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Sheila Murray, Law’82

Law’82 alumna to help modernize Ontario’s business laws

April 11, 2016
She is the president of one of Canada’s largest investment fund companies – and will soon be helping steer the future of business in Ontario. Sheila Murray, Law’82 (Com’79), has accepted an appointment to the Ontario government’s new Business Law Advisory Council (BLAC). The 11-member panel, which is made up of professionals with expertise in the area, will recommend changes to provincial corporate and commercial laws that will strengthen the competitiveness of Ontario businesses in the Canadian and global economies. Murray brings more than three decades of experience to her appointment.
Rothstein Lecture

Osler’s $100K investment to pay solid returns for Queen’s business law students

April 8, 2016
Two business law initiatives are beginning at Queen’s Law this fall thanks to a generous contribution of $100,000 from Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP. First, a scholarship will support students who are entering the new combined BCom/JD program. Second, a seminar/workshop series focusing on the essentials of business knowledge for lawyers is being created.
Ashley Pitcher, Law’17, presents the 2016 LSS Spark Award to Jason Mercredi, Law’18, LSS Aboriginal Student Representative, on March 28.

Queen’s Law students vote to create aboriginal student entrance scholarship

April 1, 2016
On March 24, Queen’s Law students voted to use the Law Students’ Society’s $25,000 budget surplus to create the school’s first entrance scholarship for Aboriginal law students. The Law Faculty will match the LSS’s contribution in order to establish an endowed fund that will support an annual scholarship of $2,000 to $3,000 for one student each year.
Shayla Stein, Law’16, and Jennifer Cao, Law’17, winners of the 2016 OTLA Cup

Queen’s Law wins provincial competition in oral advocacy

March 24, 2016
Shayla Stein, Law’16, and Jennifer Cao, Law’17, brought the OTLA Cup home to Macdonald Hall. They turned in a triple-crown performance at the 2016 Ontario Trial Lawyers’ Association Moot held at the Windsor Superior Court of Justice on March 5–6. Not only did they win the award for Best Overall Team, but they also took top individual honours: Stein was named Best Overall Advocate and Cao gave the Best Cross-Examination.
Elizabeth Shilton, Senior Fellow with the Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace

Queen’s Senior Fellow recognized for advancing women’s equality

March 23, 2016
“Elizabeth Shilton is an enduring feminist … Her work is driven by her passion for advancing equality and equity for women, girls and marginalized people.” That’s how the YWCA Toronto describes Shilton, Senior Fellow with the Queen’s Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace (CLCW). The YWCA Toronto has named her its Law and Justice honoree among its Women of the Year for 2016.
Justice Thomas Cromwell, Law’76, LLD’10 presents “The Legal Services Gap: Professional Responsibility and Access to Justice” to Queen’s Law students and faculty in Macdonald Hall on March 11.

Supreme Court of Canada Justice emphasizes access to justice in Queen’s Law talk

March 17, 2016
“First you have to want it.” That’s how Justice Thomas Cromwell, Law’76, LLD’10 (Mus’73) began his talk with eager Queen’s Law students. On March 11, Cromwell returned to his alma mater to give the McCarthy Tétrault LLP Annual Lecture on Legal Ethics and Professionalism. For his hour-long talk, “The Legal Services Gap: Professional Responsibility and Access to Justice,” he explored how current regulation inhibits access to legal services and how it can be changed to ameliorate this problem.
Fiona Sampson, Law'93, visits beneficiaries of the 160 Girls Project at Ntani Primary School in Nairobi on Jan. 14. (Photo by Brian Jaybee)

QUAA Alumni Humanitarian Award recipient uses human rights law to protect 10 million Kenyan girls

March 15, 2016
Human rights lawyer Fiona Sampson, Law’93 (Artsci’85), was the driving force behind a landmark ruling in 2013 that found Kenyan police at fault for failing to protect girls from rape. The successful case, filed on behalf of 160 girls who were survivors of rape, now helps to protect more than 10 million women and girls in Kenya from similar crimes in the future. Sampson and her team are now working with Kenyan police – who rarely investigated rape cases before the lawsuit – training them to better handle sexual assaults, and girls and communities are being empowered to claim their rights under the “160 Girls” law.
Tricolour Award winners Michael Coleman, Law’17, and Thompson Hamilton, Law’16.

Two Queen’s Law students rewarded for making a difference

March 10, 2016
Thompson Hamilton, Law’16 (Artsci’13), and Michael Coleman, Law’17, are among five students being inducted into the Agnes Benidickson Tricolour Society this year for their outstanding service to the Queen’s community. They have both earned the top university honour through impressive extra-curriculars that have made a lasting, positive impact.