2025 Annual CLA Spring Conference

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  We are pleased to announce that the Annual CLA Spring Conference will be offered as a hybrid conference for 2025. 

  Conference location:  In-person: 20 Toronto Street, 2nd Floor, Toronto ON M5C 2B8

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Agenda & Topics:

• 8:45 to 8:50 a.m: Welcome by Cassandra DeMelo, Co-Chair, Spring Conference, CLA Director, London
• 8:50 to 9 a.m.: Reconciliation Update
• 9 to 9:30 a.m.: Sentencing – Practical tips and tricks for getting Credit where Credit is Due
• 9:30 to 10 a.m.: Top 5 under 5
• 10 to 10:40 a.m.: Diversity in the Criminal Justice System: updates on Gladue; Ensuring your client is seen
• 10:40 to 10:55 a.m.: BREAK
• 10:55 to 11:25 a.m.: Scopelliti Applications / Corbett Applications
• 11:25 a.m. to 11:55 p.m.: The Role of Complainant’s Counsel and Recent Cases
• 11:55 a.m. to 12:25 p.m.: It happened, but should/can your client be convicted?
• 12:25 to 12:45 p.m.: Gladue Sentencing: Circles and More
• 12:45 to 1:15 p.m.: Risky Business: SOIRA Orders in 2025
• 1:15 to 1:25 p.m.: CLA members meeting – bylaw update
• 1:25 p.m.: Closing Remarks by George Joseph, Co-Chair, Spring Conference, CLA Director, Thunder Bay

When registering, you will be provided the option to choose in-person or virtual participation.

• REGISTRATION

The price for in-person and virtual is the same enabling registrants to switch preference up to 48 hours in advance with no penalty. There are no refunds. Recordings, pending quality, will be made available for viewing to registrants only up to September 30, 2025. We will not be selling access to the recordings separately. There are no refunds.

• $60 plus HST: CLA Junior Active & Junior Observer Members
• $80 plus HST: CLA Senior Active, Senior Observer & Affiliate Members
• $35 Plus HST: Articling Student members
• $30 plus HST: CLA Student Members
• $150 plus HST: Non-members – open to all legal professionals*
• $100 plus HST: Non-member students*

* Not a member? Join online by going to https://members.criminallawyers.ca/joinus or call the CLA office during business hours to renew your membership (Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., ED, 416-214-9875)