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	Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Supreme Court of Canada consists of the Chief Justice of Canada (French: Juge en chef du Canada) and eight puisne Justices appointed by the Governor in Council (Governor General of Canada) from among superior court judges or from among barristers of at least ten years' standing at the Bar of a province or territory.
		Finally, the Chief Justice and the other Justices of the Court serve as deputies of the Governor General for the purpose of giving royal assent to bills passed by Parliament, signing official documents or receiving credentials of newly appointed High Commissioners and Ambassadors.
		She was appointed in 2000 and was previously the Chief Justice of the British Columbia Supreme Court and a Justice on the British Columbia Court of Appeal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chief_Justice_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_Canada (489 words)

	Chief Justice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In England and Wales and Northern Ireland, the equivalent position is the Lord Chief Justice and in Scotland the equivalent is the Lord President of the Court of Session.
		The Chief Justice is often responsible for serving as chair during private supreme court deliberations, and often is first to voice his opinion.
		In several countries the Chief Justice is second-in-line to the office of President or Governor General, should the current occupant die or resign, or third in line, as behind a Vice-President or Lieutenant-Governor-general.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chief_Justice (313 words)

	Supreme Court of Canada - Beverley McLachlin
		Appointed to the County Court of Vancouver, April 9, 1981, to the Supreme Court of British Columbia, September 8, 1981, and to the Court of Appeal of British Columbia, December 5, 1985.
		Appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, September 7, 1988.
		Appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, March 30, 1989.
	www.scc-csc.gc.ca /aboutcourt/judges/mclachlin/index_e.asp (167 words)

	Provinces and territories of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Canada is a federation of ten provinces which, together with three territories, comprise the world's second largest country.
		On September 1, 1905, the portion of the North-West Territories south of the 60° parallel became the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.
		They include all of mainland Canada north of latitude 60° north and west of Hudson Bay, as well as essentially all islands north of the Canadian mainland (from those in James Bay to the Canadian Arctic islands) that are not politically part of Greenland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Provinces_of_Canada (1054 words)

	Delgamuukw v. British Columbia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		He dismissed the action against Canada, dismissed the plaintiffs' claims for ownership and jurisdiction and for aboriginal rights in the territory, granted a declaration that the plaintiffs were entitled to use unoccupied or vacant land subject to the general law of the province, dismissed the claim for damages and dismissed the province's counterclaim.
		Then, too, appellate courts, absent a palpable and overriding error, should not substitute their own findings of fact even when the trial judge misapprehended the law which was applied to those facts.
		While the Court of Appeal is seized with the duty of re-examining the evidence in order to be satisfied that no such error occurred, it is not, in my view, a part of its function to substitute its assessment of the balance of probability for the findings of the judge who presided at the trial.
	www.lexum.umontreal.ca /csc-scc/en/pub/1997/vol3/html/1997scr3_1010.html (17648 words)

	The Supreme Court of Canada - Studies on the Canadian Constitution and Canadian Federalism - Quebec History
		However, as it has come to be applied, the jurisdiction of the court extends to civil, criminal and constitutional matters arising from both federal and provincial laws in a manner that parallels the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the United States.
		The judges of the Supreme Court of Canada are appointed by the Governor-General in Council (the federal government) and hold office during good behaviour with compulsory retirement at age 75.
		Since 1949, when the Supreme Court was freed from the weight of the decisions of the Privy Council, it has displayed a mark preference for the centralist point of view, although it curtailed excessive federal centralist tendencies from time to time.
	www2.marianopolis.edu /quebechistory/federal/scc.htm (1287 words)

	Swearing-in ceremony of Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, Ottawa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Chief Justice of this Court and the first woman in this country's history to be named to this position, let us also reaffirm our shared belief in the principles of fairness, transparency and impartiality that are the hallmarks of our judiciary.
		Having thus laid the foundation for her outstanding career, Chief Justice McLachlin went on to pursue a legal career in British Columbia, first in private practice and later, as a professor at the University of British Columbia.
		And, it is no exaggeration to say that Chief Justice McLachlin is as highly regarded abroad as she is in Canada, for her decisions in the areas of contract and tort law.
	canada.justice.gc.ca /en/news/nr/2000/doc_24736.html (884 words)

	CanadaInfo: Government: Federal: Judiciary: Supreme Court of Canada: Chief Justice
		The Chief Justice is also the Deputy Governor General, ex officio chairman of the Canadian Judicial Council, and the chair of the committee that selects winners of the Order of Canada.
		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.
	www.craigmarlatt.com /canada/government/scc_cj.html (434 words)

