National Judicial Institute

The National Judicial Institute (NJI) is a Canadian not-for-profit charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario and Montreal, Quebec.[1]
Organization
Name | Position | Notes |
---|---|---|
Richard Wagner | Chair of the Board of Governors[2] | Supreme Court of Canada, Action Committee on Court Operations in Response to COVID-19 |
Nicholas Kasirer | Vice-Chair of the Board of Governors[3] | Supreme Court of Canada |
Margaret Biggs | Board Member | Queen's University |
Melissa Gillespie | Board Member | Provincial Court of British Columbia |
Jean-François Michaud | Board Member | Superior Court of Quebec |
Martel D. Popescul | Board Member | Court of King's Bench for Saskatchewan |
J.C. Marc Richard | Board Member | Court of Appeal of New Brunswick |
James Rybchuk | Board Member | Provincial Court of Saskatchewan |
Marie-Eve Sylvestre | Board Member | University of Ottawa Faculty of Law |
Jeremy Webber | Board Member | University of Victoria Faculty of Law |
Frank Iacobucci | Honorary Board Member | Supreme Court of Canada |
Stéphanie Bachand | Secretary to the Board | Supreme Court of Canada |
Beverley McLachlin | Member of the Board of Governors (former)[4] | Cross-Jurisdictional Technical Advisory Group, Supreme Court of Canada |
Thomas Crabtree | Chief Judicial Officer[5] | Supreme Court of British Columbia, Provincial Court of British Columbia |
Danielle May-Cuconato | Chief Executive Officer[5:1] | International Organization for Judicial Training (IOJT), Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) |
Adèle Kent | Executive Director (2014-2019) and Chief Judicial Officer (2019-2021)[6] | International Organization for Judicial Training (IOJT), Court of King's Bench of Alberta |
Audrey Barrett | Senior Advisor/Counsel[7] | Action Committee on Court Operations in Response to COVID-19 |
Mary Moreau | Co-Chair, National Criminal Law Conference (former)[8] | Action Committee on Court Operations in Response to COVID-19, Supreme Court of Canada |
Partners
NJI's partners include courts, the judiciary and other judicial education organizations, including:[9]
- Alberta Court of Justice
- British Columbia Court of Appeal
- Canadian Association of Provincial Court Judges (CAPCJ)
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies (CIALS)
- Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice (CIAJ)
- Canadian Judicial Council (CJC)
- Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada
- Court of Appeal for Ontario
- Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan
- Court of Appeal for the Northwest Territories
- Court of Appeal of Alberta
- Court of Appeal of New Brunswick
- Court of Appeal of Newfoundland and Labrador
- Court of Appeal of Quebec
- Court of King's Bench for Saskatchewan
- Court of King's Bench of Alberta
- Court of King's Bench of Manitoba
- Court of King's Bench of New Brunswick
- Court of Quebec
- Federal Court of Appeal
- Federal Court of Canada
- Federation of Law Societies of Canada (FLSC)
- International Association of Women Judges (IAWJ)
- Manitoba Court of Appeal
- Nova Scotia Court of Appeal
- Nunavut Court of Justice
- Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs Canada (FJC)
- Ontario Court of Justice
- Ontario Superior Court of Justice
- Prince Edward Island Court of Appeal
- Provincial Court of British Columbia
- Provincial Court of Manitoba
- Provincial Court of New Brunswick
- Provincial Court of Newfoundland and Labrador
- Provincial Court of Nova Scotia
- Provincial Court of Prince Edward Island
- Provincial Court of Saskatchewan
- Superior Court of Quebec
- Supreme Court of British Columbia
- Supreme Court of Canada (SCC)
- Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador
- Supreme Court of Nova Scotia
- Supreme Court of Prince Edward Island
- Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories
- Supreme Court of Yukon
- Tax Court of Canada
- Territorial Court of the Northwest Territories
- Territorial Court of Yukon
External links
About the NJI. National Judicial Institute. Retrieved February 26, 2025, from https://www.nji-inm.ca/index.cfm/about/about-the-nji/ ↩︎
Message from the Right Honourable Richard Wagner, P.C., Chief Justice of Canada. National Judicial Institute. Retrieved February 26, 2025, from https://www.nji-inm.ca/index.cfm/about/message-from-the-right-honourable-richard-wagner-p-c-chief-justice-of-canada/ ↩︎
Board of Governors. National Judicial Institute. Retrieved February 26, 2025, from https://www.nji-inm.ca/index.cfm/about/board-of-governors/ ↩︎
The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C., C.C. (2025, February 25). Supreme Court of Canada. https://www.scc-csc.ca/about-apropos/judges-juges/list-liste/beverley-mclachlin/ ↩︎
Message from the Chief Judicial Officer and the Chief Executive Officer. National Judicial Institute. Retrieved February 26, 2025, from https://www.nji-inm.ca/index.cfm/about/message-from-the-chief-judicial-officer-and-the-chief-executive-officer/ ↩︎ ↩︎
The NJI’s Judicial Leaders. National Judicial Institute. Retrieved February 26, 2025, from https://www.nji-inm.ca/index.cfm/about/the-njis-judicial-leaders/ ↩︎
Audrey Barrett. LinkedIn. Retrieved February 25, 2025, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/audrey-barrett-b0000687/ ↩︎
The Honourable Mary T. Moreau. (2025, February 14). Supreme Court of Canada. https://www.scc-csc.ca/about-apropos/judges-juges/list-liste/mary-t-moreau/ ↩︎
Judicial Education Partners. National Judicial Institute. Retrieved February 26, 2025, from https://www.nji-inm.ca/index.cfm/about/judicial-education-partners/ ↩︎