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	Beverley McLachlin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born in Pincher Creek, Alberta, she received a BA and a MA in philosophy and an LLB (winning the gold medal as top student) from the University of Alberta.
		From 1974 until 1981 she was an Associate Professor and Professor with tenure at the University of British Columbia.
		In 1981 she was appointed to the County Court of Vancouver and then to the Supreme Court of British Columbia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beverly_McLachlin (560 words)

	UWO Gazette - Volume 96, Issue 39 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Right Honorable Beverly McLachlin, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, visited Western yesterday afternoon to speak on the role of the court.
		McLachlin said, in the first decade of the Charter's existence, the courts found themselves swamped with litigation.
		McLachlin said there cannot be rule of law without an independent judiciary, otherwise a country's citizens can not be assured the laws will be applied in a just manner.
	www.gazette.uwo.ca /2002/November/7/news4.htm (312 words)

	Real Women of Canada - Newsletters - CHIEF JUSTICE MAKES A GRAB FOR MORE POWER
		Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin of the Supreme Court of Canada was in Wellington, New Zealand at the end of November, when she gave an astonishing speech to the law students at the University of Wellington.
		She bases this claim on the premise that there exist fundamental norms of justice so basic that they form part of the legal structure that must be upheld by the courts, even though they are not written into the law.
		Justice McLachlin also claims that judges have a legitimate role to play in determining "unwritten" laws because she argues that judges have a "judicial conscience" which is founded on the judges' "sworn commitment to uphold the rule of law".
	www.realwomenca.com /newsletter/2006_jan_feb/article_3.html (1497 words)

	Supreme gridlock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		On Sunday, Beverly McLachlin, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, announced that the country's lower court judges will be provided with a standard template that tells them how to instruct juries in plain simple English.
		The same day she announced the new jury instruction guidelines, Madam Justice McLachlin complained publicly that her Court is straining under its workload, and that the Justices require more staff and physical space.
		In a case released last June, Madam Justice Claire L'Heureux-Dubé invoked the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court of India in weighing the validity of a lawn-care by-law issued by the town of Hudson, Que.
	www.fact.on.ca /news/news0108/np01081d.htm (570 words)

	Judicial activism, Madame Justice Beverly McLachlin
		Speaking to law students at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, Ms McLachlin said that judges should feel "emboldened" to trump the written constitution, when protecting fundamental rights that may not be enshrined in a formal document.
		McLachlin believes that a written constitution, such as our own Charter of Rights and Freedoms, can become obsolete with the changing of societal norms.
		As such, she believes that it is the judiciary’s responsibility to ensure that "norms that are essential to a nation’s history, identity, values and legal system" continue to be upheld, written legislation notwithstanding.
	taxtyranny.ca /Articles/2005/Dec./TT_Why_Bother_Voting_12_14_05_bt.htm (543 words)

	e.Peak (12/6/2000) news: Suzuki and McLachlin address grads
		Friday's graduands - those who attended convocation - were present as honourary degrees were awarded to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, Honourable Beverly McLachlin, and to scientist and environment activist David Suzuki.
		McLachlin, who was only recently appointed head of Canada's highest court, said she was very pleased to receive the honourary degree, adding, "while [SFU] doesn't have a law school...
		In sharp contrast to Chief Justice McLachlin's call to march forth and support the system, David Suzuki invoked fear and activism in the hearts of those graduating from the Faculty of Science.
	www.peak.sfu.ca /the-peak/2000-2/issue6/ne-120600-3.html (398 words)

	Richard G (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Chief Justice McLachlin, B.A., M.A. (philosophy) was educated at University of Alberta, M.A., 1968; LL.B., 1968.
		Chief Justice McLachlin practised law with Wood, Moir, Hyde and Ross, Edmonton, 1969-71, with Thomas, Herdy, Mitchell and Co., Fort St. John, B.C., 1971-72, and with Bull, Housser and Tupper, Vancouver, 1972-75.
		She was Lecturer, Associate Professor and Professor with tenure at the University of British Columbia, 1974 - 81.
	www.isrcl.org /Bios/mclachl.htm (235 words)

