What Not to Share, Continuing Legal Education Session on Privacy Law and Media Training for LawyersDate: Thursday, September 22, 2016
Time: 8:30AM - 1:30PM
Location: Fox Meadow Golf Course
8:30-9:00AM Registration 9:00 – 10:10AM Media Training for Lawyers, Caroline Nevin, Executive Director Canadian Bar Association, B.C. Branch
Caroline Nevin has provided communications, crisis management and reputation management advice to Ministers, Crown Corporations, health authorities, businesses and justice system leaders for over 30 years. She believes that anyone can learn to handle media attention with grace and aplomb, given knowledge, preparation and practice. Caroline is the current Executive Director of the CBA BC Branch, and has both an MBA and a Canadian Association Executive (CAE) designation.
She will present on Media Relations: What drives today's media, and how can you get the most from it? How to protect your reputation, and even enhance it. Why and when to say no. How to prepare for an interview, handle difficult questions and successfully deliver key messages. Why your skills as a lawyer may trip you up, and how to prevent that from happening. What gets you into trouble with the Law Society? What makes for an effective message? And a crash-course in the skills you need to be a more effective communicator.
10:10 – 10:20 BREAK 10:20 – 11:30 Intrusion Upon Seclusion and the Related Expansion of Privacy Torts in Recent Years in Canada, Trent Skanes, McInnes Cooper, St. John’s N.L.
Trent Skane’s practice focuses on privacy, access to information, and technology law. Trent works closely with David Fraser, one of Canada’s pre-eminent experts in privacy law. Trent regularly advises public bodies, health authorities, corporations, and individuals alike in their dealings with privacy and access to information regulators. He helps organizations manage all compliance and regulatory aspects of federal and provincial privacy and access laws, including PIPEDA (Canada), provincial access to information laws, and provincial health privacy laws. Trent chairs the Newfoundland & Labrador Branch of the Privacy and Access Law CBA national section and is also the outreach coordinator for the national section.
Trent’s presentation will begin with a focus on the new tort of intrusion upon seclusion: how it came to be, and how it has developed since its inception. It will then touch on the resulting boom of class actions that relate to invasion of privacy or breaches of privacy. It will also discuss new threats to privacy on the horizon that could trigger litigation. Finally, it will examine the current priorities of the Federal Privacy Commissioner for 2015-2020, discuss recent legislative changes to PIPEDA and upcoming changes to the consent model, and highlight some current international trends in privacy law.
11:30 – 11:35 BREAK 11:35 – 12:45 An Overview of the Office and Powers of the PEI Information and Privacy Commissioner, Karen A. Rose, Information and Privacy Commissioner of PEI.
Karen A. Rose was appointed Information and Privacy Commissioner effective June 22, 2015. Ms. Rose has previous experience in the role as she was appointed Prince Edward Island’s first Information and Privacy Commissioner under the
Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act on November 19, 2002, and Acting Information and Privacy Commissioner from May, 2006 to May 2008. She also worked as Supernumerary Information and Privacy Commissioner in 2011. Ms. Rose was called to the Bar of Prince Edward Island in May, 1994, and obtained a Masters Degree in Business Administration in 2010. She has practiced law in the private sector in both Summerside and Charlottetown.
Ms. Rose last gave a CLE presentation in January, 2003, two months after the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner opened in Prince Edward Island. With the benefit of 13 years of operation, Ms. Rose will discuss the access and privacy processes within the office, the interpretation of significant provisions of the
Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, and the expected impact of the yet-to-be proclaimed
Health Information Act.
12:45PM LUNCH 1:45PM GOLF: David Canvin and Jason Morais, have offered to coordinate an afternoon of golf. There are a number of tee times reserved starting at 2:00pm. Cost per golfer is $50 plus tax (includes golf cart). If you are interested in participating in this social activity, please contact David (
dcanvin@csmlaw.com) or Jason (
jmorais@csmlaw.com) at Carr, Stevenson MacKay to register.
This CLE provides 3.5 hours of mandatory CPD credits.
