Judicial Biography: Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella
Post 2/9 in TheCourt.ca’s Judicial Biography Series (Fall 2019). Judges in my country have until they are seventy-five [before they must step down from the bench]. We are independent and...
Monthly Archive: August 2019
Judicial Biography: Chief Justice Richard Wagner
Post 1/9 in TheCourt.ca’s Judicial Biography Series (Fall 2019). In this Guest Post, Student-at-Law Heather Donkers discusses the Chief Justice’s career as a member of the Quebec civil bar and...
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.
