A post shared by Ankie D. (@ankiidankii) on Feb 10, 2016 at 11:18am PST. Five of her associates are former Supreme Court clerks, including rising star Matthew Gourlay, who spent a year on the staff of Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin and was married in her Ottawa living room. She was in the highlight after being able to save Michael Bryant from going jail. She is associated with a law firm named Henein Hutchison LLP. Thats not a tiny mole. Shes carefulshes not rude or impolitebut if you think youre going to push her around, theres going to be kickback.. [2] She is a partner of Henein Hutchison LLP, a law firm in Toronto. What is incredible is that all parties agree on criminal justice, and its not reform. Thats one of her assets. But to disinvite someone because you feel that a high school or university student cant bear a discussion about the justice system, and what a defence lawyers role is, is something out of Brave New World. Alan Young arranged for her to co-teach a course with him at Osgoode and hired her to help with an appeal in a sensational drug case, reducing 60 volumes of transcripts from 100 witnesses in a year-long trial to a coherent summary of facts, known in legal jargon as a factum. [8][9], In 2009, Henein represented Bradley Harrison at the Supreme Court of Canada. A diamond-encrusted serpent ring is her only jewellery, slithering up one ornately manicured finger, each opaline nail inscribed with a delicate black deco design. In looks, age and background, Ghomeshi and Henein share eerie similarities, and, within legal circles, her star power is at least equal to his. That nomadic preamble played a key role in shaping her. It would be devastating to anybody. Shes direct with her clients when advising them onthe impact a trial will have: You will never ever be the same again. I cant focus on that. I dont think that the public sees exactly what is going on. These women better not be lying, he says of the complainants in the case, because if they are, Marie will crack em open and expose them.. She smiles enigmatically at the question. Youre not getting patted on the head a lot here, she says. Together they came up with the idea of offering their services, pro bono, to prisoners like him who had run out of legal options. Now, as head of the white-collar crime practice at Gowlings, Jennings gamely co-ordinates his schedule to help raise their sons, aged 10 and 15. I mean, thats what I do for a living: you go and you make your case and you persuade. Youre going to fuck up, but I wish women would stop beating themselves up about not being the perfect wife and mother. In hers, Bryant was not the cocky aggressor; he was the unwitting victim of a troubled man who had clashed with drivers before. Ghomeshi trial: Everything wrong with sexual assault law You dont even need 50 percent plus one. In the Hollywood version the setting would be grander, but in the College Street courthouse tucked above a Winners outlet, grandeur is in short supply. A firm believer in crafting a narrative for each defence, Henein threw herself into fleshing out a storyline that was at odds with the one unfolding in the media. Jan. 13, 2023. Heneins name was on every list but seldom at the top; his male friends worried she might be too aggressive in a case where he was already being pilloried in the press. Being with the firm, Marie has fought numerous criminal cases and has been able to make her established as one of the most reputed, respected and fearless lawyers in the city. Marie Henein (born 1966)[1] is a Canadian criminal defence lawyer. Suddenly, the door to Courtroom 506 opens and the media contingent rushes inside to fill its scant half-dozen rows. Ever since Ghomeshi pleaded not guilty to seven counts of sexual assault and one of choking, Henein has put a gag on his dulcet public tones. There is a point to having the vote.. He never once told me to tone it down, she says. Henein was born in Cairo, Egypt, to Lebanese Maronite parents. That is across the board. Even growing up in a neighbourhood populated largely by other immigrants, most from Italy, Henein and her kid brother, Peter, felt they didnt quite belong. She was 15 when he took her to her first drag show. SEAN SPEER: You mentioned, in an earlier answer, issues around communication and speech engagements. She can think five, six, 10 moves down the chess game.. You'll get our weekly newsletter featuring The Hubs thought-provoking insights and analysis of Canadian policy issues and in-depth interviews with the worlds sharpest minds and thinkers. Well, it certainly played to my outsider, fighter instincts. For Henein, the whole debate is irrelevant, an utter waste of time. Despite that pre-emptive caution, Henein showed up to emcee the annual awards gala for the countrys in-house corporate counselpossibly the most staid members of the legal communityin knee-high, lace-up dominatrix boots. But Perry Mason would have saved his big reveal for a courtroom ambush. After its operation, it was accompanied by the former crown attorney Scott Hutchison and therefore the law firm was renamed as Henein Hutchinson LLP. At times, Frost was frustrated that Henein refrained from going directly for the jugular, but she insisted on what he calls the slow burn. When he chafed at her obsession with what seemed like some minor detail, she retorted that no detail was too smallor, as it turned out, too lurid. She has carved out a lucrative niche defending doctors and other professionals before their regulatory bodies. The public can have a case made to them based on evidence and maybe be persuaded. She