The 2022-2026 Programs
https://ciaj-icaj.ca/en/activities/upcoming-programs/?cn=judges&ci=56
Administrative law
This seminar is designed to address administrative law topics of specific interest to judges. The program includes lectures and discussions. This one-day program is for both Common Law and Civil Law judges who have or would like to develop a particular interest in administrative law.
Topics addressed:
- Getting Down to Brass Tacks: Working With Vavilov
- Promoting Mental Health in the Justice System for Both Professionals and Users
- All the Voices We Don’t Hear
- Dealing Effectively with Judicial Review (2021 Edition)
- A Brave New World of Judicial Review?
- Masters in Our House: Adjudicative Sovereignty versus Judicial Oversight
- “Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more”
- Dunsmuir on Life Support: Will There Ever Be Light at the End of the Tunnel?
- Judicial Review Update: The Practical Challenges
- Dealing Effectively with Judicial Review
- The Who, What When and How of Judicial Review
- Applying Dunsmuir: A Reasonable Approach
- Judging Administrative Legislation: A Primer
- Judicial Review and Judicial Discretion
- Procedural Fairness in Administrative Decision Making
- Administrative Law and the Charter
- Standard of Review in Administrative Law
This program, offered jointly by the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice and the National Judicial Institute, is designed to familiarize trial judges with principles and practices relating to applications for judicial review. The program will develop a framework for dealing with such applications that will allow individual judges to deal with judicial reviews both systematically and effectively.
The program will include plenary sessions as well as small group workshops. It will also include demonstrations based on a fact situation through which judges will become comfortable in dealing with applications for judicial review and assist them in developing best practices for handling these matters
For more information: vicki.gondek@ciaj-icaj.ca
Judgment writing
Designed to assist judges in improving their judgment writing skills, this program includes lectures, discussions, and workshops on the nature of good prose, gender-neutral language and the special requirements and problems of judicial writing. Since writing is a skill that can be improved only through practice, much of the instruction is centered on written exercises and judgments.
For more information: vicki.gondek@ciaj-icaj.ca
Dialogues on judging
Dialogues on Judging is a unique program designed specifically for long-serving judges, presented jointly by the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice (CIAJ) and the National Judicial Institute (NJI).
Through lectures, discussions, and interactive activities, this program will allow judges to engage with, share, and learn from colleagues who are at a similar stage of their judicial career. The program will in addition provide judges with an open environment to reflect upon and explore the experiences accumulated from years on the bench, and transform this amassed knowledge into new and innovative ways of approaching their lives, their work as a judge and their roles as leaders within their court.
For more information: vicki.gondek@ciaj-icaj.ca
Seminar for new federally appointed judges
Newly appointed federal judges are brought up to date on current legal issues, in courtroom situations through interactive approaches, in the following areas:
- Civil Proceedings
- Family Law Proceedings
- Criminal Proceedings
- Judicial Review
- Equality Rights
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Evidence
- Remedies
This program, offered jointly by the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice and the National Judicial Institute, is designed so that new judges may participate in sessions that are most relevant to them topically. Throughout the week, the seminar subjects are divided between those that apply to Common Law jurisdictions, those that apply to Civil Law jurisdictions, or both. Where Common Law and Civil Law jurisdictions overlap, the groups have been combined and translation services will be provided.
For more information: vicki.gondek@ciaj-icaj.ca