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Training that never stops

For the sake of transparency, since 2018, the Council annually publishes a list of courses and seminars available during the previous fiscal year. The following is a list of courses, seminars and other learning activities attended by federally appointed judges to continue their learning and enhance their knowledge.

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Programs (15)
  • April 26 2020 - April 30 2020

    Mastering the skills of judgment writing

    Mastering the Skill of Judgment Writing - presented jointly by the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice and the National Judicial Institute - is an intensive program that will help judges take their judicial writing skills to an advanced level. The sessions feature extensive small-group work and individualized feedback on writing problems from experienced judicial faculty and experts on judicial writing.

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  • June 29 2019 - July 2 2019

    Judgment Writing

    This seminar is designed to assist judges in improving their judgment-writing skills. The program includes lectures, discussions, and workshops that stress the nature of good prose, point-first writing and the special requirements and special challenges of judicial writing. Since the art of writing is a skill that, like all skills, can be improved only through practice, much of the instruction will center on written exercises and judgments.

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  • April 1 2019 - March 31 2020

    Law at Lunch

    The British Columbia Court of Appeal offered a series of Law at Lunch educational sessions from April 2019 to March 2020. Each session covered a different topic and a subject matter expert was invited to speak and provide further insight on recent legal issues.

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  • December 10 2018 - December 11 2018

    Judgment Writing 2018

    This course examined the art and craft of judgment writing, permitting participants to consider broadly the nature of appellate judgment writing, style and structure for good writing, as well as the importance of the editing process.

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  • September 27 2017 - September 29 2017

    Joint Education Seminar

    This seminar focused on issues relevant to appellate judging in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, including the social context of the Métis population and legal issues concerning Métis title to land, the rising phenomena of street and prison gangs in Western Canada, cross-border jurisdictional issues and updates on cases from the Supreme Court of Canada.

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