Traduction de «Lay counsel » (Anglais → Français) :

Ms. Joanne Klineberg, Counsel, Criminal Law Policy, Department of Justice Canada: Honourable senators, there is nothing in the way the Criminal Code offences on cruelty to animals are currently structured that prevents the police from having an option as to which way to lay charges.

This kind of comprehensive approach would focus in particular on issues such as regulating more precisely what constitutes adequate medical and psychological assistance and counselling for traumatised persons, victims of torture and trafficking and a proper identification and response to the needs of minors, especially unaccompanied minors; the development of appropriate interview techniques for these categories, based inter alia, on cultural, age and gender awareness and inter-cultural skills as well as on the use of specialised interviewers and interpreters, and laying down more ...[+++] detailed rules regarding what should be relevant to the assessment of claims based on gender- and child-specific persecution.

This brutal and increasingly terrifying climate, however, lays bare the vulnerabilities of modern society and should, for this very reason, counsel us against the ambiguities and the traps of pseudo-justification of which, unfortunately, the text of the resolution is full.

43. Notes that the growing tendency to gather genetic data highlights the problem posed by the spread of monitoring and control policies made possible by the different technologies; policies whereby genetic information is appropriated for private use cannot be considered admissible, even when they are accompanied by nominal guarantees to the effect that the rights of the persons concerned would be respected because the data would remain anonymous; it is becoming essential to lay down an institutional framework to enable access to tests to be geared to genuine health protection requirements and prevent the existing rules from being circumvented via direct access to tests which bypasses the need for information based on genetic ...[+++]counselling;

In fact, within the last couple of weeks I assisted as lay counsel two women in getting out of prison.

I would be arguing this as defence counsel, but let me attempt to lay out the standard here.