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NATIONAL JUDICIAL INSTITUTE INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA MAGISTRATURE
20TH ANNIVERSARY ESSAYS ESSAIS SOULIGNANT LE 20e ANNIVERSAIRE
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INTRODUCTION
VISION, LEADERSHIP AND COMMITMENT: THE NJI AT 20 XX The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C. Chief Justice of Canada
A JOURNEY IN JUDICIAL EDUCATION
THE BIRTH OF THE NATIONAL JUDICIAL INSTITUTE XX The Honourable Justice Robert J. Sharpe Court of Appeal for Ontario
SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE LAUNCHING OF XX THE NATIONAL JUDICIAL INSTITUTE The Honourable Frank Iacobucci Retired Justice, Supreme Court of Canada
EARLY BEGINNINGS: NATIONAL JUDICIAL INSTITUTE XX The Honourable Justice T. David Marshall Superior Court of Justice (Ontario)
PARTNERSHIPS
LA COUR SUPÉRIEURE DU QUÉBEC ET XX L’INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA MAGISTRATURE L’honorable François Rolland Juge en chef, Cour supérieure du Québec
L’INM ET ET LA COUR DU QUÉBEC: QUATRE ANNÉES DE COMPLICITÉ XX L’honorable juge Jean-François Gosselin Cour du Québec
AVRIL 2005, VICTORIA: UN PARTENARIAT PREND NAISSANCE XX L’honorable juge Odette Perron Cour du Québec
THE ONTARIO COURT OF JUSTICE: A JOURNEY IN EDUCATION XX The Honourable Justice J. David Wake Ontario Court of Justice The Honourable Justice Brian W. Lennox Ontario Court of Justice, Executive Director, NJI
JUDGINGFOCUSED JUDICIAL EDUCATION
L’INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA JUSTICE : XX 25 ANS AU SERVICE DE LA MAGISTRATURE L’honorable Michel Bastarache Ancien juge à la Cour suprême
EMBRACING CHANGE: HOW NJI ADAPTS TO XX THE CHANGING ROLE OF THE JUDGE The Honourable Justice C. Adèle Kent Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta 1 www.nji-inm.ca TABLE OF CONTENTS / TABLE DES MATIÈRES
JUDGINGFOCUSED JUDICIAL EDUCATION CONTINUED
INNOVATIONS IN JUDICIAL EDUCATION: XX NJI’S PROGRAM, PREVENTING WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS Professor T. Brettel Dawson Academic Director, National Judicial Institute and Natalie Salat Communications Offi cer, National Judicial Institute
SERVING ALL OF CANADA’S JUDGES: XX BILINGUALISM AND BIJURALISM AT THE NJI Professor Rosalie Jukier Faculty of Law, McGill University
SOCIAL CONTEXT EDUCATION
NJI’S BOLD MOVES: COLLABORATION AND PROGRESSIVE PEDAGOGY XX The Honourable Justice Donna J. Martinson Supreme Court of British Columbia
PIONEERING EFFORTS: NJI’S SOCIAL CONTEXT EDUCATION PROJECT XX The Honourable John F. McGarry Superior Court of Justice (Ontario)
CURRICULUM INNOVATION: ELECTRONIC LEARNING
THE EVOLUTION OF THE NATIONAL JUDICIAL INSTITUTE’S XX INSTRUCTOR-LED ONLINE COURSES The Honourable Jean R. Lytwyn, Senior Judge Provincial Court of British Columbia
NJI ON THE INTERNATIONAL STAGE
REFLECTIONS ON INTERNATIONAL JUDICIAL EDUCATION XX The Honourable Justice Marc Rosenberg Court of Appeal for Ontario Susan Doyle Senior Advisor, National Judicial Institute and Don Chiasson Director, Canada-China Judicial Linkages Project, National Judicial Institute
ENGAGING CANADIAN JUDGES IN INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION XX ACTIVITIES The Honourable Justice Thea P. Herman Superior Court of Justice (Ontario) Professor T. Brettel Dawson Academic Director, National Judicial Institute and
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MAKING IT WORK, TOGETHER
THE NJI MULTIPLIER EFFECT — OR HOW WE WORK: XX THE PRACTICAL, AS OPPOSED TO PEDAGOGICAL, SIDE OF THE STORY Mary Ahearn Program Advisor, National Judicial Institute and Susan Lightstone Education Director, National Judicial Institute
THE EVOLUTION OF THE NJI: 20TH ANNIVERSARY REFLECTIONS XX Keith Jeacle Chief Financial Offi cer, National Judicial Institute
LEARNING FROM THE NJI: A NON-LAWYER’S VIEW XX Edward Berry Professor Emeritus University of Victoria
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Vision, Leadership and Commitment: The NJI at 20
o mark the 20th anniversary of the National Judicial Institute (NJI) – and to celebrate and recognize its achievements – the NJI has produced this collection of invited essays T that you have in your hands to enjoy. Taken together, they refl ect the fi rst 20 years of an organization acknowledged as a world leader in the design and delivery of innovative, judge-led judicial education. They also refl ect a remarkable group of individuals who, in the words of Professor Rosalie Jukier ( “Serving All of Canada’s Judges: Bilingualism and Bijuralism at the NJI”), have “…affi rmed a strong com- mitment to strive continuously for ways to better serve the judiciary and, by implication, to improve the administration of justice in this country and beyond.”
Rather than having a single voice, the essays are very much the product of the diff erent contributors, each of whom has played a key role in the development of the NJI. I thank them for their generous contribution to our history.
For the National Judicial Institute to have achieved international status in 20 short years requires visionary and dedicated leadership. On behalf of the Board of Governors, I am honoured to dedicate this collection of papers to the late Brian Dickson, P.C., C.C., former Chief Justice of Canada, and to The Honourable William A. Stevenson, retired justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, who are quite rightly considered to be the founders of the NJI. We are all deeply in their debt.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE BEVERLEY MCLACHLIN, P.C. CHIEF JUSTICE OF CANADA CHAIR, BOARD OF GOVERNORS
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Excerpt from “Towards the Creation of a National Judicial Education Service for Canada” (1986) by Mr. Justice W. A. Stevenson
I RECOMMEND that a Canadian Judicial Centre, funded by both levels of government, avail- able to serve all levels of the judiciary, be established in the form of a secretariat. The centre must be independently managed by the judiciary with the following mandate :