Hon. Geoffrey B. Morawetz

Chief Justice Geoffrey B. Morawetz is Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Justice in Toronto. He was appointed in 2005 and served as Team Leader of the Commercial List in Toronto from 2010-13, when he was appointed Regional Senior Justice. He was named Chief Justice in 2019. Chief Justice Morawetz first practiced with Borden and Elliot (now Borden Ladner Gervais), then joined Goodmans LLP in 1999, where he practiced primarily in the area of corporate restructuring with an emphasis on cross-border and international transactions. He is a past director and Honourary Fellow of the Insolvency Institute of Canada, a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, and a member of the International Insolvency Institute. Chief Justice Morawetz is a co-author of Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law of Canada, and is an editor of the Canadian Bankruptcy Reports. Prior to his appointment to the court, Chief Justice Morawetz was consistently recognized as a top-tier practitioner of restructuring and insolvency law in several leading publications, including Chambers Global and Euromoney Legal Expert, and was recently named as one of the ?Top 25 Most Influential? in the justice system and legal profession in Canada. Since 2008, he has participated as an advisor to the Canadian delegation at sessions of the UNCITRAL Working Group on Insolvency. Chief Justice Morawetz is also team leader of the Commercial List of the Toronto Region of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. He received his Bachelor of Laws from the University of Western Ontario in 1978 and was admitted to the Ontario Bar in 1980.