Patrick Case, LL.B., LL.M (Osgoode) is the Director of the Human Rights and Equity Office of the University of Guelph. He has been a trade unionist, school trustee and a practitioner whose chief focus was serving women who were victims of male violence. Mr. Case has served as a staff lawyer in the Family Law Division at Parkdale Community Legal Services. He is the past Chair of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation, which was created as a part of the federal government's redress agreement with Japanese Canadians and has been a member of the Equality Rights Panel of the Court Challenges Program of Canada. He is a Commissioner with the Ontario Human Rights Commission, an Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School and teaches human rights and Charter related courses at the University of Guelph.