Special Broadcast Episode May 16, 2012
Green College Principal's Series: Craig Jones with "Trying Polygamy"
3:11am - 4:45am
Principal's Series: Thinking at the Edge of Reason / Interdisciplinarity in Action.
TRYING POLYGAMY: THE ISSUES AND OUTCOME OF REFERENCE RE: S.293 OF THE CRIMINAL CODE OF CANADA. Lecturer: Craig Jones, Constitutional & Administrative Law, BC Ministry of Justice. Coach House, Green College, UBC. April 10, 2012 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
The recent polygamy reference case in the BC Supreme Court took 44 days of hearing, and had scores of witnesses, expert and individual, from all over North America. In the end, the Chief Justice declared that he had before him the most comprehensive judicial record on the subject ever produced, and held that polygamys harms outweighed the religious freedoms of the practices adherents. Craig Jones, lead counsel for the Attorney General of British Columbia (and a Green College Society Member) explains the unprecedented courtroom struggle over the constitutionality of s.293, Canadas polygamy law, and the challenge of proving polygamys harms in the age of religious and sexual liberty.