A Pictorial Homage to Eric Gertner and Ed Belobaba

Almost thirty years ago, two friends Ed Belobaba (then of Osgoode Hall and now of the Superior Court of Justice) and Eric Gertner (then of the Ontario Law Reform Commission and now of Mccarthy Tétrault) had the vision to work to create a new journal, the Supreme Court Law Review.

The Law Times obituary of Justice Bertha Wilson illustrated its story with a portrait from the SCC collection by Mary Lennox Hourd.

If you look closely, it’s clear that the book Wilson J is resting her right hand on is the Supreme Court Law Review. Not often does Canadian legal literature end up in the portraits of the nation. A pictorial homage to Bertha Wilson is also one to Eric Gertner and Ed Belobaba.