Paul Lamek Explained

Order1:53rd
Office1:Treasurer of the Law Society of Upper Canada
Term Start1:1993
Term End1:1995
Predecessor1:Allan Rock
Successor1:Eleanor Susan Elliott
Paul Lamek

Paul Stephen Andrew Lamek was a lawyer and Justice of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.

Education

Lamek studied law at the University of Oxford and began teaching law at the University of Pennsylvania, then taught at Osgoode Hall Law School from 1962 through 1967.[1]

Legal career

Lamek was the 53rd Treasurer of the Law Society of Upper Canada, serving from 1993 to 1995.[2]

Judicial career

He was appointed a Justice of the Superior Court in Ontario in 1999.

Personal life

Born December 14, 1936, in England and died August 29, 2001, aged 64 in Toronto Canada.Lamek had lost a leg to diabetes. He was friends with lawyers Edward Greenspan and Harvey Thomas Strosberg who delivered his eulogy at the Cathedral Church of St. James (Toronto).

Notes and References

  1. http://www.billgladstone.ca/?p=3730/ Obituary by Bill Gladstone, October 26, 2011
  2. http://www.lsuc.on.ca/with.aspx?id=421 The Law Society of Upper Canada, List of Law Society Treasurers