February 28, 2018 – Witness, Senate of Canada, Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee, Bill C-46, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (offences relating to conveyances)
The Trudeau government’s proposed alcohol-and drug-impaired driving legislation violates the Charter and will clog already overburdened courts with Charter challenges from coast to coast to coast, says Senate Liberal Serge Joyal, the influential chair of the red chamber’s Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee.
Serge Joyal, chair of the Senate’s Legal and Constitutional Affairs CommitteeThe Senate’s legal dean said that, in his view, Bill C-46, as put forward by the government, is “full of holes,” counterproductive and apt to be substantially revised in the Senate.
Read MoreOctober 2016, Guest Speaker, "Direct Examination”, 2016 Criminal Lawyers' Association Recent Call Conference, Hilton Double Tree, Toronto ON.
October 2015, Guest Speaker, "Section 540(7) Applications", Ontario Court of Justice, Toronto Judges Regional Seminar, West Trillium House, Blue Mountain, Ontario.
March 2015 - Author, "Bill C-13: Laying the Foundation for the Modern Canadian Surveillance State" (co-author A. Ruffo), For The Defence Magazine Vol. 36, No.1.
February, 2015 – Guest Lecturer, “The Complete Guide to Search Warrants Program 2015″, The Law Society of Upper Canada, Donald Lamont Learning Centre.
February, 2015 – Author, “The Practitioner’s Guide to Search Warrant Review”, The Law Society of Upper Canada, The Complete Guide to Search Warrants Program 2015.
April, 2014 – Guest Lecturer, “The Six Minute Criminal Lawyer 2014″: “The New Safety Search Power”, The Law Society of Upper Canada, Donald Lamont Learning Centre.
March, 2014 - Author, “‘Mann! What a Mess!’ MacDonald and the New Warrantless Safety Search Power”, Law Society of Upper Canada, “The Six Minute Criminal Lawyer 2014″
February 22, 2014 – Judge, The Wilson Moot, Federal Court of Canada, 180 Queen Street West, Toronto ON.
November 23, 2013 – Guest Lecturer, “Critical Thinking and Charter Applications in Criminal Law”, study group for new criminal lawyers, Law Offices of Rosen, Naster LLP.
October 2, 2013 – Guest Lecturer, “Part VI of the Criminal Code: Electronic Surveillance and Invasion of Privacy”, Criminal Procedure Course, Professors M. Greene & G. Grill, Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto.
August 20, 2013 – Guest, “The Sammy Yatin shooting in Toronto”, Canada Talks, Sirius XM, The Arlene Bynon Show.
June 25, 2013 – Guest Speaker, “The Impact of R. v. Mahal on Wiretap Challenges”, Paul Cooper’s Garage Series, St. Michael’s College Auditorium, Toronto.
May 4, 2013 – Guest Speaker, “The Sixth Step in Garofoli Section 8 Challenges”, The Complete Guide to Search Warrants, The Law Society of Upper Canada, Donald Lamont Learning Centre, Toronto.
February 23, 2013 – Judge, The Wilson Moot, Federal Court of Canada, 180 Queen Street West, Toronto ON.
November 8, 2012 – Guest Speaker, “The Sixth Step in Garofoli Section 8 Challenges”, The Federal Prosecution Service Annual Fall Educational Conference, The Exchange Tower, 36th Floor, Toronto.
October 20, 2012 – Guest Speaker, “Search Warrants”, DCAO/CCLA Annual Criminal Law Conference 2012, Fairmont Le Chateau, Montebello, Quebec.
July 2012 – Expert Witness Testimony, Prosecution and Defence of Wiretap Cases in the Criminal Law Context, Canada v. Jaballah, Federal Court of Canada, Toronto.
June 2, 2012 – Panel Moderator, “Drugs…Getting Back to Basics”, Criminal Lawyers’ Association Spring Conference, 89 Chestnut Conference Centre, Toronto.
May 27, 2012 - Guest, Closing Arguments, NewsTalk 1010 Radio
May 10, 2012 – Guest Speaker, “New Technologies, New Searches”, Justice of the Peace Spring Educational Conference, Toronto Convention Centre.
May 28, 2011 – Guest Speaker, “Preparation for a Challenge to the Warrant”, The Complete Guide to Search Warrants, The Law Society of Upper Canada, Donald Lamont Learning Centre, Toronto.
March 5, 2011 – Program Chair and Lecturer, The Complete Guide to Wiretaps, The Law Society of Upper Canada, MaRS Centre (full day program), Toronto.
February 12, 2011 Guest Speaker, “The Wiretap Case”, Evidentiary Challenges for Criminal Lawyers, The Law Society of Upper Canada, Donald Lamont Learning Centre, Toronto.
December 2010 - Author, "The ABCs of Search Warrant Review", For The Defence Magazine Vol. 32, No.2.
“You can make money as a criminal lawyer.”
Those are the perhaps surprising words of Toronto criminal defencecounsel Jonathan Rosenthal, who spoke on a panel along with two veterancolleagues at the Criminal Lawyers’ Association’s conference for younglawyers on Nov. 20.
“I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that and I don’t think you should be embarrassed to do that,” Rosenthal said of the idea of making a profit from criminal law.
