About the Authors

• Author: Mark C. Halfyard/Michael Dineen/Jonathan Dawe
• Pages: 17-18

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Mark Halfyard      

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from the University of Ottawa in 2004 (LLB, cum laude), and was called to the bar in

2005. He appears regularly at the Ontario Court of Appeal and the Superior Court of

Justice (summary conviction appeals). Mark has also argued several cases at the Supreme

Court of Canada. He is an adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, where he

teaches criminal law for the LLM program, and he has taught for the Criminology

Department at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT). Mark is a

member of the Criminal Lawyers’ Association’s Intervention Committee, which directs

interventions to the Ontario Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada. He

is also a member of the Ontario Court of Appeals’ Inmate Appeal Duty Counsel

Program and a review counsel for Association in Defence of the Wrongfully Convicted

(AIDWYC).

Michael Dineen, LLB, is a criminal defence lawyer with a particular focus on appeals.

He has appeared at all levels of court in Ontario and the Supreme Court of Canada,

and appears regularly in the Ontario Court of Appeal. He graduated from the Uni-

versity of Toronto Faculty of Law in 2002. He was called to the bar in 2003 and has

practised criminal law exclusively ever since. Michael worked as an associate at Lockyer

Campbell Posner, and as an appeal lawyer at Pinkofskys before forming Dawe and

Dineen with Jonathan Dawe. Michael is a legal editor of the Canadian Criminal Cases,

and serves as adjunct faculty at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Osgoode

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Association in Defence of the Wrongfully Convicted. Michael volunteers to assist

unrepresented criminal appellants as part of the Court of Appeals Inmate Appeal Duty

Counsel Program.

Jonathan Dawe, BSc, LLB, LLM, has an appellate criminal law practice in partnership

with Michael Dineen. After receiving his LLB in 1994 he served as law clerk to former

Chief Justice Lamer at the Supreme Court of Canada before attending graduate studies

About the Authors