	Mental illness “a huge problem,” says McLachlin - ExpressNews - University of Alberta
		McLachlin pointed out that for centuries the mentally ill were considered pariahs deserving of punishment and even death, until the 18th century when their condition was finally accepted as a disease.
		In 2004 the Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruled it was a violation of the criminal code to detain persons in jail until beds are available in a psychiatric facility.
		McLachlin’s talk was sponsored by the faculties of law and medicine, and the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research as part of its Honourable Mr.
	www.expressnews.ualberta.ca /print.cfm?id=6384 (625 words)

	Filibuster Cartoons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Beverly McLachlin, the Chief Justice of Canada made a controversial speech in New Zealand this week before a gathering of law students.
		McLachlin has been a prominent advocate of an all-powerful, political judiciary that is answerable to no one.
		She has previously criticized politicians in Canada who argue that Supreme Court Justices should be interviewed and appointed by parliament, rather than simply picked unilaterally by the Prime Minister.
	www.filibustercartoons.com /archive.php?id=20051208 (93 words)

	injusticebusters 1998 > > Good judges, bad judges . . .
		Chief Justice Beverly McLachlin's annual salary would be $308,000, retroactive to April 1, under amendments to the Judges Act that Justice Minister Irwin Cotler is expected to table early in the New Year.
		McLachlin said this would have to be done with the co-operation of the legal profession.
		McLachlin highlighted the court's work to reduce the time spent dealing with the applications, noting the response time was down from 26 weeks to 19 weeks in the past year.
	www.injusticebusters.com /index.htm/judges.htm (6433 words)

	Political Staples: As if further proof were required
		McLachlin does in fact have very disturbing views on the interpretation of the Constitution.
		I have read and heard the remarks that Beverly McLachlin made and I was horrified to think that a member of our supreme court had such beliefs.It made it perfectly clear to me why we have had such country destroying decisions coming from them.
		If you read the interview of Beverly McLachlin in the April 24 edition of the Western Standard, you would find out that he paraphrased what she actually said.
	politicalstaples.com /2006/05/09/as_if_further_proof_were_requi.html (1153 words)

	CBC News: Self-representation creating chaos in courts: chief justice
		Chief Justice Beverly McLachlin of the Supreme Court of Canada said the right to a fair trial was not a reality for the average Canadian because of prohibitively high legal fees.
		There are currently 43 vacancies on federally appointed courts, and McLachlin estimated one judge would have to be appointed each week to keep up with retirements and the backlog of cases.
		McLachlin, appointed chief justice of the Supreme Court in January 2000, is the first woman to hold the highest judicial appointment in the country.
	cbc.ca /story/canada/national/2006/08/12/court-representation.html?... (1032 words)

	Newsreel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		What Madam Chief Jutice Beverly McLachlin is not saying is that the Judges are bound to the Executive Branch --They are employees of the Executive, appointed by the Executive, paid by the Executive, and Judged by themselves--- John Carten
		Statement above by Madam Chief Justice Beverly McLachlin wherein she says that: "Judges are - and must remain - independent of political and social pressures" is good up to where it isn't, because Judges are bound by the Attorney General's discretion, and as a result of it, Judicial Independence, is a myth.
		They do this, because that is where the law and duty leads them, conscious as they are of the uncertainties of law and facts with which they work, of their own all too human frailties, and of their vital role in democratic governance".
	www.justice4you.org /justice_myth_judges.php (1507 words)

	CanadaInfo: Government: Federal: Judiciary: Supreme Court of Canada: Chief Justice
		everley McLachlin was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada on March 30, 1989.
		Prior to her appointment, she served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, on the Court of Appeal of British Columbia and on the County Court of Vancouver.
		She became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada on January 7, 2000.
	www.craigmarlatt.com /canada/government/scc_cj.html (434 words)