is survived by three daughters. Now she intends to do the same for Jian Ghomeshi, even if it. Marie Henein (born 1966) is a Canadian criminal defence lawyer. Wherever they lived, from their first apartment in Thorncliffe Park to the stolid brown brick house they bought in the farthest reaches of North York, the Heneins were never more than a few doors, or a few blocks, from her maternal grandmother, the matriarch of the family, who became her chief companion and babysitter. Within the year, she was back at their firm as a junior associate. And for me, it was the very first time in a 30-year career where I fully understood the power of the state against an accused person. You think of how the Charter was brought about. Poster Girl. She has also been serving in the Canadian Criminal Cases as its Associate Editor. Crown attorney Michael Callaghan announces he is dropping two of the seven sexual assault charges, which, he admits, had no reasonable prospect of conviction. For Henein, the timing was not exactly propitious. Today's Dialogue is part two of The Hub's conversation with Marie Henein, a prominent criminal defence lawyer and author of a new memoir, Nothing but the Truth. At night, he helped her perfect her oratorical skills by making her read aloud from Dickens, and he prodded both his offspring to debate. He hired Marie to represent him in the court and defend him against the charges he was accused of. In 1982, Ghomeshis memoir of growing up as the child of Iranian immigrants in the citys northern suburbs, he writes poignantly of life as an outsider, acutely aware that his skin was not an acceptable shade of pale. I think people think that an accused person has all the rights and theyre in control. Marie Henein is the smartest, toughest, most sought-after defence lawyer in the city. I dont think any other woman could get away with it.. I mean, thats fine. It is pandering to just one segment of the population who will get you re-elected in your next term and ignores those who are not on Twitter; ignores those who are prepared to be engaged; ignores those who are thoughtful about a lot of issues. That means every single one of us has a fair shake., She spent the trial blocking out the haters. [4][7], In her first case at her own firm, Henein defended Daniel Weiz, who was one of the young men charged in the 1999 death by beating of Toronto teen Dmitri Baranovski. When a male teacher she expected to defend them instead urged them to capitulate, she castigated him for failing to uphold the ideals he extolled in class. Henein hired an advertising agency to promote her firm, Henein Hutchinson. She doesnt try to gloss it up. Winkler still chuckles over one appeal where Henein was so determined to convince a fellow justice of her legal reasoning that she stood behind the lectern wagging her finger at him like an impatient schoolmarm. There was nothing else I wanted to do that would interfere with that, she says. You sort of play to your base, and you ignore everything else, and you do nothing that will upset your ability to get re-elected. "[6], In 1998, with Greenspan, Henein defended former Nova Scotia premier Gerald Regan on sexual-misconduct charges. Its not out of the question. I cant talk about it, she says, fighting off tears. While . Even before the trial started, she had convinced the judge to lift a publication ban on their names. But what she remembers best about the case is walking into Greenspans office on the eve of their departure for Halifax. We are prepared to believe most things as long as they align with our preconceptions or predispositions.". Our very best stories, recipes, style and shopping tips, horoscopes and special offers. The answer lay in the one file Greenspan had finally allowed her to take, a Legal Aid case in a murder that had already outraged the city with its wanton brutality. Shes positioned herself to be the go-to lawyer for rich and famous people in trouble., Not that branding brought Ghomeshi to Heneins doorstep. Like Ghomeshi, he had already been convicted in the media even before his trial opened in Napanee. Why would you if your focus is re-election? Its wrong to treat your citizens that way. I actually long for leadership, not responses to tweets. And I really believe its a bit of a mentality that now when youre in office youre immediately running for re-election, and so everything you do is directed at making sure youre re-elected. He walked into the august halls of the Law Society of Upper Canada to find the benchers chambers transformed into a spooky twilit jungle. Were a work in progress., That exodus infuriates Henein, but her response is characteristically contrarian. Until she hired Matthew Gourlay, all her associates had been female, and, without exception, they praise her as a mentor and hard-driving mother hen. She is known for being the most popular sought-after defense lawyer in the country. After one woman testified shed been coerced into giving Frost a blow job, Henein inquired whether she had noticed any medical anomalies in those close quarters. Querying Henein later, Greenwood was stunned by her response. He took me aside and said I was really going to have a problem in life if I didnt learn to be a little softer, a little more feminine, argue a little less, she says. Part of Heneins self-assurance comes from 14 years teaching basic and advanced evidence as an adjunct professor at Osgoode, where former students recall her prowling the classroom, rhyming off case law without consulting a note. Now my dad can relax, she laughs. When the Supreme Court ruled against them, she took it hard. Sign up