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Patrick Healy, Judge, Court of Quebec, Criminal and Penal Division

As counsel, Patrick Healy acted for the prosecution and the defence in Quebec and elsewhere. He was Counsel to the firm of Shadley Battista in Montreal. For many years he was a member of the Comit茅 permanent en droit criminel of the Quebec Bar and a member of the Executive Committee of the Canadian Bar Association (Criminal - Quebec). He also served as a member of the General Council of the Canadian Bar Association in Quebec. Patrick Healy was a member of a committee of inquiry appointed under the Judges Act to inquire into the tenure of a judge of the Superior Court of Quebec. He advised the Canadian Judicial Council on many occasions with regard to judicial discipline and other matters. He was a member of the International Association of Penal Law and of the International Association of Prosecutors.

Laurent Morissette, Vice-President, Regroupement Activiste Pour L'inclusion Qu茅bec听(RAPLIQ)

Laurent Morissette is a member of the board of Regroupement des Activistes Pour l'Inclusion Au Qu茅bec (RAPLIQ) since September 2011. He first held the position of treasurer (mostly empty treasure to be honest) and as of June 2014 is the Vice-President and one of the spokesperson for RAPLIQ on hot topic issue on both the municipal and provincial level. Aside from doing public relations, he is often asked to represent and assist plaintiffs in front of Canadian and Quebec rights commissions (CDPDJ, CHRC) when it come to filing disability based discrimination complaints. Although he is no lawyer, he has some knowledge of the law and all the judiciary process leading, in most case, to an agreement during mediation phase. In his presentation, he will try to outline some key elements related to the way someone should act and what he should know about disability before going to trial (or any legal proceeding for that matter) in order to reduce stress for his or her client, thus giving him optimal representation.

Bekithemba Mlauzi, McGill听LLM Candidate听/听Police Officer (in Zimbabwe)

Bekithemba Mlauzi is a legal practitioner who served as a police officer in the Zimbabwe Republic Police from 1988 to 2013. He operated as a Patrol Officer, supervising patrols, scene attendance and preliminary investigations. Later on he headed administrative functions in a number of police establishments and a police trainer after which he studied law whilst working full time as a police officer.听 Upon graduation, he joined the police legal directorate and served as a prosecutor, legal advisor, appeals officer, access to justice for children program Coordinator, a member of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. Beki has several qualifications the last of which is a law degree. He is an LLM Candidate at 香蕉视频. His area of interest is disability rights law focusing on access to justice for persons with disabilities in the criminal justice system in particular policing services for persons with disabilities.

Dianah Msipa, Prosecutor (in Zimbabwe)

Dianah Msipa currently works as a consultant with the Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa. Prior to that, Dianah was a Human Rights intern with Inclusion International. She has also worked as a Criminal Prosecutor in her home country of Zimbabwe. Dianah holds a Master of Laws Degree from 香蕉视频 in Montreal, Canada as an Open Society Institute Disability Rights Scholarship Program (DRSP) scholar. Dianah鈥檚 Master of Laws thesis was about access to justice, focusing on the manner in which the criminal justice system may discriminate against women with intellectual disabilities, particularly in the context of sexual abuse. She also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice (LPC) from Northumbria University and a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B Hons) degree from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in the United Kingdom. Her Masters鈥� thesis identified specific provisions in the rules of evidence and criminal procedure in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Botswana and Namibia which perpetuate inequality and discrimination in the criminal justice system, thereby hindering access to justice which is a right provided for in article 13 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

• Raising awareness of persons with disabilities in Canadian federal corrections听 听
• Annual report of the Office of the Correctional Investigator 2010-2011, part 1B, Focus on Older Offenders听 - .
• Except on mental disabilities of older offenders [.pdf] (part of of Adelina Iftene's research)
• Chapman, Chris, Allison Carey, and Liat Ben-Moshe (2014). Reconsidering confinement: Interlocking locations and logics of incarceration. Disability incarcerated: Imprisonment and disability in the United States and Canada (pp. 3-24). New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Available:
• Chris Chapman (2010). 鈥淏ecoming perpetrator: How I came to accept restraining and confining disabled Aboriginal children,鈥� In B. Burstow & S. Diamond (Eds.), Proceedings of PsychOUT: A Conference for Organizing Resistance Against Psychiatry. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2010. Available online:
• Chris Chapman (2013). 鈥淐ultivating a troubled consciousness: Compulsory sound-mindedness and complicity in oppression,鈥� Health, Culture and Society 5(1): 182-198. 听
• Kanya D'Almeida In US Prisons, Psychiatric Disability Is Often Met by Brute Force. 18 July 2015 By