	'Conquered people' speech causes turmoil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		"McLachlin's comments are a reflection of the Dark Ages and will leave an apprehension of bias in future matters with the Supreme Court of Canada," said Erasmus.
		McLachlin delivered her speech to a Canadian Club luncheon in Vancouver on Feb. 8.
		He said she erred in her choice of words especially because she was dealing with a lay audience with little study in law.
	www.nnsl.com /frames/newspapers/2002-03/mar4_02crt.html (434 words)

	Free Dominion :: View topic - Activist SCOC Chief Justice Lectures Harper on Court App'ts
		McLachlin’s definition of “politicizing” may be open to interpretation however.
		McLachlin has been a staunch opponent of more transparency and democratic input in the justice system in general and the selection process in particular.
		In a speech last December to a group of New Zealand law students, McLachlin said the Courts must not be subject either to the scrutiny of Parliament or the constraints of the written law.
	www.freedominion.ca /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=638701 (1825 words)

	Activist Supreme Court Justices — Part III, Child Support and Alimony
		She had a receptive audience as many of the most draconian sections in the "Child Support Guidelines" were based on the recommendations made by the CBA.
		Canada Madam Justice McLachlin and Madam Justice L'Heureux-Dubé expressed the opinion that the inclusion of the child support received by the custodial mother in her taxable income is a form of discrimination against custodial mothers as an analogous group.
		Bracklow (1999, 1 S.C.R. 420) McLachlin, J (as she was then) mused over the various ways by which one partner, invariably the husband, could be held responsible for supporting the other after divorce.
	www.fathersforlife.org /Sodhi/remarks_McLachlin3.htm (9402 words)

	legal news
		If they were found sane, they had to stand trial like other criminals and take the consequences, but if they were found insane and did not have to stand trial, they were locked up, often for years.
		The review board determines whether the person poses a risk to the public and decides whether he or she should be institutionalized or discharged and what kind of treatment is appropriate.
		The mental disorder defense has survived constitutional scrutiny and seems to work well on the whole, she said, although it is certainly not without its challenges—say, ascertaining the risk that a criminally charged mentally ill person might pose to the public.
	www.psych.org /pnews/00-11-17/canadian.html (338 words)

	Vriend v. Alberta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A legislative ommission regarding sexual orientation in the Alberta Individual Rights Protection Act violates section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and cannot be saved under section 1 of the Charter.
		Puisne Justices Claire L'Heureux-Dubé, Charles Gonthier, Peter Cory, Beverly McLachlin, Frank Iacobucci, John C. Major and Michel Bastarache
		Alberta [1998] 1 S.C.R. 493 is a famous Supreme Court of Canada case that determined that a legislative omission can be the subject of a Charter violation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vriend_v._Alberta (1075 words)

	National Post Online - news
		Until yesterday, Justice Charles Gonthier, while more conservative than most of his peers on social issues, stood solidly in the middle of a bloc of justices who were not yet ready to grant gay couples equal rights.
		New justices Ian Binnie and Michel Bastarache concurred yesterday with the majority opinion, which was written by Justices Cory and McLachlin.
		The same two justices also wrote the opinion in last year's ruling on a Alberta teacher who was fired because he was gay.
	www.fact.on.ca /newpaper/np99052c.htm (835 words)

	Activist Supreme Court Justices — Part IV, Best Interest of the Children and Conclusions
		January, 2002, Madam Chief Justice McLachlin congratulated herself heartily about the verdict that she delivered in Gordon v.
		It's important women be there." [In: Beverly McLaughlin, "The Title and Degree of Doctor of Laws" (honoris causa) Conferred at Congregation, University of British Columbia, September 27, 1990]
		Though admitting her bias, she is firmly convinced that she has no bias.
	www.fathersforlife.org /Sodhi/remarks_McLachlin4.htm (6035 words)

	Chief Justice Of The Canadian Supreme Court Backs Judicial Activism
		TORONTO, June 18, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, Beverley McLachlin, attempted to defend judges from charges of judicial activism.
		In a speech to the Canadian Club in Toronto she opined that fears that activist judges have usurped the power of politicians are unfounded.
		Responding to the Ontario Appeals Court decision redefining marriage, REAL Women of Canada stated: "Predictably, the political appointees to the Ontario Court of Appeal have used their unelected position to impose their own vision on the country - a vision based not on the law, but on their own politically correct ideology.
	www.lifesite.net /ldn/2003/jun/03061804.html (395 words)

