Grant Huscroft

Grant Huscroft is a Canadian jurist, who currently serves as a justice of the Court of Appeal for Ontario.^[1]

Huscroft was educated at the University of Western Ontario (BA 1980), Queen's University (LL.B. 1984), and the University of Auckland (LL.M. 1987). He taught at the University of Auckland Law School between 1992 and 2001 and University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law from 2002 and 2014.^[1]

Huscroft is a critic of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He argues that the passage of the Charter has provided constitutional status to rights and freedoms while empowering judges to strike down laws passed by democratically elected representatives that are seen to infringe on these rights and freedoms. This has resulted in political questions increasingly being brought before the courts and out of the purview of elected representatives. He argues that judges do not have any greater insights into complex social and moral issues than any other person, and that the power to find solutions to these issues must be put back in the hands of democratically elected representatives. Many judicial decisions interpreting and applying the charter have been controversial, and the opinions of Supreme Court judges have often been divided in these cases.^[2]

Huscroft was appointed to the Court of Appeal for Ontario in 2014.

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