Research Catalog

Title

Gérard V. La Forest at the Supreme Court of Canada, 1985-1997 / edited by Rebecca Johnson and John P. McEvoy with Thomas Kuttner and H. Wade MacLauchlan.

Publication

Winnipeg, Man. : Published for the Supreme Court of Canada Historical Society by the Canadian Legal History Project, Faculty of Law, the University of Manitoba, 2000.

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Additional Authors

• Johnson, Rebecca.
• McEvoy, John P.
• La Forest, G. V. (Gerard V.)
• Supreme Court of Canada Historical Society.
• University of Manitoba. Faculty of Law. Canadian Legal History Project.
• University of Manitoba. Faculty of Law

Description

xix, 570 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• La Forest, G. V
• Canada. Supreme Court > Biography
• Judges > Canada > Biography
• Law > Canada

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• English, with two contributions in French.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Judicial lawmaking, creativity and constraints / G.V. La Forest -- The evolution of the law of private obligation : the influence of Justice La Forest / Beverley McLachlin -- La contribution du Juge La Forest à la reconnaissance du principe de la responsabilité concurrente en contrat et en délit civil / Michel Doucet -- Educative formalism : a comparison of the private law jurisprudence of Justices La Forest and McLachlin / Norman Siebrasse -- The development of fiduciary obligations / Donovan W.M. Waters -- Fiduciary duties of corporate directors : the rise of an alternative remedy / Richard W. Bird -- Damages for breach of fiduciary duties / E.J. Mockler -- Justice La Forest : a Bickelian balancer of state and individual interests / Kent Roach -- Supreme Court of Canada decisions and the provincial court : some practical implications / Patricia L. Cumming.
• Liberté individuelle et maintien de l'ordre : le cas de l'utilisation par les corps policiers et autres organismes governmentaux des techniques modernes d'enquête et de surveillance / Pierre Patenaude -- A concern for innocence : Justice La Forest and the criminal law / Steven Penney -- The Supreme Court, citizenship and the Canadian community : the judgments of Justice La Forest / John Borrows -- Applying and refashioning law : judging and the European Court of Human Rights / Luzius Wildhaber -- Citizenship and mobility rights of the legal profession / E. Neil McKelvey -- Justice La Forest, sexual orientation and citizenship / Rebecca Johnson -- La contribution du Juge La Forest à la justice civile au féminin / Nathalie Des Rosiers -- Mercure v. The Queen, language rights and legislative interpretation / Stephen A. Scott -- Federalism, territorialism and Justice La Forest / John P. McEvoy.
• Le "sens commun" dans le raisonnement judiciaire en contexte constitutionnel / Danielle Pinard -- La Forest and federalism : strengthening the union without tipping the balance / Katherine Swinton -- Learning from La Forest / Lord Cooke of Thorndon -- The Honourable G.V. La Forest's use of foreign materials in the Supreme Court of Canada and his influence on foreign courts / Michel Bastarache -- Pure economic loss : a judicial exemplar / Jane Stapleton -- Justice Gérard La Forest and the internationalist turn in Canadian jurisprudence / Robert Sze-Kwok Wai -- The La Forest years : the vocation of judging--a judge's perspective / Robert J. Sharpe -- A lawyer's perspective / Brian A. Crane -- "To fly high or not fly at all" : G.V. La Forest and the academic vocation / H. Wade MacLauchlan -- The early La Forest judgments : an appreciation / Thomas Kuttner.

ISBN

0968456014 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 45903477
• SCSB-9988516

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library