Justice beyond Orwell : [10th Annual conference of the Canadian institute for the
administration of justice, held in Ottawa, October 24th to 27th, 1984] / edited by
Rosalie S. Abella and Melvin L. Rothman, 1985
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Information trouvée : Rosalie Silberman Abella FRSC (born July 1, 1946) is a Canadian jurist. In 2004, Abella
was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, becoming the first Jewish woman and
refugee to sit on the Canadian Supreme Court bench. She attended Oakwood Collegiate
Institute and Bathurst Heights Secondary School in Toronto, Ontario. She then attended
the University of Toronto, where she earned a B.A. in 1967 and an LL.B. in 1970. In
1964, Abella graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Music in classical piano. Abella
was called to the Ontario bar in 1972. She practised civil and criminal litigation
until 1976, when, at the age of 29, she was appointed to the Ontario Family Court
(which is now part of the Ontario Court of Justice) by then–attorney general Roy McMurtry,She
was appointed to the Ontario Court of Appeal in 1992. Following her retirement from
the Supreme Court, Abella has served as a visiting professor at Fordham University
School of Law and Harvard Law School.