Justice Michelle Flaherty graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Bishop’s University in 1992. She then attended the University of Ottawa, receiving an LLB from the French Common Law Program in1998 and a Masters of Law in 2012. She clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada and was called to the Bar of Ontario in 2001.
Justice Flaherty was an Associate professor of law at the University of Ottawa from 2012 to 2018. Her teaching focussed on access to justice and, more specifically, the role judges and other adjudicators play in making the justice system more accessible. She received an Excellence in teaching award in 2016. She also practised civil litigation, labour and employment law, and human rights with a leading Ontario law firm. In 2008, she became a Vice-Chair of the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal and, was more recently a labour arbitrator, mediator, and independent investigator working in French and English in many Canadian jurisdictions. She was inducted into the University of Ottawa Common Law Honours Society for her service to the law school and the profession. In 2011, she was named one of Bishop’s University’s Top 10 after 10 graduates.
Justice Flaherty is a franco-Ontarian from rural eastern Ontario.
Congratulations to Justice Flaherty on this appointment!
From the Department of Justice Canada News Release: external link