The Path to Justice: Preventing Wrongful Convictions

 

 

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Report of the Federal/Provincial/Territorial Heads of Prosecutions Subcommittee on the Prevention of Wrongful Convictions - Fall 2011

“No criminal justice system is, or can be, perfect. Nevertheless, the manner in which a society concerns itself with persons who may have been wrongly convicted and imprisoned must be one of the yardsticks by which civilization is measured.”

Justice Report on Miscarriages of Justice (1989),
The British Section of the International Commission of Jurists

Federal/Provincial/Territorial Heads of Prosecutions Subcommittee on the Prevention of Wrongful Convictions

Co-chairs:

  • Stephen Bindman, Department of Justice Canada
  • Mary Nethery, Ministry of Attorney General, Ontario

Members:

  • Ava Arbuck, Ministry of Attorney General, Ontario
  • Sherri Davis-Barron, Public Prosecution Service of Canada
  • Rosella Cornaviera, Ministry of Attorney General, Ontario
  • Suzanne Crawford, Public Prosecution Services, Office of the Attorney General, New Brunswick
  • Steve Dawson, Public Prosecutions Division, Department of Justice, Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Juli Drolet, Directeur des poursuites criminelles et pénales, Québec
  • Laura Eplett, Ministry of Attorney General, Ontario
  • Pamela Goulding Q.C., Public Prosecutions Division, Department of Justice, Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Sgt. Kathy Hartwig, RCMP
  • Mary-Ellen Hurman, Ministry of Attorney General, Ontario
  • Beverly Klatt, Saskatchewan Public Prosecutions
  • Oleh S. Kuzma, Q.C., British Columbia Prosecution Service
  • Deputy Chief Constable Doug LePard, Vancouver Police Department and representative of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police
  • Jean-Pierre Proulx, Directeur des poursuites criminelles et pénales, Québec
  • Paul Saint-Denis, Department of Justice Canada
  • Richard Taylor Q.C., Alberta Justice
  • Zane Tessler, Manitoba Prosecution Service
  • Chief Superintendent Tom Trueman, RCMP, Ottawa
  • Sgt. Peter Tewfik, RCMP, Vancouver
  • Eric Tolppanen, Alberta Justice

Former members:

  • Assistant Commissioner Ian Atkins, RCMP
  • Insp. Jean-Michel Blais, RCMP
  • Miriam Bloomenfeld, Ministry of Attorney General, Ontario*
  • Francis Brabant, Sureté de Québec
  • Murray Brown Q.C., Saskatchewan Public Prosecutions*
  • Rob Finlayson, Manitoba Prosecution Service*
  • Stephen Harrison, British Columbia Prosecution Service*
  • Benoit Lauzon, Directeur des poursuites criminelles et pénales, Québec
  • Assistant Commissioner Bill Lenton, RCMP
  • Deputy Chief Chris McNeil, Halifax Regional Police
  • Thomas Mills, Public Prosecutions Division, Department of Justice, Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Sabin Ouellet, Directeur des poursuites criminelles et pénales, Québec
  • Pierre Paul Pichette, Service de la police de la ville de Montreal
  • Daryl Rayner Q.C., Saskatchewan Public Prosecutions
  • Chief Supt. Frank Ryder, Ontario Provincial Police
  • Don Slough, Manitoba Prosecution Service*
  • Deputy Chief Murray Stooke, Calgary Police Service

The Subcommittee wishes to thank Brian Saunders, Director of Public Prosecutions, Public Prosecution Service of Canada (PPSC) and permanent co-chair, Federal/Provincial Territorial Heads of Prosecutions Committee (HOP), and the entire HOP Committee for their ongoing support and commitment to this project; Robert Doyle, Dan Brien and Guylain Racine of the PPSC for their assistance in the printing and design of this report and University of Ottawa law student Lauranne Ste-Croix for conducting the preliminary research for Chapter 2.

*subsequently appointed to the bench

 

 

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