Index
- Education
- Professional Employment
- Professional Experience
- Community Involvement
- Professional Workshops Provided
- Reported Cases Where Counsel
- Publications
| Stephen
R. Biss, B.A., LL.B. BARRISTER & SOLICITOR |
| STEPHEN
R. BISS, Barrister & Solicitor, 470 Hensall Circle, Suite 303, Mississauga, Ontario L5A 3V4 |
biss@lawyers.ca |
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| 1978 - 1979 | Law
Society of Upper Canada, Bar Admission Course Called to the Bar: April 5, 1979 |
| 1974 - 1977 | University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, LL. B. Cum Laude: May 26, 1977 |
| 1971 - 1974 | University of Toronto, Faculty of Arts and Science, B.A. with Grade A Standing: June 6, 1974 |
| 1966 - 1971 | Michael Power High School, Etobicoke, Ontario Scholar: August 1971 |
| Since 1980 | Stephen R. Biss, lawyer, sole practitioner |
| 1979 - 1980 | M. Gogek & Associates, lawyer, associate |
| 1977 - 1978 | M. Gogek & Associates, student-at-law |
| 1977 | Crown Attorney's Office, Brampton, student-at-law |
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| Since 1979 | Private Law Practice in Mississauga |
| 1979-2001 | Peel Provincial Court (Family Division), duty counsel panel. |
| Since 1979 | Peel Law Association, member. |
| 1979 - 1995 | Official Guardian child representation/protection panel. |
| Since 1980 | Peel Provincial Court (Criminal Division) duty counsel panel |
| Since 1981 | Peel Part-time Assistant Crown Attorney. |
| 1983 - 1984 | Peel-Dufferin Y.O.A. Planning & Implementation Group. |
| 1983 - 1985 | Part-time Counsel for Children's Aid Society of Peel Region. |
| 1983 - 1987 | Development and operation of a computerized service for lawyers and judges calculating income tax effects of support payments. |
| 1983 - 1994 | Development and maintenance of a computerized sentencing database for statistical analysis and comparison of most Peel Provincial Court (Family Division) Y.O.A. sentencing decisions used by Judges, lawyers, probation officers, and other professionals. |
| 1983 - 1994 | Development and operation of a computerized sentencing database respecting digested and reported Y.O.A. sentencing decisions in Canada. |
| 1984 - 1997 | Peel Duty Counsel Advisory Committee Member |
| Since 1985 | Peel Provincial Court (Criminal Division) Youth Court duty counsel panel. |
| 1989 - 1996 | Peel Criminal Lawyers Association representative on the Brampton Criminal Court Management Committee, (Brampton Delay Reduction Committee). |
| 1989 - 1993 | Development of computer software and graphics for province-wide comparison of time to trial in the Ontario Court (Provincial Division). |
| 1990 - 1991 | Chief Judge's Executive Committee, Ontario Court (Provincial Division), Delay Reduction Subcommittee Member. |
| 1993 - 1994 | Unified Family Court Committee, Peel Law Association, Research on Implementation of a Unified Family Court in Peel and Report to the Attorney General, Committee Member. |
| 1994 - 1995 | Peel
Criminal Lawyers Association representative on the Regional
Group on Violence, development of Violent
Incidents Protocol, Peel Board
of Education, Dufferin-Peel R.C.S.S.B., Peel Regional Police |
| 1995 -1999 | Peel Criminal Lawyers Association, Treasurer |
| 1998 - 2007 | Criminal Lawyers' Association Webmaster |
| 1998 - 1999 | Criminal Lawyers' Association Young Offenders Act Sub-Committee member, (drafting submissions to the Minister of Justice re Bill C-68, the Youth Criminal Justice Act) |
| Since 1999 | Criminal Lawyers' Association various Sub-Committees, member |
| 2003 - 2005 | Peel Criminal Lawyers Association, President |
| Since 2003 | Brampton, Local Criminal Justice Co-ordinating Committee, PCLA Representative |
| Since 2004 | Qualified Intoxilyzer Breath Alcohol Technician |
| Since 2007 | Qualified Datamaster Breath Alcohol Technician, Factory Course: Training Requirements for BAC Datamaster Supervisor Program |
| Since 2007 | National College for DUI Defense, member |
| 2008 | Atlanta Source Code Conference |
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| 1978 - 2000 | St. Francis of Assisi Roman Catholic Church - Prayer Group |
| 1981 - 1990 | Dufferin-Peel Roman Catholic Separate School Board, Challenge Programme for gifted students, lecturer and resource person. |
| 1983 - 1987 | Credit Valley Hospital fundraising, Organizational Committee for "Jail & Bail", $ 130,000.00 raised. |
| 1984 - 1996 | St. Francis of Assisi Roman Catholic Church - Marriage Preparation Course lecturer. |
| 1987 - 1994 | Tender Years Co-operative Nursery School, active parent and fundraising. |
