Canada

Preface – The Right Honourable Madame Justice Beverly M. McLachlin, P.C., Chief Justice of Canada
Préface – The Right Honourable Madame Justice Beverly M. McLachlin, P.C., Chief Justice of Canada
Introduction – Professor Adam Dodek & Professor Daniel Jutras
Part I: The “Lamer Years”
Antonio Lamer: The Man, His Life and Times – The Honourable Michel Robert
Antonio Lamer: l’homme, sa vie et son temps – The Honourable Michel Robert
Le Juge en chef Lamer et l’administration de la Cour suprême du Canada : une vision en action – Mme. Anne Roland
Part II: Key Institutional Values: Judicial Independence and Beyond
The Lamer Legacy for Judicial Independence – Ed Ratushny & Daphne Gilbert
The Ambivalence of Administrative Justice in Canada: Does Canada Need a Fourth Branch? – Professor Lorne Sossin
Chief Justice Lamer and Policy Design at the Supreme Court of Canada – Professor Dwight Newman
The Provincial Judges’ Remuneration Reference and Judicial Independence – Professor Adam Dodek
Part III: Pragmatic and Principled: Contributions to Substantive Law
A. Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and Criminal Evidence
Le juge Lamer, la faute, le blâme et le châtiment – Professor Anne-Marie Boisvert
Control of the Process: The Criminal Procedure Jurisprudence of Chief Justice Lamer – Professor Jula Hughes
Lamer, the Exclusion of Evidence and the Scent of Truth 1975-2000 – The Honourable Patrick Healy
Antonio Lamer and Wrongful Convictions: A Journey from Confidence to Contrition – Stephen Bindman
B. Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, Equality, and Language Rights
To the rescue: Antonio Lamer and the Section 2(b) cases from Quebec – Professor Jamie Cameron
Chief Justice Lamer and Freedom of Expression: Principle, Pragmatism and “The Boys of St. Vincent” – Catherine Beagan Flood
La pensée du très honorable Antonio Lamer dans la construction du droit à l’égalité : une vision audacieuse et créatrice – The Honourable Michèle Rivet & Manon Montpetit
L'évolution de la pensée du juge en chef Lamer relativement aux fondements des garanties constitutionnelles en matière de langues officielles – The Honourable Michel Bastarache
C. Outside His Comfort Zone
Chief Justice Lamer’s Leadership in Feminist Times – Professor Catherine Dauvergne
Antonio Lamer et le droit privé – Professor Daniel Jutras
Part IV: Law Reform and Conceptions of the Judicial Role
De l’absence d’esbroufe dans le traitement des faits sociaux en contexte constitutionnel : la retenue méconnue du juge Antonio Lamer – Professor Danielle Pinard
Hearsay Evidence – Lamer’s Common Law Legacy – The Honourable James O’Reilly
Antonio Lamer and Section 7 of the Charter: A Law Reformer’s Ambition, A Judge’s Restraint – The Honourable Robert Sharpe
A Lamentation for Law Reform – Professor Rod MacDonald

Editors: Adam Dodek, B.A., J.D., LL.M. & Daniel Jutras, LL.B., LL.M.

Adam Dodek, J.D., LL.M., is an Associate Professor in the Common Law Section at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law where he teaches Public Law and Legal Ethics. Prof. Dodek clerked for the Supreme Court of Israel and the U.S. Court of Appeals before returning to Canada. In 1999–2000, he clerked for the Honourable Claire L’Heureux-Dubé at the Supreme Court of Canada. Prior to joining the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa, Professor Dodek worked as Senior Policy Adviser and Chief of Staff to Ontario’s Attorney General and prior to that as an associate in the Public Law Working Group in Borden Ladner Gervais LLP’s Toronto office. He is a frequent commentator on the Supreme Court of Canada and constitutional issues.

Daniel Jutras, LL.B., LL.M., a former clerk to The Right Honourable Antonio Lamer at the Supreme Court of Canada, joined the Faculty of Law at McGill University in 1985. He has served at McGill University both as an Associate Professor (from 1991) and Full Professor (since 2001). In 2002, he served as Executive Legal Officer to The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin at the Supreme Court of Canada, returning to McGill in late 2004. His research addresses the law of obligations and the law of civil procedure, from a comparative perspective. Other interests include legal theory and sociology of law. Since 2005, Prof. Jutras has also acted as counsel to Borden Ladner Gervais LLP.