Good afternoon, everyone.
Welcome to this meeting of the justice and human rights committee as we continue our study on counselling and other mental health supports for jurors.
I've chatted with our witnesses who are here, but we have two witnesses who are joining us from afar.
We have Mr. Mark Mossey, who is the executive legal officer, office of the senior judge, judges' chambers, from the Nunavut Court of Justice.
We have fellow west islander, Mr. Paul Dore. Mr. Dore, who is the juries commissioner from the court services of the State of Victoria, is joining us from Melbourne, Australia.
Thank you so much, both of you, for joining us from so far away.
In the room, we have from the American Society of Trial Consultants, Ms. Sandra Donaldson, who is the vice-president. Welcome, Ms. Donaldson.
We have from the Canadian Council of Criminal Defence Lawyers, Mr. Will Trudell, who is the chair. Welcome, Mr. Trudell.
As an individual, we have Professor Brian Bornstein, who is a professor of psychology and a courtesy professor of law at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Welcome, Mr. Bornstein.
As I've explained to the witnesses in the room, because of video conference issues, just in case anything technical happens I'd like to have the testimony of both of our witnesses on video conference first.
Mr. Mossey, you have somewhere around eight minutes but if you go up to 10 minutes, I'll give you the latitude.