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DESCRIPTION:Dennis Edney has spent more than a decade advocating on behalf 
 of Omar Khadr — known as the youngest prisoner and last Western national t
 o be incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay. Mr. Khadr\, a 15-year-old Canadian ci
 tizen at the time of his capture in Afghanistan\, also holds the dubious d
 istinction of being the first person to be prosecuted by a military commis
 sion for purported war crimes he is claimed to have committed while still 
 a child. \n\nMr. Edney is more than Mr. Khadr’s lawyer — he lives with him
  (a linchpin in securing his release). Mr. Edney will talk about how the p
 ost 9/11 climate of fear and insecurity has been exploited to justify long
 -standing human rights violations carried out in the name of national secu
 rity. This has led to an intense debate over where the balance lies betwee
 n the rule of law\, human rights and civil liberties on the one hand and s
 ecurity on the other. It is Mr. Edney’s position that if we do not get the
  balance right\, we can fall into lawlessness. One has to look no further 
 than Guantanamo Bay.\n\nAbout the speaker\n\nAfter completing my law degre
 e from the University of Northumbria\, England\, in 1987\, Dennis Edney be
 gan my legal career as a  general practitioner. Mr. Edney's legal practice
  has focused on criminal and human rights law\, and cases being tried unde
 r the new terrorist legislation. He is listed as counsel in various report
 ed cases\, including  appearances before the Supreme Court of Canada\, mos
 t notably  R. v Mills and Canada v. Khadr.  He was also given leave to fil
 e an amicus brief before the U.S. Supreme Court in Rasul v. Bush. In 2004\
 , he was appointed as Foreign Attorney Consultant by the U.S. Pentagon to 
 participate in the defence of Mr. Omar Khadr.\n\nDennis Edney has received
  a number of awards and distinctions including the 2008 National Pro Bono 
 Award (2008)\, the Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia’s Human Rights 
 Medal (2009)\, the Gerald L. Gall award by the John Humphrey Centre for Pe
 ace and Human Rights (2013)\, the Winnipeg Citizens Award (2014)\, the Rot
 ary Club of Canada’s Paul Harris Fellowship (2014) and most recently Canad
 a’s 25 Most Influential Lawyers by Canadian Lawyer in the Criminal/ Human 
 Rights Law (2015). \n\nPresented by the Centre for Human Rights and Legal 
 Pluralism\, the Human Rights Working Group\, and Lawyers Without Border (M
 cGill chapter).\n
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LOCATION:Maxwell Cohen Moot Court (NCDH 100)\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, Q
 C\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 3644 rue Peel
SUMMARY:A Conversation with Dennis Edney\, lawyer for Omar Khadr
URL:/law/channels/event/conversation-dennis-edney-lawy
 er-omar-khadr-255978
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