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Supreme Court Advocacy Institute

The Supreme Court Advocacy Institute (SCAI) is a Canadian charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario.

Organization

SCAI's leadership and personnel are listed on its website.[1]

Name Position Notes
Owen Rees Co-Founder[2] CBA Task Force on Justice Issues Arising from COVID-19, Ontario Superior Court of Justice
Frank Iacobucci National Advisory Committee Chairperson Supreme Court of Canada, Torys
Michel Bastarache National Advisory Committee Honorary Chairperson Supreme Court of Canada
Ian Binnie National Advisory Committee Honorary Chairperson Supreme Court of Canada, Lenczner Slaght
Thomas Cromwell National Advisory Committee Honorary Chairperson Supreme Court of Canada, Borden Ladner Gervais (BLG), Advocates' Society
Marie Deschamps National Advisory Committee Honorary Chairperson Supreme Court of Canada, National Security and Intelligence Review Agency (NSIRA)
Morris Fish National Advisory Committee Honorary Chairperson Supreme Court of Canada
Clément Gascon National Advisory Committee Honorary Chairperson Supreme Court of Canada
Gérard La Forest National Advisory Committee Honorary Chairperson Supreme Court of Canada
Louis LeBel National Advisory Committee Honorary Chairperson Supreme Court of Canada
John C. Major National Advisory Committee Honorary Chairperson Supreme Court of Canada
Beverley McLachlin National Advisory Committee Honorary Chairperson Cross-Jurisdictional Technical Advisory Group, Supreme Court of Canada
Marshall Rothstein National Advisory Committee Honorary Chairperson Supreme Court of Canada
Shantona Chaudhury Executive Director -
Grégoire Webber Executive Director -
Sheila Block Member for Ontario -
David Coles Member for Atlantic Canada -
Mona Duckett Member for Alberta -
Anthony Gerein Member for Saskatchewan -
Daniel Jutras Member for Quebec University of Montreal
Richard Peck Member for British Columbia -
Richard Wolson Member for Manitoba -
Michael Feder Member at Large -
Pierre-Jérôme Bouchard Member at Large and Session Coordinator, Regional Committee for Quebec -
Alan Hepner Member, Regional Committee for Alberta -
Clarke Hunter Member, Regional Committee for Alberta -
Julie G. Hopkins Session Coordinator, Regional Committee for Alberta Western Arbitration Chambers, Borden Ladner Gervais (BLG), Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Ciarb)
Y. Liliane Bantourakis Member, Regional Committee for British Columbia Supreme Court of British Columbia, British Columbia Prosecution Service (BCPS)
Geoff Cowper Member, Regional Committee for British Columbia Fasken
Patrick G. Foy Member, Regional Committee for British Columbia -
Mila Shah Session Coordinator, Regional Committee for British Columbia British Columbia Prosecution Service (BCPS)
Sarah Inness Member, Regional Committee for Manitoba Campbell Gunn Inness Seib Jones, Court of King's Bench of Manitoba
Heather Leonoff Member, Regional Committee for Manitoba Manitoba Justice, Law Society of Manitoba
Sacha Paul Session Coordinator, Regional Committee for Manitoba -
Robert Frater Member, Regional Committee for Ontario Federal Prosecution Service, Department of Justice Canada
Brian Greenspan Member, Regional Committee for Ontario Greenspan Humphrey Makepeace
Roslyn Levine Member, Regional Committee for Ontario Department of Justice Canada, Ontario Superior Court of Justice
Colleen Bauman Session Coordinator, Regional Committee for Ontario -
Erin Dann Session Coordinator, Regional Committee for Ontario -
Louise Mailhot Member, Regional Committee for Quebec Fasken, Court of Appeal of Quebec
Guy J. Pratte Director and Vice Chair (former),[3] Regional Committee for Quebec member[4] Borden Ladner Gervais (BLG), Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies (CIALS)
Gérald Tremblay Member, Regional Committee for Quebec -
François Goyer Session Coordinator, Regional Committee for Quebec -
Robert Leurer Chair, Regional Committee for Saskatchewan (former)[5] Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, Canadian Judicial Council (CJC)
Mark Brayford Member, Regional Committee for Saskatchewan -
Aaron Fox Member, Regional Committee for Saskatchewan -
Mark Kindrachuk Member, Regional Committee for Saskatchewan -
Shoshanna Paul Session Coordinator, Regional Committee for Saskatchewan -
Ian F. Kelly Newfoundland and Labrador Member, Atlantic Regional Committee Royal Newfoundland Regiment
Christian Michaud New Brunswick Member, Atlantic Regional Committee Ellsworth Johnson Michaud (EJM)
M. Lynn Murray Prince Edward Island Member, Atlantic Regional Committee Key Murray Law
Michael Marin Session Coordinator, Atlantic Regional Committee -

Funding

SCAI has received funding from:[6]

  • Advocates' Society
  • American College of Trial Lawyers
  • American College of Trial Lawyers Canadian Foundation[7]
  • Barreau du Québec
  • Canadian Bar Association (CBA)
  • Grant Thornton
  • Law Foundation of Ontario[7:1]
  • OBA Foundation

  1. Governance. Supreme Court Advocacy Institute. Retrieved April 14, 2021, from https://web.archive.org/web/20210414105043/https://scai-ipcs.ca/governance.html ↩︎

  2. Owen Rees, BCL alum and former stipendiary. (2023, July 5). University of Oxford Faculty of Law. https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news/owen-rees-bcl-alum-and-former-stipendiary-lecturer-law-lmh-appointed-ontario-superior ↩︎

  3. Guy J. Pratte. Borden Ladner Gervais. Retrieved February 27, 2025, from https://www.blg.com/en/people/p/pratte-guy ↩︎

  4. Governance. Supreme Court Advocacy Institute. Retrieved March 8, 2025, from https://web.archive.org/web/20250308222757/https://scai-ipcs.ca/governance.html ↩︎

  5. The Honourable Robert Leurer. (2023, October 10). Prime Minister of Canada. https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/backgrounders/2023/10/10/honourable-robert-leurer ↩︎

  6. Partner Organizations. Supreme Court Advocacy Institute. Retrieved March 10, 2025, from https://scai-ipcs.ca/partnerships.html ↩︎

  7. Partner Organizations. Supreme Court Advocacy Institute. Retrieved September 8, 2015, from https://web.archive.org/web/20150908003832/http://www.scai-ipcs.ca/partnerships.html ↩︎ ↩︎