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| | Chief Justice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the president of a Supreme Court such as the United States Supreme Court, the Supreme Court of Canada, the Supreme Court of New Zealand, the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (Mexico), or provincial or state supreme courts. | | | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada | | | The Chief Justice is often responsible for serving as chair during private supreme court deliberations, and often is first to voice his opinion. |
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| | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada | | | The Supreme Court of Canada consists of the Chief Justice of Canada (French: Juge en chef du Canada) and eight puisne Justices appointed by the Governor in Council (Governor General of Canada) from among superior court judges or from among barristers of at least ten years' standing at the Bar of a province or territory. | | | She was appointed in 2000 and was previously the Chief Justice of the British Columbia Supreme Court and a Justice on the British Columbia Court of Appeal. |
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| | 2003 Zubeida Barmania |
| | England, with an LLB from the University of Western Ontario Canada and a Masters degree from the American University of Beirut, Zubeida practised law briefly in South Africa, having pupilled under the late Chief Justice of South Africa and subsequently in Canada where she specialised in Pension Law. | | | It was in South Africa, encouraged by her mentor the late Chief Justice Ismail Mahomed and Dullah Omar the first black Minister of Justice, that she was to make her most significant contribution. | | | South African Women for Women is pleased to present Zubeida the Community Service award, in recognition of her work in Canada and South Africa on gender equity and anti-poverty issues. |
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| | CBC News:Supreme Court Justice Iacobucci retiring |
| | Iacobucci served as chief justice of the Federal Court of Canada for three years before being appointed to the top court. | | | He served as Canada's deputy minister of justice and deputy attorney general from 1985 to 1988. | | | OTTAWA - Supreme Court Justice Frank Iacobucci is retiring from the Supreme Court of Canada this June, opening up a second vacancy at the country's top court |
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http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/03/22/canada/justice040322
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| | Feminist Daily News 11/4/1999: Canada's Prime Minister Appoints First Female Chief Justice |
| | Beverley McLachlin, who has served on Canada's Supreme Court for the last decade, has been named the Chief Justice of Canada's highest court. | | | Federal Justice Minister Anne McLellean also praised Chretien's decision, "As a female minister of justice, I'm very pleased about the fact that the pirme minister has appointed the first woman to that position. | | | Canada's Prime Minister Jean Chretien announced the appointment yesterday, and received immediate positive responses from the legal and feminist communities. |
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http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=1625
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| | Women's History Month 2000 Status of Women Canada |
| | Beverley McLachlin of Alberta becomes the first female Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. | | | Canada is one of the signatories to the Universal Declaration. | | | The Supreme Court of Canada strikes down the provisions of the Criminal Code pertaining to abortion. |
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| | Bill C-2: The Canada Elections Act (LS-343E) |
| | Provision is made in clause 14 for a substitute Chief Electoral Officer to be appointed by the Chief Justice of Canada in the case of the death, incapacity or negligence of the Chief Electoral Officer. | | | The Chief Electoral Officer communicates with the Governor in Council through the Minister appointed for the purposes of the Act (clause 14(4)) (which is currently the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons). | | | The Chief Electoral Officer recommended in his 1996 and 1997 reports that the Chief Electoral Officer be empowered to remove returning officers (and other election officials) for incompetence or unsatisfactory performance. |
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| | Chief Justice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada | | | (Redirected from Chief Justice of the Supreme Court) | | | In some nations the Chief Justice is called the president of the Supreme Court. |
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| | Amazon.com: The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States (Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States): Books: Kermit L. Hall,James W. Ely,Joel B. Grossman |
| | There are brief biographies - personal, professional and judicial - of each of the Chief Justices and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court (there have been 108 in all, with 113 appointments, as 5 Associate Justices have later been appointed as Chief Justice) together with pictures of each. | | | The appendices include the U.S. Constitution, two lists of Justices, one simply arranged chronologically, and one more graphical noting who the President who nominated each justice was, who the Chief Justice was, etc. There is also a short appendix with a number of firsts, trivia, and traditions associated to the Court. | | | As the nation prepares to welcome the seventeenth Chief Justice, this book is a wonderful guide to the processes of the least 'media-exposed' branch of the federal government and its highest institution, the Supreme Court. |
