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	Rosalie Abella - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rosalie Silberman Abella, FRSC (born July 1, 1946 in Stuttgart, Germany) is a Canadian jurist.
		Abella was born in a displaced persons camp in Germany, and came to Canada with her family in 1950.
		Abella was the sole commissioner of the 1984 federal Royal Commission on Equality in Employment, in which she coined the term employment equity, a strategy for reducing barriers in employment faced by women, non-whites, people with disabilities, and Aboriginal peoples in Canada.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rosalie_Abella (406 words)

	SUPPORTER OF ANTI-WHITE DISCRIMINATION APPOINTED TO SUPREME COURT - Stormfront White Nationalist Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Abella's husband, Irving Abella, is likewise a past-president of the CJC.
		Abella may be highly political, a self-promoter and in the public eye, but, in terms of the quality of her rulings, she is certainly not the most outstanding senior judge in Ontario.
		Abella, for those just joining us, is the author of the 1984 report of the Royal Commission on Equality in Employment, which laid the foundation for legislation imposing racial and sexual hiring quotas on employers under federal jurisdiction and, later, Ontario's aborted attempt to apply this across the entire private sector.
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=150082 (2392 words)

	The Effect of the Charter of Rights on the Role of the Courts:
		However, I agree with Abella that the Charter has not made the courts biased, their primary function is still to uphold justice; and by being an independent body, the judiciary does not need to respond to unreliable fluctuating public opinion.
		Abella strongly urges that this is incorrect and contradicts her earlier view that courts have always been law-makers by saying that courts are still simply "reviewers and interpreters of the rules" like they were prior to the Charter.
		Justice Abella further argues that it is essential for judges to be impartial and free from biases, however, she explains that being impartial does not mean having no presupposed opinion.
	pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca /~carman/courses/Charter_and_Courts.html (1248 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Supreme Court
		Rosalie Silberman Abella set several firsts when she was appointed a judge of the Ontario family court in 1976.
		Abella graduated from the University of Toronto Law School in 1970 and practised both civil and criminal law until she became a judge.
		Abella was born on July 1, 1946, in a Displaced Persons Camp in Germany and came to Canada as a refugee in 1950.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/supremecourt/nominees.html (1442 words)

	EUGENE MEEHAN, Q.C. SUPREME COURT LAW - Bio - Rosalie Silberman Abella
		Madam Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella was appointed to the Ontario Court of Appeal in 1992.
		Justice Abella was a Trustee of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada and a director of the Institute for Research on Public Policy, of the International Commission of Jurists, and of the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice.
		Justice Abella has been very active in Canadian judicial education, organizing the first judicial seminar in which all levels of the judiciary participated, the first judicial seminar in which persons outside the legal profession were invited to participate, the first national education program for administrative tribunals, and the first national conference for Canada's female judges.
	www.eugenemeehan.com /english/biosAbella.html (551 words)

	The Forward Newspaper Online: Jewish Woman Named to Canadian High Court (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Born Rosalie Silberman in 1946 to Holocaust survivors in a displaced persons camp in Germany, she and her parents came to Canada as refugees on an American troop ship when she was 4 years old.
		Abella was passed over for the high court in 1998, when her supporters and those of John Laskin — the son of Canada's first Jewish Chief Justice, the late Bora Laskin — engaged in bitter and unseemly lobbying for the appointment.
		Abella is a self-described "Charter fan," and has publicly slammed opponents of judicial activism, describing them as the "new inhibitors" for trying to prevent the court from expanding minority rights in Canada.
	www.forward.com /main/printer-friendly.php?ref=gordon20040909403 (807 words)

	yaledailynews.com - Justice relates how past shapes her judgements (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Abella defended her record as a progressive justice by decrying the notion of an idle judiciary.
		Abella said she recognizes the necessity of balance between civil liberties and human rights, but she believes the proliferation of human rights is of greater importance because of their more fundamental social impact.
		Abella was the recipient of the 2004 Walter S. Tarnopolsky Award for Human Rights by the Canadian Bar Association and the International Commission of Jurists and the 2003 International Justice Prize of the Peter Grube Foundation.
	www.yaledailynews.com /article.asp?AID=26647 (667 words)

	U of T Magazine -- University of Toronto
		Abella was born at the camp on July 1, 1946.
		Abella remembers her childhood as happy, and says she's amazed by her parents' and grandmother's resilience and optimism.
		In her decision, Abella wrote that the definition of "spouse" in the act violated the equality provision of the charter.
	www.magazine.utoronto.ca /06winter/rosie.asp (2445 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Rosalie Abella
		The word Jew (Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes.
		Irving M. Abella, born 1940 in Toronto, Ontario, is a Canadian writer, historian and academic.
		Abella asserts that because of her accident of birth, she has gained the right to expect everyone else to share her fear of intolerance.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Rosalie-Abella (2264 words)

