About the Authors

• Author: Tracy Kozlowski/Joanne Stuart
• Pages: 185-185

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About the Authors

Tracy Kozlowski, BA (Hon), LLB, has worked as Crown Counsel at Crown

Law Oce — Criminal since 2005, both arguing appeals and prosecuting

trials. She has appeared for the Ontario Crown in the Supreme Court of

Canada on several seminal section 11(b) cases, including R v Williamson,

2016 SCC 28;R v Cody, 2017 SCC 31; R v Safdar, 2022 SCC 21; and R v JF,

2022 SCC 17. Appearances before the Court of Appeal for Ontario on the

subject include R v Hania, 2021 ONCA 326; R v JK, 2021 ONCA 256; R

v Adu-Bekoe, 2021 ONCA 1136; and R v Picard, 2017 ONCA 692. Shefre-

quently appears as a lecturer and acts as an advisor to Crown colleagues

and provincial prosecutors on all matters related to section 11(b) of the

Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Joanne Stuart, BA (Hon), LLB, has worked as Crown Counsel at Crown

Law Oce — Criminal since 2008, arguing appeals at the Court of

Appeal for Ontario and the Supreme Court of Canada, including as

Intervenor for the AG Ontario on seminal cases related to section 11(b)

of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, including R v KJM, 2019 SCC 55 and

R v KGK, 2020 SCC 7. She has also worked as a trial Crown in Toronto at

the Metro West (Etobicoke) Crown Attorney’s Oce, and most recently,

at the Metro East (Scarborough) Crown Attorney’s Oce, including at

the new Toronto courthouse at 10 Armoury Street. Prior to working as

a Crown, she spent three years working as an Associate at Greenspan

Humphrey Lavine (now Greenspan Humphrey Weinstein) doing trials

and appeals as defence counsel.