Cecily Strickland

{{Short description|Canadian lawyer and judge}}

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Cecily Y. Strickland is a justice with the Federal Court of Canada.{{Cite web|title=Federal Court - Judges - The Honourable Cecily Y. Strickland|url=https://www.fct-cf.gc.ca/en/pages/about-the-court/members-of-the-court/judges/the-honourable-cecily-y-strickland|access-date=2021-10-11|website=Federal Court}}{{cite web |url=http://cas-ncr-nter03.cas-satj.gc.ca/portal/page/portal/fc_cf_en/Bio |title=Federal Court: Judges and Prothonotaries |accessdate=June 12, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130612175105/http://cas-ncr-nter03.cas-satj.gc.ca/portal/page/portal/fc_cf_en/Bio# |archive-date=2013-06-12 |url-status=dead }} Before her appointment she was a lawyer at the firm Stewart McKelvey in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.{{cite press release |url=http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/news-nouv/ja-nj/2012/doc_32820.html |title=Federal Court Judicial Appointment Announced |publisher=Department of Justice, Government of Canada |access-date=June 12, 2013 |date=December 14, 2012}} She is a graduate of the Marine Institute of Memorial University of Newfoundland (Diploma in Naval Architecture Technology) and Dalhousie Law School (Bachelor and Master's of Law), now known as Schulich School of Law.

She has ruled in several notable cases.{{Cite news|last=Gordon|first=Sean|date=2017-04-29|title=Ex-CRTC commissioner claims victory following Federal Court ruling|language=en-CA|work=The Globe and Mail|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ex-crtc-commissioner-claims-victory-following-federal-court-ruling/article34858309/|access-date=2021-10-11}}{{Cite web|title=Minister reasonably declined to exercise discretion to grant relief from forfeiture|url=https://www.lawtimesnews.com/case-law/federal-court/minister-reasonably-declined-to-exercise-discretion-to-grant-relief-from-forfeiture/264284|access-date=2021-10-11|website=www.lawtimesnews.com|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Federal – appointing authority's breach of appointment provisions raise no reasonable apprehension of bias – #382 – urbas arbitral|url=https://urbas.ca/?p=2698|access-date=2021-10-11|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|author1=Radio Canada International|date=2019-10-10|title=Canadá deportó a la familia Orozco-Solares|url=https://www.rcinet.ca/es/2019/10/10/canada-deporto-a-la-familia-orozco-solares/|access-date=2021-10-11|website=RCI {{!}} Español|language=es-ES}}