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12:00  “Reflections on Ashley Smith” Guest Speaker Professor Kim Pate, Executive Director, Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies; Professor, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law (Common Law Section), Ottawa, ON 1:00  Therapeutic Courts for Youth: Pros, Cons and Essential Components This program will involve presentations from three panelists who have had significant experience and success with therapeutic courts. […]

Professor Archibald Kaiser – (30:23) Schulich School of Law, and Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS This module will offer an overview of the history of the ways in which the criminal justice system has responded to the needs of persons with mental health problems and will scrutinize both contemporary reality and future aspirations. […]

Professor Archibald Kaiser – (30:23) Schulich School of Law, and Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS This module will offer an overview of the history of the ways in which the criminal justice system has responded to the needs of persons with mental health problems and will scrutinize both contemporary reality and future aspirations. […]

Chair Karen Hudson (10:06) Q.C., Executive Director, Nova Scotia Legal Aid, Halifax, NS Crown Attorneys will discuss: how discretionary decisions reflect mental health considerations; how to interact with unrepresented persons who have a mental illness; how to ensure respectful dealings with affected accused and witnesses; providing continuity between mileposts in the justice system; adapting relevant directives to the context of […]

Keith Brumwell – (08:39) Supporter of two family members living withmental illness, and Board Member, Halifax Dartmouth Branch, Canadian Mental Health Association, Halifax, NS

Questions and Comments – (31:04) Justice Joel Fichaud, Professor Archibald Kaiser, Deputy Chief Bill Moore, Judge Anne Derrick, Mark Heerema, Roger Burrill • A Representative Panel will examine:  what we have learned and what we need to do or how to implement the lessons of the conference; more effective collaboration in the face of a history of […]

Keith Brumwell – (08:39) Supporter of two family members living withmental illness, and Board Member, Halifax Dartmouth Branch, Canadian Mental Health Association, Halifax, NS

Chair Karen Hudson (10:06) Q.C., Executive Director, Nova Scotia Legal Aid, Halifax, NS Crown Attorneys will discuss: how discretionary decisions reflect mental health considerations; how to interact with unrepresented persons who have a mental illness; how to ensure respectful dealings with affected accused and witnesses; providing continuity between mileposts in the justice system; adapting relevant directives to the context of […]

Questions and Comments – (31:04) Justice Joel Fichaud, Professor Archibald Kaiser, Deputy Chief Bill Moore, Judge Anne Derrick, Mark Heerema, Roger Burrill • A Representative Panel will examine:  what we have learned and what we need to do or how to implement the lessons of the conference; more effective collaboration in the face of a history of […]

The Honourable Justice Richard D. Schneider (13:31)Ontario Court of Justice, Mental Health Court, Alternate Chair of the Ontario and Nunavut Review Boards, Toronto, ON