Ontario Police Watchdog systemic review of the Thunder Bay Police Service
Update: CBC reports that Gerry McNeilly, Ontario’s Independent Police Review Director, hosted a three-hour-long public meeting, which an estimated over-250 people attended in Thunder Bay on Monday, September 25, 2017. McNeilly says he still expect...
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Failure to call for Senator Beyak’s Resignation: Thunder Bay City Council
In a press release on September 26, 2017, Nishnawbe Aski Nation’s (“NAN”) Grand Chief, Alvin Fiddler, and Fort William First Nation’s (“FWFN”) Chief Peter Collins, communities provided legal council by Falconers LLP, is...
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Dafonte Miller Case Prompts Durham Police to Adopt New SIU Notification Procedure
In the wake of the Dafonte Miller case, the Durham Regional Police Chief, Paul Martin, vowed to implement a new policy for reporting incidents to the Special Investigations Unit (“SIU”) CP24 reports. In a written statement released Monday, Sep...
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Racial Profiling Case Important for New Generation of Lawyers
In April 2017, in the Divisional Court ruling of Elmardy v. Toronto Police Services Board 2017, Justice Harriet Sachs, Justice Ian Nordheimer (as he then was), and Justice Nancy Spies, ruled that a Black plaintiff, Mr. Mutaz Elmardy, had been racially pro...
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A Balancing Act: Does A Sovereign First Nation Have The Right To Remove Visitors From The Community Based On Their Legal And Cultural Traditions?
August 30, 2017: That is the question that a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal hearing in Thunder Bay is going to have to answer. Sandy Lake First Nation, represented by Falconers LLP lawyer, Asha James, has the right as a sovereign nation to exercise its cu...
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Toronto Police Chief must ‘educate’ officers about their duty to police watchdog: SIU Director, Loparco
Six months before the alleged assault by off-duty Toronto officer, Michael Theriault on black teen Dafonte Miller, the director of Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit, Tony Loparco, asked police Chief Mark Saunders to “educate” his officers on the...
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Convocation, August 15, 2017
Click here to read the transcript from Convocation, August 15, 2017
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Convocation, June 29, 2017
Click here to read the transcript from Convocation, June 29, 2017
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Major Editorial Boards Calling for Change: Police Oversight
The ‘simply terrifying’ case of Falconers LLP client, Dafonte Miller, a young Black man, who was allegedly beaten by an off-duty Toronto police officer, Michael Theriault, and his brother in December of 2016, was a gratuitous attack, which all...
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“Gratuitous Attack and Deliberate Concealment of Crime”: Dafonte Miller Case
Dafonte Miller, represented by his lawyer Julian Falconer of Falconers LLP, has filed a complaint with the Office of the Independent Police Review Director in connection with the vicious assault and subsequent charges laid against him on December 28, 2016...
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