“Perhaps most importantly, I have learned that it is often more important to listen than to speak.” (Parliamentary Questioning) On October 28th, 2021 the Supreme Court held a Welcoming Ceremony...
Post 3/9 in TheCourt.ca’s Judicial Biography Series (Fall 2019). If we were to ask what it is we expect from our criminal justice system there are four thoughts that come...
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.
You would be forgiven, said Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella at Chief Justice Richard Wagner’s swearing-in ceremony, for forgetting that it is possible for men to become the Chief Justice of...
