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Association of Canadian Court Administrators (ACCA) National Conference 2005, Changing World Changing Courts
Fairmont Empress and Victoria Conference Centre
November 13-16 2005
About the Conference
Overview
The Association of Canadian Court Administrators invite you to participate in an exciting, professional conference on the future and on challenges for the justice system
This conference will address how international and domestic pressures, as well as opportunities and challenges arising from technology and social conditions, require new vision, creativity and new processes in our changing courts.
Our domestic world is changing. Major changes in society and crimes in society are occurring rapidly in part due to advances in technology and communications.
Sophisticated and threatening international and domestic crimes and cyber-crimes are organized and already here including:
- terrorism
- conspiracy
- electronic fraud
- drug production
- smuggling substances and people
- infiltration, extortion and blackmail
- identity theft
- abuse of intellectual property
- paramilitary armed gangs
Our court systems are changing. Despite severe restrictions in public funding they need sophisticated risk reduction, electronic document transaction, virtual appearances, virtual courthouses without bricks and mortar.
Can laws, institutions and processes from previous centuries stay ahead of changing needs? Explore together visions of our changing world and how our institutions are changing.
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With presentations from individuals such as:
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Gwynne Dyer, Award Winning Independent Journalist; Changing World: Impacting Justice and the Courts
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Stephen Lewis, Veteran Diplomat and UN Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, Changing Society: Effective Justice with a Social Conscience
Featured Speakers
- The Honourable Lance Finch, Chief Justice of British Columbia
- The Honourable Donald Brenner, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of British Columbia
- Ian Hanomansing, Broadcast Journalist, Host CBC News, Canada Now
- Assistant Commissioner John Neily, RCMP HQ OTTAWA
- Assistant Commissioner (retired) Earl Moulton, RCMP F division Sask
- Daniel Bellemare, Assistant Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice Canada
- Maureen Maloney, International Mediator, Professor of Law, University of Victoria, and former Deputy Minister
- Justice Paul Williamson, Supreme Court of BC
- Dan Burnett, Owen Bird Law Corporation
- Geoff Plant, QC, Partner, Heenan Blaikie, former Attorney General of British Columbia
- Peter Norman, former SFU professor, current Royal Roads lecturer, and one of the designers/principals behind the BC Government's Leading the Way management development initiative
- Len Griffiths, Director of Court Operations, Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General
- Allan Seckel, Q.C., Deputy Attorney General, Province of British Columbia
- Diana Lowe, Executive Director of the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice
- Associate Chief Judge E. Dennis Schmidt, Provincial Court of British Columbia
- Kim Bolan, Journalist, The Vancouver Sun
Please check the conference agenda on the website for continued speaker confirmations.
Topics include:
- Cybercourt
- Internal Threats/Social Engineering
- External Threats/Cyber Crime
- Cyber Crime Forensics
- Access to and Restrictions on Court Information
- Role of Courts as a Public Institution
- Court Systems of the Future
* = Invited
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