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| | Center for Problem-Oriented Policing |
| | She serves as co-chair of the World Criminal Justice Library Network and is a member of the American Society of Criminology and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. | | | Cordner is past-president of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, the country’s largest association of criminal justice educators and researchers, and founder and former chair of that organization’s Police Section. | | | Ronald V. Clarke is a professor at the School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University. |
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| | Supreme_Court_of_Canada |
| | On the bench, the Chief Justice of Canada, or, in her absence, the senior puisne justice, presides from the centre chair with the other justices seated to her right and left by order of seniority of appointment. | | | The Supreme Court of Canada hears appeals from the provincial courts of last resort, usually the provincial or territorial courts of appeal, and the Federal Court of Appeal. | | | The Supreme Court of Canada formally became the court of last resort for criminal appeals in 1933 and for all other appeals in 1949. |
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| | The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Judicial branch |
| | Supreme Court (judges are appointed by the monarch); Court of Appeal (consists of the Privy Council with the addition of the chief justice of the Supreme Court) | | | Supreme Court of Justice or Corte Suprema de Justicia (judges are appointed by the president with consent of the Senate) | | | Supreme Court (judges are appointed by the president on the recommendation of the National Council of the Judiciary for an indefinite period); Constitutional Tribunal (judges are chosen by the Sejm for nine-year terms) |
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| | CFP 2005 > PANOPTICON'05 |
| | She is the former Chief Privacy Officer of Zero-Knowledge, the first CPO in Canada, and has been active in a number of CPO associations, working with those responsible for implementing privacy in their organizations. | | | Lee clerked for Justice John Paul Stevens of the Supreme Court of the United States and for Judge Abner J. Mikva of the United States Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia Circuit. | | | Professor Kerr is a former law clerk for two federal judges: Judge Leonard I. Garth of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the United States Supreme Court. |
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| | Updates on the International Campaign Against Terrorism - Safety and Security for Canadians Canada Site |
| | The Honourable Martin Cauchon, Minister of Justice and the Honourable Lawrence MacAulay, Solicitor General of Canada to Co-host the G8 Justice and Interior Ministers' Meeting | | | The Honourable John McCallum, Minister of National Defence and General Ray Henault, Chief of the Defence Staff Commemorate September 11 Attack | | | Canada Responds to the Crisis (September 11: Behind the Scenes) - Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat |
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| | SCOTUSBlog |
| | Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who is often sympathetic to states resentment of federal intrusions into their affairs, told attorneys for the states that the necessary reading of the Bacchus precedent was that it fully restored the notion that states may not discriminate in favor of local commerce. | | | Canada has a special procedure called a reference, under which the Supreme Court responds to basic questions of law addressed to it outside the context of an actual lawsuit. | | | The American court is not bound to follow any foreign court decisions, but several of the Justices are urging their colleagues to make it a fairly routine part of the analysis of major legal questions. |
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| | 2030. Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832). Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989 |
| | Another use of this proverb was attributed, in an obituary, to Sir Alexander Cockburn, Lord Chief Justice of England. | | | Cockburn, the counsel for one of the parties, was absent because his fee had not accompanied the brief and the only message left was that he had gone to the Derby, with the remark that ‘a man might as well play for nothing as work for nothing.’”—Canada Law Journal, January 1, 1881, p. | | | Although he did his best for his clients, he was careful that they should do their duty by him, and the story is told that on one occasion, when an election committee met, Mr. |
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| | ipedia.com: List of Canada-related topics Article |
| | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada | | | List of Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada | | | A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A A few acres of snow Abortion in Canada Acadia Access copyright Act Against Slavery Act of Union Alberta... |
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| | Supreme Court of Canada and its Justices 1875-2000 |
| | The Supreme Court of Canada and its Justices 1875-2000 is a fitting commemoration of the Supreme Court's 125 years and its fiftieth year as the court of last resort in Canada. | | | The Supreme Court of Canada and its Justices 1875-2000 | | | Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin provides a preface, and former Chief Justice Antonio Lamer has written a history of the Court. |
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| | Navajo Nation Supreme Court Justices |
| | In 1992, Robert Yazzie was appointed by the Navajo Nation Council as the Chief Justice of the Navajo Nation. | | | Chief Justice Yazzie, a law school-trained judge, has been on the bench for nine years. | | | He was appointed to the Navajo Nation Supreme Court in October of 1985 and has served as judge pro tempore on the Arizona Court of Appeals, Division I, during fall 1993 and spring 1994. |
