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Summary
Conviction
Offence Cases
Starts November 14, 2020
Online - Live & Interactive
Get the knowledge and practical skills you
need from a faculty of over 30 judges, defence
lawyers and Crown Attorneys
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THE OSGOODE CERTIFICATE
IN HANDLING
Topics include:
• Disclosure: When to ask for it, what to look for and
how to identify what's missing
• Pre-trials: Strategies for getting the most out of the
Crown pre-trial and judicial pre-trial
• Case law: An in-depth discussion of recent cases of
interest bearing on summary conviction procedure
Plus! Intensive workshops on making sentencing
submissions on a guilty plea, as well as cross examining a
witness at trial
Meng Wanzhou case, having participated in
her bail hearing, dealing with an immigration
issue respecting her bail security.
Another situation, successfully handled by
firm partner Steven Meurrens, is the adoption
case of a girl in the Dominican Republic, with
a deceased Dominican mother and a Haitian
father, whose prospective adoptive parents in
Canada were having trouble because of her
stateless status under DR law.
Rosenberg says the firm receives calls from
large companies from the U.S. and other
jurisdictions looking to move their North
American headquarters to Canada. It's not
only because of how COVID-19 is being
handled here, he says, but more generally, the
difficulty some firms with operations in the
U.S. are having obtaining visas for employees
who come from other parts of the world.
Moving these foreign workers to a Vancouver
office, for example, can make things much
easier from a visa perspective, he says.
Mamann Sandaluk & Kingwell LLP
Toronto migrationlaw.com
One of the best parts of immigration law,
says Joel Sandaluk, a partner at Mamann
Sandaluk & Kingwell, are the stories that
people tell about why they want to come to
Canada and how they got here.
"Everybody that comes to us is so special,
so unique," says Sandaluk. He adds that, in
the days before COVID-19, it would not be
unusual to see clients waiting in his reception