Renée Mulligan | Board of Directors
18/05/2019
Renée Mulligan is a lawyer at Woodward and Company in Victoria, BC. Her practice includes developing, drafting and implementing laws and policies for First Nations governments and communities. She obtained her undergraduate degree in geography (B.A.) and her law degree (LL.B) from the University of … [Read more...]
Melissa Tessler | Board of Directors
18/05/2019
Melissa Tessler is a Toronto-based litigator with experience in international criminal and human rights law. Melissa was a former member of legal teams in the appeals chamber at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the United Nations Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials. … [Read more...]
Rob Lapper Q.C. | Board of Directors
18/05/2019
Robert Lapper Q.C. is currently David and Dorothy Lam Chair in Law and Public Policy at the University of Victoria. He is a professor in both the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Human and Social Development (School of Public Administration) where he teaches and researches justice policy and legal … [Read more...]
Sebastian Ennis | Board of Directors
18/05/2019
Sebastian Ennis is currently transitioning to a litigation boutique in Vancouver with a focus on public law, appeals, and complex public interest cases. He previously served as a judicial law clerk at both the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal and the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. He obtained his … [Read more...]
Joey Doyle | Board of Directors
18/05/2019
Joey Doyle is a Vancouver-based lawyer, practicing mainly criminal defence. He has been a member of Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada since 2016, when he worked for LRWC as a law student. In 2017, he attended the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on behalf of LRWC. Joey is interested in the application … [Read more...]
Joshua Lam | Board of Directors
18/05/2019
Joshua Lam is a lawyer and human rights advocate. He is currently legal counsel at Sage Legal, in Victoria, BC, where his practice focuses on indigenous rights, non-profit/charity law, and social justice issues. Prior to moving to Victoria, BC, he worked in Alberta, focusing on poverty law and … [Read more...]
Harini Sivalingam | Board of Directors
14/05/2019
Harini Sivalingam obtained her LL.B. at Osgoode Hall Law School (Toronto) and her LL.M. in International Comparative Law at McGill University (Montreal). She has worked as a lawyer in private practice in the area of immigration and refugee law, and at a community legal aid clinic providing legal … [Read more...]
Stop US threats against the International Criminal Court and its Prosecutor | Press release
16/04/2019
See full PDF press release Stop US threats against the International Criminal Court and its Prosecutor Immediate Release 16 April 2019 - Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) today denounced a new United States (US) threat against the International Criminal Court (ICC), the latest in a series of … [Read more...]
Myanmar: Oral Statement to 40th Session of the UN Human Rights Council: Statement of Rohingya peace advocate, Hamida Khatun | Joint Statement of LRWC and ISHR
12/03/2019
Full .pdf file Video Stream Available (Chapter 20, 00:39:00) Organization: Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada Item 4: Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Myanmar Date: 11 March 2019 Speaker: Ms. Salma El Hosseiny (ISHR) Oral Statement to the 40th Session of the UN Human Rights … [Read more...]
Canada: Release and Repatriation of Omar Khadr | Letter
05/10/2018
Full PDF Version Wednesday, July 30, 2008 The Right Honourable Prime Minister Stephen Harper The Honourable Attorney General Robert Nicholson, The Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs David Emerson, The Honourable Minister of National Defence Peter MacKay Dear Honourable … [Read more...]
