Lucy McSweeney
Ms. McSweeney is Counsel, Ministry of the Attorney General, Legal Services Branch, Management Board Secretariat. She obtained her LL.B from Queen’s University and was called to the Bar in 1995. Following a year of clerkship with the Court of Appeal for Ontario, she joined Eberts Symes Street and Corbett and practiced for five and a half years in the areas of constitutional, administrative and employment law. In August 2000 Ms. McSweeney joined the Labour Practice Group of Management Board Secretariat where she practices labour and administrative law. She has appeared before a wide range of tribunals and courts including the Supreme Court of Canada, where she has been intervener co-counsel in several landmark cases including, Eaton v. Brant County Board of Education, Corbiere v. Canada, Robert Lovelace et al. v. Ontario, and D.F.G. v. Winnipeg Child and Family Services, and Ocean Port Hotel. Ms. McSweeney sits on the Executive of the Constitutional, Civil Liberties and Human Rights Section of the Ontario Bar Association, has instructed the Public Law section of the Bar Admission Course and is working on an LL.M. in constitutional law at the University of Toronto on a part-time basis.