Members

The Manitoba Law Reform Commission is composed of five members appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council pursuant to section 3(1) of The Manitoba Law Reform Commission Act, C.C.S.M. c. L95. This section provides that the Commission shall be composed of not less than five and not more than seven commissioners. At least one shall be a judge of the Court of Queen's Bench; at least one shall be a full-time member of the Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba; at least one shall be a barrister and solicitor entitled to practise in the province and who is not in the full-time employ of the Government of Manitoba or any agency thereof; and at least one shall not be a lawyer. One of the members shall be appointed President and he or she must be a lawyer.

The current members of the Commission are:

• President:
  Cameron Harvey, Q.C., Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba

• Members:

  • John C. Irvine, Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba
  • Hon. Gerald O. Jewers, Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba (retired)
  • Alice R. Krueger, lay member
  • Hon. Justice Perry W. Schulman, Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba

Cameron Harvey

Cameron Harvey, Q.C. has been appointed President of the Manitoba Law Reform Commission effective July 2006. A graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School (LL.B 1964, LL.M 1966), Prof. Harvey taught at the University of Manitoba Faculty of Law from 1966 until his recent retirement in June of this year. Along with his duties as a professor, he served in many capacities including assistant to the dean, director of the legal research institute and chair of the archives, building, library, and Manitoba Law Journal committees. Prior to his retirement, Cameron Harvey served as associate dean and chaired the admissions, bursaries and examinations committees. As well, he has chaired the Land Value Appraisal Commission since 1977.

Prof. Harvey has acted as a consultant with the Commission on a number of projects including administrative law and wills and estates. He has authored more than 80 articles, comments, book reviews and reports for various government agencies and others. Subjects of his books include the law of habeas corpus, the Law Society of Manitoba, an anthology of legal humour, the law of dependants' relief and the law of agency.

Cameron Harvey takes over from Clifford Edwards who has been chair of the Manitoba Law Reform Commission since his appointment in 1979.

John C. Irvine

Appointed member of the Manitoba Law Reform Commission in 1984.

John Irvine is a Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba, currently teaching torts, jurisprudence, real property and personal property, a position he has held since 1975.

John received his B.C.L. from Oxford University, London, in 1969 and his M.A. in 1971.

He was assistant professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba from 1970 to 1974 and assistant professor at the University of Birmingham, England, from 1974 to 1975.

Hon. Mr. Justice Gerald O. Jewers (retired)

Appointed a member of the Manitoba Law Reform Commission in 1985.

Appointed a judge of the County Court of Winnipeg in 1977 and a judge of the Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench (General Division) when that court and the County Courts were amalgamated in 1984, currently serving as Chair of the Statutory Rules Committee. He graduated from the Manitoba Law School with an LL.B. in 1955 and LL.M. in 1957. Prior to being appointed to the Bench, Gerry practised with the law firms of Newman, MacLean & Associates, and Fillmore & Riley. His main area of practice was in civil litigation.

He is past editor of the Manitoba Bar News; past co-editor of Headnotes & Footnotes; past-president of the Manitoba Bar Association; past president of the Manitoba Medical Legal Society; and past chair of the Manitoba Commission of Inquiry into lottery profits.

Alice R. Krueger

Appointed a member of the Manitoba Law Reform Commission in 2002.

Ms Krueger is a long-time Winnipeg journalist. Her newspaper career spanned more than 30 years, beginning at the Manitoba Cooperator and the now-defunct Winnipeg Tribune. She joined the Winnipeg Free Press in 1971 and worked as a columnist, copy editor and political reporter and covered the Manitoba Legislature over the course of five administrations from Premiers Walter Weir to Gary Filmon.

During her 27 years at the Free Press, she also did a stint as food writer during which she won the 1990 national McBain Medical Journalism Award from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada for stories detailing the connection between diet and heart health. She was also recognized in 1991 by the Manitoba Association of Registered Dietitians with a special certificate of appreciation for a series of nutrition articles supporting the practice of dietetics.

More recently, she served on the board of Urban Shared Services Corporation and on a provincial task force mandated to examine food services at Winnipeg hospitals and personal care homes.

Hon. Mr. Justice Perry W. Schulman

Appointed a member of the Manitoba Law Reform Commission in July 2007.

Mr. Justice Schulman graduated from the University of Manitoba in 1963 (obtaining his LL.M. in 1970) and engaged in a general law practice until his appointment to the bench in 1993. Mr. Justice Schulman has maintained a varied and distinguished career.

He has been a member of the Human Rights Tribunal of Canada, a part-time lecturer at the University of Manitoba Faculty of Law, director of the Manitoba Institute of Continuing Legal Education and assistant director of the Bar Admission Course. In the course of his law practice, he chaired numerous labour arbitration boards and served on an expedited arbitration panel under the Labour Relations Act of Manitoba, and was appointed an adjudicator under the Canada Labour Code. Mr. Justice Schulman also served as one of co-counsel to the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry of Manitoba and as an instructor for the Arbitration Training Programme of the Department of Labour and the Arbitration and Mediation Institute of Manitoba Level II course.

Since his appointment to the bench, Mr. Justice Schulman was the Commissioner of an Inquiry into the deaths of Rhonda and Roy Lavoie and has actively participated in the Court’s judicially-assisted dispute resolution process.