Search warrants are powerful tools that can make or break a case. Recent court decisions continue to make apparent the importance of clear, accurate and complete Search Warrant Applications and the consequences of deficient drafting.

Whether you’re a Crown Attorney, law enforcement officer, Judge, Justice of the Peace, government regulator or defence lawyer, it is imperative that you understand the thinking behind search warrants, know how to properly write or attack them, and are able to avoid the many pitfalls and problems they raise.

This comprehensive Osgoode Professional Development program is especially designed to provide you with the knowledge and skills you need to draft a wide variety of search warrants with clarity and certainty, to review and revise warrants, and to identify and develop strategies for defending/attacking the search
warrant in court.

You’ll hear from a faculty of Canada’s top Crown and defence litigators and experienced police officers on:

• Identifying issues
  
• Writing to the section
  
• How to analyze and draft outlines for complex fact patterns
  
• Warrant execution issues
  
• Computer search critical drafting issues
  
• Using anonymous sources
  
• Affiant testimony - tips, traps and techniques
  

Chairs
Scott C. Hutchison, Stockwoods LLP
Fraser M. Kelly, General Counsel, London Crown Attorney’s Office
Ministry of the Attorney General (Ontario)

OPD Program Lawyer

Mary Park

mpark@osgoode.yorku.ca