How to be Effective for Your Client at Bail, Pretrial, Trial and Sentencing Stages

THE HON. MADAM JUSTICE KATHLEEN KER is a graduate of the University of British Columbia Law School. She was called to the Bar in Ontario in 1988 and in British Columbia in 1989. For the first 10 years of practise Justice Ker was a criminal defence lawyer specializing in appellate practice. In September 1997 she joined the office of Crown Counsel and was appellate counsel for the Attorney General of British Columbia until her appointment to the Supreme Court of British Columbia. She is the former chair of the Canadian Bar Association’s National Criminal Law Section.  Madam Justice Ker was appointed to the Supreme Court of British Columbia at New Westminster on June 18, 2008.  She is the current Chair of the British Columbia Supreme Court’s Criminal Law Committee.