La professeure Anne-Marie Boisvert a récemment ete nomme au

Notes biographiques
Anne-Marie Boisvert est professeure titulaire à la Faculté de droit de l’Université de
Montréal dont elle a été doyenne de 2004 à 2008.
Elle a complété son Baccalauréat en droit (LL.B.) à l’Université de Montréal et est
membre du Barreau du Québec depuis 1985. Titulaire d’une maîtrise en droit de
l’Université Harvard, elle a été clerc à la Cour suprême du Canada auprès du juge
Antonio Lamer de 1985 à 1986.
Mme Boisvert a également été professeure invitée dans plusieurs facultés de droit dont :
l’Université McGill, la section de droit civil de l’Université d’Ottawa, l’Université de
Nantes et l’Université de Lyon. Elle est co-fondateur et Éditeur de la Revue canadienne
de droit pénal, Éditeur pour le Québec des Criminal Reports, ancienne Présidente du
Comité permanent en droit criminel du Barreau du Québec (1996 à 2004), et ancienne
Présidente du Comité d’examen des plaintes de la Sûreté du Québec (2000-2003). Elle a
présidé le groupe de travail mis sur pied en 2004 par le Gouvernement du Québec pour
mettre à jour la politique québécoise de protection des collaborateurs de la justice. Elle
est présentement membre du Comité national d’éthique sur le vieillissement et les
changements démographiques du Québec. Elle est l’auteure de multiples publications et
communications dans le domaine du droit pénal canadien (théorie de la responsabilité
pénale, responsabilité des personnes morales), du droit criminel comparé et du droit pénal
international.
The Honourable Madam Justice Louise Charron
Born on March 2, 1951, Justice Louise Charron received her primary and secondary education in
Sturgeon Falls, Ontario. She is married to William Blake and has one child, Gabriel Poliquin,
and two step-sons, Michael and Steven Blake.
She received a B.A. from Carleton University in 1972 and an LL.B. from the University of
Ottawa in 1975. Called to the Ontario Bar in 1977, she practised law with the firm of Lalonde &
Chartrand from 1977 to 1980, mostly in civil and criminal litigation.
She served as Assistant Crown Attorney for the Judicial District of Ottawa-Carleton from 1978
to 1988, holding this position on a full-time basis from 1980 to 1985. She was a lecturer in the
French common law section of the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law from 1978 to 1985,
when she joined the Faculty as Assistant Professor, a position she held until 1988.
Justice Charron was appointed a District Court Judge and Local Judge of the High Court of
Ontario in Ottawa in 1988 and Judge of the Ontario Court of Justice (General Division) in 1990.
An educator at heart, she has been actively involved in moot courts and in continuing education
for judges and lawyers, and was Associate Director of the National Judicial Institute from 1994
to 1996.
Justice Charron was appointed Judge of the Ontario Court of Appeal in 1995 and Deputy Judge
of the Nunavut Court of Justice from 1999 to 2004. She was appointed to the Supreme Court of
Canada on August 30, 2004.
She has received Honorary LL.D.’s from the Law Society of Upper Canada in 2004, from
Nipissing University in 2005 and from Sudbury’s Laurentian University in 2006. She was
elected to honorary fellowship in the American College of Trial Lawyers in 2007.
Justice Shaun Nakatsuru
Ontario Court of Justice
Graduate of the University of Toronto Law School and called to the bar in 1988. Has
experience, both in the private sector and in government. Has practised in criminal and
public law as a defence lawyer, as a regulatory prosecutor for the College of Physicians
and Surgeons of Ontario, and as a constitutional/human rights lawyer for the Ministry of
the Attorney General. Has argued cases at all levels of court including a number of cases
at the Supreme Court of Canada.
Appointed in 2006 to the Ontario Court of Justice sitting in Toronto Region.
Has taught Advanced Criminal Law at the University of Toronto Law School and Trial
Advocacy at Osgoode Hall Law School. Currently, is an instructor in the Part-Time LLm
program at the Osgoode Professional Development Program in Constitutional Law
teaching legal rights.
Publications include a text An Introduction to Criminal Law 4th Ed., Carswell, Thompson
Professional Publishing, Toronto, 2000 and Review of A Theory of the Trial, (2000), 50
University of Toronto Law Journal, 363.
Don Stuart
Professor, Faculty of Law, Queen's University, Kingston since 1974.
B.A. LL.B. (Natal), Dip. Crim.(Cantab.) D.Phil. (Oxon); Rhodes Scholar 1967-1970
(Natal).
Editor-in-Chief, Criminal Reports, since 1982; co-ordinator, Criminal Law
Essentials Netletter for judges, since 2001; Assistant Crown Attorney, Toronto,
1988-1989; Queen’s Law Students Society Teaching Excellence Award 2005,
O.B.A .Mundell Medal for Legal Writing, 2007
Publications include: Canadian Criminal Law: A Treatise (5th ed., 2007), Charter
Justice in Canadian Criminal Law (4th. ed., 2005), and co-authored casebooks:
Stuart, Delisle and Coughlan, Learning Canadian Criminal Law (11th ed., 2009);
Stuart, Delisle and Quigley, Learning Canadian Criminal Procedure (9th ed., 2008),
and Delisle, Stuart and Tanovich, Evidence. Principles and Problems (8th ed.,
2007). With R.J. Delisle and Allan Manson, co-edited a book of Essays, Towards a
Clear and Just Criminal Law (1999). All books published by Carswells/Thomson.