Judicial Power and Canadian Democracy,9780773521315

Judicial Power and Canadian Democracy

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ISBN13: 9780773521315
ISBN10: 0773521313
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-06-01
Publisher(s): McGill Queens Univ Pr
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction ix
Contributors xvii
PART A: SETTING THE STAGE: THE JUDICIARY'S ROLE IN CANADA AND BRITAIN
Judicial Politics in Canada: Patterns and Trends
3(24)
Frederick Vaughan
A British Bill of Rights: Incorporating the European Convention on Human Rights
27(36)
Kate Malleson
PART B: ARE JUDGES TOO POWERFUL? DEBATE AND DIALOGUE
Courts, Legislatures and Executives in the Post-Charter Era
63(10)
Hon. Beverley McLachlin
We Didn't Volunteer
73(7)
Hon. Bertha Wilson
The Activist Constitution
80(7)
Lorraine Eisenstat Weinrib
Courts Don't Make Good Compromises
87(7)
Rainer Knopff
The Charter and Legitimization of Judicial Activism
94(5)
Sebastien Lebel-Grenier
The Provincial Court Judges Case and Extended Judicial Control
99(7)
Pierre Patenaude
The Charter Dialogue between Courts and Legislatures
106(5)
Peter W. Hogg
Allison A. Thornton
Dialogue or Monologue?
111(7)
F.L. Morton
Reform's Judicial Agenda
118(5)
Peter H. Russell
A ``B`` for Prof. Russell
123(8)
E. Preston Manning
PART C: JUDICIAL AUTHORITY, ISSUES AND CONTROVERSIES
Merit Selection and Democratization of Appointments to the Supreme Court of Canada
131(34)
Jacob S. Ziegel
Wrestling with Rights: Judges, Parliament and the Making of Social Policy
165(49)
Janet L. Hiebert
Interest Group Litigation and Canadian Democracy
214(41)
Gregory Hein
Public Opinion and Canada's Courts
255(42)
Joseph F. Fletcher
Paul Howe
Section 33, The Notwithstanding Clause: A Paper Tiger?
297
Howard Leeson

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