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The Honourable Russell Juriansz ’72 (1946- )
Born in India, Justice Russell Juriansz came to Toronto at the age of nine. In 1969, he graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Science degree and then enrolled at Osgoode where he distinguished himself as President of the Legal & Literary Society. Juriansz practised in administrative, constitutional and employment law, concentrating on human rights, labour relations, pay equity, pension and benefits, and the Charter. From 1978 to 1987 he was General Counsel and Director of Legal Services for the Canadian Human Rights Commission, then went on to become a partner at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP before establishing his own practice. He was appointed to the Superior Court of Justice, then called the Ontario Court (General Division), in 1998. He was appointed to the Ontario Court of Appeal in 2004 and became the first person of colour and the first South Asian judge on the Court.
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1971 - Trouble in Paradise
A student-staffed community legal services clinic is established at Parkdale Community Legal Services. Professor Fred Zemans serves as its first director, and Professor Mary Jane Mossman is its first articling student. Members of the Law Society’s Legal Aid Committee read that Osgoode Hall Law School is operating a storefront law office which would offer free legal advice and debates seeking a legal injunction against the school. They consider withdrawing the name “Osgoode Hall” from the Law School.
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1970 - The Unquiet Revolution
Osgoode forms a Clinical Training Committee to supervise the activities of the Community and Legal Assistance Services Programme (CLASP). The original committee includes Professors William Neilson, Garry Watson, Stephen Borins, and students, Terry O’Sullivan and Larry Taman. The October Crisis occurs. In response, Pierre Trudeau introduces the War Measures Act. Believing this to be an unjustifiable suppression of civil liberties, Osgoode students hold a teach-in in protest of the War Measures Act.
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1969 - Books and Brutalism
The new Osgoode Hall Law School building and library opens at York University. Reviews are mixed, with the Toronto Star columnist Harvey Cowan calling the Brutalist-inspired architecture a piece of “visual indigestion.” This is the newly opened law school atrium. Obiter Dicta, September 2, 1969.
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