Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - 12:30pm to Thursday, October 16, 2014 - 1:55pm
Location: 
Alumni Hall (room 112), Victoria College

The Aboriginal Law Program Speaker Series and the Constitutional Roundtable

 present

  R v Kokopenace: The Panel

Wednesday, October 15, 2014
12:30 - 2pm
Alumni Hall (room VC 112), Victoria College
University of Toronto 

 Heard before the Supreme Court on October 6, 2014, R v Kokopenace is a case concerning the representativeness of jury panels in Ontario, particularly with respect to First Nations people living on-reserve and the role of s. 6(8) of the Juries Act.  Issues in this case involve the constitutional right to an impartial jury, the meaning of representativeness, reasonable efforts required by the Crown to attain representativeness, and the appropriate remedy failing reasonable efforts.  Join us for a panel of the parties (featured below), who will discuss their arguments to the Court and responses to questions posed by the Bench.

 
Panelists:

Jessica Orkin, Counsel for Clifford Kokopenace
Brian Greenspan, Counsel for The Advocates’ Society
Cheryl Milne, Counsel for the David Asper Centre & LEAF
Mary Eberts, Counsel for NWAC and Elizabeth Fry Societies
Christa Big Canoe, Counsel for Aboriginal Legal Services Toronto
Julian Roy, Counsel for Nisnawbe Aski Nation

 
A light lunch will be provided. 


RSVP: n.gulezko@utoronto.ca