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Volunteering with Innocence Â鶹AV


Are you passionate about criminal law? Would you like to contribute to your community in a meaningful and practical way? Are you a student at Â鶹AV’s Faculty of Law? Apply to volunteer with us!Ìý

Our volunteers work on two fronts, namely fulfilling roles within the Casework and Outreach teams. The Casework team, supervised by experienced criminal defence attorneys, investigates claims of wrongful conviction, whilst the Outreach team is tasked with planning and promoting events aimed at raising awareness about wrongful convictions.

Hiring is done at the beginning of the fall semester, for the fall-winter semesters, and again at the end of the winter semester, to fill roles for the summer semester.Ìý Please note that we only consider applications from Â鶹AV Law students.

If you would like more information about volunteer positions, you can send us an innocence.law [at] mail.mcgill.ca (subject: Volunteering%20with%20Innocence%20Â鶹AV%20) (email). You can also keep an eye out on our pages to keep up to date with calls for applications.


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Notice

By virtue of the laws of the Quebec Bar Association (Loi sur le Barreau du Québec), Innocence Â鶹AV cannot represent you, nor act in your name nor provide legal advice. Innocence Â鶹AV'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 Â鶹AV officially accepts both 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 Â鶹AV assure the confidentiality of all correspondence with the applicants but cannot guarantee the same protection as provided by attorney-client privilege.

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