Innocence Project | McGill Law
Legal/Attorney - Montréal, QC, CA
Innocence Project | McGill Law Employees
Innocence Project | McGill Law Details
Innocence McGill is a legal clinic at the McGill Faculty of Law dedicated to researching and investigating claims of wrongful conviction for serious crimes in Quebec. Founded in 2006, we are a student-led and run organization, and we meet regularly with our supervising lawyer, a criminal defence lawyer in Montreal. 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 300 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.
