Annual Report 2006-2007 - Osgoode Hall Law School - York ...

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Per jus ad justitiam: Through law to justice
Cover Photos
Top:
Student editors worked with Professor Emeritus Simon Fodden on the launch of www.TheCourt.ca, a blog providing timely commentary on Supreme Court of
Canada decisions. Left to right: Evan VanDyk, Yu-Sung Soh, Naseem Mithoowani, Thomas Hughes, Julie Lanz, Jodi Martin, Tracy Brown, Professor Emeritus
Simon Fodden, Julian Ho, Krystal Manitius, Corey Wall.
Lower Left:
Second-year Osgoode student Victoria Creighton received the 2006 McCarthy Tétrault/Women’s Law Association of Ontario (WLAO) Community
Contribution Award.
Lower Right:
The Osgoode team of third-year students Karin McCaig and Donna Polgar won the Sopinka Cup national trial advocacy competition in Ottawa on March 16
and 17, 2007. In addition, McCaig won the award for the Best Opening Statement and Polgar won Best All-Around Advocate. McCaig and Polgar also placed
first in the Arnup Cup, the regional trial advocacy competition between Ontario law schools that was held in Toronto the second weekend in February.