1er May 2024 — Ottawa, Ontario — Department of Justice Canada
The Honorable Arif Virani, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, today announced the following appointments as part of the judicial appointment process announced in 2016. This process emphasizes transparency, merit and the diversity of the Canadian population, and will result in the appointment of jurists who embody the highest standards of excellence and integrity.
The Honorable Darla A. Wilson, a judge of the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario in Toronto, is appointed a judge of the Court of Appeal of Ontario in Toronto. Justice Wilson replaces Justice AL Harvison Young, who elected to become a supernumerary judge effective March 1er September 2023.
The Honorable Lene Madsen, a judge of the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario, Family Court, in Hamilton, is appointed a judge of the Court of Appeal of Ontario in Toronto. Judge Madsen replaces Judge P. Lauwers, who elected to become a supernumerary judge effective September 2, 2023.
The Honorable Apple C. Newton-Smith, a judge of the Ontario Court of Justice in Toronto, is appointed a judge of the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario in Toronto. Justice Newton-Smith replaces Justice PJ Monahan (Toronto), who was appointed to the Ontario Court of Appeal effective May 11, 2023.
Carissima Mathen, professor of law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ottawa, is appointed judge of the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario in Toronto. Justice Mathen replaces Justice TJ McEwen (Toronto), who resigned effective June 30, 2023.
Elizabeth McCarty, a lawyer in the Office of the Children’s Lawyer of the Ministry of the Attorney General of Ontario in Toronto, is appointed a judge of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Family Court, in Belleville. Justice McCarty replaces Justice WB Malcolm (Belleville), who resigned effective June 23, 2023.
Yvonne D. Fiamengo, legal counsel at the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto, is appointed a judge of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Family Court, in Newmarket. Justice Fiamengo replaces Justice JE Hughes (Oshawa), who has elected to become a supernumerary judge effective July 30, 2023. Due to internal judicial transfers by the Chief Justice, the vacancy is located in Newmarket.
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“I wish Judges Wilson, Madsen, Newton-Smith, Mathen, McCarty and Fiamengo every success in their new duties. I am confident that they will serve the people of Ontario well as members of the Ontario Court of Appeal and the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. »
– The Honorable Arif Virani, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada
Biographies
Justice Darla A. Wilson received a Bachelor of Arts from Queen’s University in 1981 and a Bachelor of Laws from the same university in 1984. She was called to the Ontario Bar in 1986.
Previously, Justice Wilson was a partner at Lawson McGrenere LLP in Toronto, where she practiced exclusively in the area of civil litigation. She continued her practice throughout Ontario in the areas of defending hospitals and other health care facilities in the event of negligence claims, general insurance defense, particularly in occupier’s liability cases. , motor vehicle and municipal negligence, as well as representing plaintiffs in personal injury claims. She was a lecturer in moot court at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, as well as a director of the Moot Courts Society and a board member of the Medico-Legal Society. In 2007, Justice Wilson was appointed to the Superior Court of Justice in Toronto. Since February 2020, she has served as the Civil Matters Team Leader for the Toronto Trials. She was a member of the Moot Court Council at Queen’s Law School and served on the board of directors of the Ontario Superior Court Judges Association.
Justice Wilson is an avid long-distance runner. She ran the Boston Marathon in 2010 and the Berlin Marathon in 2015.
There Judge Lene Madsen received an honors degree from McGill University in 1992 and a master’s degree in environmental studies from York University in 2000. She received a Bachelor of Laws (2002) and a Master of Laws (2012) from Osgoode Hall, in the University of York. She was called to the Ontario Bar in 2003.
At the time of her appointment to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in 2016, Justice Madsen was a senior mediator at Bluewater Mediation in London. Previously, she practiced law with Epstein Cole LLP. Her legal practice was primarily focused on attorney-based mediation services, with the majority of cases she handled resulting in comprehensive settlements. She also conducted numerous arbitrations leading to her appointment to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.
Justice Apple C. Newton-Smith graduated from McGill in 1994 with a bachelor’s degree with double majors in English and philosophy. She received her Bachelor of Laws from Queen’s University in 1997 and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1999.
