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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 (47)
  • November 30 2022 - December 2 2022

    Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador Education Seminar - Fall 2022

    This seminar provided training on a variety of substantive law, social context and judicial skills related topics. The sessions included an examination of recent and significant cases in sexual assault law, interviewing children, guardianship of the person, the jury selection process and managing difficult litigants.

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  • November 16 2022 - November 18 2022

    Criminal Jury Trials Seminar 2022

    Criminal jury trials pose unique procedural, evidentiary, and substantive law challenges. This seminar focused on criminal jury practice and law, from pre-trial conferencing to taking of the verdict, as well as a variety of evidentiary and substantive law issues trial judges will likely encounter in these cases.

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  • September 6 2022 - September 9 2022

    Northern Courts Education Seminar 2022

    This joint seminar of the Supreme Court of Yukon, the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories and the Nunavut Court of Justice covered a variety of topics relevant to the work of the courts: hearing children’s evidence, case management in criminal law, the impact of intimate partner violence on children, settlement hearings, and strategies for furthering the goals of reconciliation.

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  • June 27 2022 - June 30 2022

    Judgment Writing 2022

    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 centre on written exercises and judgments.

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  • June 20 2022 - June 23 2022

    Get Inspired: Innovation in Judging and in the North 2022

    This joint seminar of the Canadian Chapter of the International Association of Women Judges (IAWJ) and the National Judicial Institute (NJI) examined a variety of social context topics relevant to the work of the courts: using creative thinking to solve challenging problems, the impact of residential schools on Indigenous children, the unique issues of conservation in the North, and strategies for furthering the goals of reconciliation.

    View more - Get Inspired: Innovation in Judging and in the North 2022
  • May 11 2022 - May 13 2022

    Oral Judgments 2022

    This seminar focused on delivering oral judgments. Developed in collaboration with experienced judges, academics and other experts, this program helped participants practice how to better structure their oral judgments, to organize the evidence and law before and during a hearing, and to communicate effectively.

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