	New justices have activist track records - Interim, Oct 2004
		Both Abella and Charron have made numerous judgements striking down or re-writing existing laws to suit their ideological biases.
		Among Charron's decisions are those legalizing marijuana, redefining the term "spouse" in family law (the infamous M vs. H case) and drastically reducing the sentence of a pedophile convicted of possessing child pornography.
		Abella is infamous for developing the racist, sexist philosophy of "employment equity," lowering the age of consent for sodomy and the Rosenburg decision, which redefined "spouse" in federal law.
	www.theinterim.com /2004/oct/01newjustices.html (744 words)

	Canadian Jewish News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Abella spent the next 34 years more than making up for any gaps in her father’s life, culminating in last week’s announcement.
		Rosalie graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Music and the sisters played at numerous music festivals both separately and together on the same piano.
		But Abella is perhaps best known for her work on a 1984 federal royal commission on equality in employment.
	www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=4215 (1273 words)

	Rosalie Abella (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A displaced person (sometimes abbreviated dp) is the general term for someone who has been forced to leave his or her native place, a phenomenon known as forced...
		Abella was the author of the 1984 federal Royal Commission on Equality in Employment, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Abella's appointment to the Supreme Court was not welcomed by Canadians opposed to judicial activism[For more, click on this link].
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/rosalie_abella.htm (753 words)

	Gay Watch
		One of the Court of Appeal judges responsible for many of these decisions is the hard-line feminist, Rosalie Abella, who consistently refuses to allow her mind to be confused by the facts.
		She is responsible for the decision to lower the age of consent for anal intercourse and also for the decision that wherever a custodial parent (usually the mother) decides to live, even if it's thousands of miles away from the father, is in the "child's best interests".
		Abella's reasons for her decision in the picketing case were so shallow that the Ottawa Citizen, in an editorial on April 20, 1998, described them as "breathtaking".
	www.taxtyranny.ca /images/HTML/GayWatch/GayWatch23.html (1028 words)

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		He said it would be a big mistake for people to expect Judge Abella to recuse herself in future cases because she recused herself from an upcoming deportation appeal involving former Rwandan political activist Léon Mugesera.
		One of Judge Abella's sons is employed by the Department of Justice and may even have worked on the Mugesera case.
		Judge Abella's admirers point to her strong record as a legal reformer, her academic credentials and her unstinting support for human rights, children and women's rights.
	www.cjc.ca /ptemplate.php?action=itn&Story=1058&CJC=2f4ae498c0bd02ee7c1d1e4cb7f1e07d&CJC=2f4ae498c0bd02ee7c1d1e4cb7f1e07d (850 words)

	Welcome to IAWJ -- News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Rosalie Abella to the Supreme Court of Canada.
		Charron is an expert in criminal law and procedure, evidence and civil law and made her mark with ground-breaking rulings such as the one striking down the heterosexual definition of spouse in Ontario’s Family Law Act allowing same-sex partners to seek alimony.
		Madam Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella was born in a displaced persons camp in Germany and came to Canada at the age of 4.
	www.iawj.org /news/newsdet.asp?newsid=69 (264 words)

	Gov stacking court?
		Rosalie Abella - Anglophone, born and raised in Ontario
		Abella, 58, graduated from the University of Toronto law school in 1970.
		She practised civil and criminal litigation, and was appointed to the Ontario Family Court in 1976, at the age of 29.
	www.bcrevolution.ca /gov_stacking_court.htm (1646 words)

	The legal minds of Abella, Charron - Interim, Oct 2004
		"In my view," wrote Abella, "Section 159 (of the Criminal Code) arbitrarily disadvantages gay men by denying to them until they are 18 a choice available at the age of 14 to those who are not gay; namely, their choice of sexual expression with a consenting partner to whom they are not married.
		She views the Charter as a licence to roam far beyond the facts of the dispute under adjudication for the purpose of changing the law to conform to her personal, ideological convictions.
		His elevation of Abella and Charron to the country's top court is certain to exacerbate the judicial subversion of democracy and the rule of law.
	www.theinterim.com /2004/oct/01thelegalminds.html (927 words)

	wcr:10/04/1999 -- Red Mass: Lawyers stick up for Abella
		The article highlighted Abella's 1995 ruling which lowered the age of consent for sodomy to 14 years, as well as her decision to extend marital benefits to homosexual couples.
		"(Abella's) intelligence as a jurist, the depth and wisdom of her work, it shouldn't be something that's looked at only from a right-wing prospective," Ryan said.
		Whether their decisions are favoured or resented, Abella commends her peers and refers to many of their rulings as "breaking new ground when they interpret the law.
	www.wcr.ab.ca /news/1999/1004/redmass100499.shtml (775 words)

