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About Allan Leal
- Herbert Allan Borden Leal, (June 15, 1917 – October 12, 1999) was a Canadian civil servant and academic.
- He was Deputy Attorney General of Ontario, Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School, and Chancellor of McMaster University. Born in Beloeil, Quebec, Leal received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1940 from McMaster University.
- A Rhodes Scholar from Ontario in 1940, he never took up the appointment due to the war.
- He served with the Royal Canadian Artillery during World War II in Canada, England, and the United States.
- He was discharged with the rank of Captain.
- After the war, he attended Osgoode Hall Law School from 1945 to 1948.
- He received a Master of Laws degree from Harvard Law School in 1957.
- He was called to the Bar of Ontario 1948 and was created a Queen's Counsel in 1959. Leal practiced law from 1948 to 1950.
- In 1950, he became a lecturer at Osgoode Hall Law School.
- In 1956, he became Vice-Dean and a full Professor of Law.
- From 1958 to 1966, he was Dean of the Law School.
- He was Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School, when it was engaged in a major debate about the future of legal education in Ontario - and in particular, how much influence the legal profession should have on legal education.
- He was appointed Vice-Chairman of the Ontario Law Reform Commission which was the first statutory law reform body in the British Commonwealth.
- Upon the appointment of the Honourable James C.
- McRuer to head the Royal Commission on Civil Rights, Leal became Chairman of the Ontario Law Reform Commission.
- He headed the Canadian delegation to the Hague Conference on Private International Law and chaired the drafting committee that piloted the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction.
- He was also a Special Lecturer in Property Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto from 1972 to 1977.
- From 1977 to 1981, he was the Deputy Attorney General of Ontario, the head civil servant in the department which is similar to a Deputy Minister, during the negotiation of the Trudeau era constitutional reforms which led to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
- He contributed to Roy McMurtry's reputation as a law reformer and was intimately involved in the province's family law reforms.
- On stepping down from the Ministry in 1981, he served as special adviser to Premier William G.
- Davis on Constitutional Matters.
- From 1977 to 1986, he was Chancellor of McMaster University, where he had been a star of the University football team. From 1975 to 1976, Leal was President of the Empire Club of Canada.
- From 1991 to 1994, he was Reeve of the Municipality of Village of Tweed. In 1983, Leal was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
- He received honorary degrees from McMaster University (1963), York University (1978), University of Western Ontario (1982) and Dalhousie University (1983).
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