Osgoode Professional Development

Note: Online registration is now closed. There will be limited spaces for walk-in registrants.

Join an experienced, multi-disciplinary faculty from across Canada to discuss current challenges and ways to improve the criminal justice system as it affects Aboriginal people. Topics include:

Making Gladue work in practice
The unique circumstances of the Aboriginal offender – adoption and foster care
Recent notable Court decisions dealing with Gladue
Aboriginal Justice programs - realizing Gladue outside the Courts
Possibilities and opportunities along the justice continuum
Gladue Courts: Changing the way we work and the way we think

Chairs
Murray G. MacDonald, Director, Aboriginal Justice Leadership Team, Criminal Law Division, Ministry of the Attorney General (Ontario
Jonathan Rudin, Program Director, Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto

OPD Program Lawyer

Mary Park

mpark@osgoode.yorku.ca

DATES AND LOCATION

Saturday, April 24, 2010
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. EDT/EST
Distance Learning Available

Osgoode Professional Development Centre
1 Dundas St. W., 26th Floor
Toronto, ON

Co-Presented with

What previous delegates have said:

“This was an excellent gathering.” (Delegate from the Ministry of Community and Correctional Services)

“Excellent materials and best collection of research on Gladue” (Delegate from Ontario Federation of Indian Friendship Centres)

“All speakers were excellent. All provided clear articulation of challenges and perspectives to broaden policy discussions in my own work” (Delegate from Correctional Services Canada)