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A focused overview of post-sentence impacts that affect clients across practice areas: immigration inadmissibility and appeal bars, family and employment repercussions, licensing and driving suspensions, housing/travel limits, registries, and online permanence. Covers how and when courts consider collateral effects within proportionality, evidentiary requirements to ground submissions, and risk management for counsel (documenting advice, cross-discipline consultation, avoiding ineffective-assistance claims). Includes practical checklists and model language for fit-sentence submissions.
AI: Interesting Possible Impacts on the Legal Landscape
A review of law-enforcement use of AI-enabled biometrics and data aggregation (facial/voice recognition, gait/behavioral analytics, CCTV/IP/cell-site fusion), with contrasts between EU restrictions and Canada’s developing regime. Identifies Charter and disclosure issues, authorization boundaries, and evidentiary challenges. Provides actionable guidance on scrutinizing technology-derived evidence, framing suppression arguments, and advising clients amid expanding surveillance.
Michael Spratt received a B.Sc. (Hon) in Biology and Environmental Science from McMaster University in 2001. Mr. Spratt was called to the Bar in 2005 after attending law school at Dalhousie University. Mr. Spratt is a partner at the boutique criminal law firm Abergel Goldstein & Partners. Mr. Spratt normally appears in the Superior Court of Justice and the Ontario Court of Justice but he did carry Howard Krongold’s litigation bag to the Supreme Court of Canada and the Ontario Court of Appeal. Mr. Spratt frequently appears as an expert witness before Canada's House of Commons and Senate. Mr. Spratt is an award winning blogger and has written for many publications including: iPolitics, the National Post, the Ottawa Citizen, the Ottawa Sun, and Canadian Lawyer. Mr. Spratt is also co-hosts of the popular and award winning legal and political podcast The Docket. He has served as a director of the Criminal Lawyers’ Association. He later served as a treasurer, and vice-president, of the Defence Counsel Association of Ottawa. He has been a guest instructor at the University of Ottawa law school, Carleton University, and Algonquin College and has presented at numerous professional education conferences.
Andrew Vaughan is a graduate of the University of Calgary and Queen's University Faculty of Law. He has been a criminal lawyer for over twenty five years. He previously worked for over a decade in the criminal law firm of Hall and Vaughan, before Aston Hall was appointed to the bench. Andrew practices mainly in the Greater Toronto area.
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