| 1990 - 2006 | Mississauga Ballet Association, active parent, webmaster |
| 1994-1996 | St. Ignatius Loyola Roman Catholic Church - Education Committee member |
| 1995 | St. Francis of Assisi Roman Catholic Church - Estate Planning and Powers of Attorney lecturer. |
| 1997 - 1998 | St. Thomas More School, Career Day Speaker |
| 1998 - 2001 | St. Mark School, School Council member, parish rep. |
| Since 2003 | High School Mock Trial, resource person |
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Professional Workshops Provided:
| March 1984 | "Young Offenders Act", Legal Aid, Peel Family Court Duty Counsel, seminar for lawyers, facilitator. |
| March 1985 | "Procedure for Review of
Disposition in Peel Family Court - Section 33 of the
Y.O.A.", Ministry of Community and Social
Services, Probation & Community Services, presenter. |
| October 1985 | "Failure to Comply - C.S.O.", Community Service Order Co-Ordinators' Association of Ontario Annual Conference, co-presenter. |
| November 1985 | "Impaired Driving Causing Death", Addiction Research Foundation, Addiction Awareness Week, Co-ordinator and participant in mock trial for students and teachers at a local high school. |
| April 1986 | "Enforcement of Probation Orders", Consultation with Peel Youth Court Judges, lawyers, Court staff, and probation officers respecting procedural simplification and consistency, facilitator. |
| April 1986 | "Bill 77 & the Young Offenders Act", Panel Discussion, Peel Board of Education, Staff Development, panel member |
| May 1986 | "Young Offenders Act", Family Services of Peel, Adult Protective Service Workers, Quarterly Meeting, seminar leader. |
| 1986 - 1987 | "Show Cause Hearing", Community Professionals Forum, Child Welfare Awareness Committee of the Credit Valley Hospital, moderator. |
| December 1986 | "Sentencing Under the Young Offenders Act", Peel Law Association seminar for lawyers, leader. |
| December 1986 | "Sentencing Under the Young Offenders Act", Ministry of Community and Social Services, Probation and Community Services, meeting for Halton and Peel Probation Officers, seminar leader. |
| February 1987 | "Young Offenders Act & Ministry of Correctional Services Act", The Salvation Army Cuthbert House, presentation for inmates serving open custody dispositions, lecturer. |
| March 1987 | "Role of Counsel in YOA And CFSA Matters", Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Children and the Law Course, guest panelist with a psychiatrist and Family Court Judge. |
| October 1987 | "Representing the Adolescent: Lawyers & Staff", Critical Risk - Quality Care, International conference sponsored by Thistletown Regional Centre, workshop presenter. |
| November 1987 | "YOA Present & Future", Corrections Approaching 2001, Probation Officers Association of Ontario Annual Conference, panelist with Family Court Judge & Assistant Crown Attorney. |
| April 1988 | "Mock Y.O.A. Sentencing Hearing", Associated Youth Services of Peel, Video-taped demonstration for staff and volunteers including sample cross-examination of author of a pre-disposition report. |
| December 1989 | "Search Strategies Using a Youth Court Database", Ministry of Community and Social Services, Probation and Community Services, meeting for Halton and Peel Probation Officers, seminar leader. |
| March 1990 | "Trends in the Y.O.A.: Past, Present and Future", Associated Youth Services of Peel Appreciation Conference, workshop presenter. |
| March 1991 | "Mock Askov Application", Associated Youth Services of Peel Appreciation Conference, presenter. |
| October 1993 | "Law and Community Building", Panel Discussion, Sisserou Cultural Club for Dominican-Canadians, panel member. |
| January 1994 | "Young Offenders Night", The Association of Parent Support Groups, Brampton, facilitator at question and answer session. |
| February 1994 | "The Police Services Act", Panel Discussion, Caribbean Association of Peel, panel member. |
| September 1995 | "Youth Crimes, Roles & Constraints of Stakeholders", Ontario Police College, Aylmer, lecturer. |
| April 1996 | "The Law and You - School Law", Rogers Community 10 Mississauga, participant in educational television programme sponsored by the Peel Law Association " |
| 1997 | "Bill 160", Lorne Park Secondary School, School Council panelist |
| 1997 | "Bill 160", Peel Board of Education, Professional Development for Teachers, lecturer. |
| 1997 - 1999 | "Conflicting Interests", Rogers Cable 10, 3 Young Offenders Act TV Debates in Toronto and Mississauga against Reform Party Justice Critic, Ontario Crime Control Commission Co-Chair, Police, and Safe Schools Network |
