Behind the Decision: A Practical Guide to Bail Hearings 2025

Course Chairs
Jamala C. MacRae — Crown Counsel, Ministry of Attorney General, Port Coquitlam
Kevin B. Westell — Pender Litigation, Vancouver

About the Course Chairs
Jamala MacRae works as a Crown Counsel and has been with the BC Prosecution Service since 2005. She has worked in a number of Crown offices in the lower mainland and is currently one of the Administrative Crowns in the Port Coquitlam office. She has dealt with files at the provincial and supreme court level.

Kevin Westell is a founding principal at Pender Litigation. In addition to his criminal and regulatory defence work, he is often retained to act as Crown Counsel, counsel for witnesses in criminal proceedings, and as amicus curiae (counsel for the Court). He has represented clients and the Crown in jurisdictions across Canada on matters of all levels of seriousness.

Kevin currently serves as an elected Bencher of the Law Society of BC for Vancouver County and a former chair of the CBA National Criminal Justice Section.

Faculty
Judge Rita S. Bowry — Regional Administrative Judge, Fraser Region, Provincial Court of BC, Surrey
Judge Kasandra Cronin — Provincial Court of BC, Port Coquitlam
Judge Mark R. Jette — Provincial Court of BC, Surrey 
Judge Gregory Koturbash — Regional Administrative Judge, Interior Region, Provincial Court of BC, Penticton
Judge Cassandra Malfair — Provincial Court of BC, Prince George 
Judge Jacqueline McQueen — Provincial Court of BC, Vancouver
Judge Grace Oh — Provincial Court of BC, Surrey
Justice Terence Schultes — Supreme Court of BC, New Westminster
Jordan Allingham — Ferguson Allingham, Vancouver
Amy Campbell — Crown Counsel, Ministry of Attorney General, Vancouver
Stephanie Dickson — Pender Litigation, Vancouver
Michaela E. Donnelly, KC — Crown Counsel, Ministry of Attorney General, Vancouver
Sarah E. Leamon — Sarah Leamon Law Group, Vancouver
Trevor B. Martin — Martland & Saulnier, Vancouver
James Powrie — Crown Counsel, Ministry of Attorney General, Port Coquitlam
Christina Proteau — Crown Counsel, Ministry of Attorney General, Port Alberni
Nicholas M.D. Reithmeier — Crown Counsel, Ministry of Attorney General, New Westminster
Alexander M. Willms — Crown Counsel, Ministry of Attorney General, Vancouver
Scott Wright — Pender Litigation, Vancouver

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