The democratic dilemma : reforming Canada's Supreme Court /

The democratic dilemma : reforming Canada's Supreme Court / edited by Nadia Verrelli.

Publisher's description: The process used to select judges of the Supreme Court of Canada has provoked criticism from the start. Some observers argue the process - where the prime minister has unfettered discretion - suffers from a democratic deficit, but there is also disagreement regarding al...

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Corporate Authors: Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). School of Policy Studies
Other Authors: Verrelli, Nadia, 1975-
Other title:Reforming Canada's Supreme Court.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Kingston, Ont. : Montreal : Institute of Intergovernmental Relations : School of Policy Studies, Queen's University ; McGill-Queen's University Press, [2013]
Series:Queen's policy studies.
Subjects:
Canada. > Supreme Court.
Canada. > Supreme Court > Officials and employees > Selection and appointment.
Judges > Selection and appointment > Canada.
Judicial process > Canada.
Courts of last resort > Canada.
Table of Contents:
  • THE MAKEUP OF THE SUPREME COURT OF CANADA: Appointment of Thomas A. Cromwell to the Supreme Court of Canada / Peter W. Hogg
  • Should Canada have a representative Supreme Court? / Lorne Sossin
  • Should Supreme Court judges be required to be bilingual? / Sébastien Grammond, Mark Power
  • Respecting legal pluralism in Canada : Indigenous Bar Association appeals to Harper government to appoint an aboriginal justice to the Supreme Court of Canada / Indigenous Bar Association
  • Indigenous Bar Association urges Prime Minister Harper to remove barriers to judicial appointments for indigenous judges / Indigenous Bar Association
  • THE SUPREME COURT OF CANADA : THE SELECTION PROCESS: Intergovernmental relations and the Supreme Court of Canada : the changing place of the provinces in judicial selection reform / Erin Crandall
  • The jurisprudence of "Canada's fundamental values" and appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada / F.C. DeCoste
  • Supreme Court appointments : by Parliament, not PM, and shorter / Tom Kent
  • Looking for the good judge : merit and ideology / Allan C. Hutchinson.
  • ISSUES AFFECTING THE LEGITIMACY OF THE SUPREME COURT OF CANADA: Reforming the SCC : rethinking legitimacy and the appointment process / Nadia Verrelli
  • The legitimacy of constitutional arbitration in a multinational federative system : the case of the Supreme Court of Canada / Eugénie Brouillet, Yves Tanguay
  • Réformer le processus de nomination des juges de la Cour suprême? / Andrée Lajoie
  • Reform of the Supreme Court of Canada from within : to what extent should the Court weigh in regarding constitutional conventions? / Peter C. Oliver
  • SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENTS BEYOND CANADA: Reforming the Supreme Court : the one-court problem and the two-court solution / Peter McCormick
  • The United Kingdom's new Supreme Court / Alan Trench
  • Choosing the deciders : the Supreme Court nomination and confirmation process in the United States / Aman L. Mc Leod
  • The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany : a central player in a federal state / Arthur Benz, Eike-Christian Hornig
  • Constitutional Court appointment : the South African process / Yonatan T. Fessha
  • The Court of Justice of the European Union : federalizing actor in a multilevel system / Achim Hurrelmann, Martin Manolov
  • Judging Europe : drawing lessons from the European Court of Human Rights / Neil Cruickshank
  • Contributions to a coherent and consistent judges' appointment process of a constitutional court : the case of the Supreme Court of Argentina / Jorge O. Bercholc
  • APPENDIX: The Supreme Court of Canada : a chronology of change / Jonathan Aiello.

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