‘Oh Lord, It’s hard to be humble’: Russell Brown’s light approach drew more than a few laughs as guest speaker at recent Vancouver dinner.
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The mass traditionally marks the start of the legal year and the legal community dinner that follows, organized by the St. Thomas More Roman Catholic Lawyers Guild of B.C. He earned his B.A. at the University of B.C., his LLB at the University of Victoria and his LLM and SJD at the University of Toronto.
Elevated to the Supreme Court of Canada in 2015 by then-prime minister Stephen Harper, Brown replaced Justice Marshall Rothstein, the Manitoba jurist who retired after nearly three decades as a judge and roughly 1,000 judgments.