Adelina Iftene

Adelina Iftene is currently a SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Osgoode Hall Faculty of Law of York University. She is currently working on a research project with female older offenders, studying their needs and the legal challenges that could help enforce their rights. She completed her PhD in law at Queen鈥檚 University, specializing in criminal and prison law, as well as Charter Rights. Her dissertation - sponsored by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) through an Armand Bombardier Doctoral Scholarship - used social science methodology to answer legal questions regarding the imprisonment of older male offenders in Canadian federal corrections.

Chris Chapman

Chris Chapman is Assistant Professor of Social Work at York University and holds a PhD in Sociology and Equity Studies from OISE/UT. Chris is one of the editors of Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and co-author of the forthcoming Interlocking Oppression and the Origins of Social Work: An Invitation to Decolonize and Deinstitutionalize (University of Toronto Press). He is also working on a book project entitled Everyday Relational Navigation, Cumulative Structural Violence: Towards a Personal-is-Political Ethics. Overall, his work focuses on the ways that multiple forms of seemingly discrete arenas of structural violence interact with one another in everyday interactions and institutional norms, especially in those interactions and norms that are framed as "helping".

Kim Pate

Kim is the executive director of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies (CAEFS), a federation of autonomous societies which work with, and on behalf of, marginalized, victimized, criminalized and institutionalized women and girls throughout Canada. A lawyer and teacher by trade, she has completed post-graduate studies in the area of forensic mental health and has worked extensively with youth and men during her 30-year career in and around the Canadian Legal and penal systems. In 2014, Pate was appointed a member of the Order of Canada for advocating on behalf of women who are marginalized, victimized or incarcerated, and for her research on women in the criminal justice system. She has also received honorary doctorates from the University of Ottawa, Carleton University, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, St. Thomas University and the Law Society of Upper Canada.

Robert Israel

Robert Israel pratique le droit criminel et p茅nal devant tous les tribunaux du Qu茅bec. Il a 茅galement plaid茅 devant la Commission Charbonneau. Il a rejoint le cabinet Shadley Battista Costom en 2007 et est charg茅 de cours en droit p茅nal avanc茅 脿 McGill. Durant ses ann茅es d鈥櫭﹖ude en droit 脿 McGill, il a cr茅茅 le projet d'Innocence McGill, une organisation dirig茅e par des 茅tudiants qui enqu锚tent sur les all茅gations de condamnations injustifi茅es au Qu茅bec. Il a d鈥檃illeurs agi comme premier directeur 茅tudiant de ce projet et en est actuellement le conseiller juridique.

Ella Amir

Ella Amir has been Executive Director of AMI-Qu茅bec since 1990. Under her leadership the organization has become one of the principal resources in Qu茅bec for families struggling to cope with mental illness. In addition to providing direct support to families AMI-Quebec is working extensively with healthcare providers on various partnerships and collaborations.

Ella was the chair of the Family Caregivers Advisory Committee for the Mental Health Commission of Canada, since its inception in 2007 and until 2012, and is now a member of the Commission鈥檚 Advisory Council. She led the development of the Guidelines for caregivers support, a blueprint for a comprehensive system of care to support family caregivers across the country.

Ella holds PhD in psychology and applied human sciences from Concordia University and an MBA from 香蕉视频.

Marie-H茅l猫ne Goulet

Marie-H茅l猫ne Goulet est infirmi猫re clinicienne et candidate au doctorat en sciences infirmi猫res de l鈥橴niversit茅 de Montr茅al. Elle est boursi猫re du RRISIQ et des IRSC.

Elle s鈥檌nt茅resse 脿 la gestion du comportement violent en sant茅 mentale au Centre de recherche de l鈥橧nstitut universitaire de sant茅 mentale de Montr茅al.

Sa th猫se de doctorat s鈥檌ntitule 芦 Retour post-isolement en milieu psychiatrique : implantation et 茅valuation d鈥檜ne intervention en soins aigus 禄.

James Sayce

James Sayce is a lawyer at Koskie Minsky LLP in Toronto. The primary focus of his practice is plaintiff-side class action litigation.