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| | Activist Supreme Court Justices — Part IV, Best Interest of the Children and Conclusions |
| | Going by the trend set by the Supreme Court under the tutelage of Madam Chief Justice of Canada, the Ontario Appeal Court judges recently in Kreklewetz v. | | | Madam Chief Justice of Canada lauds the concept of a legal practice known as "collaborative lawyering" without any further thought to the fact that unless the profit aspect of divorce and sole custody are removed there is no way of convincing the partner who stands to gain from adversity to co-operate. | | | The list of documents at the library of the Supreme Court of Canada reflects the prevailing ideology of the judges. |
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| | Bootleg, Eh? - The ineffable, unknowable mystery of the Canadian tax code. By Dahlia Lithwick |
| | Justice John Paul Stevens, filling Chief Justice Rehnquist's tap shoes while the chief recuperates from cancer treatments, is of the kinder, gentler school of presiding: "You said there were four federal interests," he says, "but you've only been able to identify one." | | | They'd probably argue that the trouble really started when dopey Canada hiked up the taxes on alcohol to the point that, between federal and provincial sales taxes and a "sin" tax on top of all that, the average total tax on Canadian alcohol is 83 percent (as opposed to 44 percent in the United States). | | | Circuit Court of Appeals reversed their convictions, holding that a hoary common-law doctrine, the "revenue rule," barred prosecution by the U.S. government for violation of Canadian tax law. |
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| | Indeed, he goes so far as to say that such speculation "does a great disservice to the professionalism of the chief justice of Canada, and seriously questions the integrity of the other judges of the Supreme Court" (p. | | | Indeed, there is perhaps no judge in Canada who is more committed than Justice Abella to the idea of courts as vanguards of social reform. | | | For example, in discussing the dispute between the Federal Court and the Supreme Court over the former's jurisdiction, Bushnell alludes to a possible feud between the chief justices of the two courts (Jackett of the Federal Court, Laskin of the Supreme Court). |
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| | Updates on the International Campaign Against Terrorism - Safety and Security for Canadians Canada Site |
| | The Honourable Martin Cauchon, Minister of Justice and the Honourable Lawrence MacAulay, Solicitor General of Canada to Co-host the G8 Justice and Interior Ministers' Meeting | | | Canada Responds to the Crisis (September 11: Behind the Scenes) - Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat | | | Chief of Defence Staff General Ray Henault Provides a Briefing on the War in Afghanistan |
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| | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada | | | Chief Mechanical Engineers of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway |
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| | SCOTUSblog |
| | According to ACSBlog Justice Scalia is claiming that Vice President Gore was responsible for the 2000 election controversy. | | | The petition asks the Supreme Court to reconsider whether the certainty of an eyewitness identification ought to be a factor a court considers when determining whether a suggestive identification is nonetheless sufficiently reliable to satisfy the requirements of due process. | | | The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that parents, not school officials, have the burden of proving a parents' claim that an educational plan for their disabled child does not satisfy their child's needs. |
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| | Boycott Brazil |
| | Lambros' April 29, 2004 complaint filed against the Minnesota Supreme Court Justices on August 06, 1993, as to violations of Article 1, Section 8, of the State of Minnesota Constitution in there ruling in DZIUBAK vs. MOTT, 503 N.W.2d 771, is DENIED. | | | On April 7, 1989, the Superior Court of Justice was inaugurated and began its activities, as established in Law No. 7746 of March 30, 1989. | | | Lambros' sentence was overturned on September 8, 1995 by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals that vacated his mandatory life sentence without parole because the sentence was not legal under a law in effect at the time of his alleged crime. |
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| | Historians in the News: Latest |
| | Devoted Abraham Lincoln scholar and state Supreme Court Chief Justice Frank J. Williams acknowledged last week that he "inadvertently" used the opening paragraphs of a 1957 Journal magazine story in an article he wrote on Lincoln in 1993. | | | House Republicans made public the Oct. 23 memorandum from Philip D. Zelikow, the former staff director, as proof that House negotiators were not standing in the way of a compromise bill to enact the commission's chief recommendation: creation of the powerful job of a national intelligence director to coordinate the government's spy agencies. | | | Susan M. Collins, the Maine Republican who is chairwoman of the Senate committee, and Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, the panel's top Democrat, said they hoped the nomination would go to the Senate floor this week. |
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| | Definition of List of Canada-related topics - Biocrawler |
| | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada | | | List of Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada | | | List of elections in the Province of Canada |
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