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OPSEU accuses province of contemptMarg. Bruineman - Monday, June 17, 2013
The Ontario Public Service Employees Union is taking the province to court over its failure to abide by a ruling involving court interpreters as the government gets set to create a new body that would oversee their work as independent contractors. Read more |
The new process will create a division between salaried court reporters overseeing the recording of trials and independent contractors performing the resulting transcription work. Other News
- OPSEU accuses province of contempt
- Man suing lawyers fights vexatious litigant ruling
- Paper touts ‘no jail’ option in exchange for reduced Charter protection
- Focus: Aboriginals battling family law changes
- Sovereign immunity boosted in Ontario court ruling
- Master overstepped jurisdiction in criticizing lawyer: judge
Inside Story
Monday, June 17, 2013
JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS ANNOUNCED
Justice Minister Rob Nicholson has appointed two lawyers to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice bench.
Wendy Matheson, a lawyer with Torys LLP and a bencher at the Law Society of Upper Canada, is replacing Justice Frank Marrocco, who becomes associate chief justice of the Superior Court. Matheson was also an adjunct professor and lead instructor in intellectual property law at Osgoode Hall Law School.
Ronald Laliberté is also joining the bench in Cornwall, Ont., as Justice D.R. Aston leaves his post to become a supernumerary judge. Laliberté, who served as a Crown attorney, joined the bar in 1988.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Stephen Harper also announced the appointment of Ontario Court of Appeal Justice Alexandra Hoy as associate chief justice of the court.
Hoy joined the Court of Appeal in 2011 after serving as a Superior Court judge since 2002. She replaces justice Dennis O’Connor following his resignation last year.
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