Mary Southin

A self-described "red Tory", she was also a member of the executive of the Progressive Conservative Party.

[3] As a judge, Southin was described as "Prodigiously learned in the law and "well known for her vast knowledge, her strong opinions, and her insistence on precision and proper form in the court."

A Canadian scholar reported that when she interviewed Southin in 1980 about sexual harassment in the legal profession, the then-lawyer "objected to the very topic.

"[4] In 1978, she was attacked by some feminists when she was retained to defend Les Bewley, a judge on the Provincial Court of British Columbia, who had made sexist jokes during a trial.

(2d) 361, 362, she wrote:"The word 'fiduciary' is flung around now as if it applied to all breaches of duty by solicitors, directors of companies and so forth.

"The passage was approved by La Forest J. in Lac Minerals Ltd. v. International Corona Resources Ltd. (1989) 61 D.L.R.

(4th) 14, 28 and by Millett LJ (as he then was) in the English Court of Appeal in Mothew v Bristol & West Building Society.