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Michael H. Tulloch (born 1961/1962) 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. [2] [3] [4]
Apple Newton-Smith is a Canadian judge and former criminal defense lawyer. She was called to the bar in 1999. She was called to the bar in 1999. Newton-Smith was appointed as a provincial court judge effective March 13, 2019. [ 1 ]
Carissima Mathen is a Canadian judge. She was appointed a judge of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on May 1, 2024. [1] [2] Before her appointment as a judge, Mathen was a law professor at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law and the University of New Brunswick Faculty of Law, and a lawyer with Women's Legal Education and Action Fund.
In Ontario, the Judicial Appointments Advisory Committee (JAAC) is made up of 13 members: 7 lay members, 2 judges, 1 member appointed by the Ontario Judicial Council, and 3 from the legal community. [2] JAAC recommends a list of 3 or 4 candidates, far less than its federal counterpart. [3]
[4] [5] Traditionally, three of the remaining judges are appointed from Ontario, two from the four western provinces, and one from the Atlantic provinces. The judges from these provinces, other than Quebec, must have been a judge of a superior court, or a member of the bar of one of those provinces for ten or more years prior to the appointment ...
Paul B. Schabas is a judge of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. [1] Prior to his appointment to the bench, he was senior litigation partner at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP in Toronto and was one of Canada's leading barristers. In addition to a busy commercial litigation practice, Paul acted for clients on arbitrations, white collar ...
In 2015, Mandhane was appointed chief commissioner for the Ontario Human Rights Commission, [5] and served in that role until she was appointed to the bench in 2020. During Mandhane's tenure, the commission enacted policies on racial profiling, [ 14 ] accessible education, [ 15 ] and religious freedom. [ 16 ]
As result of court reform, no new full-time judges have been appointed by the provincial government to preside in Small Claims Court. Proceedings in the Small Claims Court are governed by a codified set of rules contained in O. Reg. 258/98 (as amended), the Rules of the Small Claims Court , instead of the complex Ontario Rules of Civil Procedure .