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Bail Review & Detention

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Credits
Professionalism (Ethics, etc.): 0.25
15 minutes
Substantive: 0.25
15 minutes
Published
2019
Presenter(s)
Omar Abou El Hassan
Anne London-Weinstein
Rob Thomson
Source
County of Carleton Law Association (CCLA)
Provider
CPDOnline.ca
Language
English
Length
30 minutes
Price
$139.00 plus tax
31st Annual Criminal Law Conference 2019
Includes Handouts

This panel will provide an update on the law on bail review and detention following the Supreme Court of Canada’s recent decision in R. v. Myers. The panel will discuss strategies for bail proceedings, what the recent cuts to Legal Aid Ontario mean for assisting our clients while ensuring that we meet our professional responsibilities, the disproportionate effect on being denied bail for some clients, and how to effectively made Gladue submissions in these proceedings. Professionalism content includes:

  • 2.1 Making legal services available to the pubic and related access to justice principles
  • 2.4 Recognizing and being sensitive to clients’ circumstances, special needs and intellectual capacity
  • 6.1 Value of diversity and inclusion
  • 6.2 Understanding power and privilege and unconscious bias
  • 6.3 Impact of daily verbal, behavioural and environmental indignities
  • 6.5 Special responsibilities of lawyers to respect human rights laws in force in Ontario
  • 6.6 How to prevent and address discrimination and harassment in the criminal justice system

Presenters

Omar Abou El Hassan

Omar graduated from law school at the University of Ottawa in 2018. He was called to the bar in June 2019 and started working as an Associate at May Irwin & Associates two weeks later. While in law school, Omar interned and summered at Russomanno Criminal Law where he also completed his articles. In his final year of law school, Omar also interned with the Department of Justice (War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity Section) and was a law clerk at the Ontario Court of Justice in Ottawa. Having completed his undergraduate studies in Criminology at Ryerson University, Omar has always been keen on becoming a criminal defence lawyer. In his first few months as a lawyer, Omar conducted several trials at the Ontario Court of Justice and Superior Court of Justice. He is also the firm’s “detention review lawyer”, having successfully conducted two in his first few months in practice.

Anne London-Weinstein

Justice Anne London-Weinstein was a defence counsel for most of her professional life. As a criminal lawyer, she represented individuals charged with serious matters, often from some of the most disadvantaged backgrounds imaginable. For two years early in her career she was an assistant Crown attorney in Scarborough, Ontario. As counsel, she appeared at every level of court in Ontario. Justice London-Weinstein graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1996 and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1998. She received her LL.M. in criminal law and procedure from Osgoode Hall in 2011. She was certified as a specialist in criminal litigation with the Law Society of Upper Canada (now the Law Society of Ontario). Justice London-Weinstein has served as president of the Defence Counsel Association of Ottawa and as regional director of the Criminal Lawyers' Association. In addition, she served on the Area Committee for Legal Aid Ontario. Justice London-Weinstein has been an active participant in legal education. She has taught evidence at the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa and also taught trial advocacy for many years. She has presented at "Crown School" and at conferences hosted by groups including the Superior Court of Justice Eastern Region, the Ontario Court of Justice Eastern Region conference, the Criminal Lawyers' Association, the Advocates' Society, and the County of Carleton Law Association. Justice London-Weinstein and her husband, Neil, have three sons and two grandsons.

Crown Attorney Rob Thomson

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