Brian Dickson : : A Judge's Journey / / Robert Sharpe, Kent Roach.
When Brian Dickson was appointed in 1973, the Supreme Court of Canada was preoccupied with run-of-the-mill disputes. By the time he retired as Chief Justice of Canada in 1990, the Court had become a major national institution, very much in the public eye. The Court's decisions, reforming large...
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Sharpe, Robert, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Brian Dickson : A Judge's Journey / Robert Sharpe, Kent Roach. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018] ©2003 1 online resource (624 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Part One: Introduction -- 1. A Judge's Journey -- Part Two: Life before the Bench, 1916-1963 -- 2. Prairie Upbringing -- 3. Off to War -- 4. Law and Business; Family and Community -- Part Three: A Judge in Manitoba, 1963-1973 -- 5. Queen's Bench -- 6. Court of Appeal -- Part Four: The Supreme Court, 1973-1984 -- 7. Starting Slowly -- 8. Gaining Ground -- 9. Compassion and Equity -- 10. Write and Rewrite -- 11. Fault and Free Will -- 12. Balanced Federalism -- 13. Patriation of the Constitution -- Part Five: Chief Justice and the Charter, 1984-1990 -- 14. Chief Justice -- 15. Building the Foundations -- 16. Continuity and Change -- 17. Cracks in the Foundations -- 18. Feeling the Strain -- 19. Equality Rights -- 20. Language Rights and National Unity -- 21. The Honour of the Crown -- Part Six: Retirement, 1990-1998 -- 22. Dickson of Canada -- Notes -- Illustration Credits -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star When Brian Dickson was appointed in 1973, the Supreme Court of Canada was preoccupied with run-of-the-mill disputes. By the time he retired as Chief Justice of Canada in 1990, the Court had become a major national institution, very much in the public eye. The Court's decisions, reforming large areas of private and public law under the Charter of Rights, were the subject of intense public interest and concern.Brian Dickson played a leading role in this transformation. Engaging and incisive, Brian Dickson: A Judge's Journey traces Dickson's life from a Depression-era boyhood in Saskatchewan, to the battlefields of Normandy, the boardrooms of corporate Canada and high judicial office, and provides an inside look at the work of the Supreme Court during its most crucial period. Dickson's journey was an important part of the evolution of the Canadian judiciary and of Canada itself. Sharpe and Roach have written an accessible biography of one of Canada's greatest legal figures that provides new insights into the work of Canada's highest court. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Judges Canada Biography. Judicial opinions Canada. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Lawyers & Judges. bisacsh Roach, Kent, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut print 9781442657717 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442621039 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442621039 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781442621039.jpg |
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