Department of Justice

COMPETITION TRIBUNAL APPOINTMENT ANNOUNCED

OTTAWA, June 14, 1999 -- The Honourable Anne McLellan, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, today announced the following appointment:

Mr. Justice Allan Lutfy from Ottawa, has been appointed a member of the Competition Tribunal for a term of seven years. He replaces Mr. Justice Marshall E. Rothstein who has been elevated to the Court of Appeal of the Federal Court of Canada.

Mr. Justice Lutfy graduated in law from McGill University in 1967. He was called to the Quebec Bar in 1968, and to the Ontario Bar in 1985.

Prior to his appointment to the Federal Court, Trial Division, on August 7, 1996, Mr. Justice Lutfy had been practising commercial litigation and administrative law with the firm of Lavery deBilly in Ottawa.

The Competition Tribunal was created in 1986 when Parliament enacted major reforms to Canada’s competition law. The Competition Tribunal’s mandate is to hear and decide cases involving mergers, abuse of dominant position, or a number of other restrictive business practices set out in Part VIII of the Competition Act.

This appointment is effective immediately.

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Ref.: Johanne Senécal
Minister’s Office
(613) 992-4621