Agenda

8:30 – 9:00  Registration & Light Breakfast

9:00 – 9: 15   Welcome & Introduction

Interim Dean Mary Condon, Osgoode Hall Law School

Professor Jamie Cameron, Program Chair, Osgoode Hall Law School

9:15 – 10:15  Fairness Themes and the ORB Study

Moderator

Alexander (Sandy) Simpson, Chief of Forensic Psychiatry, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Speakers

Professor Lorne Sossin, Osgoode Hall Law School

Professor Jamie Cameron,  Osgoode Hall Law School

10:15 – 10:30  Break

10:30 – 11:30   Mental Health Processes: ORB, CCB & Mental Health Court

Moderator

 Professor Ronda Bessner, Osgoode Hall Law School; Member, Consent and Capacity Board

Speakers

Justice Richard Schneider, Chair, Ontario Review Board

Ms. Margaret Creal, Chair, Consent and Capacity Board

11:30 – 12:30  Perspectives and Voices

Moderator

Professor Ben L. Berger, Osgoode Hall Law School

Panelists

Ms. Lucy Costa, Deputy Executive Director, Empowerment Council

Ms. Mercedes Perez, Perez Bryan Procope LLP

Mr. Brendon Pooran, Pooran Law; Member, Consent and Capacity Board

12:30 – 1:30  Lunch

1:30 – 2:30  Social Justice Tribunals of Ontario

Moderator

Professor Shelley Kierstead, Osgoode Hall Law School

Speakers

Ms. Pamila Ahlfeld, Interim Chair, Social Benefits Tribunal

Ms. Maria Tassou, Associate Chair, Criminal Injuries Compensation Board

Ms. Mary Asbil, Assistant Registrar, Social Benefits Tribunal; Child & Family Services Review Board

2:30 – 3:30  At Risk Populations: Aboriginals and Prisoners

Moderator

Professor Jamie Cameron, Program Chair, Osgoode Hall Law School

Speakers

Mr. Jonathan Rudin, Program Director, Aboriginal Legal Services Ontario

Mr. Howard Sapers, Independent Advisor on Corrections Reform, Government of Ontario

3:30  Wrap Up