Program Chairs
Kent Roach
Professor, University of Toronto School of Law
Tamara Levy, K.C.,
Director, UBC Innocence Project at the Allard School of Law
Join us for this important one-day, deep-dive into wrongful convictions and the new Miscarriages of Justice Commission- Friday, October 24th, 2025.
Learn about the latest issues and developments involving wrongful convictions and gain valuable insights into the working of the new Review Commission. Included are speakers with experience on Wrongful Conviction Review Boards in the UK and the US who will share valuable insights, including strengths and weaknesses in their systems.
On December 17th, 2024, The Miscarriages of Justice Review Commission Act (David and Joyce Milgaard’s Law) received Royal Assent creating a new, independent commission replacing the ministerial review process for wrongful convictions.
While the new commission is in the process of being made operational, this unique and timely symposium will bring together a national and international group of speakers whose work is dedicated to preventing wrongful convictions, miscarriages of justice and advocacy for those who have been wrongfully convicted.
Included are speakers with experience on Wrongful Conviction Review Boards in the UK who will share valuable insights, including strengths and weaknesses in their systems
Can’t Make the Date? Registration includes 120-day unlimited, online access to the recorded program.
What You’ll Learn
Canada’s proposed Miscarriages of Justice Commission and Cautionary Tales from Conviction Review Commissions in the U.K.
False confessions and false guilty pleas as causes of wrongful convictions
Compensation and Stay of Proceeding after the finding of a wrongful conviction
Innocence work in the future
Who Should Attend
Judges from all levels
Crowns – Federal and Provincial
Defence Lawyers
Law professors from universities and colleges
Police
Public criminal justice policy makers
Members of Innocence project organizations across Canada
Civil litigators specializing in lawsuits on behalf of victims and the wrongfully convicted
Indigenous Criminal Justice Advocates
Faculty
Program Chairs
Kent Roach
Professor, University of Toronto School of Law
Tamara Levy, K.C.,
Director, UBC Innocence Project at the Allard School of Law
Special Presentation
A Conversation with The Honourable Harry LaForme, Senior Counsel, Olthuis Kleer Townshend LLP, former Justice of the Ontario Court of Appeal and James Lockyer, Lockyer Zaduk Zeehon, “Lessons Learned and Not Learned from Canadian Wrongful Convictions”.
Faculty
Kathryn Campbell
Professor, Criminology, University of Ottawa
Amanda Carling
CEO, BC First Nations Justice Council
Annamaria Enenajor
Ruby Shiller Enenajor, Barristers
he Honourable David Lametti K.C.,
Member of the Privy Counsel, Former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada
Rachel Mendelson
Deputy National Editor Globe and Mail
Jon Robins
Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Brighton, UK
Marilyn Sandford, K.C.,
Ritchie Sandford McGowan, Barristers
Bhavan Sodhi
Chief Program Officer, Innocence Project, New York City
Nicholas St-Jacques
Defence Counsel and Vice-President of Projet Innocence Québec
Michael Walker
Chief Executive, Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission
Pamela Zbarsky
Chief Legal Counsel, Innocence Canada
Agenda
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Oct 24, 2025
Dec 5, 2025
$495 + TAX
Time
9:00 a.m – 4:30 p.m (ET)
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