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Subject(s)

• Women judges—Canada—Biography [Browse]
• Canada Supreme Court—Biography [Browse]
• Wilson, Bertha [Browse]

Issuing body

• Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History [Browse]

Related name

• Wilson, Bertha [Browse]

Series

• Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History series. [More in this series]
• Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History

Summary note

Supported with the warmth and generosity of Wilson's numerous personal anecdotes, this work illuminates the life and thought of a woman who has left an extraordinary mark on Canada's legal landscape.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

• Cover
• CONTENTS
• FOREWORD: The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
• FOREWORD: Bertha Wilson
• PREFACE
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• PART ONE: The Preparatory Years: Life before the Bench
• 1 Growing Up: Daughter, Sister, and Student
• Family Life
• Church and School
• University Studies: War and Romance
• 2 The Clergyman's Wife
• Macduff: An Education for Living
• Conscience and Compromise
• On the Boundary: Immigration to Canada
• Ottawa on Her Own
• 3 Diligence at Dalhousie
• Sopping It Up: The Law Student as Sponge
• Classroom and Curriculum
• Social Life and Study Group
• Graduation and Articles
• 4 The Osler Innovations
• Establishing a Research Practice
• From Family Firm to Corporate Culture
• Developing Philanthropy: A Conservative Socialist at Work
• Courtroom Strategy: Texas Gulf Sulphur
• The Conscience of the Firm
• Public Commitments, Private Life
• PART TWO: On the Bench: The Ontario Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada
• 5 The Ontario Court of Appeal
• Appointment to the Court of Appeal
• On-the-Job Training: Making a Place
• Criminal Law: A Provocative Dissent
• Commercial Law: Consistency and Contextuality
• All in the Family
• The Human Rights Cases
• The Supreme Sacrifice
• 6 A Canadian Philosophy of Judicial Analysis
• Origins and Sources: The Personal and the Public
• Principled Contextuality
• The Charter: Principled Contextuality, National Feeling
• 7 The Supreme Court of Canada
• Inside the Court
• 8 Diversity at the Margins
• Multiculturalism: Theories of Human Rights
• Adverse Effects and Undue Hardship
• Immigration: Liberty and Security of the Person
• Freedom of Religion
• Wrongful Dismissal
• Equality, Citizenship, and Analogous Grounds
• Mandatory Retirement
• Minority Language Rights
• Aboriginal Law Developments.
• 9 Beyond Family Law: Justice for Women and Children
• Concepts of the Family
• Spousal Support Revisited
• The Best Interests of the Child
• Violence against Women and Children
• Prostitution and Freedom of Expression
• Abortion, Privacy, and the Ambivalence of Choice
• 10 Getting Down to Business: Law and Economics in the Marketplace
• The Context of Business
• Leave to Appeal
• Tort, Contract, and Trust Law
• A 'Taking' of Property: Constructive Trust
• Taxing Business Decisions
• Business Entities, Corporate Control, and Legal Subjects
• Labouring over Labour Relations
• Guaranteed Rights for Corporations
• Ethics and Economics: Wilson's Business Context
• 11 Contextual Proceduralism
• Judicial Activism, Judicial Obligation
• Procedural Convergences, Substantive Effects
• Intervention and Extrinsic Evidence
• Old Dogs, New Tricks
• The Administrative Law Paradox
• International Law: Sovereignty, Reciprocity, and Comity
• 12 Outside the Court
• Multiple Dimensions: The Extra-Judicial Duties
• Time to Move On
• PART THREE: Life after Judging
• 13 The Gender Equality Study
• Finding the Funding: Costly Consultations
• Billable Hour Quotas and the Duty to Accommodate
• Women in the Judiciary
• 14 The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
• Getting under Way: Mandate and Methodology
• Hearing Stories, Seeking Solutions
• Staffing the Commission: The Interim Reports
• Writing the Final Report
• Response to the Report
• 15 Portrait of a Judge
• ADJUNCT INTERVIEWS
• ARCHIVAL RESOURCES
• NOTES
• SELECT 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
• Y
• Z.

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Other format(s)

Issued also in print.

ISBN

• 1-4426-5769-3
• 0-8020-3648-1
• 1-4426-2077-3

OCLC

• 244768547
• 903441072
• 1013936648
• 944177443
• 958514590
• 979728856

Doi

• 10.3138/9781442679658

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