Peter Copeland, Barrister
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Accepts Legal AidAbout Peter Copeland, Barrister
Peter Copeland is a sole practitioner criminal trial and appellate lawyer based in downtown Toronto, with an office at 150 King Street West. Copeland earned a Bachelor of Science with honours in physics from the University of Toronto in 1992, followed by an LL.B. from the same university in 1995, and was called to the Ontario bar in 1998. The practice covers criminal and quasi criminal matters and professional discipline, including cases that turn on scientific or technical evidence such as accident reconstruction, medical causation, and computer forensics.
Copeland appears before every level of court in Ontario as well as the Supreme Court of Canada, and a large part of the practice is devoted to criminal appeals. Copeland also represents lawyers and paralegals in professional discipline proceedings. In 2009, Copeland co-authored a paper on the 'Mr. Big' police interrogation technique with co-authors Moore and Schuller, and the Supreme Court of Canada cited that work in R. v. Hart, 2014 SCC 52, when it created a new common law rule to address concerns raised by the technique.
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- Member of Legal Aid Ontario's Complex Case and Extremely Serious Matters panels.
- Takes on inmate appeals through the Pro Bono Inmate Appeal Program, appearing before the Court of Appeal for Ontario.
- Has lectured at continuing legal education programs run by the Criminal Lawyers' Association, Osgoode Professional Development, and the Ontario Bar Association.
- Member of the Criminal Lawyers' Association and the Toronto Lawyers' Association.
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150 King Street West, Suite 200, Toronto, Ontario M5H 1J9 · 416-868-1825
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