Department of Justice

OTTAWA, December 7, 1998 -- The Honourable Anne McLellan, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, announced the appointment of J. Grant Sinclair, Q.C. of Toronto as Vice-chairperson of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.

Mr. Sinclair graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1962 and obtained a Master of Law from Yale University in 1965. He then taught constitutional law, human rights and administrative law at Queen's University and at Osgoode Hall Law School. In 1972, he taught comparative constitutional law and human rights as a Visiting Professor at Edinburgh University in Scotland.

Prior to joining the Department of Justice of Canada, Human Rights Law Section, in 1985, as General Counsel, Mr. Sinclair had been in private practise since 1974. Mr. Sinclair has mainly practised administrative law and has been practising in Toronto with Sinclair & Associates since 1988.

Mr. Sinclair was a member of the Human Rights Tribunal Panel from 1989 to 1997.

This appointment is effective January 1, 1999.

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