Chief Justice Beverly McLachlin will be the featured guest tonight (Monday) as part of the popular Falconbridge Lecture series.
Laurentian University and Falconbridge Ltd. sponsor the lecture series, which sees prominent leaders come to Sudbury to speak on important issues.
McLachlin will present her lecture at 7:30 pm at Laurentian's Fraser Auditorium.
Her lecture, entitled The Changing Face of Justice in Canada, will be presented in English.
The lecture is free of charge and all members of the public are invited to attend.
Following a busy career as a prominent professor, litigator and judge, McLachlin became the first female chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. She was appointed Chief Justice in January of 2000.
She's a member of the Privy Council of Canada and is also chair of the Canadian Judicial Council, the Advisory Council of Canada and the Board of Governors of the National Judicial Institute.
McLachlin was born in Pincher Creek, Alta., and completed a Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Arts in Philosophy at the University of Alberta and obtained her law degree in 1968.
She was called to the bar in Alberta in 1969 and became a member of the Law Society of British Columbia five months later.
She was appointed to the B.C. Court of Appeal in 1985 and, in 1988, became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia.
McLachlin has established a reputation for thoughtfulness and clarity of her decisions in complex cases.
Free tickets to the lecture are available on a first-come, first-serve basis at the Laurentian University bookstore, J.N. Desmarais Library at Laurentian, Science North, Cambrian College's registrar's office, College Boreal's registrar's office and most branches of the Greater Sudbury Public Library.
The Falconbridge Lecture Series originated back in 1978.
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