	Peace, order and good government, eh?: Keep talking, Mr Vellacott
		The chief justice broke her traditional silence in the face of public criticism to deny that she had ever claimed to be godlike; even the PMO decided it would be politic to announce that Mr Vellacott's views on the workings of the Supreme Court are not those of the government.
		I have read parts of the McLachlin text that Mr Vellacott claimed to be referring to, and the one concession I would make to Mr Vellacott is that he seemed to know which text he was misreading.
		Justice McLachlin was on the panel in that one.
	www.pogge.ca /archives/001122.shtml (7512 words)

	PovNet APOV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		And it would seem that Chief Justice Beverly McLachlin believes we could end poverty and all peoples’ dependence on welfare income if people like Louise Gosselin would only learn a skill such as fishing.
		The Gosselin case challenged a 1984 social assistance regulation by the government of Quebec which reduced people between the ages of 18 and 30 welfare benefits from the bare subsistence level of around $466 a month to about one-third of that -- $170 a month.
		the welfare cycle of dependency and despair, Chief Justice Beverly McLachlin wrote for the majority...
	www.povnet.org /gosselin/apov_gosselin.htm (1647 words)

	Supreme Court of Canada - Beverley McLachlin
		The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C. Chief Justice of Canada
		Beverley McLachlin, P.C. Madam Chief Justice McLachlin, B.A., M.A. (philosophy), LL.B. Born in Pincher Creek, Alberta, September 7, 1943.
		Chairperson, Board of Governors of the National Judicial Institute.
	www.scc-csc.gc.ca /aboutcourt/judges/mclachlin/index_e.asp (167 words)

	Canada's Top Court Postpones Hearing On Constitutionality Of Pot Prohibition - NORML
		Ottawa, Ontario: Scheduled hearings before Canada's Supreme Court regarding the constitutionality of the country's pot laws were postponed in response to recently announced plans by Parliament to decriminalize possession of the drug, Chief Justice Beverly McLachlin ruled last week.
		The Court had been scheduled to hear arguments on December 13th regarding whether national laws prohibiting the non-medical use of marijuana violate Canadians' guaranteed rights to life, liberty and personal security.
		Parliament's "examination and discussion [of the issue] may well prove to be of relevance to the case and of interest to the parties, and may provide guidance to the court in deciding the present appeals," McLachlin said.
	www.norml.org /index.cfm?Group_ID=5499&wtm_format=print (475 words)

	SCOC-Major-Retiring, 1st Writethru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The departure of Major, who joined the court in 1992, opens the door for a new justice in time for the new year.
		Chief Justice Beverly McLachlin announced Wednesday that Major, 74, has written to the justice minister to advise that he will retire on Dec. 25.
		"Justice Major has made a very great contribution to this court and the country," McLachlin said in a news release.
	www.cp.org /premium/Online/Member/National/050803/n0803129A.html (193 words)

	New York Supreme Court of Appeals says No to Homosexual Marriage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Recent declarations by Canada’s Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Beverly McLachlin, show that democratic principles are not welcome north of the US border.
		McLachlin told an audience of law students in New Zealand earlier this week that it is the duty of judges to overturn and re-write laws according to “unwritten norms” known only to themselves, even in the face of “hostile public opinion.”
		I don't know if Canada has any similar proceeding, but in the US, Judge McLachlin's statement is grounds for impeachment in my opinion.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1537315/posts (1681 words)

	Candian Justice System Favors Treatment for Mentally Ill - March 2001 NAMI-KC Newsletter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Although social attitudes and the law tend to lag behind advances in treating people with mental illness, the law in Canada is starting to give them more respect
		So reported the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada- Beverly McLachlin-at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law in Vancouver, British Columbia.
		Thanks to actions by the Canadian justice system and the Canadian Parliament, however, criminally charged mentally ill Canadiqans now have a new option, McLachlin pointed out.
	www.kcnami.org /article35.htm (370 words)

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