Roundtables

In the spring and fall of 2019, the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice (CIAJ) will be holding provincial roundtables on the topic of systemic barriers to the representation of Indigenous peoples and racialized minorities on juries in Canada. The roundtables will take place in British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada respectively.

Read the Preliminary Report (PDF) :  « Jury Representation in Canada »

Roundtables schedule to come.

CIAJ is holding a set of roundtables in jurisdictions across Canada, composed of judges, defence lawyers, crown lawyers, and other important players in the criminal justice system. The goal of these individual roundtables is to discuss the pressing issue of lengthy criminal delays in a given jurisdiction, particularly after the influential decision of R v Jordan. A national symposium may be held at the end of the process, to share ideas and perspectives from each roundtable, with the goal of presenting concrete recommendations in a report representing a national outlook on the issue of criminal delays in Canada.

Read the latest report (PDF) : "Practical Responses to Jordan Delays"

Roundtables Schedule:

• December 2, 2017, Vancouver, BC
• October 13, 2018, Edmonton, AB
• December 1, 2018, Halifax, NS
• Ontario (date to come)
• Quebec (date to come)

Title: "Pushing the Bounds of Administrative Law to Get Closer to Justice"
Date: June 2, 2018
Co-Chairs: Mr. Michael Gottheil, Mr. Athanasios Hadjis, The Honourable Justice James O'Reilly
Location: Ottawa, ON

Title: "These are the Principles, If You Don't Like Them, We've Got Others"
Date: May 27, 2017
Co-Chairs: Mr. Michael Gottheil, Mr. Athanasios Hadjis, The Honourable Justice James O'Reilly
Location: Vancouver, BC

Title: Chasing the Reasonableness Rainbow: The Translucence of Judicial Review
Date: May 27, 2016
Co-Chairs: Mr. Athanasios Hadjis, Mr. Michael Gottheil, The Honourable Justice Georgina Jackson
Location: Ottawa, ON

Title: A Vexing Issue:  National Roundtable on the Vexatious Litigant
Date: March 10, 2016
Co-Chairs: David A. Wright, Margaret Leighton
Location: Toronto, ON

Title: Roundtable on Sentencing
Date: March 17-18, 2016
Co-Chairs: The Honourable Justice Elizabeth Bennett, The Honourable Judge Patrick Healy
Location: Montreal, QC

Title:  CIAJ's Complex Criminal Trials Roundtable
Date:  September, 2015
Location:  Vancouver, BC

Title: Self-Represented and Unrepresented Parties: Responding to the New Normal - when nothing seems normal anymore
Date: May 30, 2014
Co-Chairs: Michael Gottheil, Athanasios Hadjis
Location: Gatineau, QC

Title:  CIAJ's Complex Criminal Trials Roundtable
Date:  May 2, 2014
Chair:  Christine Mainville, Henein Hutchison LLP
Location:  Vancouver, BC

Title:  Atlantic Regional Roundtable on Administrative Law - The Changing Tides of Administrative Justice:  Tribunals Applying the Charter and Human Rights Codes
Date:  November 2, 2013
Chair:  Andrea Smillie
Location:  Halifax, NS

Title:  National Dialogue On Administrative Law - Welcome to My World
Date:  May 24, 2013
Chair:  Michael Gottheil
Location:  Toronto, ON

Title:  Dialogue Between Courts and Tribunals - Top Ten Issues in Administrative Law
Date:  May 11, 2012
Chair:  Heather MacNaughton
Location:  Calgary, AB

Title:  National Roundtable - Dialogue Between Courts and Tribunals - Ten Top Issues in Administrative Law
Date:  June 3, 2011
Chair:  Heather MacNaughton
Location:  Ottawa, ON

Title:  National Roundtable - The Adjudicative Process and New Information Technologies
Date:  May 28, 2010
Chair:  Heather MacNaughton
Location:  Montreal, QC

Title:  Regional Roundtable - Timeliness and Adequacy of Reasons
Date:  May 3, 2010
Co-Chairs:  Katherine Swinton, David Stratas
Location:  Toronto, ON

Title:  National Roundtable - Dunsmuir Back to the Future: Considering the Implications of the Supreme Court's Attempt to Bring Certainty to Judicial Review Standard
Date:  May 29, 2009
Chair:  Heather MacNaughton
Location:  Halifax, NS

Title:  Regional Roundtable - L'expert devant le tribunal : efficacité et objectivité, comment y parvenir
Date:  October 27, 2006
Co-Chairs:  André Ouimet, François Rolland, Guy Gagnon, Michel Doyon, Jacques Forgues, Donald Béchard
Location:  Boucherville, QC

Title:  Les conflits juridictionnels en droit administratif québecois
Date:  May 8, 2009
Co-Chairs:  André Ouimet, Christian Brunelle
Location:  Boucherville, QC

Title:  National Roundtable - Timeliness and Adequacy of Reasons
Date:  June 25, 2008
Chair:  Heather MacNaughton
Location:  Gatineau, QC

This collection provides a rich analysis of key issues of administrative law and justice.  Written by leading voices from academia, the judiciary and the administrative justice community, this collection of essays offers insight from empirical, theoretical and doctrinal perspectives.  

"The publication of this volume gives these excellent papers the wider readership which they richly deserve.  All interested in administrative justice in Canada are indebted to the authors and editors... for this timely, stimulating, and informative collection." - The Honourable Justice John M. Evans, Federal Court of Appeal.

Laverne A. Jacobs is a law professor at the University of Windsor.

The Honourable Justice Anne L. Mactavish is a judge of the Federal Court.

Published in association with Les Éditions Thémis and with the generous support of the Law Foundation of British Columbia.  The publication is now out of stock.

Title:  National Roundtable - Effecting Consistency in Tribunal Decision-Making
Date:  May 4, 2007
Chair:  Tom Kuttner
Location:  Vancouver, BC

Title:  National Roundtable - Exclusive and Concurrent Jurisdiction
Date:  June 9, 2006
Co-Chairs:  Nancy Spies, Tom Kuttner
Location:  Ottawa, ON