SUNDAY, JULY 10 |
12:00 p.m. | Check-in at Queens' College, Cambridge |
12:00 - 2:30 p.m. | Buffet Luncheon - Bar/Conservatory |
7:00 p.m. | Dinner - Dining Hall |
MONDAY, JULY 11
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7:30 a.m. | Continental Breakfast - Dining Hall |
9:15 a.m. | Welcome - Fitzpatrick Hall |
| The Honourable Justice Robert P. Armstrong, President, Canadian Institute for
Advanced Legal Studies
The Right Honourable Lord Eatwell of Stratton St. Margaret, President of Queens' College, University of Cambridge
Professor David Ibbetson, Chairman of the Faculty Law, University of Cambridge |
| Opening Address
The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C., Chief Justice of Canada |
10:30 a.m. | Health Break - Lyon Court |
11:00 a.m. | "The Supreme Court in the Age of Obama"
Moderator: Roy Heenan, O.C., Q.C., Heenan Blaikie LLP, Montreal
Lecturer: Jeffrey Toobin, Writer for The New Yorker magazine and Senior Analyst for CNN |
12:30 p.m. | Luncheon - Dining Hall |
2:00 p.m. | "English Civil Justice: An Uncertain Future"
Moderator: The Honourable Chief Justice Richard J. Scott, Court of Appeal, Manitoba
Lecturer: Professor Dame Hazel Genn DBE, QC (Hon), Dean, Faculty of Law, University
College, London
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4:15 p.m. | Group Photograph of Delegates and Lecturers - Walnut Tree Court (weather permitting) |
5:30 p.m. | Reception - President's Garden
Host - His Excellency James R. Wright, High Commissioner for Canada to Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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7:00 p.m. | Dinner - Dining Hall
"A Canadian Diplomat's Perspective on the Canada/U.K. Relationship"
Speaker: His Excellency James R. Wright, High Commissioner for Canada to Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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TUESDAY, JULY 12
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7:30 a.m. | Continental Breakfast - Dining Hall (English Breakfast optional) |
9:00 a.m. | "Controlling the Costs of Civil Litigation"
Moderator: The Honourable Justice Mary Lou Benotto, Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Toronto
Lecturer: Lord Justice Rupert Jackson, English Court of Appeal
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10:30 a.m. | Health Break - Lyon Court |
11:00 a.m. | "Who Owns the Body Parts Revisited"
Moderator: The Honourable Justice Robert G. Richards, Court of Appeal, Saskatchewan
Lecturer: The Honourable Judge Guido Calabresi, United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
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12:30 p.m. | Luncheon - Dining Hall |
2:00 p.m. | "Law, Crime and Punishment in Bloomsday Dublin"
Moderator: Patricia Jackson, Torys LLP, Toronto
Lecturer: The Honourable Justice Adrian Hardiman,
Supreme Court of Ireland
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4:15 p.m. | Group Photograph of Delegates and Lecturers - Walnut Tree Court (rain date) |
7:00 p.m. | Dinner - Dining Hall |
WEDNESDAY, JULY 13
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7:30 a.m. | Continental Breakfast - Dining Hall |
9:00 a.m. | "International Financial Regulation — Faltering Steps"
Moderator: Charles F. Scott, Lax O'Sullivan Scott Lisus LLP, Toronto
Lecturer: The Right Honourable Lord Eatwell of Stratton St. Margaret, President of Queens' College
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10:30 a.m. | Health Break - Lyon Court |
11:00 a.m. | "The Lazier Murder: Prince Edward County, 1884"
Moderator: William Ryan, Stewart McKelvey, Halifax
Lecturer: The Honourable Jutice Robert J. Sharpe, Court of Appeal, Ontario
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12:30 p.m. | Luncheon - Dining Hall |
2:00 p.m. | NO SCHEDULED LECTURES
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7:00 p.m. | Dinner - Dining Hall |
THURSDAY, JULY 14
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7:30 a.m. | Continental Breakfast - Dining Hall (English Breakfast optional) |
9:00 a.m. | "Parliament vs. Government: The Saga of Afghan Detainees"
Moderator: Laurie Pawlitza, Treasurer, Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
Lecturer: The Honourable Frank Iacobucci, C.C., Q.C., , Torys LLP, formerly a justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
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10:30 a.m. | Health Break - Lyon Court |
11:00 a.m. | "A Conversation with The Right Honourable Paul Martin"
Moderator: The Honourable Justice Stephen Goudge, Court of Appeal, Ontario
Lecturer: The Right Honourable Paul Martin, former Prime Minister of Canada
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12:30 p.m. | Luncheon - Dining Hall |
2:00 p.m. | "Why have a Supreme Court?"
