List of Supreme Court of Canada cases (by author)

The following is a list of notable decisions by the Supreme Court of Canada sorted by author.

Understanding what cases were authored by whom can be important. For example, in early interpretation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, it has been said there was much agreement. However, in the third year of this interpretation the judges of the Supreme Court "each had started to develop their own method of reasoning."[1]

List

Decisions of The Court:

Current Justices:

Past Justices:

Decisions by Dickson

Majority

  • Solosky v. The Queen, [1980]
  • Hunter v. Southam Inc., 1984
  • R. v. Therens, 1985
  • R. v. Big M Drug Mart Ltd., 1985
  • R. v. Oakes, 1986
  • Beauregard v. Canada, 1986
  • R. v. Edwards Books and Art Ltd., 1986
  • R. v. Morgentaler, 1988
  • General Motors of Canada Ltd. v. City National Leasing, 1989
  • Brooks v. Canada Safeway Ltd., 1989
  • R. v. Sparrow, 1990 (with La Forest J)
  • R. v. Keegstra, 1990
  • Mahe v. Alberta, 1990


Decisions by La Forest

Majority

  • Canada v. Schmidt, [1987] 1 S.C.R. 500
  • United States of America v. Cotroni; United States of America v. El Zein, [1989] 1 S.C.R. 1469
  • R. v. Sparrow, [1990] 1. S.C.R. 1075 (with Dickson)
  • McKinney v. University of Guelph, [1990] 3 S.C.R. 229
  • Douglas/Kwantlen Faculty Assn. v. Douglas College, [1990] 3 S.C.R. 570
  • Morguard Investments Ltd. v. De Savoye, [1990] 3 S.C.R. 1077
  • Eldridge v. British Columbia (Attorney General), [1997] 2 S.C.R. 624

References

  1. David Beatty, "A Conservative's Court: The Politicization of Law," The University of Toronto Law Journal, Vol. 41, No. 2. (Spring, 1991), p 147.
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