2024 HRLS Learning Day: The Charter IRL (LEG00136)
Overview
Delivery method
In-person
Virtual classroom
Duration
7.5 hours
Audience
Legal Professionnals
Description
Please note that this event is only open to Justice Canada Legal Professionals.
Legal professionals are invited to attend the 2024 edition of the bi-annual Human Rights Law Section (HRLS) Learning Day. This year’s edition will explore the impacts and application of the Charter IRL – how the rights and freedoms guaranteed in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms are impacting the work of Justice professionals and people in the real world.
Topics covered:
- The Charter and Administrative Decision-Making – Conversation with Professor Paul Daly, University of Ottawa
- Charter Lightning Round
- The Canadian Bill of Rights
- Privacy and Technology IRL
- Competing Visions of Equality
- Canada’s LGBT Purge: The Journey to Reconciliation – Keynote Address by Michelle Douglas, Executive Director, LGBT Purge Fund
This course is Bilingual, with interpretation available in both official languages.
In person location (NCR): Library and Archives Canada,
Salon B – Winifred Bambrick, 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa ON K1A 0N4
Presented by Human Rights Law Section (HRLS) in collaboration with the Legal Practices Policy Division (LPPD)
Registration deadline: 5 working days prior to the course date.
Participants are responsible for adding their training activities to their Outlook calendars.
Accommodation measures: The Department of Justice is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free learning environment. If you have any accessibility needs in order to fully participate in the training activity, please contact your manager to discuss your needs. You may also call upon the services of the Centre for Workplace Access-Ability, Health and Wellness to help identify what type of accommodation measures you require.
For more information: Contact the Centre for Legal Education Services.
For information about the continuing professional development (CPD) hours for this course, please consult the 2024 Accreditation Summary.
Click here for the 2023 Accreditation Summary.you have questions concerning the accreditation, please contact our accreditation team by email (Accreditations@justice.gc.ca).