James has commenced two class proceedings relating to prisoners' rights in Canada. Brazeau v. Canada is a national class action which seeks redress for those federal prisoners who suffer from mental illness. The claim alleges that Canada has failed in its statutory, common law and equitable duties to provide adequate levels of mental health care to all mentally ill prisoners incarcerated in Federal facilities. Rather than treat the underlying illnesses, as Canada is obliged to do under the Corrections and Conditional Release Act, Correctional Services Canada relies on the use of extended periods of solitary confinement and force. In addition, it is alleged that the treatment options available to mentally ill prisoners fall far short of reasonable community standards.

PM v. Ontario concerns the use of solitary confinement in Youth Justice Facilities in Ontario. It is alleged that Ontario over-relies on the use of solitary confinement on children for extended periods as a punitive measure, contrary to the statutory landscape in that province.

James is also counsel for the plaintiffs in Anderson v. Canada, an ongoing trial concerning the abuse and mistreatment of Aboriginal children at residential schools in Northern Labrador between 1949 and 1980. That trial is ongoing in the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador and is scheduled to continue through the Spring of 2016.

Jaymes Sayce's suggestions

• Solitary confinement of Ont. youth 'incredibly harmful' lawyer says. CTV News, Nov. 5, 2015
  
• Prisoner launches class-action suit over use of solitary confinement. Globe and Mail, Friday, Jul. 17, 2015
  
• Christopher Brazeau v. Attorney General of Canada. CV-15-532262500-CP - Statement of Claim [.pdf]

Marie-H茅l猫ne Goulet鈥檚 suggestions:

• Post-Seclusion and/or Restraint Review in Psychiatry: a Scoping Review [.pdf]

Our suggestions:

• Progress of efforts to ensure the full recognition and enjoyment of the human rights of persons with disabilities - Report of the Secretary-General [A/58/181]

Marie-Christine Beshay

Marie-Christine Beshay is an occupational therapist registered to practice in both Ontario and Quebec. She currently works in private practice working with children with developmental delays and working with individuals who have sustained a motor vehicle accident. In her latter role, she frequently works with clients鈥� lawyers and advisors to complete medical-legal assessments and act as an expert witness in court.

Marie-Christine鈥檚 role in her private practice is to identify her client鈥檚 occupational barriers and help them improve their function to promote their safety and improved independent living.

She has experience working in a variety of clinical settings including hospital care, rehabilitation setting and in the community. She has also worked as the Executive Liaison for the Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists where she advocated for the role of occupational therapists in Canada, and she has a number of published articles.

Marie-Christine is a Faculty Lecturer at the School of Physical and Occupational Therapy at McGill.

Roberto Lattanzio

Roberto Lattanzio is the Executive Director of ARCH Disability Law Centre. He joined ARCH as an articling student in 2003 and was called to the Bar of Ontario in 2004. Robert received his LL.B and B.C.L. law degrees from 香蕉视频 in 2003 with distinction, and received his B.A. from Concordia University in 1999 with honours.

He has acted as counsel in test case litigation at all levels of court, including the Supreme Court of Canada, and has made law reform submissions to various levels of government, committees, and administrative bodies. Robert has presented and written on topics such as equality and human rights law, administrative law, education law, legislative reform, and social science evidence. Robert has a long standing interest in disability issues and had extensive work experience with disability communities prior to attending law school.

Fahreen Nanji

Fahreen Nanji is a physiotherapist who works in Complex Continuing Care at Toronto Rehab, the largest adult rehabilitation centre in Canada, part of the University Health Network. Fahreen specializes in working with adults with neurological impairments including stroke, brain injury and spinal cord injury. She is also the Practice Leader for Physiotherapy at Toronto Rehab. Fahreen graduated from the University of Toronto after receiving a Masters of Physical Therapy in 2009. She also received an Honors, Bachelor of Kinesiology in 2007 from McMaster University.听Fahreen has a personal interest in issues of social justice and international healthcare development.

As an MScPT student, Fahreen played an instrumental role in establishing an inter-disciplinary health clinic (IMAGINE) to service the under-housed and homeless population in downtown Toronto. Fahreen is a disability and rehab advocate and volunteers her time with Nepalability,听a not for profit organization that supports healthcare education, development and disability awareness in Nepal.

Our suggestions:

• Thematic study on the right of persons with disabilities to live independently and be included in the community. Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights [.pdf]
• ENIL Position Paper 2009/02鈥� Personal Assistance and Independent Living: article 19 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities [.pdf]
• 鈥� guide from the Open Society Foundations
• News Article.
• News Article. CBC News. .