Marlys Edwardh
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Marlys Edwardh is a Canadian litigation and civil rights lawyer.
Edwardh graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, holds a Master of Laws degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and an honorary Doctorate in law from the Law Society of Upper Canada. She was called to the bar in 1976.
Edwardh has served as counsel to several government commissions, including the Krever Inquiry into the contamination of Canada's blood transfusion supply. She represented wrongly-accused Maher Arar in the commission that investigated his deportation to Syria from the United States and his subsequent torture.
Edwardh is a partner in the Toronto firm Ruby & Edwardh.