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This panel will cover all issues related to representing clients who are charged with an offence involving child pornography from two senior counsel who have extensive experience dealing with these types of charges. The panelists will specifically discuss the following issues: how to defend these types of cases; how to ensure that the representative sample is actually representative; how to keep police officers from giving evidence at sentencing hearings; and trends in sentencing for these offences, with particular emphasis on Ottawa compared with other jurisdictions in Ontario. Professionalism topics include:
Solomon Friedman is a criminal defence lawyer from Ottawa, with the firm Edelson & Friedman LLP. Prior to his call to the bar, Solomon clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada for the Honourable Justice Morris Fish. His 12-year-old daughter thinks he is the best lawyer in Canada. Her twin brother disagrees
Justice Heather Perkins-McVey appointed to the Ontario Court of Justice in June 2009 and presides over Criminal matters in Ottawa. Justice Perkins-McVey is the Judicial representative on the Mental Health Court Committee and the Ottawa Drug Treatment Court. Justice Perkins-McVey was actively involved with others in 2007 in setting up the Ottawa Adult Mental Health Court and in May 2008 in setting up the Ottawa Youth Mental Health Court.