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Biography

Educated at Loyola College of Montreal (BA 1968) and Dalhousie University Law School (LLB 1971). Called to the Bar of Ontario 1973. Associate and Partner, Herridge Tolmie, (merged with Osler Hoskin & Harcourt) 1973-99, past-member of Executive Committee, Chair of Public Law Department. Senior Partner - Litigation, Ogilvy Renault 1999-2003, Managing Partner - Ottawa and member of Management Committee, Counsel before Supreme Court of Canada, Federal Courts, superior courts and federal tribunals, Chair, Air Law Section, Canadian Bar Association, Chair, Constitutional and Administrative Law Section, and Member of Council International Bar Association, Member, Editorial Board on Competition Law (Federal Press), sessional lecturer in advanced administrative law, Carleton University, Department of Law/Institute of Public Administration. Appointed Judge of the Federal Court, and ex officio, member of the Federal Court of Appeal, November 19, 2003, and Judge of the Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada, April 27, 2004. Address: Federal Court, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0H9.