john gomery

Justice John Howard Gomery (born August 9, 1932 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian jurist. Gomery was appointed on February 19, 2004 as Commissioner of Inquiry into the Sponsorship Program and Advertising Activities to investigate the 2004 Canadian sponsorship scandal. Gomery was educated at McGill University where he received a B.A. and a B.C.L..

Past career

Since 1957, Gomery worked at the law firm Fasken, Martineau and Dumoulin in the areas of family law, commercial litigation and bankruptcy and became a partner there in 1966. In 1972, he was appointed Queen's Counsel. In 1982, he was appointed to Quebec Superior Court Montreal district and from 1999 to 2005 served as President of the Copyright Board of Canada (renewed in 2002). Gomery has also been involved in the Canadian Bar Association and Chambre des notaires du Qubec. He was also President of the Comit Gnral des Juges de la Cour suprieure du Qubec, President of the Family Law Committee from 1983 to 1993 and has been a member of the Rules of Practice Committee since the beginning. Gomery, John Gomery, John

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