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About Us
Services | Top of page We offer a full range of criminal defences at both the trial and appellate level. We also assist in parole applications, highway traffic act offences, provincial offences including land claims, fishing and hunting violations and pardon applications.
In cases where there is family or civil litigation we work with the other counsel in order to effect the best possible criminal representation.
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Team | Top of page Michael A. Crystal, M.A., LLBDr. Karine Langley, Ph.D. David Wexler, Cecilia Taiana, Ph.D. Pastor Dan Chick Brian Beck Blair Nicholson Stephen Whitzman Dr. David Baxter, Ph.D.
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Michael Crystal has worked for some of this country’s leading law firms, including Stewart McKelvey Stirling Scales, Borden Ladner Gervais, Gowlings
Lafleur Henderson and Pinkofsky Lockyer. As a criminal lawyer he has been retained by both the United Kingdom and the Republic of South Africa.
These days Mr. Crystal’s practice’s criminal law and regulatory law with an emphasis on creative and therapeutic approaches to sentencing. 
Karine Langley has worked with Crystal Criminal Law for the past five years. Prior to this, she worked as a chaplain as an officer with
the Canadian Navy and the Ontario prison system. Her training in ministry focused on individual and group therapy and in addition she has
special training in counselling and addictions therapy and held certification as a pyschotherapist with the Ontario Assocation of Counsellors,
Psychometrists and Psychotherapists.
Karine Langley holds a Ph.D in history and specialized in the understanding of the devil in the 16th century. Believing it is best to go with the devil
that you know, she now applies her skills to crafting creative therapeutic solutions for the clients of Crystal Criminal Law. 
David B. Wexler is John D. Lyons Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona and Professor of Law and Director of the International Network on Therapeutic Jurisprudence at the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
His books include Judging in a Therapeutic Key: Therapeutic Jurisprudence and the Courts (with Bruce J. Winick) (Carolina Academic Press 2003), Practicing Therapeutic Jurisprudence: Law as a Helping Profession (with Dennis P. Stolle and Bruce J. Winick) (Carolina Academic Press 2000), Law in a Therapeutic Key: Developments in Therapeutic Jurisprudence (with Bruce J. Winick) (Carolina Academic Press 1996), Essays in Therapeutic Jurisprudence (with Bruce J. Winick) (Carolina Academic Press 1991), Therapeutic Jurisprudence: The Law as a Therapeutic Agent (Carolina Academic Press 1990), and Mental Health Law: Major Issues (Plenum Press 1981).
Cecilia Taiana Ph.D. (Psychology) was trained in Buenos Aires, Paris, London and Ottawa. A region of central interest to Dr. Taiana
is Latin America, and in particular, Argentina, a country marked by political trauma and dictatorships. In 1995, Dr. Taiana co-edited The Reordering of
Culture: Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada in the Hood, an interdisciplinary book by sociologists, historians and cultural theorists
that explores the vicissitudes of north-south cultural identities. More recently, she published an article in the History of Psychology (Nov.2005),
entitled "Conceptual Resistance in the Disciplines of the Mind: The Buenos Aires-Leipzig Connection at the Turn of the Twentieth Century." 
Blair Nicholson spent over 35 years with the RCMP as an investigator, instructor and Detachment Commander, and served in other various administrative postings
within the RCMP Headquarters in Ottawa. During this period he had in excess of 25 postings with the RCMP, as an investigator (for matters involving
Federal, Provincial and Municipal laws, Statutes and Regulations), Detachment Commander and a body guard for the Prime Minister of Canada, Princess
Diana, and other international dignitaries and VIPs. He was twice posted as an instructor to the RCMP Academy in Regina, Sask. where he instructed
in the Self Defence Unit and the Operational Training Section instructing all aspects of police investigations, techniques, court procedures and
demeanors. He twice served overseas with the United Nations on in former Yugoslavia; the first time in 1992/1993 at Pakrac Station with UNCIVPOL
(United Nations Civilian Police) as the Operations Officer responsible for over seeing all station investigative files and conducted serious
investigations throughout the area related to war crimes; the second time was in 1999/2000 as an Instructor/Trainer in Pristina Kosovo with
UNCIVPOL testing, and instructing police from contributing UN countries, and during this time was instrumental in developing lesson plans,
and Course Training Standards for the UN CIVPOL Instructional Training Centre. Since retiring from the RCMP in 2002 Blair now uses his varied
knowledge and acquired skills in investigations, interview techniques, and statement taking in support of the Crystal Criminal Law Office cases 
Mr. Whitzman was called to the bar in 1978, and practised almost exclusively in criminal law until 1996. During that time, he appeared over 100 times in
superior court and the Court of Appeal. Seventeen of his cases were reported. He was certified as Specialist in Criminal Litigation in 1990.
In addition to the B.A. and LL.B. (Osgoode), Mr. Whitzman has an LL.M. (Osgoode) and C.D.R. (York).
At the time of his retirement, Mr. Whitzman was the Chair of the Criminal Justice Section of the CBAO. Mr. Whitzman was also a member of the
Law Society Specialist Certification panel and of the North York Area Committee of the Legal Aid Plan.
Mr. Whitzman has numerous publications, and he taught for a number of years at the Bar Admission Course and Seneca and Humber Colleges." 
Dr. David Baxter is a psychologist currently in private practice
and a part-time Professor at the University of Ottawa, School of Psychology,
where he teaches courses in personality, psychopathology, and criminal-forensic
psychology. Previously, he was employed for more than twenty years
as a correctional psychologist by Correctional Services Canada and
later by the Ontario Ministry of the Solicitor General & Correctional
Services. From 1986 to 1996, he was responsible for conducting needs
and risk assessments for the Rideau Correctional & Treatment Centre
at Merrickville (Burritt’s Rapids), Ontario, and for the Ontario
Board of Parole. He has been qualified as an expert witness in criminal-forensic
psychology and specifically in risk assessment in several courts in
Ontario. 
