HIV & The Supreme Court: Criminal Nondisclosure after Mabior
When are people legally obligated to tell their lovers that they are HIV positive? Please join Out in Law and the Progressive Law Students for a lunchtime panel on the Supreme Court of Canada's October 5 decisions in R v Mabior and R v DC.
Monday, October 29th, 12:30pm
Cynthia Fromstein practices criminal law exclusively and has defended people charged in HIV nondisclosure cases. Ms Fromstein has over twenty years of extensive trial experience in areas including domestic and sexual assaults, morality charges (indecent act, possession child pornography), homicide and drug charges, as well as forensic casesinvolving defendants with mental illness.
Martha Shaffer joined the Faculty of Law in 1990, and is now an associate professor. She holds law degrees from Harvard and Toronto. She served as Law Clerk to the Supreme Court of Canada for Chief Justice Brian Dickson Professor Shaffer's principal research and teaching interests concentrate on criminal law, family law and equality issues.
Cecile Kazatchkine is a policy analyst at the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network. She works on the issue of the criminalization of HIV nondisclosure. Ms Kazatchkine has prepared interventions on behalf of the Legal Network on HIV nondisclosure and developped a tool kit for defence lawyers who are representing an HIV-positive accused. Ms Kazatchkine was called to the Paris Bar in 2007.
For more information, contact marcus.mccann@gmail.com
