James Lockyer: The Defence Of The Wrongly Convicted

“James Lockyer is a transplanted Englishman who never intended to make Canada his home. He is a master of detail yet terribly absent-minded. He is methodical yet impulsive.  But there is one immutable quality that explains much of his phenomenal success. He works hard. He is a founding Director of the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted (AIDWYC), a Canada-wide organisation that advocates for the wrongly convicted.

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ABOUT James Lockyer

“James Lockyer obtained his LLB at the University of Nottingham in 1971 and is a member of the Bar in England. From 1972 until 1977, he was an Assistant Professor at the Law Faculties of McGill University and the University of Windsor.

In 1977 he was called to the Ontario Bar and began to practice criminal law. He has been a criminal lawyer for 33 years. In that capacity, he has been involved in several high profile wrongful conviction cases including those of David Milgaard, Guy Paul Morin and Robert Baltovich.

Others have included: Peter Frumusa, Gordon Folland, James Driskell, Clayton Johnson, Steven Truscott, Kyle Unger, William Mullins-Johnson, Romeo Phillion, Erin Walsh, Sherry Sherett-Robinson, Anthony Hanemaayer, Dinesh Kumar and Tammy Marquardt.

James Lockyer has played a key role in the chain of accountability that typically follows a miscarriage of justice. Wrongful convictions beget judicial inquiries, probes that force changes to every corner of the justice system and to which he has devoted many years of his life.”

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