Gérard V. La Forest at the Supreme Court of Canada, 1985-1997 /

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Imprint:Winnipeg : Published for the Supreme Court of Canada Historical Society by the Canadian Legal History Project, Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba, 2000.
Description:xix, 570 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
French
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4350127
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Other authors / contributors:La Forest, G. V. (Gerard V.)
Johnson, Rebecca.
McEvoy, John P.
Kuttner, Thomas.
MacLauchlan, H. Wade.
Guth, DeLloyd J., 1938-
Supreme Court of Canada Historical Society.
Canadian Legal History Project.
ISBN:0968456014
Notes:Papers from a symposium organized to honour Justice La Forest held at the University of New Brunswick in 1998.
Includes bibliographical references.
Chiefly in English; some text also in French.
Table of 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 law reconnaissance du principle 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'enquete 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 á 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.