James Lockyer CM (born December 21, 1949) is a lawyer and a prominent social justice activist in Toronto,[1] Canada.
He has been involved in exposing more than ten wrongful convictions in Canada, including the cases of Guy Paul Morin, David Milgaard, Clayton Johnson and Gregory Parsons.
In 1972 he accepted a scholarship to McGill University in Montreal where he finished his law degree and began teaching.
[2] Mr. Lockyer also taught law at the University of Windsor until 1977, when he went into private practice as a criminal lawyer.
Mr. Lockyer has worked on behalf of Steven Truscott, whose 1959 conviction of the murder of Lynne Harper came under review by the Court of Appeal for Ontario, and of Robert Baltovich, whose murder conviction was quashed by the Ontario Court of Appeal in November, 2004.