Moderator: David W. Scott, Q.C., Chair, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Ottawa
Lecturer: The Right Honourable Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, President, Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
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4:00 p.m. | Rap Session
"An Opportunity to Ask Questions of a Judge of the Supreme Court of Canada"
Moderator: Brian R.D. Smith, Q.C, Gowlings, Toronto
Lecturer: The Honourable Justice Morris Fish, Supreme Court of Canada
Location - OLD DINING HALL
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7:00 p.m. | Dinner - Dining Hall |
FRIDAY, JULY 15
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7:30 a.m. | Continental Breakfast - Dining Hall |
9:00 a.m. | "Nationhood and Identity: Making the Plurals Singular"
Moderator: The Honourable Justice Julie Dutil, Court of Appeal, Quebec
Lecturer: The Honourable Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella, Supreme Court of Canada
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10:30 a.m. | Health Break - Lyon Court |
11:00 a.m. | "The Media in the Dock — Guilty, Not Guilty, Not Proven"
Moderator: The Honourable Justice Constance Hunt, Courts of Appeal, Alberta, Northwest Territories and Nunavut
Lecturer: Michael Enright, CBC, The Sunday Edition
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12:30 p.m. | Luncheon - Dining Hall |
2:00 p.m. | "Laurier in London — The First Steps Towards Canadian Independence"
Moderator: Guy Pratte, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto
Lecturer: André Pratte, Editor-in-Chief of La Presse
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3:45 p.m. | "Quebec and the Orange Crush"
Michael Enright in conversation with André Pratte
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| FREE EVENING — No dinner in Dining Hall |
SATURDAY, JULY 16
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7:30 -9:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast - Dining Hall |
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SUNDAY, JULY 17
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7:30 -9:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast - Dining Hall |
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7:00 p.m. | Dinner - Dining Hall |
MONDAY, JULY 18
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7:30 a.m. | Continental Breakfast - Dining Hall |
9:00 a.m. | "The Role of the Israeli Supreme Court in the Fight Against Terrorism"
Moderator: The Honourable Justice Margaret Larlee, Court of Appeal, New Brunswick
Lecturer: President Dorit Beinisch, Supreme Court of Israel
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10:30 a.m. | Health Break - Lyon Court |
11:00 a.m. | "The Arab Spring: What Use Western Intervention?"
Moderator: The Honourable Justice Linda Lee Oland, Court of Appeal, Nova Scotia
Lecturer: Professor Rosemary Hollis, City University London
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12:30 p.m. | Luncheon - Dining Hall |
2:00 p.m. | "The Role of Interpretation in Legal and Judicial Reasoning"
Moderator: The Honourable Chief Justice Lance Finch, Court of Appeal, British Columbia
Lecturer: Professor Timothy Endicott, Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
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4:00 p.m. | "Indigenous Human Rights"
Moderator: The Honourable Douglas H. Carruthers, Q.C., Honorary President, Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, and Chair, Ontario Review Board, Toronto
Lecturer: Lord Hoffmann, Former Law Lord
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7:00 p.m. | Dinner - Dining Hall
After-Dinner Entertainment: John McDermott, Tenor
Location — Fitzpatrick Hall
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TUESDAY, JULY 19
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7:30 a.m. | Continental Breakfast - Dining Hall |
9:00 a.m. | "The Ghosts of Europe"
Moderator: The Honourable Justice Bradley Green, Court of Appeal, New Brunswick
Lecturer: Anna Porter, Canadian writer and publisher
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10:30 a.m. | Health Break - Lyon Court |
11:00 a.m. | "A Valedictory after Four Years as British High Commissioner"
Moderator: The Honourable Justice Ronald S. Veale, Supreme Court of Yukon, Whitehorse
Lecturer: Anthony Cary, former British High Commissioner to Canada
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12:30 p.m. | Luncheon - Dining Hall |
2:00 p.m. | "The Current British Debate on the Human Rights Act"
Moderator: Reva E. Devins, Vice-Chair, Grievance Settlement Board, Toronto
Lecturer: Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty
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7:00 p.m. | Closing Dinner - Dining Hall
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 20
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6:30 a.m. | Coffee and Croissants for early morning departures - Dining Hall |
7:30 -9:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast - Dining Hall |
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