As the Canadian Bar Association’s director of development, she helped provide expertise on everything from legal aid to constitutional rights in 28 countries including China, Jamaica and South Africa
As director of development at the Canadian Bar Association, Human-rights lawyer Robin Sully provided expertise on everything from legal aid to constitutional rights in 28 countries and led Canadian delegations of volunteer lawyers and judges, who supplied on-the-ground expertise to countries making the transition to democracy.Robin Sully, a trailblazing human-rights lawyer who spearheaded Canadian efforts to spread judicial reform and the rule of law in the developing world, died on Nov.
Mr. Hoyles said that a day or two after he joined the association as CEO in 1996, Ms. Sully came into his office to explain the importance of her group’s work and what it had accomplished. A few years earlier, she had convinced a reluctant CBA leadership to get into international development, on condition that she could secure funding for its activities from the Canadian International Development Agency, now part of Global Affairs Canada, and other sources.
Robin Lynn Sully was born on Sept. 16, 1948 in Goderich, Ont., the eldest of three children of Bruce Sully, a businessman, and his wife, Gail , a homemaker. The Sullys were a prominent local family, owners of Champion Road Machinery, a successful maker of road graders, whose factory with its 500 workers made Champion a dominant local employer.
Returning to Canada, she studied law at McGill University and got married. Moving to Ottawa, Ms. Sully set up her own law practice for a time but it didn’t work out and she decided to return to her passion, convincing the CBA to pursue development work. In post-apartheid South Africa, which adopted a bill of rights inspired in part by Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Ms. Sully convinced leading Canadian constitutional experts to volunteer and join a project that helped bring test cases to the South African Constitutional Court to demonstrate the effectiveness of the new protections.
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