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McLachlin Fund

McLachlin Fund
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The Rt. Hon. Beverley McLachlin Access to Justice Fund, branded as the McLachlin Fund, is a Canadian funding body named after Beverley McLachlin, former Chief Justice of Canada, administered by the Law Foundation of British Columbia.[1]

Organization

Name Position Notes
Beverley McLachlin Council Chair[1:1] Supreme Court of Canada, Cross-Jurisdictional Technical Advisory Group
Thomas Cromwell Secretary Supreme Court of Canada, Cross-Jurisdictional Technical Advisory Group, Borden Ladner Gervais (BLG)
Bruce Cohen Council Member Ladner Downs, Law Society of British Columbia, Supreme Court of British Columbia, Canadian Superior Courts Judges Association, Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice (CIAJ), Canadian Judicial Council (CJC)[2]
Virginia Engel Council Member Peacock Linder Halt & Mack, CBA Financial Services, Canadian Bar Insurance Association (CBIA), Chancery Reinsurance, Canadian Bar Association Excellence Liability Association (CBELA), Canadian Lawyers Insurance Association (CLIA), Canadian Bar Association (CBA), Association of Women Lawyers (AWL), Litigation Counsel of America (LCA), Diversity Law Institute (DLI), Canadian Institute, Trial Law Institute
Yves Fortier Council Member Arbitration Place, London Court of International Arbitration, Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), United Nations, Queen's Privy Council for Canada, World Bank Group Sanctions Board
Richard Fyfe Council Member British Columbia Ministry of Attorney General, Action Committee on Court Operations in Response to COVID-19, Access to Justice BC
Brandt C. Louie Council Member London Drugs, H. Y. Louie Co., Tong and Geraldine Louie Family Foundation, Grosvenor, Simon Fraser University (SFU)
John Manley Council Member Liberal Party of Canada, Business Council of Canada, CAE, Leaders' Debates Commission, Perley-Robertson, Hill & McDougall, Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI), C.D. Howe Institute, Trilateral Commission, Brookings Institution
Jason McLean Council Member McLean Group, Stikeman Elliott, Office of the Prime Minister of Canada, Canadian National Railway (CN), Vancouver Foundation, Vancouver Police Board
Jaime Watt Council Member Navigator, University Health Network (UHN), Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research (CANFAR), St. Michael's Foundation, Crimson Asset Management, Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS)
Karen Wilford Council Member Association of Legal Aid Plans of Canada (ALAP), Legal Aid Commission of the Northwest Territories
Mark Wiseman Council Member Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo), BlackRock, CPP Investments, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP), Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Lazard

Donors

Funding for the McLachlin Fund has come from:[3]

  • Bennett Jones
  • Beverley McLachlin
  • Blakes
  • Borden Ladner Gervais (BLG)
  • Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE)
  • Christine M. Joseph Law Corporation
  • Fasken
  • Federation of Law Societies of Canada
  • Goodmans
  • Gowling WLG
  • Government of Canada
  • Lawson Lundell
  • LexisNexis
  • London Drugs Foundation
  • McCarthy Tétrault Foundation
  • Norton Rose Fulbright
  • Osler
  • Power Corporation of Canada
  • Quarrywood Foundation
  • Robert J. Bauman
  • Stewart McKelvey
  • Stikeman Elliott
  • Tong and Geraldine Louie Family Foundation
  • Torys
  • Vancouver Foundation
  • Woods

  1. About the McLachlin Fund. McLachlin Fund. Retrieved March 16, 2025, from https://mclachlin.ca/about-us ↩︎ ↩︎

  2. Honourable Bruce Cohen, Commissioner. Cohen Commission. Retrieved March 17, 2025, from https://cohencommission.ca/en/commissioner ↩︎

  3. Donors. McLachlin Fund. Retrieved March 17, 2025, from https://mclachlin.ca/donors ↩︎