Board of Governors
BA (Ottawa), MA (Carleton), LLB (Osgoode), LLM (Harvard), of the Bar of Ontario, Dean. A member of Osgoode Hall Law School's faculty since 1982, Mr.Patrick Monahan was appointed Dean in July 2003. His research and teaching focuses on Constitutional Law, Canadian Federalism and Administrative Law. His academic career has been combined with activities in both private practice and public law settings. Between 1986 and 1990, he was Senior Policy Advisor to the Attorney General and Premier of Ontario respectively where he played a key role in the negotiation of the 1987 Meech Lake Accord. Dean Monahan is the author of Constitutional Law, Storming the PinkPalace: The NDP in Power - A Cautionary Tale; Meech Lake: The Inside Story, as well as Politics and the Constitution: The Charter, Federalism and the Supreme Court of Canada, and has written several monographs and reports respecting potential reform of the Canadian Constitution. Dean Monahan is editor of The Charlottetown Accord, the Referendum and the Future of Canada, and The Charter of Rights and the Public Policy Process in Canada, as well as co-editor of The Rule of Law: Ideal or Ideology. He played an instrumental role in the 1992 Conference “Constitution Year of Decision”, and has acted as advisor to the federal government as well as a number of provincial governments respecting economic, constitutional and international trade matters. He was the Director of the York University Centre for Public Law and Public Policy until June 30, 2002.
Christopher Bredt is the Law Society of Upper Canada’s appointee to the LCO Board of Governors. He is a Senior Litigation Partner in the Toronto office of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP where he practices in the areas of administrative, constitutional and corporate/commercial litigation. He is an elected Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada. He is the Chair of Borden Ladner Gervais’ National Public Law Group, and is recognized in the publication “Best Lawyers in Canada” in the specialty of Administrative and Public Law and by LEXPERTã as a leading public law lawyer. He has a B.A. and LL.B. from the University of Western Ontario, an LL.M. from Yale, and a D.S.U. (Droit Administratif) from the Université de Paris II. From 1979-1980 he clerked for Mr. Justice W.R. McIntyre of the Supreme Court of Canada. He was called to the Bar in Ontario in 1984, and has appeared as counsel at all levels of the courts in Ontario and at the Supreme Court of Canada. He was on secondment to the Government of Ontario from 1989 – 1993, where he served as Assistant Deputy Minister, Office of Federal-Provincial Relations, and as Assistant Deputy Minister, Constitutional Policy and Special Counsel. He taught Advanced Administrative Law at the University of Toronto Law School 1984 – 1990, and currently teaches a seminar on Freedom of Expression and the Media at Osgoode Hall Law School. He is a Past Chair of both the OBA Constitutional and Administrative Law Sections. He has published a number of articles on constitutional law, administrative law and commercial litigation topics
Ms. Gupta is a partner at Gowling, Lafleur, Henderson LLP in the firm's Waterloo Region office. Ms. Gupta practises in the area of litigation, with an emphasis on employment and human rights matters. Ms. Gupta also has a wide variety of experience in matters involving the Ontario Human Rights Code, the Pay Equity Act and the Ontario Employment Standards Act. Ms. Gupta has handled complex and lengthy civil litigation, and regularly appears before all levels of the Ontario courts, as well as numerous administrative tribunals.
Ms. Gupta also assists employers in reviewing or drafting employment contracts, policy manuals and compensation plans. She routinely provides training to management on a wide variety of employment topics, such as "How to Hire and Fire without Tears,” ”What do you do when you have a complaint of harassment" and "Accommodation under the Human Rights Code." Ms. Gupta has assisted a number of U.S.-based and European clients establish or expand business operations in Canada.
Called to the Ontario Bar in 1989, Ms. Gupta received her LLB from Queen's University and received her LLM from the University of Toronto in 1993. Prior to joining Gowlings, Ms. Gupta practiced 15 years with a major Toronto law firm.
Ms. Gupta has spoken on a wide variety of employment and litigation topics for the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Canadian and Ontario Bar Associations, Insight Conferences, Human Resources Professionals Association of Ontario (HRPAO) and the Canadian Association of Family Enterprises (CAFE). She has developed and taught courses on employment and human rights at Seneca College and the Faculties of Law of Queen's University and the University of Toronto.
A prolific author, Ms. Gupta recently published Sexual Harassment: A Guide to Conducting Investigations (Butterworths – LexisNexis) and continues to serve as the Legal Reviewer for Human Resources PolicyPro (Ontario edition).
Ms. Gupta is very active in the community. She was recently appointed to the Board of Governors of the Law Commission of Ontario and is the Vice-President (Legal & Funding) of the Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce. In 2002, she was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee medal in recognition of her service to the legal profession and the community at large.
Ms. MARIE HENEIN, of Henein & Associates, practices in the area of trial and appellate criminal law and administrative law. She has appeared at all levels of court including the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada. Ms. Henein graduated Osgoode Hall Law School in 1989. She obtained her L.L.M from Columbia University Law School in 1991. From 1991, Ms. Henein articled and was an associate with Edward L. Greenspan Q.C. From 1998 to 2002, Ms. Henein was a partner in the firm of Greenspan, Henein & White. Since 1992, Ms. Henein has been an adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School in Evidence and Advanced Evidence and has lectured at numerous professional conferences. Ms. Henein assists the Honourable Mr. Justice Marc Rosenberg and Edward L. Greenspan, Q.C. in editing Martin’s Criminal Code, Martin’s Annual Criminal Practice, and Martin’s Related Criminal Statutes. Ms. Henein is the Treasurer of the Advocate Society and a member of the Board of Directors of the Law Commission of Ontario.
The Honourable Frank Iacobucci retired from the Supreme Court of Canada in June 2004 and served as interim President of the University of Toronto from September 2004 until June 2005. On July 1, 2005, he joined Torys LLP as Counsel and became Chairman of Torstar Corporation. He currently serves as Chairman of the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, Conduct Review Advisor for the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and is a member of the Board of Directors of Tim Hortons Inc. and of the Advisory Board of General Motors of Canada. As well, he is Chair of the Rhodes Scholarships Ontario Selection Committee. He is also a member of the Ontario Law Commission. He has served as federal representative in the negotiations leading to a settlement of the Indian residential schools (IRS) legacy. In December 2006, he was appointed Commissioner to lead an inquiry into the conduct of Canadian officials regarding certain individuals.
He has authored or co-authored numerous books, articles and commentaries on a variety of legal subjects and is the recipient of numerous awards and honours in Canada and abroad, including his election as an Honorary Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge. He was appointed a Companion in the Order of Canada in July, 2007.
Russell Juriansz
The Honourable Mr. Justice Russell Juriansz was appointed to the Court of Appeal for Ontario on March 12, 2004. He had been a judge of the Superior Court of Justice since March 17, 1998. He obtained attended his law degree from Osgoode Hall Law Schoolin 1972 and was called to the bar in 1974. As a lawyer, he practiced in the area of human rights. He was General Counsel and Director of Legal Services, Canadian Human Rights Commission, and appeared as counsel in the Supreme Court of Canada in some of the leading human rights cases. He taught human rights law and constitutional law at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, and was a frequent writer, editor and speaker on human rights related subjects. He is a past president of the Ontario Superior Court Judges’ Association.
Professor Yves Le Bouthillier teaches at the University of Ottawa, Common Law Section in international law, specifically in the areas of international human rights law, international environmental law, and in related areas such as immigration and refugee law. Most of his publications are on international law issues. He also has an interest in the protection of linguistic minorities and co directed a book published in 2006 on this topic.
He is currently co-director of the Graduate program in Law. From June 2005 to December 2006 he was President of the Law Commission of Canada. He is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Ontario Law Commission. From July 2002 to June 2005, he held the post of Vice-Dean of the French Common Law Program at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ottawa. He was Scholar in Residence at the Oceans, Environmental and Economic Law Divison at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade from August 2000 to June 2002. In 2001, he was a member of the negotiating team that won the Head of the Public Service Award for its contribution to the development and adoption of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants. From 1999 to 2000, he was responsible for human rights law projects at the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie in Paris. He has appeared before a number of Parliamentary Committees, and acted as an expert in the Quebec Secession Reference. For several years, he was Vice-President of the Canadian Council on International Law, for which he co-directed the publication of two books.
Murray Segal
Deputy Minister, Attorney General
Mr Murray Segal has been the Deputy Attorney General for the province of Ontario since January 2004.
As head of an organization of more than 8,000 people, including over 1,600 counsel, Murray oversees the varied work of the ministry, which includes protecting the legal interests of government, providing support for vulnerable adults and children and victims of crime, prosecuting crime, and the administration of the courts in Ontario.
He has been behind a number of recent, significant provincial strategies to address guns and gangs violence, in addition to overseeing important initiatives such as moving toward the restoration of a Law Reform Commission, civil law reform and human rights transformation.
Murray’s career at the Ministry spans more than 30 years.
Called to the bar in 1977, he immediately joined the Crown Law Office-Criminal. He was appointed Director of that office in 1990, where he was responsible for the overall conduct of criminal appeals in Ontario, which included decision-making on all Crown appeals, as well as Ontario’s criminal law policy in the provincial and federal/provincial/territorial areas, and special prosecutions. Murray has been the lead prosecutor in some of the highest profile criminal cases in Ontario.
In 1997, he was appointed Assistant Deputy Attorney General of the Ministry’s Criminal Law Division and Chief Prosecutor for the Province of Ontario. In this capacity, Murray was responsible for the management of the division that included Ontario’s Crown Attorneys, and oversaw a review of all criminal policy.
Murray is certified as a Criminal Law Specialist by the Law Society of Upper Canada.
A contributor to the reform of the civil and criminal portions of the justice system through his work with the judiciary and at the federal/provincial/territorial level, Murray is the author of numerous legal publications in the areas of the Charter, procedure, disclosure, and motor vehicle law, and is a frequent participant in continuing education programs.
Patricia Hughes, Executive Director, ex officio
Dr. Patricia Hughes has been the Executive Director of the new Law Commission
of Ontario since September 15, 2007. Prior to her appointment as the Dean
of Law at the University of Calgary (2001-2006), she was the Chair of Women
and Law at the University of New Brunswick Faculty of Law (1992-2001), a
vice-chair of the Ontario Labour Relations Board (1986-1990) and Alternate
Chair of the Ontario Pay Equity Hearings Tribunal (1990-1992). From 1984
to 1986, she was Counsel at the Ministry of the Attorney General (Ontario)
with responsibility to review legislation for compliance with section 15 of
the Charter. Most recently, she was Executive Director of Education and
Scholar in Residence in the Calgary office of Bennett Jones LLP.
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