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Login to watch this video if you have a subscription. Learn more about subscriptions.There are many ethical and emerging issues that criminal lawyers face day-to-day. This presentation will arm you with the necessary tools to deal with these challenges professionally and confidently. Listen to our panel as it discusses the law of consent and the intoxicated client in a sex assault case & ethical considerations while cross examining during a sex assault case.
Janet Dickie was called to the bar in 1996 and has been working as Crown counsel since 1999. Since becoming Crown counsel, Janet has been a trial prosecutor in Provincial Court and Supreme Court dealing with serious injury offences, including sexual assault. Janet is on the Crown counsel Victims and Vulnerable Witnesses Resource Counsel group which provides advice to Crown across the province on all issues pertaining to vulnerable witnesses, including best practices. Throughout her career, Janet has contributed to a number of educational opportunities and has taught, among other topics, on the law of consent in sexual assault, HIV non-disclosure, and child witnesses. Janet is co-teaching a three day seminar to Kenyan prosecutors in Nairobi in early September on best practices in conducting prosecutions with child witnesses and prosecuting youth offenders.
David Layton obtained his LL.B. from Dalhousie Law School in 1987 and a master’s degree in law from Oxford University in 1989. He clerked for Chief Justice Brian Dickson at the Supreme Court of Canada in 1990. David worked as defence counsel for over 20 years before joining the B.C. Ministry of Justice as an appeals prosecutor in 2014. He is co-author, with the late Mr. Justice Michel Proulx of the Quebec Court of Appeal, of the textbook Ethics and Canadian Criminal Law, a second edition of which was published in 2015. He is also a contributing author to McWilliams‘ Canadian Criminal Evidence, 5th ed. (Chapter 21, Presentation of Witnesses). Before joining the B.C. prosecution service, David was ethics advisor for the UBC Innocence Project, and was also a supervising lawyer. David has taught courses at the UBC and UVic Faculties of Law on the topics of wrongful convictions and criminal law and ethics. He is also a member of the Law Society of British Columbia’s disciplinary hearing panel pool.
Called to the Bar of British Columbia 1989. Sole Practitioner. My practice is primarily criminal law, both defence and prosecution work, as well as some professional discipline work. I appear regularly before all levels of Court in all parts of the Province. I have been counsel on many homicide cases, at various stages of the court proceedings, from preliminary hearing to Court of Appeal. I have defended and prosecuted cases ranging from minor summary conviction matters to the most serious offences in the Criminal Code and CDSA. I have acted for both accused and Crown on countless sexual assault trials, and have cross examined dozens of complainants. I was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2013.
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