Louise Arbour,is a Canadian lawyer,prosecutor and jurist.
A King's Counsel is a senior lawyer appointed by the monarch of some Commonwealth realms as a "Counsel learned in the law". When the reigning monarch is a woman,the title is Queen's Counsel (QC).
The Supreme Court of Canada is the highest court in the judicial system of Canada. It comprises nine justices,whose decisions are the ultimate application of Canadian law,and grants permission to between 40 and 75 litigants each year to appeal decisions rendered by provincial,territorial and federal appellate courts. The Supreme Court is bijural,hearing cases from two major legal traditions and bilingual,hearing cases in both official languages of Canada.
The chief justice of Canada is the presiding judge of the nine-member Supreme Court of Canada,the highest judicial body in Canada. As such,the chief justice is the highest-ranking judge of the Canadian court system. The Supreme Court Act makes the chief justice,a Crown in Council appointment,meaning the Crown acting on the advice of the prime minister and minister of justice. The chief justice serves until they resign,turn 75 years old,die,or are removed from office for cause. By tradition,a new chief justice is chosen from among the court's incumbent puisne justices.
Osgoode Hall Law School,commonly shortened to Osgoode,is the law school of York University in Toronto,Ontario,Canada. It is home to the Law Commission of Ontario,the Journal of Law and Social Policy,and the Osgoode Hall Law Journal. A variety of LL.M. and Ph.D. degrees in law are available.
Beverley Marian McLachlin is a Canadian jurist and author who served as the 17th chief justice of Canada from 2000 to 2017. She is the longest-serving chief justice in Canadian history and the first woman to hold the position.
Bora Laskin was a Canadian jurist who served as the 14th chief justice of Canada from 1973 to 1984. Laskin was appointed a puisne justice of the Supreme Court in 1970,and served on the Ontario Court of Appeal from 1965 to 1970. Before he was named to the bench,Laskin worked as a lawyer and in academia.
Rosalie Silberman Abella is a Canadian jurist. In 2004,Abella was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada,becoming the first Jewish woman and refugee to sit on the Canadian Supreme Court bench. She retired from the federal bench in 2021.
The Superior Court of Justice is a superior court in Ontario. The Court sits in 52 locations across the province,including 17 Family Court locations,and consists of over 300 federally appointed judges.
The Ontario Court of Justice is the provincial court of record for the Canadian province of Ontario. The court sits at more than 200 locations across the province and oversees matters relating to family law,criminal law,and provincial offences.
William Kenneth Hastings is a Canadian-born judge who served as the tenth Chief Censor of New Zealand from October 1999 to July 2010. He was chairman of the Immigration and Protection Tribunal from July 2010 until February 2013,and is currently a District Court Judge. He was the chair of the Broadcasting Standards Authority from October 2018 until August 2021. He was sworn in as the tenth Judge of the Court Martial of New Zealand on 20 July 2021. On 9 August 2021,Hastings was sworn in as Chief Justice of the Republic of Kiribati,a position he held until 8 December 2022. He was a member of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal of Vanuatu from July 2023 to June 2024.
Patrick J. LeSage is the former Chief Justice of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.
Warren Keith Winkler,is a Canadian jurist and a former Chief Justice of Ontario. Appointed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper on June 1,2007,Winkler was previously Regional Senior Judge of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice for the Toronto Region. Winkler reached the mandatory retirement age of 75 on December 10,2013,and has since retired as the Chief Justice of Ontario. He served as Chair of the Order of Ontario Advisory Council. Mr. Winkler is now a Member Arbitrator at Arbitration Place in Toronto.
Harry Smith LaForme is a Canadian judge.
Harvey Brownstone is a retired judge of the Ontario Court of Justice and the first openly gay judge in Canada. He is also a bestselling author and host of a television and internet talk show. His interview program "Harvey Brownstone Interviews" is ranked #12 on the Hollywood 411 List of the Top 50 Talk Shows in the World. Variety Entertainment News named "Harvey Brownstone Interviews" one of the "Best Picks for Summer 2024". In 2024,Daily Geek Report's annual list of the Best Talk Shows ranked "Harvey Brownstone Interviews" at #3 on its list of shows with the most noteworthy guests and celebrities,and #2 on its list of the best shows on the planet. Harvey Brownstone was ranked at #1 on its list of most engaging hosts. In February 2024,Daily Hollywood News called Harvey Brownstone Interviews "one of the most epic and popular television extravaganzas to have risen in a long time",and described Brownstone as "a superstar almost overnight". In August 2024,the Los Angeles Weekly Times ranked "Harvey Brownstone Interviews" at #3 on its "Best of the Best" list of the top internet shows in the world.
Robert James Sharpe,OC,FRSC is a Canadian lawyer,author,academic,and judge. He was dean of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law from 1990 to 1995 and a judge of the Court of Appeal for Ontario from 1999 to 2020.
The Honourable Patrick J. Boyle is a justice of the Tax Court of Canada. He was appointed to the court in 2007 and presides in English and French cases. He served as acting associate chief justice following the 2021 retirement of Associate Chief Justice Lucie LaMarre until the December 2023 appointment of Associate Chief Justice Anick Pelletier. He is a member of the court’s Rules Committee and chaired its Judicial Education Committee. In 2014,Justice Boyle was named by Euromoney's ITR International Tax Review as one of the 25 most influential people in the tax world.
Richard Wagner is a Canadian jurist serving as the 18th and current Chief Justice of Canada since 2017. He previously served as a puisne justice of the Quebec Court of Appeal (2011–2012) and of the Supreme Court of Canada (2012–2017). For several months in 2021,following Julie Payette's resignation as Canada's governor general,Wagner was the administrator of the government of Canada as well as chief justice.
Michael H. Tulloch is a Canadian judge. On December 19,2022,Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the appointment of Tulloch as the new Chief Justice of Ontario. He is the first Black judge appointed to the Ontario Court of Appeal and the first Black Chief Justice of any province.
Justice Kofi N. Barnes is a Ghanaian-born judge of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Canada.
