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Login to watch this video if you have a subscription. Learn more about subscriptions.The speakers present information to assist advocates in ensuring administrative bodies are meaningfully inclusive in accommodating lawyers, paralegals and parties and safeguarding against bias. What, as an adjudicator, helps them to be culturally competent -what they need to do and what they need from the parties.
The speakers also discuss what litigators can do to support their adjudicator’s cultural competence and what is reasonable to demand from an adjudicator or tribunal.
Finally, the topic addresses practical suggestions on how to act with
more cultural competence within one’s firm.
They discuss:
•Recognizing and being sensitive to clients’ circumstances, special
needs, and intellectual capacity (e.g., multi-cultural, language,
gender, socioeconomic status, demeanour)
• The value of diversity and inclusion
• Impact of daily verbal, behavioural and environmental
indignities
•Best practices for workplace diversity and inclusion
Amanda Bruce is Métis and an advocate for Indigenous Peoples rights. She is currently a Senior Policy Coordinator for the Assembly of First Nations, a national organization that advocates on behalf of First Nations. Previously, she worked for the Chiefs of Ontario on a study to reform First Nations post-secondary education. Amanda has spent several years working on issues affecting Indigenous Peoples, including Treaty rights to education, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ Peoples, and section 35 rights. Amanda is also a third year Juris Doctor candidate and has accepted a clerkship at the Court of Appeal for Ontario in 2024.
Juliet Chang Knapton (she/her/Mx.) has served as a legal educator, civil litigator, and tribunal member. She is the Advocate-in-Residence at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law and is the Chair of the Roundtable of Legal Diversity Associations (RODA), a coalition of equity-seeking Canadian legal associations. She is also a Mentor and Assessor for the Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) Law Practice Program (LPP). In private practice, Juliet represented both plaintiffs and defendants in civil litigation matters at various levels of trial and appellate courts and tribunals. Juliet was a member of the Immigration Appeal Division at the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada. She is a trained mediator and workplace investigator. She has written and presented on a wide range of topics in regard to inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (IDEA) and has been recognized for her leadership roles in the legal profession and in her community.
Anne Moreau (she/her)is an articling student at Torkin Manes LLP and a recent Dean’s Honour List graduate of the University of Ottawa’s English Common Law program. As a testament to her academic excellence, Anne gained experience during law school as a Torts Teaching Assistant with the Faculty, a Judicial Law Clerk at the Ontario Court of Justice, a Legislative Development Intern at the Senate of Canada and a Justice Education Fellow with the Ontario Justice Education Network. Coupled with her legal education, Anne is steadfastly dedicated to the Black community and community at large. She co-founded Unilearnal, a non-profit media group highlighting thevoices and experiences of Black people in Canada. Among other projects, Unilearnal produced 28
Moments of Black Canadian History, a docuseries that informed notable curriculum changes at elementary and secondary schools across Canada. Anne has leveraged her years of experience working on issues affecting Black, racialized and other marginalized groups through organizations, such as Students for Consent Culture Canada, Equal Chance and the Canadian Criminal Justice Association.
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