	SUPREME COURT OF CANADA CHIEF JUSTICE, CANADIAN ASTRONAUT, REGIONAL COMMUNITY LEADER AND RENOWNED NEUROSCIENTIST TO ...
		In addition to numerous duties within the Supreme Court, she is currently Chair of the Canadian Judicial Council, and a member of the Advisory Council of the Order of Canada, the Board of Governors of the National Judicial Institute and the Privy Council of Canada.
		In 1981, she was appointed to the County Court of Vancouver and to the Supreme Court of British Columbia.
		Her appointment in 1988 as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia was followed with her appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada in 1989.
	staffweb.uleth.ca /news/display.asp?id=3721 (1290 words)

	Aboriginal Title: The Supreme Court of Canada Decision in Delgamuukw v. British Columbia (BP459e) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Courts should approach the rules of evidence in Aboriginal rights matters, and interpret the evidence presented, conscious of the special nature of Aboriginal claims and of the evidentiary difficulties associated with proving a right or rights originating when there were no written records.
		The Chief Justice cited three grounds for rejecting the province’s restriction of Aboriginal title to the right to use the land only for activities arising from practices or traditions that were integral to the distinctive culture of the group claiming title.
		The Supreme Court of Canada’s Delgamuukw decision was expected to have significant, if undetermined, repercussions on the future negotiation and settlement of comprehensive land claims based on Aboriginal title, land use policy and Aboriginal title litigation in those regions of the country where traditional Aboriginal lands have not been ceded by treaty.
	www.parl.gc.ca /information/library/PRBpubs/bp459-e.htm (9909 words)

	The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Judicial branch
		Supreme Court (judges are appointed by the president); Constitutional Court (half of the judges appointed by the president and half appointed by the Chamber of Representatives)
		Supreme Court (judges are appointed by the president on the recommendation of the National Council of the Judiciary for an indefinite period); Constitutional Tribunal (judges are chosen by the Sejm for nine-year terms)
		Supreme Court (judges are appointed by the monarch); Court of Appeal (consists of the Privy Council with the addition of the chief justice of the Supreme Court)
	www.brainyatlas.com /fields/2094.html (3611 words)

	SUPREME COURT OF CANADA CHIEF JUSTICE, CANADIAN ASTRONAUT, REGIONAL COMMUNITY LEADER AND RENOWNED NEUROSCIENTIST TO ...
		Born in Pincher Creek, Alberta, Beverley McLachlin is Canada's firstfemale Chief Justice and was the third woman appointed to the SupremeCourt of Canada.
		Whileserving on the Supreme Court of Canada, she ensured equal status forcommon law spouses and wrote a decision on the so-called rape shieldlaw, which led to new legislation on sexual assault.
		Her appointment in 1988 as ChiefJustice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia was followed with herappointment to the Supreme Court of Canada in 1989.
	staffweb.uleth.ca /news/display.asp?id=3469 (1234 words)

	YORK UNIVERSITY MEDIA RELEASE
		The late Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, Brian Dickson, presided over the nation's highest court from 1984-1990, a pivotal time in Canadian history when the fledgling Charter of Rights and Freedoms was transforming the court's role in shaping the laws of the land.
		Under the leadership of Chief Justice Lamer since 1990, the Supreme Court has continued to attract both public ire and praise for Charter rulings on issues ranging from Quebec's right to secede, to the rights of suspects under criminal investigation, to gay rights and procedures for immigration hearings.
		But it was in the 1980s, under Chief Justice Dickson, that the court overturned Quebec laws restricting the use of English, and upheld the rights of Francophones in Alberta to be educated in French.
	www.yorku.ca /mediar/releases_1996_2000/archive/092099-2.htm (459 words)

	Judge keeps Ten Commandments - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore yesterday defied a court order to remove a large granite monument emblazoned with the Ten Commandments from a state judicial building on the grounds that God's law supercedes state and even federal law.
		Chief Justice Moore defended the way in which the monument was brought into the building, saying it had been paid for with private funds and that the appropriate state officials knew of its installation.
		Chief Justice Moore became nationally famous over the 1995 case and huge crowds turned out in rallies supporting his cause.
	www.washtimes.com /national/20030814-110407-3224r.htm (813 words)

	Vriend v. Alberta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		She noted that the decision of the Court of Appeal had involved a 2-1 split with three separate reasons for judgment, and that an important and novel point of law was at issue.
		Canada (Minister of Employment and Immigration), [1992] 1 S.C.R. 38 Hunt J.A. agreed that governments should not be assumed to have limitless resources, and that relative resources of the parties is not the critical factor.
		Canada (Attorney General), [1993] 2 S.C.R. It could therefore be assumed that a denial of the equal protection and benefit of the law on the basis of the analogous ground of sexual orientation is discriminatory.
	www.lexum.umontreal.ca /csc-scc/en/pub/1998/vol1/html/1998scr1_0493.html (17569 words)

