List of Supreme Court of Canada cases (by author)

Supreme Court of Canada
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Beverley McLachlin (Chief Justice) Rosalie Abella Michael Moldaver Andromache Karakatsanis Richard Wagner Clément Gascon Suzanne Côté Russell Brown Malcolm Rowe
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Judgments

The following is a list of notable decisions by the Supreme Court of Canada sorted by author.

Understanding what cases were authored by whom can be important. For example, in early interpretation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, it has been said there was much agreement. However, in the third year of this interpretation the judges of the Supreme Court "each had started to develop their own method of reasoning."^[1]

List

Current Justices:

• Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Chief Justice McLachlin
• Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Abella
• Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Cromwell
• Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Moldaver
• Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Karakatsanis
• Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Wagner
• Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Gascon
• Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Côté

Past Justices:

• Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Chief Justice Lamer
• Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice L'Heureux-Dubé
• Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Gonthier
• Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Iacobucci
• Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Major
• Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Arbour
• Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Bastarache
• Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Charron
• Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Binnie
• Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice LeBel
• Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Deschamps
• Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Fish
• Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Rothstein

Decisions by Dickson

Majority

• Solosky v. The Queen, [1980]
• Hunter v. Southam Inc., 1984
• R. v. Therens, 1985
• R. v. Big M Drug Mart Ltd., 1985
• R. v. Oakes, 1986
• Beauregard v. Canada, 1986
• R. v. Edwards Books and Art Ltd., 1986
• R. v. Morgentaler, 1988
• General Motors of Canada Ltd. v. City National Leasing, 1989
• Brooks v. Canada Safeway Ltd., 1989
• R. v. Sparrow, 1990 (with La Forest J)
• R. v. Keegstra, 1990
• Mahe v. Alberta, 1990

Decisions by La Forest

Majority

• Canada v. Schmidt, [1987] 1 S.C.R. 500
• United States of America v. Cotroni; United States of America v. El Zein, [1989] 1 S.C.R. 1469
• R. v. Sparrow, [1990] 1. S.C.R. 1075 (with Dickson)
• McKinney v. University of Guelph, [1990] 3 S.C.R. 229
• Douglas/Kwantlen Faculty Assn. v. Douglas College, [1990] 3 S.C.R. 570
• Morguard Investments Ltd. v. De Savoye, [1990] 3 S.C.R. 1077
• Eldridge v. British Columbia (Attorney General), [1997] 2 S.C.R. 624

References

1. ↑ David Beatty, "A Conservative's Court: The Politicization of Law," The University of Toronto Law Journal, Vol. 41, No. 2. (Spring, 1991), p 147.

Cases and Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada
Notable cases by era	Richards through Fauteux Court (1875–1973) Laskin Court (1973–1984) Dickson Court (1984–1990) Lamer Court (1990–2000) McLachlin Court (2000 to date)
Reasons by year	1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Reasons by Justice	Current McLachlin Abella Moldaver Karakatsanis Wagner Gascon Côté Brown Rowe Former Lamer Wilson L'Heureux-Dubé Sopinka Gonthier Cory Iacobucci Major Bastarache Binnie Arbour LeBel Deschamps Fish Charron Rothstein Cromwell
Cases and Reasons by type of judgment	Oral reasons "By the Court" reasons