Episode 101 (En anglais) | The TAP Project: Chief Justice Marc Richard on Justice, Ethics, and Reform
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Episode 101 (En anglais): The TAP Project: Chief Justice Marc Richard on Justice, Ethics, and Reform
Broadcast Date: February 13, 2025
SUMMARY
In this episode, CIAJ’s Executive Director Christine O’Doherty welcomes The Honourable Chief Justice J.C. Marc Richard (of New Brunswick) to talk about his involvement in the Technical Assistance Partnership (TAP) Project. Drawing from his experience in Mongolia and Moldova, he discusses the importance of judicial independence and ethics. He addresses questions about Canada’s role in strengthening global justice, the challenges of eradicating corruption, and the value of international judicial cooperation. He reflects on what motivates his involvement and how these experiences shape his perspective on global judicial cooperation.
Guest
- The Honourable Chief Justice J.C. Marc Richard (of New Brunswick)
Host
- Christine O’Doherty, Lawyer & Executive Director, CIAJ
BIOGRAPHIES
- The Honourable Chief Justice J.C. Marc Richard (of New Brunswick)
Chief Justice Marc Richard was born in Moncton, New Brunswick and studied at the Université de Moncton (B.B.A. – 1980, LL.B. – 1983) and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LL.M. – 1984). Admitted to the practice of law in 1985, he worked first as Crown Prosecutor then as a litigation lawyer with Barry & O’Neil (later renamed Barry Spalding Richard) in Saint John. His practice brought him before various administrative tribunals, all levels of the New Brunswick courts, and the Supreme Court of Canada. As a lawyer, Marc Richard served on several national and provincial committees, task forces or advisory groups of the Canadian Bar Association (NB) and the New Brunswick Law Society, and he was elected president of both organizations.
He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2002 and, a year later, a judge of the Court of Appeal of New Brunswick. Since then, Chief Justice Richard served on countless judicial committees, including the Canadian Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee and the Judges’ Association’s Conduct Review Committee, eventually becoming Chair of both. He became a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Superior Courts Judges Association in 2004 and, in 2015, was the first judge from New Brunswick elected as the Association’s President. He often lectures at law schools and for lawyer organizations, including the Advocates’ Society and at the Federation of Law Society’s National Criminal Law Program, where he lectures on advocacy, ethics, criminal law and procedure, and the law of evidence. He is on the Board of Directors of both the National Judicial Institute (NJI) and the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice (CIAJ) and frequently lectures for both organizations.
Chief Justice Richard has also been involved in several international judicial projects (Mexico, Ghana, Maldives, Jamaica, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and currently Kiribati) and has also made presentations in countries such as Senegal and Chili. He was the first judge to chair a Judicial Advisory Committee on International Engagement, a committee on which he still sits. Appointed Chief Justice of New Brunswick on May 1, 2018, he now serves on the Canadian Judicial Council, where he sits on four committees including the Executive Committee and the Judicial Conduct Committee.
- Christine O’Doherty, Lawyer & Executive Director, CIAJ
Christine O’Doherty has been CIAJ’s Executive Director since 2017. A bilingual lawyer experienced in professional, labour and commercial law, she has contributed to developing and implementing effective government relations and public affairs strategies for a number of major organizations. Ms. O’Doherty has taught at the Faculté de pharmacie de l’Université de Montréal for 14 years, where she was responsible for the implementation of the soft skills curriculum for graduate and undergraduate students. In her spare time she writes fiction.
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