Dennis Edney

Originally from Dundee, Scotland, Dennis Edney is a Canadian defence attorney "with a reputation for taking on tough cases", based in Edmonton, Alberta.

Edney met his wife Patricia Adams while teaching soccer in Canada, and eventually moved to the country. He is noted for his involvement in high-profile cases, including Brian Millsand Fahim Ahmad.

He has also served as the defence attorney for both Abdullah and Omar Khadr, and represents the entire Khadr family.

On September 25, 2007 he appeared on the CBC Radio program As It Happens, where he claimed politics were responsible for the Crown's sudden reversal of process, abandoning the preliminary inquiry, for the Toronto terrorism trial. He is one of the defence attorneys who support the publication ban on information about the trial, while others have decried it.

In addition to his caseload, he is noted for speaking publicly at conferences and engagements to argue not only for his clients' right to be presumed innocent, but the Canadian obligation to follow the rule of law even during the war on terror.

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