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Justice John B. Laskin practised litigation for more than 30 years in the Toronto office of Torys LLP.
- 1 2 MacCharles, Tonda (2011-05-16), "Harper government to name two new high court judges", Toronto Star, archived from the original on 2020-01-20, retrieved 2021-09-19,
Observers also toss out several names in private legal practice in Ontario, including several with Bay Street experience and strong backgrounds in commercial law: Sheila Block, Tom Heintzman, Neil Finkenstein, and John B. Laskin (nephew of former Supreme Court of Canada Chief Justice Bora Laskin).
- ↑ Girard, Philip (2005), Bora Laskin: Bringing Law to Life, University of Toronto Press, ISBN 9781442616882,
Bora Laskin's children, the Hon. John I. Laskin and Barbara Laskin Plumptre, have considered writing about their father, and I hope that one day they will publish a memoir of him.
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