CLA-MAG Part 1: Effective Advocacy Tips for Judicial Pre-trials, Motions and Pleas with the Honourable Justice Durno and Honourable Justice McPherson

CLA-MAG Part 1: Effective Advocacy Tips for Judicial Pre-trials, Motions and Pleas with the Honourable Justice Durno and Honourable Justice McPherson

Open to CLA members and non-members!

Join us for an informative discussion on Lawyer Advocacy in Judicial Pretrials and Motions. Our esteemed panelists, Justice B. Durno and Justice S. MacPherson, will provide valuable insights and practical tips on effective advocacy in pretrial and motion hearings. 

This event is hosted by the Criminal Lawyers' Association and Peel Crown Attorney's Office, and is open to all legal professionals. Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your advocacy skills and network with other legal professionals. 

• $10 plus HST: CLA members
• $10 plus HST: non-members

THE HONOURABLE JUSTICE MCPHERSON

Justice McPherson was appointed to the Ontario Court of Justice in 2017.  After her call to the bar in 2002, Justice McPherson practiced law as a Federal Crown with the Department of Justice in Brampton.  From 2007 until 2017 Justice McPherson was in private practice in Brampton where she represented clients charged with criminal offences. Justice McPherson also acted as a standing agent for the Public Prosecution Service of Canada in Halton Region from 2013 until 2017.  

THE HONOURABLE JUSTICE S. BRUCE DURNO

Justice Bruce Durno was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario.  He graduated cum laude from Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1971 with a Bachelors of Arts in Government and obtained the degree of Juris Doctor from the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto. He was articled at Humphrey, Locke, Ecclestone and Kane, a firm to which he returned after being called to the Ontario Bar in 1976.  His practice was exclusively in criminal law.  He served as the President of the Ontario Criminal Lawyers’ Association from 1994-1998.  He was appointed to the Superior Court in Ontario in June of 1999 and assigned to sit in Brampton.  Between 2000 and 2008 he was the Regional Senior Judge of the Central West Region.

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