	Campus News:
		She was also the first woman appointed to the BC Court of Appeal and the first female BC Supreme Court Justice.
		The Chief Justice and her court have responsibility for ensuring that Charter principles are upheld, and in carrying out this responsibility have made difficult, ground-breaking and sometimes controversial decisions.
		The Chief Justice has worked hard to ensure that Canadians understand the fundamentally important role of the courts, and has furthered the cause of judicial independence and respect for the rule of the law around the world.
	qnc.queensu.ca /campusnews_article_loader.php?id=43c3e292cc1e7 (252 words)

	CBC News - First female Supreme Court chief justice appointed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		She was appointed to the high court in 1989.
		As the Supreme Court judge with the most seniority, McLachlin's appointment was widely expected.
		McLachlin, an Alberta native, previously served as chief justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, and before that she sat on B.C.'s Court of Appeal.
	cbc.ca /cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/1999/11/03/court991103 (461 words)

	Saint Mary's University News Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, will present the Agnes Dennis Lecture at 7:30 PM on Saturday, October 23, 2004 in the Saint Mary's Sobey Conference Theatre, Sobey Building.
		The Chief Justice will talk about what women judges bring to the courts process and about equality on the Supreme Court of Canada.
		Saint Mary's University, founded in 1802, is home to one of Canada's leading business schools, a Science Faculty widely known for its cutting-edge research, a comprehensive and innovative Arts Faculty and a new Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research.
	www.stmarys.ca /news/2004/r0355.html (192 words)

	An Autistic Victory - Michelle Dawson
		The Court stayed within the realm of their own expertise, which is not medicine or autism, but the law.
		His vision of Canada died the day those tiny disabled feet pattered into the Supreme Court of Canada, only to be impaled by both provincial and federal legal armies determined to defeat their equality rights.
		In a unanimous decision written by the Chief Justice of the Highest Court of the Land, the voice of an untreated autistic was not only welcomed, but heard, and considered, and noted.
	www.sentex.net /~nexus23/naa_vic.html (12947 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 (387 words)

	CCH Canadian Ltd. v. Law Society of Upper Canada, 2004 SCC 13 (CanLII)
		The court reviewed the ways in which copied works were customarily dealt with in literary criticism textbooks to help it conclude that the study notes were not fair dealings for the purpose of criticism.
		The Court of Appeal concluded, however, that there was not sufficient evidence to determine whether or not the dealings were fair and, consequently, that the fair dealing exception had not been proven.
		The majority at the Court of Appeal rejected the allegation of secondary infringement on the ground that it was not established that the Law Society knew or should have known it was dealing with infringing copies of the publishers' works.
	www.canlii.org /ca/cas/scc/2004/2004scc13.html (12093 words)

	Milestone Cases in Supreme Court History
		The Court held that the New York law was unconstitutional, since the power to regulate interstate commerce, which extended to the regulation of navigation, belonged exclusively to Congress.
		The Supreme Court overturned the conviction, ruling that criminal suspects must be warned of their rights before they are questioned by police.
		The Supreme Court of Canada and judicial legitimacy: the rise and fall of Chief Justice Lyman Poore Duff.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0101289.html (1182 words)

	CBC News: Top court: B.C. doesn't have to fund autism treatment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		But the Supreme Court, overturning two lower court rulings, said they failed to prove the province had discriminated against the children.
		The court supported the province's position that it is not required under the Canada Health Act to pay for all medically required treatments.
		That decision was upheld by the B.C. Court of Appeal in October 2002.
	www.cbc.ca /story/canada/national/2004/11/19/autism_supremecourt041119.html (610 words)

	CLASS PROCEEDINGS ACT
		(4) The court may certify a person who is not a member of the class as the representative plaintiff for the class proceeding only if it is necessary to do so in order to avoid a substantial injustice to the class.
		32 (1) When the court orders that all or a part of an aggregate monetary award under section 29 (1) be divided among individual class or subclass members on an individual basis, the court must determine whether individual claims need to be made to give effect to the order.
		(4) The court must supervise the execution of judgments and the distribution of awards under this division and may stay the whole or any part of an execution or distribution for a reasonable period on the terms it considers appropriate.
	www.qp.gov.bc.ca /statreg/stat/C/96050_01.htm (6195 words)

	Report of the Interim Ad Hoc Committee on the Appointment of Supreme Court Judges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The Committee advises the Prime Minister that it is satisfied that the two nominees as presented to it — Madam Justice Rosalie Abella and Madam Justice Louise Charron — are eminently qualified for appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada.
		This report was the result of a study undertaken by the Justice Committee on the issue of judicial appointments in general and, more specifically, on how best to implement prior review of appointments of Supreme Court of Canada judges.
		As referred to in the understanding which created the Committee, it is hoped that the Justice Committee will take up this issue in the new Parliament, will note the report of this Committee, and will succeed in designing, in collaboration with the Governor in Council, a permanent Supreme Court of Canada appointment procedure.
	canada.justice.gc.ca /en/dept/pub/scc_courtsup/index.html (1149 words)

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