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
External links
Governance. Supreme Court Advocacy Institute. Retrieved April 14, 2021, from https://web.archive.org/web/20210414105043/https://scai-ipcs.ca/governance.html ↩︎
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 ↩︎
Guy J. Pratte. Borden Ladner Gervais. Retrieved February 27, 2025, from https://www.blg.com/en/people/p/pratte-guy ↩︎
Governance. Supreme Court Advocacy Institute. Retrieved March 8, 2025, from https://web.archive.org/web/20250308222757/https://scai-ipcs.ca/governance.html ↩︎
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 ↩︎
Partner Organizations. Supreme Court Advocacy Institute. Retrieved March 10, 2025, from https://scai-ipcs.ca/partnerships.html ↩︎
Partner Organizations. Supreme Court Advocacy Institute. Retrieved September 8, 2015, from https://web.archive.org/web/20150908003832/http://www.scai-ipcs.ca/partnerships.html ↩︎ ↩︎