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William R. McIntyre : paladin of the common law / W.H. McConnell.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Montreal [Que.] : Published for Carleton University by McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2000.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 248 pages) : portraitContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773574106
  • 0773574107
  • 9786612864223
  • 6612864222
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: William R. McIntyre.DDC classification:
  • 347.71/03534 21
LOC classification:
  • KE8248.M38 M38 2000eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- I: Early Influences: Education and Wartime -- II: Practice in Victoria -- III: A Judge in British Columbia -- IV: The Supreme Court of Canada -- V: Mclntyre's Constitutional and Quasi-Constitutional Decisions -- VI: Criminal and Other Decisions -- VII: The Charter of Rights and Freedoms -- VIII: The Summing Up -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I-J -- K -- L -- M -- N-O -- P-Q -- R -- S -- T -- U-V -- W-Z
Review: "Using archival resources, interviews with contemporaries, and legal sources, W.H. McConnell traces McIntyre's personal evolution from defending the Charter as a workable counterpoint to established common law principles to gradual disenchantment with its overuse, by many of his colleagues and the lower courts, for developing social policy. In retrospect McIntyre's reservations have been prophetic: the "interventionist" trend has given rise to considerable criticism of the court by legal professionals, the media, and the Canadian public. He remained, however, a staunch proponent of freedom of expression and, in the Andrews case, framed the pivotal definition of "equality rights" in section 15 of the Charter that is still prevalently applied in Canadian courts."--Jacket
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-241) and index.

Print version record.

"Using archival resources, interviews with contemporaries, and legal sources, W.H. McConnell traces McIntyre's personal evolution from defending the Charter as a workable counterpoint to established common law principles to gradual disenchantment with its overuse, by many of his colleagues and the lower courts, for developing social policy. In retrospect McIntyre's reservations have been prophetic: the "interventionist" trend has given rise to considerable criticism of the court by legal professionals, the media, and the Canadian public. He remained, however, a staunch proponent of freedom of expression and, in the Andrews case, framed the pivotal definition of "equality rights" in section 15 of the Charter that is still prevalently applied in Canadian courts."--Jacket

Contents -- Preface -- I: Early Influences: Education and Wartime -- II: Practice in Victoria -- III: A Judge in British Columbia -- IV: The Supreme Court of Canada -- V: Mclntyre's Constitutional and Quasi-Constitutional Decisions -- VI: Criminal and Other Decisions -- VII: The Charter of Rights and Freedoms -- VIII: The Summing Up -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I-J -- K -- L -- M -- N-O -- P-Q -- R -- S -- T -- U-V -- W-Z

English.

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