The Tenth Justice

Judicial Appointments, Marc Nadon, and the Supreme Court Act Reference

Carissima Mathen, Michael Plaxton (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2020
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-6427-5 (ISBN)

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The process by which Supreme Court judges are appointed is traditionally a quiet affair, but this certainly wasn't the case when Prime Minister Stephen Harper selected Justice Marc Nadon for appointment to Canada's highest court. Here, for the first time, is the complete story of "the Nadon Reference" – one of the strangest sagas in Canadian legal history.

Following the Prime Minister's announcement, controversy swirled and debate raged: as a federal court judge, was Marc Nadon eligible for one of the three seats traditionally reserved for Quebec? Then, in March 2014, the Supreme Court of Canada broke new ground in statutory interpretation and constitutional law when it released the Reference re Supreme Court Act, ss 5 and 6.

With detailed historical and legal analysis, including never-before-published interviews, The Tenth Justice explains how the Nadon Reference came to be a case at all, the issues at stake, and its legacy.

Carissima Mathen is a professor of law at the University of Ottawa and a former director of litigation for the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF). She is the author of Courts Without Cases: The Law and Politics of Advisory Opinions, the first legal monograph on the reference function of Canadian courts, and the recipient of numerous awards including the Law Society Medal (Law Society of Ontario) and the University of Ottawa Excellence in Media Relations Award. Michael Plaxton is a professor of law at the University of Saskatchewan. His teaching and research focuses on criminal law, evidence, philosophy of law, statutory interpretation, and constitutional theory. He is the author of Implied Consent and Sexual Assault: Intimate Relationships, Autonomy, and Voice, and Sovereignty, Restraint, and Guidance: Canadian Criminal Law in the 21st Century.

Introduction

1 What's So Bad About Marc Nadon?

2 The Prime Minister's Prerogative

3 Memos

4 Asking and Telling

5 The Legal Showdown

6 The Opinion and Its Critics

7 The Aftermath

8 Judicial Appointments Law

9 A Court Frozen in Amber

Conclusion

Appendix

Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index of Cases; Index

Erscheinungsdatum	21.09.2020
Reihe/Serie	Landmark Cases in Canadian Law
Verlagsort	Vancouver
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	460 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-7748-6427-3 / 0774864273
ISBN-13	978-0-7748-6427-5 / 9780774864275
Zustand	Neuware