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National Judicial Institute
November 14 2022 - November 15 2022

Preventing Wrongful Convictions 2022

This seminar focused on the circumstances surrounding of wrongful convictions, exploring the common contributors to wrongful convictions, highlighting potential problems, and determining the appropriate judicial response.

Number of Participants: 26

Overview

This seminar focused on the circumstances surrounding of wrongful convictions, exploring the common contributors to wrongful convictions, highlighting potential problems, and determining the appropriate judicial response.

Objective

The objectives of this seminar were to educate judges about wrongful convictions, help them to identify potential problems as they arise in the courtroom, and ultimately to provide judges with the knowledge and tools to prevent wrongful convictions.

Summary

Experienced judges and legal academics led this seminar, which also brought together persons with lived experience of wrongful convictions to discuss the impact on their lives. The program examined the scope of the problem, the social context of wrongful convictions, and the intersection of gender and race with wrongful convictions. Practical sessions focused on assessing credibility and reliability with respect to statements, confessions, perception memory and eyewitness identification, and flawed forensic evidence. The program concluded with a keynote address in honour of David Milgaard.