for FREE and receiveThe Hubsweekly email newsletter. In its senior ranks, there were only a handful of women left. Apologies to Breese Davies, whose name was misspelled in the original publication of this story. We can sustain conversation and we can withstand opposite views. The charges of possession of 35 kilograms of cocaine (worth about $4 million) were dropped. We are ready, she tells Justice Rebecca Rutherford. She polished it off in record timean early demonstration of her skill at synthesizing vast quantities of complex material. When her sons questioned her absence, she took them on tours of empty courtrooms, letting them climb into the judges chair. Those records are ostensibly off-limits under Section 278 of the Criminal Code, a companion amendment to the vaunted rape shield provisions that prohibit a defence lawyer from questioning a sexual assault complainant about her past sexual history. I was becoming like a surly teenager. Greenspan felt sideswipedit was a breach that would take time to mendand for months after her departure, whenever a crisis came up, he would storm through the office fuming, Where the hell is Marie?. The Crown has 30 days to appeal the verdict, so Henein would not discuss specifics of the case. They have two sons. None of it deals with making difficult decisions. I think Canadians would surprise us if a politician or party put forward a big, bold, audacious vision for the country. While most criminal law firms subsist largely on Legal Aid, their fees set by the government, the plastic surgeons and other professionals who call on Henein to salvage their licences or save them from sexual assault charges can usually afford her steep rates, which can run as high as $800 to $1,000 an hour. Its the sort of question that criminal lawyers parry by rhyming off the bedrock principles of the justice system: the presumption of innocence until proven guilty and the right of every citizen, no matter how unsavoury, to the most forceful defence. [15] On 24 March 2016, the judge delivered the verdict. When they took on the appeal of Robert Latimer, the Saskatchewan farmer convicted of murdering his severely disabled daughter, Henein prepared the factums, but it was Greenspan who made the arguments in a case billed as a test of the countrys euthanasia laws. What really worries her is people like federal NDP leader and lawyer Thomas Mulcair hopping on this bandwagon with little regard for the evidence presented in the case. Its the formula Henein herself followed, juggling appeals for child porn cases with her chauffeuring duties as a soccer mom. MARIE HENEIN: Climate change is a great one. Henein started working with Marc Rosenberg who was the partner of her earlier boss Edward Greenspan. Chris So/Toronto Star/Getty Images. If you cant look at the credibility of a person, or the reliability of a person or inconsistency or what their explanations are for saying certain things, then what we should probably do is just not have a system at all, and you can just say what you wish and well go straight to conviction. MARIE HENEIN: Yes. Weiz was acquitted of all charges. With the blessing of Marc Rosenberg, by then a judge on the Court of Appeal, they took off for Kingstonan impromptu mission that has turned into a 14-year-old judicial institution. The whole point, says Heneins former associate Margaret Bojanowska, is to annihilate the witness, really.. By using marriedcelebrity.com, you agree to our terms of use. MARIE HENEIN: Thank you for speaking with me. All she knew about the profession she had gleaned from reading about Eddie Greenspan, the superstar defender whose CBC series, The Scales of Justice, recapped famous trials in a way that made criminal law seem both noble and enthralling. She has also represented Bradley Harrison, former Ontario attorney general Michael Bryant and John Magno. So, for the Conservatives, it was mandatory minimums. Henein represented Mark Norman during his trial for Breach of Trust, a charge that was eventually stayed on May 9, 2019. Heneins brother, Peter, now an intellectual property lawyer at Cassels Brock, sees the impact of that loss today. He liked the toughness. Ironically, Henein has emerged as a riveting role model at the very moment when young women are leaving the profession in droves. Delivered a couple of times a week. On her first day of school, Henein didnt speak a word of English and remembers her grandmother dropping her off, leaving her wailing in Arabic, Teta, Teta, I cant understand what theyre saying.. Lisa Marie Presley, Daughter of Elvis Presley, Dies at 54. Its such a chronic lack of leadership, where the only goal, and you see it in the United States as well, is to get re-elected. Weiz ended up the only member of the trio acquitted, and the trial made Heneins public reputation. I thought, Could you just say thank you? recalls Martha McCarthy, one of the citys most respected family lawyers. Very bold. But after reinvestigating her new witnesses, he came to trust her assessments. Henein herself makes no secret of the fact that she lives for the cut and thrust of a trial. For months, she and her first associate, Jennifer Gleitman, sifted through volumes of witness statements, charting the inconsistencies, often with Heneins son playing on the floor. Then in the summer before she started law school, he arrived back home gravely ill. She was at his side when he was diagnosed with one of the citys first cases of full-blown AIDS. That shift raises the stakes for her as she faces what could be the courtroom performance of her career. 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