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64 relations: Act of Settlement 1701, Alberta, Antonio Lamer, Beauregard v Canada, Bias, Canada, Canada (AG) v Montreal (City of), Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Charles Gonthier, Civil law (common law), Civil service, Claire L'Heureux-Dubé, Common law, Constitution Act, 1867, Constitution of Canada, Constitution of the United Kingdom, Court system of Canada, Fourth branch of government, Frank Iacobucci, Fundamental justice, Gérard La Forest, Government budget balance, Implied Bill of Rights, Inflation, Jean Chrétien, Jeffrey Goldsworthy, John Sopinka, Judicial Compensation and Benefits Commission, Judicial independence, Judicial review, List of Supreme Court of Canada cases (Lamer Court), Mackeigan v Hickman, Manitoba, New Brunswick Broadcasting Co v Nova Scotia (Speaker of the House of Assembly), Obiter dictum, Parliamentary sovereignty, Patriation Reference, Peter Cory, Peter Hogg, Preamble, Premier of Alberta, Presumption of innocence, Prime Minister of Canada, Prince Edward Island, Provincial Court Judges' Assn of New Brunswick v New Brunswick (Minister of Justice), R v Big M Drug Mart Ltd, R v Généreux, Ralph Klein, Re Therrien, Reference question, ..., Reference Re Anti-Inflation Act, Reference re Remuneration of Judges (No 2), Reference Re Secession of Quebec, Rule of law, Section 1 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Section 11 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Separation of powers, Standard of living, Supreme Court of Canada, Switzman v Elbling, Tax, Ultra vires, United Kingdom, Valente v R. Expand index (14 more) »
Act of Settlement 1701
The Act of Settlement is an Act of the Parliament of England that was passed in 1701 to settle the succession to the English and Irish crowns on Protestants only.
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Alberta
Alberta is a western province of Canada.
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Antonio Lamer
Joseph Antonio Charles Lamer, (July 8, 1933 – November 24, 2007) was a Canadian lawyer, jurist and the 16th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
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Beauregard v Canada
Beauregard v Canada 2 S.C.R. 56 was a decision by the Supreme Court of Canada on judicial independence.
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Bias
Bias is disproportionate weight in favour of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.
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Canada
Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.
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Canada (AG) v Montreal (City of)
Canada (AG) v Montreal (City of), 2 S.C.R. 770 (also known as Dupond) is a constitutional decision of the Supreme Court of Canada.
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Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (La Charte canadienne des droits et libertés), in Canada often simply the Charter, is a bill of rights entrenched in the Constitution of Canada.
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Charles Gonthier
Charles Doherty Gonthier, (August 1, 1928 – July 16, 2009) was a Puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Canada from February 1, 1989 to August 1, 2003.
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Civil law (common law)
Civil law is a branch of the law.
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Civil service
The civil service is independent of government and composed mainly of career bureaucrats hired on professional merit rather than appointed or elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leadership.
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Claire L'Heureux-Dubé
Claire L'Heureux-Dubé, (born September 7, 1927) served as a puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada from 1987 to 2002.
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Common law
Common law (also known as judicial precedent or judge-made law, or case law) is that body of law derived from judicial decisions of courts and similar tribunals.
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Constitution Act, 1867
The Constitution Act, 1867, 30 & 31 Victoria, c. 3 (U.K.), R.S.C. 1985, App.
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Constitution of Canada
The Constitution of Canada is the supreme law in Canada; the country's constitution is an amalgamation of codified acts and uncodified traditions and conventions.
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Constitution of the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom does not have one specific constitutional document named as such.
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Court system of Canada
The court system of Canada forms the judicial branch of government, formally known as "the Queen on the Bench", which interprets the law and is made up of many courts differing in levels of legal superiority and separated by jurisdiction.
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Fourth branch of government
In the American political system, the unofficial fourth branch of government refers to a group that influences the other three branches of the US federal government defined in the American Constitution (Legislative, Executive and Judicial).
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Frank Iacobucci
Frank Iacobucci, (born June 29, 1937) was a Puisne Justice on the Supreme Court of Canada from 1991 to 2004 when he retired from the bench.
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Fundamental justice
In Canadian and New Zealand law, fundamental justice is the fairness underlying the administration of justice and its operation.
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Gérard La Forest
Gérard Vincent La Forest (born April 1, 1926) is former a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from January 16, 1985 to September 30, 1997.
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Government budget balance
A government budget is a financial statement presenting the government's proposed revenues and spending for a financial year.
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Implied Bill of Rights
The Implied Bill of Rights is a judicial theory in Canadian jurisprudence that recognizes that certain basic principles are underlying the Constitution of Canada.
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Inflation
In economics, inflation is a sustained increase in price level of goods and services in an economy over a period of time.
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Jean Chrétien
Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien (born January 11, 1934), known commonly as Jean Chrétien, is a Canadian politician who served as the 20th Prime Minister of Canada from November 4, 1993, to December 12, 2003.
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Jeffrey Goldsworthy
Jeffrey Denys Goldsworthy is an Australian academic and legal philosopher.
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John Sopinka
John Sopinka, (March 19, 1933 – November 24, 1997) was a Canadian lawyer and puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada, the first Ukrainian-Canadian appointed to the high court.
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Judicial Compensation and Benefits Commission
The Judicial Compensation and Benefits Commission is a Canadian commission that recommends judicial salaries for federally appointed judges.
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Judicial independence
Judicial independence is the concept that the judiciary needs to be kept away from the other branches of government.
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Judicial review
Judicial review is a process under which executive or legislative actions are subject to review by the judiciary.
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List of Supreme Court of Canada cases (Lamer Court)
This is a chronological list of notable cases decided by the Supreme Court of Canada from appointment of Antonio Lamer as Chief Justice of Canada to his retirement.
