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SUMMARY:2013 Morris A Gross Memorial Lecture
DESCRIPTION:The Honourable Lynn Smith\nThe Quest for a Charter Equality Test: Has the Longest Way Round Been the Shortest Way Home? \nWatch the webcast here. \nEvent date: Wednesday\, February 27\, 2013\, from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM\nLocation: Rowell Room\, Flavelle House\, Faculty of Law\, University of Toronto \nLynn Smith\, B.A. (University of Calgary)\, LL.B. (University of British Columbia)\, LL.D. (Hon.) (Simon Fraser University) was appointed to the Supreme Court of British Columbia in 1998. She served as a Justice of that Court until her retirement in September 2012. Prior to her appointment as a judge\, she practised law at Shrum\, Liddle and Hebenton (now McCarthy Tetrault)\, specializing in civil litigation. She taught law at the University of British Columbia 1981-97 in areas including Constitutional Law\, Evidence\, Civil Litigation\, and Real Property. She has published books and articles in the fields of Charter equality rights\, civil litigation and evidence\, human rights\, administrative law\, and women’s equality. She was Dean of the U.B.C. Law Faculty 1991-97. In 2005-06\, Lynn Smith was Executive Director of the National Judicial Institute\, on secondment from the Court. She is a Judicial Associate of the National Judicial Institute and serves on the faculty of the Charter and Evidence Workshops as well as the New Federally-Appointed Judges Program. She has been involved in international judicial education exchanges with China\, Scotland\, Ghana and Viet Nam. During a Judicial Study Leave in 2009-10\, she researched credibility assessment\, examining the psychological and social science literature as well as the law. She published a paper on that topic\, and prepared a program on credibility assessment used in National Judicial Institute seminars. Lynn Smith was the Chair of the B.C. Supreme Court Law Clerks Committee and of the Committee on Communications Technology\, whose report was adopted by the Court in May\, 2012. Commencing in January\, 2013\, she is teaching a seminar on Constitutional Litigation at the U.B.C. Faculty of Law. She is married to Jon Sigurdson\, who is a Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia. They have two daughters\, Elin Sigurdson and Krista Sigurdson. \nThe Morris A. Gross Memorial Lecture was established in memory of the late Morris A. Gross by the law firm Minden Gross LLP and by members of his family\, friends and professional associates. The intention of the lectureship is to\, every two years\, bring to the Faculty of Law a distinguished scholar or a member of the practising bar or bench for discussion with the student body and Faculty\, and to deliver the bi-annual Morris A. Gross Memorial Lecture. \nThis event is being co-sponsored by the JOHN AND MARY YAREMKO FUND FOR MULTICULTURALISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS. \nFor more information\, contact Cheryl Milne cheryl.milne@utoronto.ca
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