John W. Conroy, QC
Barrister and Solicitor, Abbotsford, British Columbia
Member of the Society Board of Directors
John W. Conroy , Q.C., is a barrister and solicitor with his own firm, Conroy & Company, of Abbotsford, British Columbia .
He was granted a Bachelor of Physical Education degree from the University of British Columbia in 1968 and Bachelor of Laws degree in 1971.Articled Clerk to the late D.B. MacKinnon, of the firm of Harper, Grey Easton, Vancouver, B.C. (subsequently Mr. Justice MacKinnon of the British Columbia Supreme Court.) May 1971-1972
Mr. Conroy is the author of Canadian Prison Law, Butterworths, 1980.
Mr. Conroy was called to the British Columbia Bar in May 1972 and appointed Queen's Counsel in 1996. He has served as:Director, Abbotsford Community Legal Services 1975-1980Director, British Columbia Prison Legal Services 1980-1990
Chairman, Committee on Corrections & Institutions, C.B.A. (B.C.) 1978-1979
Canadian Bar Association (B.C. Branch) Committee on The Heroin Treatment Act, 1978
Member, C.B.A. National Task Force on Imprisonment & Release, 1985
Chairman, C.B.A. National, Special Committee on Imprisonment & Release 1986-1988
Director, Legal Research Association, 1979-1982
Chairman, C.B.A. National, Standing Committee of the National Criminal Justice Section on Imprisonment & Release, 1989- 1999
Representative for the International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law in the Southern Eastern Central African Human Rights Network, 1992-present
Chairman, Abbotsford Community Sentencing Project, 1997
Member, Advisory Committee to Community Justice Initiatives Abbotsford Community Justice Proposal
Member, Advisory Committee to the International Centre on Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy on Sentencing and Corrections Renewal
Program Chair for Day One on Sentencing, Imprisonment and Release at the Society for the Reform of Criminal Law Annual Meeting and International Conference to be held at Whistler, B.C., August, 1996
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