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Mackeigan v Hickman
Mackeigan v Hickman, 2 S.C.R. 796 is a leading Supreme Court of Canada decision on judicial independence.
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Manitoba
Manitoba is a province at the longitudinal centre of Canada.
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New Brunswick Broadcasting Co v Nova Scotia (Speaker of the House of Assembly)
New Brunswick Broadcasting Co v Nova Scotia (Speaker of the House of Assembly) is a leading Supreme Court of Canada decision wherein the court has ruled that parliamentary privilege is a part of the unwritten convention in the Constitution of Canada.
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Obiter dictum
Obiter dictum (usually used in the plural, obiter dicta) is Latin phrase meaning "by the way", that is, a remark in a judgment that is "said in passing".
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Parliamentary sovereignty
Parliamentary sovereignty (also called parliamentary supremacy or legislative supremacy) is a concept in the constitutional law of some parliamentary democracies.
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Patriation Reference
Reference Re Resolution to amend the Constitution – also known as the Patriation Reference – is a historic Supreme Court of Canada reference case that occurred during negotiations for the patriation of the Constitution of Canada.
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Peter Cory
Peter deCarteret Cory, (born October 25, 1925) is a former puisne judge of the Supreme Court of Canada, from 1989 to 1999.
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Peter Hogg
Peter Wardell Hogg, (born March 12, 1939) is a Canadian lawyer, author and legal scholar.
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Preamble
A preamble is an introductory and expressionary statement in a document that explains the document's purpose and underlying philosophy.
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Premier of Alberta
The Premier of Alberta is the first minister for the Canadian province of Alberta.
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Presumption of innocence
The presumption of innocence is the principle that one is considered innocent unless proven guilty.
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Prime Minister of Canada
The Prime Minister of Canada (Premier ministre du Canada) is the primary minister of the Crown, chairman of the Cabinet, and thus Canada's head of government, charged with advising the Canadian monarch or Governor General of Canada on the exercise of the executive powers vested in them by the constitution.
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Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island (PEI or P.E.I.; Île-du-Prince-Édouard) is a province of Canada consisting of the island of the same name, and several much smaller islands.
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Provincial Court Judges' Assn of New Brunswick v New Brunswick (Minister of Justice)
Provincial Court Judges' Assn of New Brunswick v New Brunswick (Minister of Justice); Ontario Judges Assn v Ontario (Management Board); Bodner v Alberta; Conférence des juges du Québec v Quebec (AG); Minc v Quebec (AG) 2 S.C.R. 286 was a decision by the Supreme Court of Canada in which the Court attempted to resolve questions about judicial independence left over from the landmark Provincial Judges Reference (1997).
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R v Big M Drug Mart Ltd
R v Big M Drug Mart Ltd is a landmark decision by Supreme Court of Canada where the Court struck down the Lord's Day Act for violating section 2 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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R v Généreux
R v Généreux, 1 S.C.R. 259 is a leading Supreme Court of Canada decision where the Court held that the government had the constitutional right to create a military justice system that existed in parallel to the regular court system.
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Ralph Klein
Ralph Phillip Klein, (November 1, 1942 March 29, 2013) was a Canadian politician who served as the 12th Premier of Alberta and leader of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta from 1992 until his retirement in 2006.
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Re Therrien
Re Therrien, 2 S.C.R. 3, 2001 SCC 35, is a leading decision of the Supreme Court of Canada on judicial independence.
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Reference question
In Canadian law, a reference question (formally called abstract review) is a submission by the federal or a provincial government to the courts asking for an advisory opinion on a major legal issue.
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Reference Re Anti-Inflation Act
Reference Re Anti-Inflation Act, 2 S.C.R. 373 was a landmark reference question opinion of the Supreme Court of Canada on the constitutionality of the Anti-Inflation Act.
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Reference re Remuneration of Judges (No 2)
Reference Re Remuneration of Judges (No 2)Re Remuneration of Judges (No. 2) is the name by which Professor Peter Hogg calls the case; see Hogg, Peter W. Constitutional Law of Canada.
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Reference Re Secession of Quebec
Reference Re Secession of Quebec, is a landmark judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada regarding the legality, under both Canadian and international law, of a unilateral secession of Quebec from Canada.
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Rule of law
The rule of law is the "authority and influence of law in society, especially when viewed as a constraint on individual and institutional behavior; (hence) the principle whereby all members of a society (including those in government) are considered equally subject to publicly disclosed legal codes and processes".
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Section 1 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Section 1 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is the section that confirms that the rights listed in the Charter are guaranteed.
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Section 11 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Section 11 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is the section of the Canadian Constitution that protects a person's legal rights in criminal and penal matters.
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Separation of powers
The separation of powers is a model for the governance of a state.
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Standard of living
Standard of living refers to the level of wealth, comfort, material goods, and necessities available to a certain socioeconomic class in a certain geographic area, usually a country.
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Supreme Court of Canada
The Supreme Court of Canada (Cour suprême du Canada) is the highest court of Canada, the final court of appeals in the Canadian justice system.
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Switzman v Elbling
Switzman v Elbling SCR 285 was a landmark Supreme Court of Canada decision where the Court struck down Quebec's Padlock Law.
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Tax
A tax (from the Latin taxo) is a mandatory financial charge or some other type of levy imposed upon a taxpayer (an individual or other legal entity) by a governmental organization in order to fund various public expenditures.
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Ultra vires
Ultra vires is a Latin phrase meaning "beyond the powers".
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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Valente v R
Valente v R, 2 S.C.R. 673 is a leading Supreme Court of Canada decision on protection of judicial independence under section 11(d) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincial_Judges_Reference