| 1998 | "Wills and Estates", Dufferin-Peel R.C.S.S.B. , Professional Development for Teachers, lecturer. |
| 1998 | "Internet Resources for Lawyers", Peel Law Association Continuing Education, co-organizer. |
| 2000 | "Small Firms and Sole Practitioners", Law Society of Upper Canada, presenter. |
| 2001 | "Growing Pains - Youth Justice", Ontario Criminal Lawyers' Association, presenter. |
| 2003 | "Adult Sentences - Youth Criminal Justice Act", Ontario Criminal Lawyers' Association, presenter. |
| 2003 | "Evidence to the Contrary" in Excess Blood Alcohol Cases, Ontario Bar Association |
| 2005 | "11(b) Charter Applications - How to win them", Peel Law Association |
| 2006 | "Intoxilyzer 5000", Peel Law Association |
| 2006 | Contributor to "Controlled Alcohol Testing Principles & Practice", Forcon Forensic Consulting Services, workshop for lawyers |
| Since 2004 | Frequent contributor to Industrial Training & Design Ltd., Intoxilyzer Breath Alcohol Technician course for lawyers |
| Since 2005 | Frequent consultant for impaired driving lawyers and demonstrator of breath alcohol instruments for various groups of drunk driving defence lawyers |
| 2008 | "Carter Defences Post Bill C-2", Law Society of Upper Canada, 6-Minute Criminal Law Lawyer, presentation |
| 2008 | "C-2: Not a Defence", Ontario Criminal Lawyers Association, Annual Conference, The Science of Crime, panel member |
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| R. v. Michael Joseph R. | 9 W.C.B. 453, [1983] O.J. No. 2315, (Ont. P.C.) Prohibition on use of cautions and contacts in juvenile sentencing under JDA |
| R. v. J.N. | [1984] O.J. No. 671 Does Ontario have Youth Court Judges? Challenge to Jurisdiction under YOA |
| R. v. G.M | (1985) 24 C.C.C. (3d) 288, (Ont. P.C.) [1986] O.J. No. 2755, (Ont. H.C.) Constitutional Validity of section 33 of the Young Offenders Act. |
| R. v. M.(J.) | [1986] O.J. No. 1665, (Ont. P.C.) Defence to being habitually absent from school |
| R. v. M.(T.E.G.) | [1987] O.J. 1893 (Ont. P.C.) Search and seizure in youth's bedroom by foster parent |
| R. v. J.(J.) | (1988) 43 C.C.C. (3d) 257, 65 C.R. (3d)
371 (Ont. C.A.), leave to appeal to S.C.C. refused April 6,
1989 Applicability of section 56(2) of the Young Offenders Act to victim's witness statement in sexual abuse public mischief case. |
| R. v. M.(I.A.) | [1991] O.J. No. 837 (Ont. P.C.) YOA statement issues, acquittal on charges of conspiracy to murder and counselling murder |
| R. v. MacLaghlan | [1993] O.J. No.894, (Ont. P.D.) Counsel for Crown, right to counsel and exclusion of evidence |
| CAS of Peel v. V.P. | [1994] O.J. No. 1800, (Ont. P.D.) Counsel for Child, Charter application on behalf of child, jurisdiction issue lack of notice |
| R. v. O.S. | [1995] O.J. No. 2174, (Ont. P.D.) Sentencing for robbery armed with a knife |
| R. v. Ikuta | [2000] O.J. No. 2764, (Ont. C.J.) Need for interpreter in understanding right to counsel and breath demands |
| R. v. Chayab | [2003] O.J. No. 3161, (Ont. C.J.) Defective Notice re Certificate of Analysis |
| R. v. Bourgeois | [2003] O.J. No. 3164 Information a nullity because marihuana possession not an offence known to law |
| R. v. Duffy | [2004] O.J. No. 1509 Reason for the Stop driving out of a bar, Right to Counsel on Detention |
| R. v. Housego | [2004] O.J. No. 3253 Unreasonable Delay, Challenge to Adult Brampton Blitz Court |
| R. v. Housego | [2004] O.J. No. 3254 Arbitrary Detention and Search at Seatbelt Stop |
| R. v. Ayanah | [2004] O.J. No. 5189 Bail Hearing Evidence, Probative Value |
| R. v. Concannon | [2005] O.J. No. 6198 Right to Counsel of Choice, Access to Palm Pilot and Internet Yellow Pages |
| R. v. Concannon | [2005] O.J. No. 6204 Impaired driving Evidence, Defence Video Images of Traffic and Survey of 1 km of Roadway |
| R. v. C.A. | [2005] O.J. No. 1545 Unreasonable Delay, Challenge to Brampton Blitz Court, Youth Court |
| R. v. Campbell | [2005] O.J. No. 3037 Disclosure, Intoxilyzer and Simulator Maintenance Log |
| R. v. Ivison | [2006] O.J. No. 5578 Systemic Delay, Toronto Old City Hall Overbooking by Trial Co-ordinator |
| R. v. Nadstawny | [2006] O.J. No. 4914 Standard Alcohol Solution Stability and Expiry Dates |
| R. v. Francis |
[2008] O.J. No. 3211
Gap principle in sentencing, 11 year gap after multiple priors |
Publications:
Abramovitch, R., Higgins-Biss, K., and Biss, S., Young persons'
comprehension of waivers in criminal proceedings., Canadian Journal of
Criminology, July 1993. 309-322.
