The CLA Women’s committee is holding a special zoon social to celebrate the appointment of The Honourable Jill Presser.
DATE: Thursday, July 8, 2021
TIME: 5 p.m.
COST: Free to CLA members. This event is open only to females, those that identify as female, two spirited persons and non-binary persons - FREE OF CHARGE
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS:
- A link to access the webcast recording will be included in your registration confirmation. Be sure to check your spam/junk folder.
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Jill R. Presser, a sole practitioner at Presser Barristers in Toronto, is appointed a Judge of the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario. Madam Justice Presser replaces Madam Justice C.J. Brown (Toronto), who elected to become a supernumerary judge effective February 3, 2021.
Justice Jill R. Presser graduated from McGill University with her LL.B. in 1994 and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1997.
Madam Justice Presser is the principal lawyer at Presser Barristers, focussing on appellate criminal defence, mental health, digital privacy, and artificial intelligence law. She regularly appears in courts at all levels, including the Supreme Court of Canada. She was a staff lawyer to the Honourable Stephen Goudge on the Inquiry into Pediatric Forensic Pathology in Ontario, and prosecuted for the Attorney General of Ontario (part time, 2001 – 2007). Justice Presser was an adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law (2011-2016). She has published and spoken extensively at legal and judicial education programs on criminal law, mental health law, artificial intelligence and the law, privacy and surveillance, and women in the law. She is co-author of A Guide to Mental Disorder Law in Canadian Criminal Justice (LexisNexis 2020), as well as co-editor and contributing author to Litigating Artificial Intelligence (Emond, May 2021). She has also written numerous articles and book chapters, including "Mom's Rea: Motherhood, Criminal Defence, and Guilt" in Women in Criminal Justice (Durville Publications, 2018).
Justice Presser is Vice-Chair of the Pro Bono Inmate Appeal Duty Counsel Program in the Court of Appeal for Ontario. She is the founding co-chair of the "Criminal Law and Technology Committee" of the Criminal Lawyers' Association, and a long-standing member of its Litigation and Mental Health Committees.
Justice Presser and her husband are the very proud parents of two accomplished university students.