About the authors

• Author: Robert Hubbard; Daniel Murphy; Fergus O'Donnell; Peter De Freitas
• Pages: 816-816

ABOUT

THE

AUTHORS

Robert

Hubbard

Robert

Hubbard joined

the

Department

of

Justice

in

1977

and is now

Senior Gen-

eral

Counsel

in the

Ontario

Regional

Office.

Since

1986

he has

been

the

Coordi-

nator

of

Criminal

Appeals

for the

Ontario Regional

Office.

In

addition

to

arguing

appeals

in the

Ontario Court

of

Appeal

and the

Supreme Court

of

Canada,

he has

prosecuted

a

number

of

complex white collar crime

cases.

Mr.

Hubbard

has

written

and

lectured

on

criminal

law

subjects

and is

co-author

of

Wiretapping

and

other

Elec-

tronic

Surveillance:

Law and

Procedure.

Daniel

Murphy

Daniel Murphy co-ordinates

all

international

and

domestic sharing

of any

federally

forfeited

proceeds

of

crime

and is

responsible

for the

negotiation

of

Canada's

Sharing

Agreements

which recognize foreign

assistance

in

Canada's proceeds

of

crime

cases.

He has

been

a

Justice Canada delegate

to the

Financial Action Task Force (FATF),

the

Caribbean Financial Action

Task

Force

and the

Lyon Group

on

money launder-

ing for the G8

group.

He has

acted

as an

evaluator

for

mutual evaluations

of the

anti-

money laundering

efforts

of

other countries

for the

FATF.

Mr.

Murphy

has

also

undertaken

international training

on

proceeds

of

crime

and

money laundering

on

behalf

of the

United Nations.

Fergus

ODonnell

Fergus

ODonnell

is

Senior Counsel

in the

Ontario Regional

Office

of the

Depart-

ment

of

Justice.

He

heads

the

RCMP

Integrated Proceeds

of

Crime Units

in

Toron-

to and

southwestern Ontario which

are

responsible

for

proceeds

of

crime investiga-

tions

and

which

assist

investigators, crown attorneys

and

foreign investigators

to

trace

and

seize

the

Canadian-based

assets

of

criminals.

Mr.

ODonnell

is a

frequent

lecturer

on

proceeds

of

crime

and

other criminal

law

topics

at the

Ontario Police College

and

at the

Department

of

Justice

in

Toronto

and

Ottawa.

Peter

DeFreitas

Peter DeFreitas

is

Counsel with

the

Department

of

Justice,

Ontario

Regional

Office.

He

joined

the

Department

of

Justice

in

1994

as

counsel

in the

Prosecution Section

and has

prosecuted

offences

under

the

Narcotics

Control

Act,

the

Income

Tax

Act,

the

Criminal

Code

and

argued appeals

in the

Ontario Court

of

Appeal.

He has

published

a

number

of

articles

on

criminal

law

topics

and

lectured

at

prosecutors' seminars

and

training seminars

for

investigative agencies.