Shelley Hallett  

Shelley Hallett is a Crown attorney in Toronto, Ontario.  

Shelley Hallett worked as an assistant Crown attorney in Toronto from 1980 to 1988. During that time frame she held postions as Acting Crown in Kapuskasing and Brockville Ontario.  She also served as acting Crown in Guelph, Ontario in 1991. 

In 1988 Shelley Hallett was seconded to the Ministry of the Attorney General’s Victim Witness Assistance Program (VWAP).  Hallett was asked to and did help train Crowns with respect to the new provisions that had just come into the Criminal Code with respect to child sexual abuse, the new offences of child sexual exploitation, invitation to sexual touching.  After that Hallett was seconded to the Court Reform Task Force, a court reform initiated by then Attorney General Ian Scott. 

In 1991 Shelley Hallet became counsel in the Crown Law Office, Criminal. She also served on the Attorney General's Advisory Committee on Victims' Issues.  She served as both director and co-director for a Crown’s course on trial advocacy from 1991 to 1997. 

Shelley Hallett became involved in Cornwall’s Project Truth cases in summer 1998.  Her PT involvement lasted two-and-a-half years.   

Shelley Hallett testified at the Cornwall Public Inquiry 19, 20    January 2009 

22 January 2009:  Inquiry hears another apology    

22 January 2009:  Hallett apologizes for outcomes of failed abuse prosecutions   

21 January 2009:   Lack of disclosure not intentional      

21 January 2009:  Crown was shocked at Dunlop connection  

20 January 2009:  Resources lacking

 20 January 2009: “Crown Lacked Resources – Inquiry” & “Crown In Prominent Sex Abuse Case Takes Stand At Inquiry” 

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24 July 2003:  Leduc's first stay overturned by Ontario Court of Appeal

 

13 October 2003:  Cornwall takes its toll again - Crown Attorney Shelley Hallett is hung out to dry, first by Project Truth officers, then by Leduc defence and Justice Chadwick, and even, strangely enough, by the office of the AG

                

23 January 2009:  Transcript of Shelley Hallett testimony at the Cornwll Public Inquiry

22 January 2009:  Transcript of Shelley Hallett testimony at the Cornwall Public Inquiry   

21 January 2009:  Transcript of Shelley Hallett testimony at the Cornwall Public Inquiry 

 20 January 2009:  Transcript of Shelley Hallett testimony at the Cornwall Public Inquiry  

19 January 2009:  Transcript of Shelley Hallett testimony at the Cornwall Public Inquiry