Dennis Edney

Dennis Edney
Edney in 2007
Born	Dundee, Scotland, UK
Residence	Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Nationality	Canadian
Occupation	Defense lawyer
Home town	Dundee, Scotland

Dennis Edney is a Canadian defence lawyer based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Originally from Dundee, Scotland, he is noted for his involvement in high-profile cases, including Brian Mills, R. v. Trang, as defence attorney for Abdullah and Omar Khadr, who were captured in the War on Terror, for Fahim Ahmad, and for representing the entire Khadr family.

Edney was born in Dundee, Scotland, and worked as a building contractor, when he first immigrated to Canada.

Edney received his law degree in 1987 from the University of Northumbria and has since appeared at all levels of court, including the Supreme Court of Canada and the United States Supreme Court. He was appointed as Foreign Attorney Consultant by the U.S. Pentagon to participate in the legal defense of Omar Khadr, at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba.

Edney has lectured extensively, with emphasis on the Rule of Law, to organizations, universities and conferences throughout North America. He served as keynote speaker on behalf of Amnesty International at Trinity College, Dublin, on the Rule of Law (2005); and in London, England, at the international conference on the “Global Struggle against Torture” (2005).

On September 25, 2007 Edney 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 was one of the defence attorneys supporting the publication ban on information about the trial, while others decried it.

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