Our Principal, Chilwin Cheng, will be chairing the Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia “Regulatory Offences and Criminal Prosecutions 2024” conference on October 2, 2024.
The conference will bring together diverse faculty across regulatory disciplines, from workplace safety, financial regulation, natural resource regulation, and others.
Regulated industries are most often governed by criminal, quasi-criminal, and administrative sanctions. However, each enforcement branch requires counsel to practice in very different institutional and legal environments.
Often, defence counsel must defend persons accused of regulatory offences in parallel administrative proceedings. Conversely, defence counsel assisting a client during an investigation, review, audit, or other regulatory inquiry must be aware of when such a process might lead to a criminal or quasi-criminal prosecution. The practice is fraught with procedural, legal, and strategic peril.
This course will examine regulatory processes, their operation, and their implications for counsel who must handle proceedings in this dual-function context. The regulated industries covered in this program will include securities, forestry, mining, environmental protection, taxation, and workplace safety, among others.
While organizing the conference, Chilwin is also delivering a paper highlighting all the latest cases in this area since the last conference in 2022.
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