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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]
Among many judges from the Court who have been elevated to the Supreme Court of Canada are Justices Rosalie Abella, Louise Arbour, Peter Cory, Louise Charron, Andromache Karakatsanis, Bora Laskin, Michael Moldaver, and Mahmud Jamal, as well as Bertha Wilson, who was the first female justice on both the Court of Appeal for Ontario (1975) and the ...
The Judicial Appointments Advisory Committee is responsible for finding suitable candidates for appointment as a judge of the Ontario Court of Justice. Only persons recommended by the Committee may be appointed. Appointments are made by the Lieutenant Governor in Council, on the recommendation of the Attorney General of Ontario.
Ontario is divided into eight regions for judicial administration. Each region is headed by a Regional Senior judge who exercises the powers and performs the duties of the Chief justice in that region. [10] There are also provincially appointed judicial officers who exercise certain functions in the superior court.
The bill would also increase the power of the government over the Ontario’s Judicial Appointments Advisory Committee, including removing the ability of the three legal organizations with representatives on the committee (the Law Society of Ontario, the Ontario Bar Association and the Federation of Ontario Law Associations) to name their own ...
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.
Geoffrey B. Morawetz is Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Justice in Ontario, Canada. He was first appointed to the bench in 2005. He was first appointed to the bench in 2005. On December 18, 2013 he was appointed Regional Senior Justice for the Toronto Region of the Superior Court. [ 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.