Research Catalog

Title

The Dickson legacy / Roland Penner, editor.

Publication

[Winnipeg] : Legal Research Institute of the University of Manitoba, c1992.

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Additional Authors

• Penner, Roland.
• University of Manitoba. Legal Research Institute.

Description

ix, 313 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Dickson, R. G. Brian > Congresses
• Canada. Supreme Court > Congresses
• Law > Canada > Congresses
• Judicial opinions > Canada > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• Papers "Delivered over a two day period in Winnipeg on 19 and 20 October 1990 as part of a tribute to ... the Right Honorable Brian Dickson P.C. - occasioned by his retirement from the bench"--p. 1.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: The Dickson legacy, the legacy of a judicial humanist / Roland Penner -- Manifest justice : a biographical sketch of Chief Justice Brian Dickson / Dale Gibson -- Chief Justice Dickson and criminal law : cheers, brickbats, and regrets / Don Stuart -- Chief Justice Dickson's principles of criminal law / M. Anne Stalker -- Chief Justice Dickson and criminal law : principled common sense / Lee Stuesser -- Chief Justice Dickson and the evolving law of torts / John Irving -- Chief Justice Dickson and the law of restitution / John D. McCamus -- Chief Justice Dickson, the court, and restitution / Donovan Waters -- The equality rights / Lynn Smith -- Language rights in the Supreme Court of Canada : the perspective of Chief Justice Dickson / Michael Bastarache -- Language rights in the Supreme Court of Canada : a comment / Marc M. Monnin -- The Dickson Court and native law / M. Butch Nepon -- Commentary on Aboriginal rights / J. Rod McLeod -- The contribution of Chief Justice Dickson to an interpretive framework and value system for section 1 of the Charter of Rights / Peter W. Hogg & Roland Penner -- The criteria of justification under Oakes : too much severity generated through formalism / Pierre Blache -- The Dickson Court, the courts, and the constitutional balance of powers in the Canadian system of government / Jacques Fremont -- Dickson on federalism : the first principles of his jurisprudence / Bryan Schwartz -- Dickson and federalism : in search of the right balance / Katherine Swinton -- Working within the Dickson Court / James C. MacPherson -- Working with the Dickson Court / Robert J. Sharpe -- The Dickson legacy : prudential wisdom of Canada / Peter H. Russell -- A tribute of affection and admiration / Trevor Anderson -- God speed and God bless / Brian Dickson.

ISBN

0921242263

LCCN

cn^92098051^

OCLC

• 25713072
• SCSB-9880995

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Harvard Library