David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
Constitutional Roundtable
presents
Carter v Canada:
The Recent Decision of the Supreme Court of British Columbia
on Physician Assisted Suicide
Speakers:
Joseph Arvay, QC, Asper Centre Constitutional Litigator in Residence
University Professor Emeritus Wayne Sumner, University of Toronto
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
12:30 – 2:00
Classroom B (FLB) – Flavelle House
78 Queen’s Park
Joseph J. Arvay, QC holds law degrees from the University of Western Ontario Law School and Harvard Law School. He is called to the Bars of both British Columbia and the Yukon. Mr. Arvay has a busy civil litigation practice but with an emphasis on constitutional and administrative law matters. He has been involved in many constitutional cases of importance in British Columbia and elsewhere in Canada. Mr. Arvay has been involved in a number of aboriginal-rights litigation cases and is also counsel on medical malpractice cases, class actions, commercial litigation and defamation.Mr. Arvay has been counsel on a number of landmark constitutional law cases including Egan v Canada, The Little Sisters litigation, Health Services, Canada v PHS Community Services amongst many others. He is counsel on the Carter case.
Wayne Sumner is University Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is the author of five books: Abortion and Moral Theory (1981); The Moral Foundation of Rights (1987); Welfare, Ethics, and Happiness (1996); The Hateful and the Obscene: Studies in the Limits of Free Expression (2004); and Assisted Death: A Study in Ethics and Law (2011). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and recipient of the 2009 Molson Prize in Social Sciences and Humanities from the Canada Council for the Arts. He was qualified as an expert witness in the case before the Supreme Court of British Columbia.
A light lunch will be served.
For more information, contact n.gulezko@utoronto.ca
