Event Hosted By: Thomson Reuters Comprehensive or Commercial General Liability (collectively: “CGL”) policies are the most widely used liability policies in the business community, designed to address the needs of...

Join the Society’s TRC Working Group (TRCWG) for the education session Trauma-Informed Lawyering: What I Wish I Knew – the Lawyer Edition with lawyer and host of the “The Trauma-Informed Lawyer” podcast Myrna McCallum....

How do wrongful convictions really occur? How do opposing counsel have such opposing views of a matter? And why does the truth sometimes seem so difficult to distill? Answer: cognitive...

The legal landscape in Canada raises difficult questions about managing substance use and abuse in the workplace. Arbitrators have considered numerous cannabis-related issues, addressing employer policies regarding the use of...

The Federal/Provincial/Territorial Heads of Prosecutions Sub-Committee on the Prevention of Wrongful Convictions and Courthouse Libraries B.C. present: "Forensic Fallout: Scientific evidence and the prevention of wrongful convictions". This 2hr panel...

Target Audience This CPD course is for the Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultants (RCICs), Lawyers, Paralegals, law graduates and students. Learning Objectives By attending this session the participants explore reasons for...

Conceptually, there is a clear distinction between regulatory offences that do not require mens rea and criminal offences that do require mens rea. However, process-wise, this distinction becomes less clear,...