CROWN LAW SYMPOSIUMSCHULICH SCHOOL OF LAW DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITYJUNE 12, 2019

PROGRAM8:45 AM WELCOMING REMARKS

Camille Cameron | Dean | Schulich School of LawKaren Hudson, QC | Deputy Minister | Nova Scotia Department of Justice

Clare Barry | Regional Director General | Justice Canada

9:15 AM LEGAL ETHICSTilly Pillay, QC| Executive Director | Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society

Professor Andrew Martin | Peter A. Allard School of Law | UBC

10:15 AM BREAK

10:30 AM RECENT SIGNIFICANT CASESFrom the Nova Scotia Supreme Court, Federal Court and Supreme Court of Canada

Ed Gores, QC | Senior Counsel | Nova Scotia Department of JusticeKathleen McManus | Senior Counsel | Justice Canada

11:30 AM ADMINISTRATIVE LAW: THE STANDARD OF REVIEW THE NEW TRILOGY

Professor Diana Ginn | Schulich School of Law

12:15 PM LUNCH

1:30 PM INDIGENOUS CONSULTATION AND RECONCILIATIONGeoffrey Bickert, QC | Assistant Deputy Attorney General | Justice Canada on the Attorney

General’s Directive on Civil Litigation Involving Indigenous Peoples Camille Cameron | Dean | Schulich School of Law

on the Australian Model Litigant Directives for Government Counsel for Civil Litigation Moderated by Diane Rowe | Solicitor | Nova Scotia Department of Justice

2:30 PM BREAK

2:45 PM THE VIEW FROM THE BENCHExpectations of Crown Counsel as “officers of the court” and in

litigation with self-represented personsChief Justice Michael Wood | Nova Scotia Court of Appeal

Justice C. Bourgeois | Nova Scotia Court of AppealJustice Donald Rennie | Federal Court of Appeal

3:45 PM CLOSING REMARKS

4:00 PM RECEPTION

SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS: M. KATHLEEN MCMANUS | SENIOR COUNSEL | JUSTICE CANADAAGNES E. MACNEIL | MANAGING LAWYER | NOVA SCOTIA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

HOSTED BY: SCHULICH SCHOOL OF LAW | DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY