ONTARIO JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS ANNOUNCED
OTTAWA, February 4, 2011 – The Honourable Rob Nicholson, P.C., Q.C., M.P. for Niagara Falls, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, today announced the following appointments:
The Honourable Glenn A. Hainey, a lawyer with Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP in Toronto, is appointed a Judge of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Toronto) to replace Madam Justice E. N. Macdonald, who elected to become a supernumerary judge as of December 15, 2010.
Mr. Justice Hainey received a Bachelor of Arts & Science (B.A.Sc.) in 1971 and a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) in 1974 from the University of Western Ontario. He was admitted to the Ontario Bar in 1976.
Mr. Justice Hainey was a lawyer with Smith Lyons Torrance Stevenson & Mayer (1981-2001), which merged with Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP in 2001. He practised criminal law in association with Arthur Maloney, Q.C., from 1979 to 1981 and was Executive Assistant to the Ombudsman for the Province of Ontario from 1976 to 1979. His main area of practice was civil litigation.
Mr. Justice Hainey is a Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada and a member of several subcommittees, including Access to Justice, Professional Regulation, Paralegal Standing, Audit, Proceedings Authorization Committee and Vice-Chair of the Inter-Jurisdictional Mobility Committee. He is a past Director of The Advocates’ Society of Ontario, past Chair of the Enforcement Practices and Procedures Committee of the Canadian Bar Association’s National Competition Law Section, and President of the University of Western Ontario’s Faculty of Law Alumni Association. He is a frequent speaker and has published numerous articles. He is also active in several community organizations.
The Honourable Christopher Bondy, of Wolf Hooker Professional Corporation in Windsor, is appointed a Judge of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Windsor) to replace Mr. Justice D.J. Power (Ottawa), who elected to become a supernumerary judge as of October 17, 2010 and whose position was transferred to Windsor.
Mr. Justice Bondy received a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in 1973 and a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) in 1976 from the University of Windsor. He was admitted to the Ontario Bar in 1978.
In 1980, Mr. Justice Bondy founded the Bondy Baker Wolf law firm. He was a presiding member or hearing chairperson of the Canada Pension Plan, Old Age Security Review Tribunal from 2008 until 2011 and was also a presiding member or hearing chairperson of the Consent & Capacity Board from 2001 to 2004. He was a lawyer with Bondy Kirwin from 1978 to 1980. His most recent areas of practice were administrative law, including presiding on and appearing before administrative tribunals, alternative dispute resolution/mediation, corporate, commercial, tax, wills and estates, trusts, municipal law and provincial offence prosecutions.
Mr. Justice Bondy was a sessional instructor at the University of Windsor from 1999 to 2005 and was a past instructor of the Bar Admission Course. He was a director and officer of several charitable and community-based organizations where he providesd counsel pro bono. He has made numerous legal education presentations.
The Honourable Robert B. Reid, a lawyer with Lancaster, Brooks & Welch LLP in St. Catharines, is appointed a Judge of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Hamilton) to replace Mr. Justice J.W. Quinn, who elected to become a supernumerary judge as of December 19, 2010 and whose position was transferred to Hamilton.
Mr. Justice Reid received a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) from the University of Toronto in 1973. He received a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) in 1976 and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in 1979 from Osgoode Hall Law School. He was admitted to the Ontario Bar in 1978.
Mr. Justice Reid has been a partner with Lancaster, Brooks & Welch LLP (formerly Lancaster, Mix & Welch) since 1982. He was a partner with Freeman, Frayne, Morningstar & Reid from 1978 to 1982. His main areas of practice are labour relations and employment law.
Mr. Justice Reid was a member of the Lincoln County Law Association, the Ontario Bar Association and the County and District Law Presidents’ Association. He was a part-time federal prosecutor from 1989 to 1996. He is a columnist with the St. Catharines Standard and has written various employment-law related papers for business and public education events. He has been a board member of numerous community organizations, including the United Way and Rotary Club of St. Catharines.
The Honourable Victor M itrow, a lawyer with McKenzie Lake Lawyers LLP in London, is appointed a Judge of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Family Division (London) to replace Mr. Justice R.J. Harper, who was appointed Senior Judge of the Family Division on September 30, 2010.
Mr. Justice Mitrow received a Bachelor of Mathematics (B. Math) from the University of Waterloo in 1974 and a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) in 1977 from the University of Western Ontario. He was admitted to the Ontario Bar in 1979.
Mr. Justice Mitrow has been a partner at McKenzie Lake Lawyers LLP (created from a merger of Ross, Bennett & Lake with McKenzie, Nash, Bryant) since 1998. He was a partner at Ross, Bennett & Lake (merged with Mitchell & Mitrow) from 1985 to 1998 and a partner with Mitchell & Mitrow from 1979 to 1985. His main area of practice was family law.
Mr. Justice Mitrow has represented the Sarnia-Lambton Children’s Aid Society as outside counsel since 2001. He was appointed by the Office of the Children’s Lawyer to the panel of Lawyers at London (1987-2001) and was also a member of the executive of the Middlesex Family Lawyers Association (1992-1998). He is a frequent speaker and presenter at numerous seminars and conferences, and was an instructor at Fanshawe College. He has been an active member of the Canadian Diabetes Association and a past member of the Rotary Club of London.
The Honourable Madam Justice Carole J. Brown, a lawyer with Borden Ladner Gervais LLP in Ottawa, is appointed a Judge of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Toronto) to replace Madam Justice D. Bellamy, who resigned effective August 16, 2010.
Madam Justice Brown received a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) from Middlebury College in 1972 and a Master of Arts (M.A.) from the Université de Paris V (Sorbonne) in 1974. She received a D.E.S.E.E. (Diplôme d’études supérieures pour étudiants étrangers) from the Université de Caen, France in 1973. She received a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from the University of Toronto in 1982 and was admitted to the Ontario Bar in 1984.
Madam Justice Brown has been an associate and partner at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP since 1985. She was a law clerk to the Chief Justice of Ontario from 1984 to 1985. Her main areas of practice were professional negligence, insurance defence work, personal injury and Supreme Court agency work.
Madam Justice Brown is the past President of the Ontario Bar Association and board member of the Canadian Bar Association. She was a member of the Supreme Court of Canada/Canadian Bar Association Liaison Committee from 2007 to 2009. She has been an instructor of an intensive mediation course with the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa since 2000, and an instructor of Civil Litigation at the Bar Admission Course of the Law Society of Upper Canada. She is on the Board of Directors at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute Foundation.
The Honourable Brian W. Abrams, a partner at Templeman Menninga LLP in Kingston, is appointed a Judge of the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario, Family Division (Kingston) to replace Mr. Justice G.A. Campbell, who elected to become a supernumerary judge as of August 1, 2010.
Mr. Justice Abrams attended the RCMP Academy in Regina in 1981. He then attended the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (1988-1993) and received a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) in 1996 from Queen’s University. He was admitted to the Ontario Bar in 1998.
Mr. Justice Abrams has practised with Templeman Menninga LLP since 1998. He has been a Standing Agent (Ad Hoc Drug Prosecutor) for the Department of Justice Canada since 1999. Prior to his call to the Ontario Bar, he was an RCMP officer posted in Canada and abroad (1981-1998). His main area of practice was general litigation with an emphasis on family law, criminal law and insurance law.
Mr. Justice Abrams was an Adjunct Professor in the Police Foundations Program at St. Lawrence College (2000-2002). He has been a volunteer with the Ontario Lawyers’ Assistance Program Peer Counselling since 2000 and a Board Member of Kingston Youth Unlimited since 2008. He is also an author and co-author of research papers, as well as a lecturer and panellist at numerous conferences.
These appointments are effective immediately.
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