September 26, 2006 Source: :
http://www.unb.ca/news/view.cgi?id=1106 Bennett Lecture Looks at Science in the Courtroom September 26, 2006
UNB Fredericton News Release: D714
Natalie Montgomery, Public Relations Officer (506) 451-6842 Science in the courtroom is the theme of this year’s Viscount Bennett Memorial Lecture being held at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton on Thursday, Oct. 5. The Honourable Mr. Justice William Ian Cornell Binnie of the Supreme Court of Canada will deliver a talk entitled Science in the Courtroom: The Mouse That Roars. Sponsored by UNBF’s faculty of law, the lecture will take place at 5:30 p.m. in Room 2 of Ludlow Hall, 41 Dineen Dr. A reception will follow and the public is welcome. Justice Binnie has lectured at Osgoode Hall Law School, the Law Society of Upper Canada, and the Canadian Bar Association. He is the authour of numerous publications on advocacy and civil litigation, constitutional interpretation, and judicial notice. Justice Binnie was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada on Jan. 8, 1988. He was elected Commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists in April 2003. In conjunction with the lecture, a panel discussion will take place on Friday, Oct. 6, from 10 a.m. to noon, in Room 2B of Ludlow Hall. The panel discussion is entitled Reflecting on Our Changing Profession. The members of the panel are Mr. Justice Ian Binnie of the Supreme Court of Canada; G. Robert Basque, president of the Law Society of New Brunswick and lawyer with Forbes Roth Basque; Susan Borsic-Drummond, lawyer with Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP; Mel Norton, chair of Young Lawyers Committee Canadian Bar Association – New Brunswick Branch and lawyer with Lawson & Creamer. The chairs for the discussion are Aloke Chatterjee and Jula Hughes with UNBF’s faculty of law. The Viscount Bennett Lecture was established under the terms of the will of Viscount Bennett. Born in Hopewell Cape, N.S., Richard Bedford Bennett had a long and distinguished career as lawyer, politician and statesman. He served as prime minister from 1930 to 1935 and in 1941 was raised to the peerage of the United Kingdom. - 30 -
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