Louise Arbour,is a Canadian lawyer,prosecutor and jurist.
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 University of Toronto Faculty of Law is the law school of the University of Toronto. Maclean's has consistently assessed the Faculty as the highest ranked common law school in Canada and the highest ranked in terms of faculty journal citations. The Faculty offers the JD,LLM,SJD,MSL,and GPLLM degrees in law.
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 J.D. 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 and as a puisne justice of the Supreme Court from 1970 to 1973. Before his Supreme Court service,he previously served on the Ontario Court of Appeal from 1965 to 1970. Prior to his appointment,Laskin worked as a lawyer and in academia.
The Court of Appeal for Ontario is the appellate court for the province of Ontario,Canada. The seat of the court is Osgoode Hall in downtown Toronto.
Irving Martin Abella was a Canadian historian who served as a professor at York University from 1968 to 2013. He specialized in the history of the Jews in Canada and the Canadian labour movement.
Claire L'Heureux-Dubé is a retired Canadian judge who served as a puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada from 1987 to 2002. She was the first woman from Quebec and the second woman appointed to this position,after Bertha Wilson. Previously,she had been one of the first woman lawyers to handle divorce cases,and was the first woman appointed as a judge to the Quebec Superior Court and the Quebec Court of Appeal.
Bertha Wernham Wilson was a Canadian jurist and the first female puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. Before her ascension to Canada's highest court,she was the first female associate and partner at Osler,Hoskin &Harcourt and the first woman appointed to the Court of Appeal for Ontario. During her time at Osler,she created the first in-firm research department in the Canadian legal industry.
Ivan Cleveland Rand was a Canadian lawyer,politician,academic,and justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. He has been described as "probably the greatest judge in Canada's history".
John Sopinka was a Canadian lawyer and puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada,the first Ukrainian-Canadian appointed to the high court.
The Gruber Prize for Justice,established in 2001,was one of five international prizes worth US$500,000 awarded by The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation,an American non-profit organization.
Grant v Torstar Corp,[2009] 3 S.C.R. 640,2009 SCC 61,is a 2009 Supreme Court of Canada decision on the defences to the tort of defamation. The Supreme Court ruled that the law of defamation should give way to the rights of a party to speak on matters of public interest,provided the party exercises a certain level of responsibility in verifying the potentially defamatory facts. This decision recognizes a defence of responsible communication on matters of public interest.
Andromache Karakatsanis is a Canadian jurist. She was nominated to the Supreme Court of Canada by Stephen Harper in October 2011. She is the first Greek-Canadian judge on the Court. Since the retirement of Rosalie Abella on July 1,2021,and of Michael Moldaver on September 1,2022,she is the longest-serving member of the Supreme Court.
Gloria Jean Epstein is a former judge of the Court of Appeal for Ontario. She had also previously been appointed to the Court of Ontario. She is known for her 1999 trial ruling in M v H that Ontario's Family Law Act was unconstitutional for discriminating against same-sex couples by denying them the same benefits as legally-married heterosexual couples. Epstein's decision was appealed up to the Supreme Court of Canada and upheld.
Women work in the legal profession and related occupations throughout Canada,as lawyers,prosecutors,judges,legal scholars,law professors and law school deans. In Canada,while 37.1% of lawyers are women,"50% ...said they felt their [law] firms were doing "poorly" or "very poorly" in their provision of flexible work arrangements". It was also reported that,in 2006 in Ontario,"racialized women accounted for 16% of all lawyers under 30" and that only 1% of lawyers were Aboriginal.
Mahmud Jamal is a Canadian jurist serving as a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada since 2021. Jamal worked as a partner at Osler,Hoskin &Harcourt and taught law at McGill University and Osgoode Hall Law School before he was appointed to the Court of Appeal for Ontario in 2019. He was nominated to the Supreme Court on June 17,2021,taking office on July 1 to succeed Rosalie Abella. Jamal was born in Kenya to a family of Indian origin,making him the first person from a visible minority group to serve as a justice of the Supreme Court.
The Abella commission,officially the Royal Commission on Equality in Employment,was a Canadian federal royal commission headed by Rosalie Abella in 1983 to 1984.
Michelle O'Bonsawin is a Canadian jurist who is serving as a puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada since 2022. Before her appointment to the Supreme Court,she served as a judge on the Ontario Superior Court of Justice from 2017 to 2022. O'Bonsawin is the first Indigenous Canadian to serve as a Supreme Court justice.