	The Jewish Tribune - Current News Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In 1998 Abella was overlooked as a candidate for the Supreme Court, despite her considerable skills.
		Recalling this seminal chapter in her family’s saga, Abella said in 1999, “The moment I heard that story as a child about my father not being able to be a lawyer, was the moment I decided to become one.
		Abella is married to Irving Abella, a professor of history at York University.
	www.bnaibrith.ca /tribune/jt-040902-00.html (764 words)

	Ignore the spin: that divorce settlement was unfair by Michelle Landsberg, May 27, 2001
		Justice Rosalie Abella and unanimously agreed to by Chief Justice Roy McMurtry and Mr.
		Writing for the court, Abella stressed that alteration of agreements must be based on scrupulous regard for standards of fairness established by the Supreme Court.
		Abella also concluded, in view of expert evidence, that the so-called consulting deal was, in fact, a "thinly disguised spousal support" agreement, crafted to "create a more advantageous tax result for Mr.
	www.rapereliefshelter.bc.ca /issues/divorce.html (946 words)

	Supreme Court of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, when the names of Justices Abella and Charron were put forward, Parliament was dissolved, and thus unable to form Committees.
		On August 24, 2004, Minister of Justice Irwin Cotler nominated Justices Charron and Abella to replace Frank Iacobucci who retired in the spring of 2004 and Louise Arbour who stepped down in early 2004 to accept an appointment as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
		With the new appointments, four out of the nine justices are women (McLachlin, Deschamps, Abella and Charron), making the Supreme Court of Canada the world's most gender-balanced national high court.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Canada (3114 words)

	Revanchist Review: August 2004
		It is a mind that suffers from a degree of distemper as a consequence of a false understanding of the entitlement devolving from her birth to parents who survived the unspeakable horrors of Treblinka.
		Abella ruled that since anal sex is "a basic form of sexual expression for gay men," … that the provision in the Criminal Code that required the age of consent for such sexual activity be set at 18 years was discriminatory.
		In 1998, Judge Abella was at it again, this time in the Rosenberg case, declaring that homosexual partners were "spouses" within the meaning of the Income Tax Act.
	revanchist.blogspot.com /2004_08_01_revanchist_archive.html (7170 words)

	University of Toronto - Faculty of Law: Alumni and Friends
		Madam Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella, a 1970 alumnus of the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto, was sworn in to the Supreme Court of Canada along with the Hon.
		Justice Abella practiced civil and criminal litigation until she was appointed to the Ontario Family Court in 1976 at just 29 years old, making her the youngest woman ever to be appointed to the bench in Canada.
		Justice Abella is well known for her human rights expertise as the sole Commissioner and author of the 1984 federal Royal Commission on Equality in Employment, in which she created the term and concept of “employment equity”.
	www.law.utoronto.ca /alumni_frnds_content.asp?itempath=4/9/0/0/0&specNews=260&cType=NewsEvents (347 words)

	Reporter: Convocation Supplement
		Honorary LL.D. A former civil and criminal lawyer, Justice Rosalie Abella of the Ontario Court of Appeal was once a commissioner at the Ontario Human Rights Commission and is the former chair of the Ontario Labour Relations Board.
		As a judge, Abella has handed down many decisions that have had a nation-wide impact -- her ruling that the term "spouse" in the Income Tax Act should include same-sex partners is spurring the federal government to change dozens of statutes.
		Abella is a former Boulton visiting professor of law at McGill and a frequent lecturer at the University.
	www.reporter-archive.mcgill.ca /Rep/r3117/convocation2.html (316 words)

	The Honourable Madam Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella - November-Convocation 2005 - Carleton NOW
		In honour of her outstanding contribution to social and legal advocacy of human rights, The Honourable Madam Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella, will be presented with a Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 2:00 p.m.
		Abella was born in a displaced persons camp in Stuttgart, Germany, after World War II, and immigrated to Canada with her family in 1950.
		She received a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Toronto in 1970 and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1972.
	www.carletonnow.ca /2005-11b/989.htm (277 words)

	Mandatory counselling for parenting after divorce
		Rosalie Abella of the Ontario Court of Appeal and the Hon.
		Aharon Barak; and Justice Rosalie Abella of the Ontario Court of Appeal.
		Abella simply asserted what she knew to be true: her fellow Canadians were bigots.
	www.fathersforlife.org /letters/FAQs/parentingafterdivorce2.htm (2062 words)

	Internation Commission of Jusists, Canadian Section
		NOTE: The Honourable Rosalie Abella was the 2004 recipient of the Walter F. Tarnopolsky Award.
		Justice Abella was presented with the Tarnopolsky Medal by Justice Binnie on the morning of August 16 at the conclusion of a Panel sponsored by the Canadian Judges Forum and ICJ Canada.
		Rosalie Abella of the Ontario Court of Appeal, who had formally been presented with the Tarnopolsky Medal by Justice Binnie during the ICJ/Canadian Judges Forum, was then introduced by the Honourable Constance Glube and addressed the meeting.
	www.icjcanada.org /en/news/am_2004-11-06.htm (784 words)

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