The Law Foundation of Ontario is pleased to announce the appointment of Ramani Nadarajah to serve as its representative on the Law Commission of Ontario (LCO) Board of Governors, effective October 1, 2026.
As a founding partner of LCO, the Foundation appoints a representative to serve on the LCO’s governing body. Representatives act independently of the Foundation while helping to keep our complementary organizations connected.
Ramani is certified by the Law Society of Ontario as a Specialist in Environmental Law and has been counsel, and later senior counsel, with the Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA) since 1994. She has extensive experience in complex policy and law reform issues, with a focus on advancing access to justice for low-income and vulnerable communities. She represents clients before administrative tribunals and the courts on a broad range of public interest environmental cases and has appeared before all levels of Ontario courts, the Federal Courts and the Supreme Court of Canada.
Prior to joining CELA, Ramani worked as counsel at the Legal Services Branch of the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and counsel with the Crown Law Office of the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General. She also had a secondment as Policy Counsel with the Law Commission of Ontario where she headed the Environmental Accountability: Rights, Responsibilities and Access to Justice project.
Over the course of her long career, Ramani has been the recipient of numerous awards. As co-counsel for local residents at the Walkerton Inquiry, she and other CELA counsel received Legal Aid Ontario’s GEM Award for Outstanding Achievement. She also received Osgoode Hall Law School’s Gold Key Award for Public Sector, the South Asian Bar Association’s Award for Legal Excellence, and the Ontario Bar Association Tom Marshall Award of Excellence for Public Sector Lawyers.
Ramani has served on multiple government advisory bodies and has testified before Standing Committees of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and the Canadian House of Commons. She is co-editor of the Canadian Environmental Law Reports and has taught environmental law for the LLM Program in Administrative Law at Osgoode Hall Law School, where she also mentors law students at the school’s Environmental Justice and Sustainability Clinic.
Ramani received her LLB and her LLM in administrative law from Osgoode Hall Law School.
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