Course Chairs
Kevin Westell — Sutherland Jetté, Vancouver
Michelle Wray — Crown Counsel, Ministry of Justice, Vancouver
About the Course Chairs
Kevin B. Westell is a partner at the firm Sutherland Jetté. After receiving his LLP at the University of Manitoba in 2008, he completed his articles under prominent criminal defence lawyer Glen Orris, QC in 2009, and continued to practice with him before joining Sutherland Jette in 2013.
Kevin has developed an extensive and varied criminal law practice and has worked as an ad hoc prosecutor. He has defended accused persons at all levels of court in British Columbia. Kevin has written papers for the CBA National Criminal Justice Conference and has been a guest presenter for the Law Society of BC and the BCIT Law for IT Professionals course. He has also been a supervising lawyer for the UBC Law Students’ Legal Advice Program, the UBC First Nations Legal Clinic, and the UBC Innocence Project. Kevin currently serves as the chair of the CBA Vancouver Criminal Justice Section.
Michelle Wray is Administrative Crown Counsel in Surrey. After receiving her LLB from Queen’s University in 1998, she articled at Bolton and Muldoon in Vancouver, and joined the Surrey Crown office in May of 1999. She has had conduct of trials in Provincial and Supreme Court, has been bail Crown, and organizer of the Prolific Offender Management program in Surrey for several years. Michelle has written papers for and presented at previous CLEBC courses, a seminar for the Trial Lawyers Association of BC, and the National Criminal Law Conference.
Faculty
The Honourable Madam Justice Elizabeth A. Bennett — Court of Appeal for BC, Vancouver
The Honourable Judge James Bahen — Provincial Court of BC, Vancouver
The Honourale Judge Ellen Gordon — Provincial Court of BC, Surrey
The Honourable Judge Reginald Harris — Provincial Court of BC, Vancouver
The Honourable Judge Jennifer Oulton — Provincial Court of BC, Surrey
David G. Butcher, QC — Wilson Butcher, Vancouver
Jeffrey T. Campbell, QC — Peck and Company, Vancouver
Barry Cooper, PhD, RPsych — Director, Interprofessional Clinic, UBC Okanagan, Kelowna
Staff Sgt. Paul Dadwal — CFSEU-RCMP, E Division, Surrey
Michaela E. Donnelly — Crown Counsel, Ministry of Justice, North Vancouver
Michael A. Fortino — Crown Counsel, Ministry of Justice, Surrey
Kim Gramlich (along with her Victim Services Intervention dog Caber) — Victim Services Coordinator, Delta Police Victim Services, Delta
Peter W. Hogg — Crown Counsel, Ministry of Justice, Vancouver
Mark R. Jetté — Sutherland Jetté, Vancouver
Michael P. Klein, QC — Michael Klein Law Corporation, Vancouver
Clive Milligan — Use of Force Instructor, Justice Institute of BC, New Westminster
Winston Sayson, QC — Crown Counsel, Ministry of Justice, Surrey
Patricia E. Stark — Defence Counsel, Vancouver
Marvin N. Stern — Stern Albert Shapray & Associates, Surrey
Todd Tomita, MD, FRCPC — Forensic Psychiatrist, UBC Division of Forensic Psychiatry, Vancouver
Kimberly J. Wendel — Crown Counsel, Ministry of Justice, Surrey