Ontario Court of Appeal

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The Court of Appeal for Ontario (frequently referred to as Ontario Court of Appeal or OCA) is headquartered in downtown Toronto, in historic Osgoode Hall.

The Court is composed of 24 judges who hear over 1,500 appeals each year, on issues of private law, constitutional law, criminal law, administrative law, and other matters. The Supreme Court of Canada has jurisdiction to hear appeals from decisions of the Ontario Court of Appeal, but in 98 percent of cases, the Court of Appeal is the last avenue of appeal for litigants in Canada's most populous province.^{[citation needed]} Among the Court of Appeal's most notable decisions was a 2003 ruling that legalized same-sex marriage in Ontario. Among many judges from the Court who have been elevated to the Supreme Court of Canada are Justices Rosalie Abella, Louise Arbour, Peter Cory, Louise Charron, Bora Laskin and Bertha Wilson. Justice Bertha Wilson was the first woman appointed to the Court in 1975, who later became the first female justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.

The court derives its jurisdiction from Ontario's Courts of Justice Act.

Contents 1 Current Justices 2 Past Justices 3 Chief Justice of Upper Canada 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Current Justices

Position	Name	appointed	prior position
Chief Justice of Ontario	Warren Winkler	June 1, 2007
Associate Chief Justice of Ontario	Dennis O'Connor	1998/2001
Justice	Robert P. Armstrong	January 25, 2002
Justice	Robert A. Blair	November 5, 2003
Justice	Stephen Borins	1997
Justice	James J. Carthy
Justice	Eleanore A. Cronk	July 31, 2001
Justice	David H. Doherty	June 11, 1998
Justice	Gloria J. Epstein	October 12, 2007
Justice	Kathryn N. Feldman
Justice	Eileen E. Gillese	2002
Justice	Stephen T. Goudge
Justice	Russell G. Juriansz	March 12, 2004
Justice	Harry S. Laforme	November 2004
Justice	Susan E. Lang	2004
Justice	John I. Laskin	January 1994
Justice	Jean L. MacFarland
Justice	James C. MacPherson	1999
Justice	Michael J. Moldaver	December 1995
Justice	Marc Rosenberg	December 1995
Justice	Paul Rouleau
Justice	Robert J. Sharpe	1999
Justice	Janet M. Simmons	August 2000
Justice	David Watt	October 12, 2007[1]
Justice	Karen M. Weiler	March 12, 1992

[edit] Past Justices

• Marvin A. Catzman (1988 - 2007)
• Roy McMurtry as Chief Justice (1996 - 2007)
• Rosalie Abella (1992 - 2004)
• Louise Arbour (1990 - 1999)
• Walter Tarnopolsky (1985 - ?)
• Peter Cory (1981 - 1989)
• Bertha Wilson (1975 - 1982)
• Goldwyn Arthur Martin (1973 - 1988)
• Bora Laskin (1965 - 1970)
• Jean-Marc Labrosse (1990 - 2007)
• Roy Kellock (1942-1944)
• Henry Hague Davis (1933-1935)
• Newton Wesley Rowell as Chief Justice (16936-1937)
• Sir William Mulock 1923-1936 - as Chief Justice
• John Douglas Armour (1887-1890) as Chief Justice (1901-1902)
• John Hawkins Hagarty as Chief Justice (1884–1897)
• Thomas Moss as Chief Justice (1878–1880)
• Robert Alexander Harrison as Chief Justice (1875-1878)
• J. S. Spragge

[edit] Chief Justice of Upper Canada

• William Osgoode 1794–1801
• Henry Allcock 1802-1806
• Thomas Scott 1806-1816
• William Dummer Powell 1816-1825
• William Campbell 1825-1829
• Sir John Beverley Robinson 1829-1862
• William Henry Draper 1863-1867

[edit] See also

• Supreme Court of Canada

[edit] References

1. ^ http://www.ontariocourts.on.ca/coa/en/judges/watt.htm Accessed January 16, 2008

[edit] External links

• Court of Appeal for Ontario official site
• Plan to webcast Ontario appeal cases delayed

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