Day 1
| 7:00 – 9:00 | Registration & Networking Breakfast with our Exhibitors | ||
| 9:00 – 9:10 | Opening Remarks | ||
| 9:10 – 9:45 | Plenary Session |
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| The Honourable Madam Justice Louise Charron, Supreme Court of Canada | |||
| Room: “Grand Scheme” | |||
| What has been done? | What’s next? | Savings and Technology | |
| Room: “Grand Scheme” | Room: “Traders” | Room: “Mulligan” | |
| 9:50 – 10:45 | Lessons Learned in the Case of Gastops v. MXI | Judging in 2020: In a Courtroom or on the Web? | Take a Tour… via VIDEO-CONFERENCING |
| Gastops v. MXI was one of the longest and most complex civil trials in Canadian justice history. It was facilitated by the application of inexpensive electronic technology costing less than $1,000. Presiding Superior Court (Ontario) Justice B. Thomas Granger and counsel will discuss how this technology was used, how it saved both the parties and the overall administration of justice hundreds of thousands of dollars and months or years of trial time. Who should lead the way in introducing the application of technology to the courtroom? What are the advantages for the administration of justice, judges and lawyers? Justice Granger and counsel will discuss how the lessons learned in Gastops could be applied to cases of short duration and family law, enhancing greater access to justice while reducing costs and improving efficiency. | Paper and pens can be seen in museums. Everyone, including lawyers and judges, work from their home since cars are now illegal and it is impossible to heat or cool the high-rises in most cities. The international government, which took over from states, provides free and unlimited access to the internet. Human beings don’t have any more credit or identification cards: they all use biometry to gain access to their different accounts. Everyone has its own electronic signature and encryption key. Trials take place over the web in virtual courthouses. Parties and lawyers can be seen and heard via telepresence-type webcams. All documents are exchanged electronically and shared on a central database that anyone involved in a particular case can access. All trials are going to be broadcasted so that individuals can listen to any trial live or at a later time. | Take a video tour across Canada with stopovers in Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and British Columbia. From the comfort of our conference, you will learn how courts and judges are incorporating the use of video technology into their daily professional lives. Experience the opportunities and obstacles, including the state of “judicial buy-in”, resources impact, the development of videoconferencing as a justice tool, and the opportunities properly managed technology can provide, enhancing access to justice in Canada. Your tour guides are experienced judicial and administrative explorers of this old but new frontier. | |
| Stephen Appotive (en) Cheryl Curran (en) Justice Thomas Granger (en) John H. Yach (en) |
Ray Bodnarek, Q.C. (en) Dominic Jaar (fr) Justice Frances Kiteley (en) |
Chief Judge Thomas Crabtree* (en) Justice Garrett Handrigan* (en) Justice Moira Legere-Sers (en) Grant Marchand (en) *via video-conferencing
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| 10:45 – 11:30 | Networking Break with our Exhibitors | ||
| 11:30 – 12:30 | An Introduction to E-Discovery and its Impact on Trials | What is the Canadian Centre for Court Technology up to? | Performance Measurements |
| E-Discovery is now a practice reality in most jurisdictions across the country. Although E-discovery experts are helping parties and lawyers to learn about best practices and procedures, even in jurisdictions where rules of civil procedure have been amended to include e-discovery related obligations, courts are having difficulties dealing with electronic documents. This panel will look at the impacts of electronic discovery on trials and courts. | The CCCT-CCTJ has many projects on the go. This session will give you a chance to learn about its Intellaction Working Groups on E-Filing, on Court Websites, and on E-Learning. You will also hear about the Court Technology Clearinghouse project and the national survey on court technology. This panel provides an opportunity to gain a better understanding of what CCCT-CCTJ is all about and to have a say about its future direction. | Courts are busy places – measuring performance standards helps the Court to set goals and to understand and manage organizational performance. With performance measurement indicators in place, judges and court managers can gauge how well a court is doing to achieve basic goals, such as clearance rates, timeliness and delays.
This session focuses on the world of performance measurement, performance dashboards, and how their use can change the way your court does business. From the definition and development of performance measures to a visually displayed performance dashboard end product, this session will highlight the perspectives and approach of the Provincial Court of British Columbia as well as some American Courts. Presenters will describe how performance dashboards and Business Intelligence technology can benefit courts, and offer solutions and recommendations when dealing with the practical challenges that may be encountered when designing and implementing a performance measurement system for your court. |
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| Martin Felsky, Ph.D. (en) Master Calum MacLeod (en) Susan Nickle (en) |
Glenn Carbol (en) Andrew Clark (en) Dominic Jaar (fr) Chris Walpole (en) David G. Williams (en) |
Curtis L. DeClue (en) Associate Chief Judge Gurmail S. Gill (en) Grant Marchand (en) |
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| 12:30 – 13:40 | Networking Lunch with our Exhibitors | ||
| 13:40 – 14:40 | Plenary Session: The beginning of a new justice system | ||
| Professor Richard Susskind | |||
| Room: “Grand Scheme” | |||
| 14:40 – 15:15 | Networking Break with our Exhibitors | ||
| What has been done? | What’s next? | Savings and Technology | |
| Room: “Grand Scheme” | Room: “Traders” | Room: “Mulligan” | |
| 15:15 – 16:15 | Technology Changeover: Do’s and Don’ts | The Ethical Implications of Technology | The Use of Court Statistics |
| Alberta is modernizing and streamlining court-related processes, and replacing a key legacy IT system via the Justice Innovation and Modernization of Services Initiatives (JIMS). Deputy Minister Bodnarek will introduce the topic, and Stephen Bull, JIMS Executive Director, will provide an outline of critical steps in the planning process, including: project sponsorship; the engagement of key stakeholders; an assessment of IT architecture; data cleansing and migration; business intelligence and reporting; access to justice considerations, and, the use of commercial “off the shelf” software versus custom-built software. In an effort to improve the use of judicial and physical resources within the adult criminal courts in Calgary and Edmonton, the Provincial Court of Alberta led a project to reform the scheduling of criminal cases identified as “Court Case Management.” This collaborative project engaged representatives from the Provincial Court, Crown Prosecution, Court Services, the criminal defence Bar, and JIMS. Key to the project’s success was the concurrent implementation of Crown file ownership and the use of technology to enhance the scheduling of adult criminal matters. Deputy Chief Judge Allan Lefever will describe the project, the technological and other solutions employed, and how those solutions have enhanced access to justice. | Technology comes with its share of unanswered questions. This panel will take a close look at the impacts on civil liberties, including privacy and security, at the same time as attempting to identify strategies to best control or anticipate potential issues. | A thorough examination of the work of Canadian courts provides us an insight into trends and realities that may be otherwise overlooked. This session will look at existing data and reveal implications. It will also provide you with an opportunity to see what other jurisdictions have achieved through the analysis of court related statistics and how Canada could develop its statistical capacities in the administration of justice. | |
| Ray Bodnarek, Q.C. (en) Stephen Bull (en) Deputy Chief Judge Allan Lefever (en) |
Chantal Bernier, Assistant Privacy Commissioner of Canada (en) David Fraser (en) Pierre Trudel, LL.D. (fr) |
Craig Grimes (en) Julie McAuley (en) Brian J. Ostrom, Ph.D.(en) |
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| 16:15 – 18:00 | Cocktail Reception with our Exhibitors | ||