Read MoreNovember 20, 2010 – Guest Speaker, “So You Want to build a Criminal Law Practice?” Criminal Lawyers Association, Donald Lamont Learning Centre, Toronto.
October 28, 2010 – Witness, Senate of Canada, Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee, Bill S-10 An Act to Amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and to make Consequential Amendments to Other Acts.
October 20, 2010 - Guest, “Graphic Evidence", Canadian Broadcasting Corporation News
New details about Col. Russell Williams' self-admitted secret life are expected to emerge on Monday after the former military commander delivers his expected guilty pleas in the murder of two women.
Williams, who once commanded CFB Trenton, is also set to enter guilty pleas in a pair of sex assaults and dozens of break-ins when he appears before an Ontario judge on Monday.
Read MoreOctober 6, 2010 – Guest Speaker, “Garofoli and Dawson Applications in Warranted Search Cases”, Junior Criminal Lawyers Association, Flavelle House, University of Toronto.
May 26, 2010 – Guest Lecturer, York Regional Police Force: Intensive Court Training Program. Organized by Sgt. Peter Casey (#915) Y.R.P.F.
May 12, 2010 – Guest Lecturer, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Courtroom Preparation Officer Training Program. R.C.M.P. Milton Detachment, 2755 Highpoint Drive, Milton Ontario. Organized by Constable David Cobey.
April 21, 2010 – Guest Speaker, “The Prelimary Inquiry”, Junior Criminal Lawyers Association, Flavelle House, University of Toronto.
April 17, 2010 – Guest Speaker, “The Six Minute Criminal Lawyer 2010″: “The New McNeil Application”, The Law Society of Upper Canada, Donald Lamont Learning Centre.
January 12, 2010 – Guest Lecturer, York Regional Police Force: New Officer Training, Note-Taking and Testifying in Court. Organized by Sgt. Peter Casey (#915) Y.R.P.F.
November 13, 2009 – Guest, “Inside the Don Jail”, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation News, CBC Newsworld’s “Connect with Mark Kelley”.
July 20, 2009 – Guest, “The McLachlin Court and the Future of Section 24(2) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms”, C.I.U.T. 89.5 FM.
May 2, 2009 – Guest Speaker, “The Six Minute Criminal Lawyer 2009″: “The Future of Section 24(2) of the Charter”, The Law Society of Upper Canada, Donald Lamont Learning Centre, Toronto.
April 8, 2009 – Guest Lecturer, York Regional Police Force: New Officer Training, Note Taking and Testifying in Court. Organized by Sgt. Peter Casey (#915) Y.R.P.F.
April 3, 2009 – Panel Chair, C.L.A. Young Lawyers Program: “Showing Better Judgment and Getting Better Judgments”: “If I Knew Then What I Know Now”, and N.I.T.A. Instructor held at the Delta Chelsea Hotel, Toronto ON.
July 31, 2008 – Criminal Lawyers’ Association Representative, LeSage and Code Review of Complex Criminal Cases.
May 31, 2008 – Guest Speaker, “The Six Minute Criminal Lawyer 2008″: “Bill C-26: The New Mandatory Minimum Sentences for Drug Offences in Canada”, The Law Society of Upper Canada, Donald Lamont Learning Centre, Toronto.
January 2008 – Guest Speaker, “Deal or No Deal: How to Get Better results in Plea Negotiations”: Criminal Litigation 2008 Skills Certification Program, The Advocates’ Society and Criminal Lawyers’ Association (Ontario), The Advocates’ Society Education Centre.
October 2007 – Guest Speaker, “Charter on the Rocks – the use of the Charter in drunk driving cases”, Twenty-Five Years of the Charter, Criminal Lawyers’ Association (Ontario), 2007 Fall Conference, Marriot Hotel and Convention Centre.
October 2007 – Guest Speaker, “Drug Expert Witness Seminar”, Criminal Intelligence Service of Ontario (Woodbine Convention Centre), Organized by K. Gorman, Senior Counsel, Public Prosecutions Service of Canada [as she then was].
June 2006 – Guest Speaker, “Defending a Drug Case”, Criminal Litigation 2006 Skills Certification program, The Advocates’ Society and Ontario Criminal Lawyers’ Association (Ontario).
June-July 2005 – Criminal Procedure Instructor, Bar Admissions Course, Law Society of Upper Canada.
December 2004 – Guest Speaker, “Warranted and Unwarranted Searches”, Ontario Provincial Police Training Program for Joint Forces Drug Investigation Teams (Eastern Ontario), Kingston, Ontario.
July 2004 – Guest Instructor, Intensive Trial Advocacy Workshop, Osgoode Hall Law School
June-July 2004 – Criminal Procedure Instructor, Bar Admissions Course, Law Society of Upper Canada.
March 27, 2004 – Guest Instructor, “Sentencing”, Criminal Litigation 2004 Skills Certification Program, The Advocates’ Society.
July 2003 – Guest Instructor, Intensive Trial Advocacy Workshop, Osgoode Hall Law School.
June 2003 – Criminal Procedure Instructor, Bar Admissions Course, Law Society of Upper Canada.
July 12, 2002 – Guest Instructor, Intensive Trial Advocacy Workshop, Osgoode Hall Law School.
July 2002 – Criminal Procedure Instructor, Bar Admissions Course, Law Society of Upper Canada.