{"id":859,"date":"2003-02-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-21T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yfiledev.uit.yorku.ca\/2003\/02\/21\/osgoode-honours-three-distinguished-alumni\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T11:31:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T15:31:39","slug":"osgoode-honours-three-distinguished-alumni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/2003\/02\/21\/osgoode-honours-three-distinguished-alumni\/","title":{"rendered":"Osgoode honours three distinguished alumni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/photos\/20030221\/2medal.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"6\" \/>快播视频\u2019s Osgoode Hall Law School\u00a0presented its highest award \u2013 the Award of Excellence \u2013 to three distinguished alumni at a gala dinner\u00a0last night\u00a0in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>The recipients of the Robinette Medal Award of Excellence (pictured left)\u00a0for outstanding contribution to the legal profession are criminal lawyer Austin M. Cooper, judge Hilda M. McKinlay and tax lawyer Arthur R.A. Scace.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/photos\/20030221\/cooper.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" \/>Cooper (left)\u00a0has been a defence counsel in criminal law since 1953, when he graduated from Osgoode. A Queen\u2019s counsel, he has written and lectured widely on advocacy, evidence and substantive criminal law. The 1992 recipient of the Douglas K. Laidlaw Medal for Excellence in Advocacy, Cooper is a founding member of the Advocates Society in Ontario, former Chair of the civil liberties subsection of the Canadian Bar Association, and has served as a bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/photos\/20030221\/mckinlay.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" \/>McKinlay (right)\u00a0is a member of ADR Chambers, a Toronto-based alternative dispute resolution group. After graduating from Osgoode in 1966 and articling, she taught law until 1973, then practised commercial law, primarily banking, bankruptcy and receivership matters. In 1983, she was appointed to the Supreme Court of Ontario and four years later to the Ontario Court of Appeal. She retired in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/photos\/20030221\/scace.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"8\" \/>Scace (left)\u00a0has been with McCarthy T<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00e9<\/span>trault LLP, the largest law firm in Canada, for 33 years and is a partner in the tax law section in the Toronto office. A Queen\u2019s counsel, he is the co-author of <i>The Income Tax Law of Canada<\/i>, and has been a lecturer at Osgoode and University of Toronto\u2019s Faculty of Law and a bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Robinette Medal is named after the late John J. Robinette Q.C. 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