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Accessing Justice and Accountability in Policing

Friday, March 11, 2011
Moot Court Room (8:45 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.)
Faculty of Law, University of Windsor

2011 marks the third year of Windsor Law’s Law Enforcement Accountability Project (LEAP). In accordance with our mandate of generating research and scholarship on issues surrounding police accountability, LEAP is hosting a conference assessing the various mechanisms available to access justice and accountability in policing.

LEAP has assembled scholars, journalists, officers and lawyers to discuss the delicate and provocative issues at the crux of policing, human rights and accountability. Questions include: 

  1. What role does data collection play in ensuring that police agencies are fulfilling their human rights obligations? [Panel #1]
  2. Can civil/Charter litigation effect policy and systemic changes? What is the legacy of Doe v. Metropolitan Toronto (Municipality) Commissioners of Police, [1998] 160 D.L.R. (4th) 697 (Ont. Gen. Div.); and, Hill v. Hamilton Wentworth Police, [2007] 3 S.C.R. 129 as it relates to the tort of negligent investigation? What impact will R. v. Grant, [2009] 2 S.C.R. 353 and Vancouver (City) v. Ward, 2010 SCC 27 have in deterring police misconduct? [Panel #2]
  3. What role can litigation play in preventing/addressing police abuses at large scale events like the G-20 summit in Toronto? [Panel #2]
  4. Is there a place for section 15(1) of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in police misconduct litigation? [Panel #2]
  5. What limits should there be on the ability of the police to release confidential information such as Mental Health Act apprehensions? [Panel #3]
  6. What impact has Forrester v. Peel Regional Police Services Board, 2006 HRTO 13 had on policing in the transgendered/transsexual community? What are the challenges for LGBTIQQ2S officers? [Panel #3]
  7. How is gendered and racialized violence against women manifested in policing? [Panel #3]
  8. What impact does the dehumanization of Aboriginal people have in policing? [Panel #3]
  9. Keynote: The Institutional Obstruction of Civil Rights Enforcement
  10. What role can human rights organizations play in ensuring fairness in employment and delivery of services? [Panel #4]
  11. The Chicago and Windsor experiments: law school clinics/institutes and furthering police accountability. [Panel #5]