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Innocence McGill is a student-led endeavour centred at the Faculty of Law of McGill university. It is run under the supervision of faculty members and prominent criminal lawyers, and is dedicated to researching and investigating claims of wrongful conviction in the province of Quebec. Our ultimate goal is to help secure the freedom of those who are factually innocent of serious crimes for which they continue to serve sentences in Quebec prisons.
Since 1992, various Innocence Projects in North America, including one at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, have worked to free over 200 innocent people. The stories of Donald Marshall, David Milgaard, Romeo Phillion and others have raised serious questions about the extent of wrongful convictions in Canada, and Innocence McGill joins this network in search of justice in Quebec.
If you would like Innocence McGill to consider your case, please access the link "How to Apply" to find out more about whether you qualify for assistance and how to make an application.
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Innocence McGill is student led project at McGill University's Faculty of Law. The project's mandate is to operates as a non-profit legal clinic which focuses on researching and investigating claims of wrongful conviction within the province of Quebec. The project is run under the supervision of an advisory board composed of professors of the Faculty of Law and leading Canadian criminal lawyers.
By virtue the laws of the Quebec Bar Association (la Loi sur le Barreau du Québec), Innocence McGill cannot represent you, nor act in your name or provide legal advice. Innocence McGill's role is to study an applicant's file until such a time where the applicant is represented by a lawyer. It is not until this last step in the review process that Innocence McGill officially accepts the application for assistance and the obligation to work with the lawyer to continue the research and investigation required by the file. The members of Innocence McGill assure the confidentiality of all correspondance with the applicants but cannot guarantee the same protection as provided by attorney-client privilege.
