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Catherine McKinnon
Canada
Senior Counsel for Access to Justice
Biography
Catherine McKinnon obtained her LL.B. from the University of Toronto and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1994. She joined Justice Canada in 1995. Her work in areas of social policy, diversity and equality, and judicial affairs fostered an early interest in access to justice, including as lead counsel on Unified Family Court expansion and supporting the National Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters. In 2019 Catherine was delighted to join the Department’s Access to Justice Secretariat. She now leads the Secretariat’s collaborative efforts to advance a people-centred approach to justice and the full realization of Sustainable Development Goal 16, with its vision of equal access to justice for all.
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