Halsbury's Laws of Canada – Workplace Health and Safety (2019 Reissue) / Youth Justice (2019 Reissue)

Norman A. Keith, B.A. (Econ.), J.D., LL.M., is a leading employment, regulatory, and white-collar defense lawyer with KPMG Law LLP, based in Toronto, Canada. He has successfully defended over 1,000 regulatory and criminal charges. He has represented corporate defendants, directors, officers and senior managers at all levels of courts up to the Supreme Court of Canada. Mr. Keith has assisted clients in a wide range of industries, including energy, construction, infrastructure, manufacturing, real estate development, health care, nuclear, transportation, aviation, mining and mining plants, and retail sectors. He was appellate counsel to Nazir Karigar, the first individual charged under the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act.

He is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences. He is the author of 12 books and hundreds of trade and peer reviewed journal articles. Lexpert has rated Mr. Keith as the most frequently referred lawyer in Ontario for Occupational Health and Safety law matters. He is also recognized in The Best Lawyers in Canada as a leader in his fields. Mr. Keith was called to the Ontario Bar in 1983 and was the first practicing lawyer in Canada to earn a Canadian Registered Safety Professional accreditation in 1998. He is an International Bar Association committee member for White Collar and Business Crime, an American Bar Association White Collar Crime committee member representing Canada, and a member of the Canadian Bar Association Anti-Corruption committee.

Jeffery Wilson, B.A., LL.B., was the original author of Wilson on Children and the Law, a LexisNexis publication since 1978, and a work that has staked a legitimate place for children and contemporary law within and outside of Canada.

The primary source for the work contained in the Halsbury’s Education, Infants and Children and Youth Justice titles is from Wilson on Children and Law.

Emma Rhodes, B.A. (Hons.), LL.B., was called to the bar in 2002, and focused her practice on youth criminal justice in 2008. Emma has been involved in a variety of activities to promote education and awareness of youth criminal justice issues, including sitting on numerous panels for Legal Aid Ontario, the Ontario Court of Justice, the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Ministry of the Attorney General and the Ontario Bar Association. In 2014, Emma testified before the Senate of Canada’s Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights about the overrepresentation of visible minority youth in the criminal justice system. Emma has since expanded her practice to assist children and youth caught in family law proceedings. She is a panel lawyer for the Office of the Children’s Lawyer for child protection, custody and access, minor parents, Voluntary Youth Service Agreements (VYSA), and secure treatment hearings. Emma is also on the Executive of the Ontario Bar Association’s Child and Youth Law Section, is on the Board of Directors for Justice for Children and Youth, and sits on Legal Aid Ontario’s Criminal Law Advisory Committee. Emma was an Instructor at Osgoode Hall Law School, where she taught Trial Advocacy from 2010 to 2016, and was an adjunct professor at University of Toronto from 2012 to 2014 for a course on Youth Criminal Justice. She is the Criminal Lawyers’ Association’s representative for youth criminal justice issues for all of Ontario. Emma was selected to be part of the Ministry of the Attorney General’s Independent Legal Advice for Sexual Assault Survivors Pilot Program. Emma is co-author of Prosecuting and Defending Youth Criminal Justice Cases (Edmond Publishing) and a contributing editor for Wilson on Children and the Law (LexisNexis). She was the recipient of the Toronto Lawyers Association’s Honsberger Award in 2019.