Brian Dickson

A Judge's Journey

Robert Sharpe, Kent Roach (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

624 Seiten

2003
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-0-8020-8952-6 (ISBN)

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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.

Robert J. Sharpe is judge of the Court of Appeal for Ontario. He taught at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto from 1976 to 1988 and served under Chief Justice Brian Dickson as Executive Legal Officer at the Supreme Court of Canada from 1988 to 1990. Kent Roach is Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.11.2003
Reihe/Serie	Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
Zusatzinfo	41 b&w illustrations
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	171 x 242 mm
Gewicht	1260 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Berufs-/Gebührenrecht
ISBN-10	0-8020-8952-6 / 0802089526
ISBN-13	978-0-8020-8952-6 / 9780802089526
Zustand	Neuware