Judicial Biography: Chief Justice Richard Wagner
In this Guest Post, Student-at-Law Heather Donkers discusses the Chief Justice’s career as a member of the Quebec civil bar and priorities in leading the Supreme Court of Canada. Since...
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Judges are Human Too: Introducing TheCourt.ca’s Judicial Biography Series
Canadians can take pride in our relatively depoliticized and merit-based judicial appointment process and in the high calibre of judges who continue to make up our final court of appeal. Yet it would also be fallacious to assume that our top jurists do not approach their work with philosophies that have been shaped by their professional and judicial experiences.
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Author’s Note: The author wishes to thank Professor Bruce Ryder at Osgoode Hall Law School for supporting her research on this topic. How urgent is the need for coordinated national...
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Judicial Biography: Chief Justice Richard Wagner
In this Guest Post, Student-at-Law Heather Donkers discusses the Chief Justice’s career as a member of the Quebec civil bar and priorities in leading the Supreme Court of Canada. Since...
Judges are Human Too: Introducing TheCourt.ca’s Judicial Biography Series
Canadians can take pride in our relatively depoliticized and merit-based judicial appointment process and in the high calibre of judges who continue to make up our final court of appeal. Yet it would also be fallacious to assume that our top jurists do not approach their work with philosophies that have been shaped by their professional and judicial experiences.
Appeal Watch: Fate of Federal Greenhouse Gas Legislation is Up in the Air
Author’s Note: The author wishes to thank Professor Bruce Ryder at Osgoode Hall Law School for supporting her research on this topic. How urgent is the need for coordinated national...
Appeal Watch: BC’s Trans Mountain Pipeline Dispute is On Its Way to the SCC
At what point does a provincial environmental law which affects interprovincial pipelines stop being environmental legislation and start being an impermissible regulation of a federal undertaking? The British Columbia Court...
