Governance
Innocence Canada is a non-profit organization that was founded in 1993 and incorporated in 2000.
Innocence Canada’s mandate is to identify, advocate for and exonerate individuals who have been convicted of a crime they did not commit and to prevent wrongful convictions through legal education and reform.
Innocence Canada’s Board and Innocence Canada Foundation’s Board are both regulated by a set of By-Laws.
Innocence Canada By-Laws
Innocence Canada Foundation By-Laws
Governing Bodies
Innocence Canada and Innocence Canada Foundation are separate organizations, each governed by its own volunteer Board of Directors. The Innocence Canada Case Review Committee, a committee of the Innocence Canada Board, is responsible for assessing wrongful conviction applications.
Ron Dalton
Innocence Canada Co-President, Innocence Canada Treasurer, Accountant, and Exoneree
Jonathan Freedman
Innocence Canada Co-President, Forensic Psychology Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto
Jerome Kennedy, K.C.
Criminal Defence Lawyer at Roebothan McKay Marshall
James Lockyer, C.M.
Criminal Defence Lawyer, Partner at Lockyer, Zaduk Zeeh, Member of the Order of Canada and Founding Director of Innocence Canada
Joanne McLean
Criminal Defence Lawyer
Deborah Oakley
Chair of the Provincial Judges Pension Board, University of Toronto Business Board, former Innocence Canada and Innocence Canada Foundation Executive Director
Bhavan K. Sodhi
Barrister and Solicitor, Wrongful Conviction Specialist, former Executive Director, Osgoode Hall Innocence Project, former Legal Director, Innocence Canada, and former Chief Program Officer, Innocence Project (NY)
Maria R. Shepherd
Founder and Senior Paralegal with Shepherd Advocacy & Litigation, and Exoneree
Tamara Duncan
Criminal Defence Lawyer at Martin and Associates
Dr. L. Jane McMillan
Legal Anthropologist, Professor and Co-Director Deveau Centre for Indigenous Governance & Social Justice St. Francis Xavier University
Sean MacDonald
Civil & Criminal Defence Lawyer
Paul Bennett
Barrister
Dan Brodsky
Board Member Emeritus, Criminal Defence Lawyer
Jonathan Freedman
Innocence Canada Foundation Co-President, Forensic Psychology Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto
Deborah Oakley
Innocence Canada Foundation Co-President, Chair of the Provincial Judges Pension Board, University of Toronto Business Board, former Innocence Canada and Innocence Canada Foundation Executive Director
Brian Greenspan
Innocence Canada Foundation Treasurer, Criminal Defence lawyer, Partner at Greenspan Humphrey Makepeace
Stephen Goudge, K.C.
Former Justice of the Court for Appeal for Ontario, Head of The Inquiry into Pediatric Forensic Pathology in Ontario
Robert Lapper, K.C
David and Dorothy Lam Chair in Law and Public Policy in the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Human and Social Development at the University of Victoria, Former CEO of Law Society of Ontario
Beverley McLachlin, P.C., C.C., CStJ, FCIArb
Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, and Companion of the Order of Canada
Dennis O’Connor, O.C., O.Ont., K.C.
Former Associate Chief Justice of Ontario, Officer of the Order of Canada, Member of the Order of Ontario, and Lawyer at Borden Ladner Gervais
Seymour Epstein
Business Executive
Patrick LeSage, K.C.
Former Chief Justice of the Ontario Superior Court, Head of The Inquiry into the Trial and Conviction of James Driskell, Honorary Life Member of Innocence Canada Foundation
Jerome Kennedy, K.C.
Chair of the Case Review Committee and
Criminal Defence Lawyer at Roebothan McKay Marshall
Joanne McLean
Criminal Defence Lawyer
Alison Craig
Criminal Defence Lawyer at Posner Craig Stein
Danielle Brown
Criminal Defence Lawyer at Daniel Brown Law
Erin Dann
Criminal Defence Lawyer at Embry Dann
Tamara Duncan
Criminal Defence Lawyer at Martin and Associates
The Honourable Melvyn Green
Retired Judge of the Ontario Court of Justice
Scott Hutchison
Criminal Defence Lawyer at Henein Hutchison Robitaille LLP
James Lockyer, C.M.
Criminal Defence Lawyer, Partner at Lockyer, Zaduk Zeeh
Sean MacDonald
Civil & Criminal Defence Lawyer at Sean T. MacDonald Law Office
Mark Sandler
Criminal Defence Lawyer
Bhavan K. Sodhi
Barrister and Solicitor, Wrongful Conviction Specialist, former Executive Director, Osgoode Hall Innocence Project, former Legal Director, Innocence Canada, and former Chief Program Officer, Innocence Project (NY)
Anne Tucker
Retired Superior Court of Ontario Justice