Law enforcement organizations continue to face considerable challenges in balancing public safety interest with individual rights. Modern policing requires a host of intervention and prevention strategies and techniques to ensure investigations are conducted effectively, legitimately and lawfully.

Law enforcement officers and investigators, Crown and defence lawyers, judges and others engaged in the field of criminal justice, as well as civil litigators involved in negligent investigation and malicious prosecution cases, will benefit from this unique Osgoode Professinal Development program, focussing on police powers and their limits.

Our speakers will focus on several key areas of criminal investigation, making clear the parameters, legal limits and the serious repercussions, both civil and criminal, when these limits are found to be crossed. You’ll get the perspectives of a faculty of experts from diverse sectors of the criminal and civil justice system. Topics include:

• When does a conversation become a detention?
• The right not to be arbitrarily detained post R. v. Grant
• When is videotaping mandatory?
• False confessions
• Negligent investigations and malicious prosecution
• Striking the right balance between efficiency and reliability
• The latest cases and hot-button issues

Plus! Don’t miss the Optional Learn-by-doing Workshop on the PEACE Model of Investigative Interviewing.

Don’t miss this opportunity to sharpen your skills and improve your professional knowledge.

Keynote Speaker
Steven A. Drizin, Director, Center on Wrongful Convictions, Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, IL

Chairs
David Debenham, McMillan LLP
Heather McArthur, McArthur Barristers
Timothy Moore, PhD, C Psych., Professor, Department of Psychology, York University
James Stribopoulos, Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School

OPD Program Lawyer

Mary Park

mpark@osgoode.yorku.ca