This webinar will be focused exclusively on best practices during a criminal sentencing hearing, and will cover new developments and implications for sentencing policy in Canada. Topics to be covered include:
• New mandatory minimum sentences (offences against children, drugs, etc.)
• Changes to conditional sentence availability
• Credit for pre-plea custody
Recent issues of interest:
• Probation (R. v. Knott, SCC)
• Collateral consequences (R v. Pham, SCC)
• Principle of totality (R. v. Johnson, Ont. C.A.)
• Jumping or undercutting joint submissions (R. v. Thompson, Ont. C.A.)
• Imposition of sentence higher than that sought by Crown (R v. Poorsarwar / R. v. Menary, Ont. C.A.)
• Use of hearsay at sentencing (R. v. Nguyen, Ont. C.A.)
PRESENTERS:
Mr. Justice Rick Libman was appointed to the Ontario Court of Justice in November, 1996. He is Chair of the Rules Committee of the Ontario Court of Justice. Justice Libman is the Associate Editor of Motor Vehicle Reports and co-author of Annotated Ontario Provincial Offences Act, Handling Provincial Offence Cases in Ontario, the Annotated Contraventions Act and is co-editor of the regulatory offences newsletter RegQuest.
DALE E. IVES, B.Soc.Sc. (Ottawa), LL.B. (Dalhouse), LL.M. (Leicester)
Dale is a partner in Ives & Farmer LLP. Her practice is restricted to criminal trials and appeals. She also prosecutes federal drug and regulatory offences as a Standing Agent for the Director of Public Prosecutions. Before entering private practice Dale was a full time law professor for seven years specializing in the area of criminal law, evidence and procedure. She has also worked as a full-time federal prosecutor for the Public Prosecution Service of Canada, a research lawyer for the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, and as counsel for the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General’s Constitutional Law Division. She is the co-author of a leading casebook on sentencing and is currently writing a book on effective assistance of counsel. She has published numerous articles and case comments in leading criminal law journals in Canada, England and the United States. She is the Director of Education for the London Criminal Lawyers’ Association and a past Regional Director for the Criminal Lawyers’ Association. She is also a member of the Advocates’ Society and the Middlesex Law Association. Dale is a frequent contributor to continuing legal education for a variety of organizations including the Law Society of Upper Canada, the London Criminal Lawyers’ Association, the National Judicial Institute of Canada and the Ontario Court of Justice.
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