Justice Newton-Smith was appointed to the Ontario Court of Justice in 2019. Prior to her appointment to the Ontario Court of Justice, she was a partner at Berkes Newton-Smith. She practiced as a criminal defense lawyer, both at first instance and on appeal, and she appeared regularly before the courts of all levels for 20 years.
Justice Newton-Smith was vice-president of the Criminal Lawyer’s Association. She has served as a board member of the Ontario Court of Appeal’s Pro Bono Inmate Appeals Program, the McGill Women in Leadership and Philanthropy, and the Cottingham Public School Parent Council. She has been actively involved in education and mentoring in various capacities. She was an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where she taught evidence law and advocacy, and she was also an instructor in the Department of Criminology at Metropolitan Toronto University. She is a member of the Law Society of Ontario’s Licensing Documents Drafting Team and has served as Chair of the Toronto Committee of the Ontario Legal Education Network (OJEN).
Justice Newton-Smith lives in Toronto with her husband, their three sons and a beagle.
There judge Carissima Mathen grew up in Montreal. She attended McGill University, where she received a bachelor’s degree with honors in philosophy and political science in 1989. After receiving her law degree from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1992, she was called to the Bar of in Ontario in 1994. In 2002, she received an LLM from Columbia University, graduating with honors as a Stone Scholar.
Justice Mathen joined the University of Ottawa in 2011, where she was promoted to full professor and served a term as academic vice dean of the English common law program. She taught law full-time at the University of New Brunswick from 2002 to 2011. After being called to the Bar, she worked for seven years for the Women’s Legal Action and Education Fund (LEAF). ), where she led groundbreaking legal proceedings related to the Bill of Rights.
Justice Mathen has published more than 50 articles and numerous books, including the award-winning monograph Courts Without Cases: The Law and Politics of Advisory Opinions (2019), The Tenth Justice (with Michael Plaxton) (2020) and (expected in 2024) Decoding the Court: Legal Data Insights from the Supreme Court of Canada. She was editor-in-chief of the work Canadian Constitutional Law, 6th edition (2022). She holds several legal and academic honors, including the David W. Mundell Medal and the Bar Medal.
Judge Mathen enjoys traveling, cooking, dancing, and spending time with her husband, Jason, and dog, Bolo.
There Judge Elizabeth McCarty received her Bachelor of Laws from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1996, after receiving her Bachelor of Laws (summa cum laude) from Dalhousie University in 1993. She was called to the Ontario Bar in 1998.
Justice McCarty spent most of her career representing children in family law matters in the Office of the Children’s Lawyer (OCL) of the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General. She has co-managed the OAC’s adoption and outreach programs and has appeared before courts in all jurisdictions in Ontario.
Justice McCarty was a former member of the executive of the Children and Youth Section of the Ontario Bar Association. She has co-chaired the ABO’s Advanced Issues in Child Protection Law for the past three years and is a frequent speaker at continuing education programs. She has worked with the Ontario Association for Family Mediation in developing an open mediator accreditation program and has written extensively on child welfare issues. Previously, she was a member of the Grandview Children’s Center Board of Directors and the Family Law Rules Committee. She also played various roles on her children’s hockey teams.
Judge McCarty and her husband Jay have three adult children currently attending college. She enjoys gardening and going on long hikes with her family and dog.
There Judge Yvonne D. Fiamengo received her law degree from the University of Alberta Faculty of Law in 1997, after receiving her Bachelor of Arts from the University of York in 1992. She was called to the Ontario Bar in 1999 .
Justice Fiamengo joined the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto as legal counsel in 2002. For the past 22 years, she has represented the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto all proceedings in the Ontario courts and before the Child and Family Services Review Board. From 2000 to 2002, she worked in association with a small firm in North York, where she was exposed to her first practical experience in family law, acting on behalf of parents in domestic violence and property hearings. -be from childhood. She began her legal career in civil law at a mid-sized insurance firm in downtown Toronto.
Judge Fiamengo was a member of the 311 Open Bar Education Committee and regularly presented at continuing professional education programs. She was a board member of the Canadian Alopecia Areata Foundation (CANAAF), where she actively promoted its important work supporting individuals and families affected by this unpredictable disease.
Justice Fiamengo is a proud single mother to her teenage son, and they often spend time at Toronto’s hockey stadiums and baseball parks.
