Paul Copeland (lawyer)
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A Toronto-based Human rights lawyer, Paul Copeland is widely known as the defence attorney of accused-terrorist Mohamed Harkat, and an avid supporter of legal aid.[1]
Copeland co-founded the Law Union of Ontario in 1974 and was the Vice-President of the Criminal Lawyers Association from 1985-1991 and is the president of the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted. He has been a Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada since 1990.[1]
In 2006, he was awarded the Sidney B. Linden Award by Legal Aid Ontario, in recognition of his work.[1]
In June 2006 he argued in the Supreme Court of Canada on behalf of Mohamed Harkat that the security certifcate procedure under the immigration and Refugee Protection Act violated the fundamental justice provisions of Section 7 of the Canadain Charter of Rights and Freedom. In February 2007 the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously agreed with that argument and held that the procedure violated fundamental justice.
In 2007 he was awarded the G Arthur Martin Criminal Justice Award by the Criminal Lawyers Association. That is the highest honour given annually by the CLA.
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