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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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (624 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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