The personal injury lawyer has practised in London and Toronto and will sit in Barrie
Sean Fraser, Canada’s justice minister and attorney general, has announced the appointment of Karen P. Hulan, most recently a partner at Beckett Personal Injury Lawyers in London, as a judge of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Barrie.
Hulan takes the place of Justice Susan Healey in Barrie, who resigned as of Apr. 3.
“I wish Justice Hulan every success as she takes on her new role,” said Fraser, who also serves as minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, in a news release. “I am confident she will serve the people of Ontario well as a member of the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario.”
The federal justice department’s news release provided more information regarding the new judicial appointee.
Hulan has exclusively devoted her practice to personal injury and insurance law. Before moving to London in 2006, she worked in Toronto.
She was president and a board trustee of the Middlesex Law Association.
At the Law Society of Ontario, Hulan served as a bencher elected in 2023, chair of the Tribunal Committee, co-chair of the Futures Committee, and a member of other committees and working groups.
At the Law Society Tribunal, she acted as an adjudicator in the hearing and appellate divisions and as a pre-hearing conference adjudicator and vice chair of the hearing division.
She gained admission to the Ontario bar in 2003. Before beginning her legal career, she was a high school teacher in Newfoundland and Labrador and in Ontario.
Hulan earned her LLB from Queen’s University in 2002, her bachelor’s degree in education from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1995, and her BA in political science from Acadia University in 1993.
Here are some other recent news stories involving judicial appointments in the province.
On Oct. 19, Fraser announced the following Ontario Superior Court appointments: Julie Audet as regional senior judge for the East Region and Gabrielle M.S. Beaulieu as a Family Court judge in Ottawa.
On Oct. 1, Fraser announced the following Ontario judicial appointees: Frederick L. Myers, David E. Harris, Sandra Nishikawa, Christopher M. Arnone, Michael S. Dunn, Nicolas M. Rouleau, Shantona Chaudhury, and Bevin E. Shores.
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