences that instill confidence in the Canadian criminal justice system.

Join our esteemed team of defence counsel, crown counsel and judges from across Canada as they explore legal issues related to sentencing within the Canadian criminal justice system. Led by Chairs Maya Borooah (defence, Henein Hutchison Robitaille) and Erin Winocur (Crown, Ontario MAG), this program will tackle both common and unusual sentencing issues and questions, and pragmatically discuss procedure and advocacy, types of sentences, and appellate issues.

Register today and equip yourself with the knowledge and tools you need to find creative and innovative solutions to sentencing issues in Canada’s criminal justice system.

Presented in partnership with Emond’s award-winning Criminal Law Series.

Interested in learning more about sentencing advocacy and issues. Registrants can bundle their online video rental with the newest edition of Sentencing: Principles and Practice for $249 by adding both products to their cart.

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SKU: CPD0014
Status: Available
Subjects: CPD; Criminal Law and Procedure; Criminology
Tags: Practice Canadian Law

Mastering creative sentencing advocacy
Navigating ethical considerations in sentencing
Crafting effective sentencing submissions
Utilizing cultural assessment pre-sentence reports
Applying Indigenous justice principles in sentencing
The role of appeal courts in reviewing, confirming, or revising sentencing decisions
Staying informed with offence-specific updates

Legal counsel who prosecute or defend criminal law cases in any Canadian province or territory
Judges who preside over Canadian cases
Students with an interest in practicing criminal law in Canada

12:00 p.m.
Welcome and introductory remarks by Chairs Erin Winocur and Maya Borooah

12:10 p.m.
Creativity and ethics during sentencing
Speakers: Sarah Rankin (Defence, Alberta) and Grace Hession-David (Crown, Saskatchewan)
Moderator: Erin Winocur

12:40 p.m.
Effective sentencing submissions
Speakers: Judge Ann Marie Simmons (Halifax), Justice Michael Block (Ontario)
Moderator Maya Borooah

1:20 p.m.
Role of appeal courts and sentencing advocacy
Speakers: Justice Healy (Quebec Court of Appeal) and Justice Kalmakoff (Saskatchewan Court of Appeal)
Moderator: Erin Winocur

1:50 p.m.
Cultural assessment pre-sentence reports
Speakers: Chris Rudnicki (Defence, Ontario) and David Parry (Crown, Ontario)
Moderator Maya Borooah

2:20 p.m.
BREAK

2:30 p.m.
RAPID FIRE, offence specific updates

Most important Sentencing sexual offences – Daniel Brown and Lindsay Board (Defence, Ontario)
Most important Driving offences – Karen Jokinen (Defence, Ontario) and Peter Keen (Crown, Ontario)
Most important Guns and drugs cases – Breanna Vandebeek (Defence, Ontario)

Moderator: Erin Winocur

3:00 p.m.
Indigenous justice sentencing
Speaker: Jonathan Rudin (Aboriginal Legal Services, Ontario)
Moderator Maya Borooah

3:30 p.m.
“What’s it worth” panel
Speakers: Katalin Kirec (Crown, Ontario), Debra Moskovitz (Crown, Ontario), Ana Serban (Crown, Ontario), Tonya Kent (Defence, Ontario) and Janani Shanmuganathan (Defence, Ontario)
Moderator Erin Winocur and Maya Borooah

3:55 p.m.
Closing remarks

	Law Society of Ontario CPD Accreditation This program contains: 2 Hours and 45 Minutes of Substantive Content. 15 Minutes of Professionalism Content. 60 Minutes of EDI (Ethics, Diversity, and Inclusion) Content.
	Law Society of British Columbia CPD Accreditation This program contains: 75 Minutes of Professionalism Content. 2 Hours and 45 Minutes of Substantive Content.
	Law Society of Saskatchewan CPD Accreditation This program contains: 2 Hours and 45 Minutes of CPD. 75 Minutes of Ethics (included in total CPD hours.)

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Sentencing: Current Issues and Effective Advocacy

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