ONTARIO JUDICIAL APPOINTMENT ANNOUNCED

OTTAWA, June 27, 2002 -- The Honourable Martin Cauchon, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, today announced the following appointment:

Herman J. Wilton-Siegel of Toronto is appointed a judge of the Superior Court of Justice and will be assigned by the Chief Justice to Toronto. He replaces Mr. Justice J. D. Ground who has become a supernumerary judge.

Mr. Justice Wilton-Siegel attended Oxford University (England) as a Rhodes Scholar where he obtained a B.A. in Law (First Class) in 1973. In 1975, he received a Bachelor of Laws from Dalhousie University in Halifax and in 1977, a Masters in Law from Harvard University. Following his admission to the Bar of Ontario, he began practice with the Toronto firm of Tory Tory DesLauriers & Binnington (now known as Torys) becoming a partner with that firm in 1982. In 2001, Mr. Justice Wilton-Siegel joined Centrica Canada Limited as Senior Vice-President and General Counsel, North America.

Throughout his legal career, Mr. Justice Wilton-Siegel has acquired extensive corporate-commercial law experience in the areas of financing, mergers and acquisitions, insolvency, corporate restructuring and employment and pension issues. As well, he has wide experience in administrative law and negotiation and mediation. He is a former instructor in corporate-commercial law for the Bar Admissions Course of the Law Society of Upper Canada.

This appointment is effective immediately.

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