CAPCJ 2027 ACJCP Winnipeg
CAPCJ Annual Conference
The Registration desk will open on Wednesday September 18, 2024, at the Sheraton. An opening reception will follow that evening at the renowned REMAI Modern Art Gallery. The REMAI provides a one-of-a-kind location with stunning views of our river valley, day and night. You will get to sample some tasty bites from Hearth with canapes focused around locally grown and foraged ingredients. You will also have an opportunity to take in the current exhibits and some of the permanent collection at the Remai, including Pablo Picasso’s linocuts and ceramics.
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The CAPCJ National Education Conference will commence on Thursday September 19, 2024 and conclude on Friday September 20, 2024. Our theme this year is “Living Skies. Expanding Minds: A Judicial Odyssey.” The Conference organizers have assembled an impressive list of presenters on a variety of topics suited to educate and inform jurists from across the country.
The Conference will feature sessions on matters important to the practice of criminal, civil and family law delivered by subject matter experts. Themes addressed include expert and similar fact evidence, cell phone searches and electronic evidence, developments in sexual assault law, the application of Gladue principles, neurodiversity and the Courts, street gangs and racialized communities, Bill C-92’s impact on child services and welfare law, wrongful dismissal, and pure economic loss. The agenda will commence with a keynote address by Supreme Court Justice Michelle O’Bonsawin.
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The judges of the SPCJA are looking forward to hosting the conference attendees and their companions for dinner on the evening of Thursday September 19, 2024. Join us and share in some of the best dining experiences that our city has to offer. You will be able to choose your dining experience from a list of pre-selected restaurants that include celebrity-chef operated eateries to local best kept secrets.
The Conference banquet on Friday night will highlight Saskatchewan's prairie fare and include the annual awards presentation. After dinner join us to dance the night away big band style with the Stone Frigate Band which includes one of our own SPCJA members!
As is tradition, the CAPCJ AGM will follow the main Conference and will take place on Saturday September 21, 2024. Western Provinces may also be holding their individual provincial meetings that morning.
All CAPCJ members (which includes all PJAM members) are welcome to attend.
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Speakers
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Professor Peter Sankoff is an award-winning educator and researcher who focuses his work upon legal issues surrounding the criminal trial process and the relationship between animals and the law. He authors, co-authors or co-edits leading texts on the law of evidence (The Law of Witnesses and Evidence in Canada; the Portable Guide to Witnesses), criminal law (Manning, Mewett and Sankoff on Criminal Law, 5th ed.), legal writing (Professor Sankoff’s Guide to Persuasive Legal Writing) and animals and the law (Canadian Perspectives on Animals and the Law; Animal Law in Australasia: Continuing the Dialogue).
Peter graduated with a JD from the University of Toronto, and subsequently worked as a law clerk for Madame Justice Claire L’Heureux-Dubé at the Supreme Court of Canada. After pursuing an LL.M. from Osgoode Hall (York University), he joined the federal Department of Justice where he worked an advisor on human rights matters involving criminal justice. Peter then left Canada to teach as a Lecturer, and subsequently a Senior Lecturer, at the University of Auckland (New Zealand) from 2001-2011, before returning to the University of Alberta in 2012.
Peter has won numerous awards and recognition for his work on teaching pedagogy, including the 2016 Brightspace Award for Innovation in Teaching from the Society of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, and the 2014 Information Technology Innovation Award from the University of Alberta (awarded to the person at the University of Alberta who shows the most innovative use of technology in teaching or administration). He also won an Early Career Research Excellence Award from the University of Auckland in 2006.
Peter has taught as an invited visiting professor at the University of Ottawa (2004), Haifa University (Israel)(2008), the University of Melbourne(Australia)(2009) Lewis and Clark College of Law (Portland, Oregon)(2010), the University of Western Ontario (London, Ontario)(2011-2012), Niigata University (Japan)(2012) and the University of Auckland (2013).
His work has been published in a number of the world’s most distinguished journals, including: the Queen’s Law Journal, the University of British Columbia Law Review, the Criminal Law Quarterly, the Alberta Law Review, The New Zealand Law Review and the Animal Law Review.
Peter has a real interest in the University of Alberta Moot Program. He has been a coordinator of the Brimacombe Moot Competition for several years, and in 2018 he coached the University of Alberta to victory in the Gale Cup, Canada’s preeminent criminal law moot, which Alberta had last won in 2001. In 2019, his team won the Gale Cup again becoming the first repeat winner since 1982. As a result of this win, the team qualified for the Commonwealth Law Moot in Zambia, where it competed against seven other national champions. Alberta ended up winning the Commonwealth Moot, the first time the University has ever achieved this honour. In 2020, Peter’s final year of coaching, Alberta won the Gale Cup for an unprecedented third time in a row.
Peter also works as a lawyer and has his own law firm, Sankoff Criminal Law. He is also the owner and founder of Criminal Defence Essentials, an educational company for criminal defence lawyers.