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Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
About James K. Hugessen
- James Cornelius Knatchbull-Hugessen (born July 26, 1933), known professionally as James K.
- Hugessen is a judge currently serving on the Federal Court of Canada.
- He is the son of the senator Adrian Knatchbull-Hugessen. Born in Montreal in 1933, James K.
- Hugessen was educated at Oxford University and McGill University.
- After graduating with a B.C.L.
- from McGill in 1957, he was called to the bar in 1958 and entered private practice.
- From 1962 to 1974 he was an adjunct professor in McGill’s Faculty of Law.
- In 1972 he was appointed as a justice of the Quebec Superior Court.
- In 1983 he became a judge of the Federal Court of Canada, Appeal Division and retired in 2008.
- After his retirement, he was appointed as a deputy judge of the Federal Court.
- His other appointments have included the Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organization and the Supreme Court of the North-West Territories.
- A visually-disabled person, he served as the chair of the federal Task Force on Access to Information for Print-Disabled Canadians.
- In 2009, as a result of his outstanding judicial career and long term service to McGill’s Faculty of Law, he was given the F.R.
- Scott Award for Distinguished Service.
- In 2014, he was named a Member of the Order of Canada.
- His archive is held at the McGill University Archives.
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