1986 reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada

Last updated August 08, 2019

The list below consists of the reasons delivered from the bench by the Supreme Court of Canada during 1986. This list, however, does not include decisions on motions.

The Supreme Court of Canada is the highest court of Canada, the final court of appeals in the Canadian justice system. The court grants permission to between 40 and 75 litigants each year to appeal decisions rendered by provincial, territorial and federal appellate courts. Its decisions are the ultimate expression and application of Canadian law and binding upon all lower courts of Canada, except to the extent that they are overridden or otherwise made ineffective by an Act of Parliament or the Act of a provincial legislative assembly pursuant to section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Reasons

Delivered the Court's reason	Joined the Court's reason	Filed a concurrence	Joined a concurrence
Filed a dissent	Joined a dissent	Filed a concurrence/dissent	Joined a concurrence/dissent
Did not participate in the judgment	Not a member of the Court at the time of hearing or delivering
Decisions that do not note a Justice delivering the Court's reason are per coram. Multiple concurrences and dissents within a case are numbered, with joining votes numbered accordingly. Justices occasionally join multiple reasons in a single case; each vote is subdivided accordingly. Multiple unnumbered reasons are jointly written or delivered. Decisions that are given orally from the bench are denoted by a "V"; per coram decisions delivered orally from the bench only note a "V" on the most senior justice on the panel. An asterisk ( * ) in the Court's opinion denotes that it was only a majority in part or a plurality. Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada have the option of releasing reasons for a unanimous decision anonymously by simply attributing the judgment to "The Court". The practice began around 1979 by Chief Justice Laskin, borrowing from the US Supreme Court practice of anonymizing certain unanimous decisions. Unlike in the US, which uses it primarily for uncontroversial cases, in Canada, it is used almost always for important and controversial cases. In law, a concurring opinion is in certain legal systems a written opinion by one or more judges of a court which agrees with the decision made by the majority of the court, but states different reasons as the basis for his or her decision. When no absolute majority of the court can agree on the basis for deciding the case, the decision of the court may be contained in a number of concurring opinions, and the concurring opinion joined by the greatest number of judges is referred to as the plurality opinion. A dissenting opinion is an opinion in a legal case in certain legal systems written by one or more judges expressing disagreement with the majority opinion of the court which gives rise to its judgment. When not necessarily referring to a legal decision, this can also be referred to as a minority report.

Case name	Argued	Decided	Dickson	Beetz	Estey	McIntyre	Chouinard	Lamer	Wilson	Le Dain	La Forest
Morozuk v. The Queen, [1986] 1 SCR 31		January 30, 1986
Martin v. Perrie, [1986] 1 SCR 41		January 30, 1986
Vézina and Côté v. The Queen, [1986] 1 SCR 2		January 30, 1986
City of Brossard v. Pelletier, [1986] 1 SCR 53		February 5, 1986
Bellerose v. A.G. of Quebec, [1986] 1 SCR 55		February 26, 1986
Hillis Oil & Sales v. Wynn's Canada, [1986] 1 SCR 57		February 28, 1986
H.W. Liebig Co. v. Leading Investments Ltd., [1986] 1 SCR 70		February 28, 1986
R. v. Oakes, [1986] 1 SCR 103		February 28, 1986
Cook v. The Queen, [1986] 1 SCR 144		February 28, 1986
R. v. Landry, [1986] 1 SCR 145		February 28, 1986
Bell Canada v. Consumers' Assoc. of Canada, [1986] 1 SCR 190		February 28, 1986
The Queen v. Golden et al., [1986] 1 SCR 209		February 28, 1986
Nelles v. The Queen		February 28, 1986
B.D.C. Ltd. v. Hofstrand Farms Ltd., [1986] 1 SCR 228		March 20, 1986
Daoust v. The Queen, [1986] 1 SCR 248		March 20, 1986
Case name	Argued	Decided	Dickson	Beetz	Estey	McIntyre	Chouinard	Lamer	Wilson	Le Dain	La Forest
Di Pietro et al. v. The Queen, [1986] 1 SCR 250		March 20, 1986
Gagnon v. The Queen, [1986] 1 SCR 264		March 27, 1986
The Queen v. Valois, [1986] 1 SCR 278		March 27, 1986
Derrickson v. Derrickson, [1986] 1 SCR 285		March 27, 1986
Paul v. Paul, [1986] 1 SCR 306		March 27, 1986
R. v. Hill, [1986] 1 SCR 313		April 24, 1986
Guillemette v. The Queen, [1986] 1 SCR 356		April 24, 1986
Dubois v. The Queen, [1986] 1 SCR 366		April 24, 1986
Clarkson v. The Queen, [1986] 1 SCR 383		April 24, 1986
Gendron v. Municipalité de la Baie-James, [1986] 1 SCR 401		April 24, 1986
Fleming (Gombosh Estate) v. The Queen, [1986] 1 SCR 415		April 24, 1986
Montreal (City of) v. Steckler, [1986] 2 SCR 571		April 29, 1986
Bilodeau v. A.G. (Man.), [1986] 1 SCR 449		May 1, 1986
MacDonald v. City of Montreal, [1986] 1 SCR 460		May 1, 1986
Société des Acadiens v. Association of Parents, [1986] 1 SCR 549		May 1, 1986
Case name	Argued	Decided	Dickson	Beetz	Estey	McIntyre	Chouinard	Lamer	Wilson	Le Dain	La Forest
Dube v. Labar, [1986] 1 SCR 649		May 1, 1986
Hawkshaw v. The Queen, [1986] 1 SCR 668		May 22, 1986
Canadian Pacific Ltd. v. A.G. (Can.), [1986] 1 SCR 678		May 22, 1986
Farquharson v. The Queen, [1986] 1 SCR 703		May 22, 1986
A.G. (Que.) v. Expropriation Tribunal, [1986] 1 SCR 732, 1986 CanLII 13 (SCC) [1986-06-12]		June 12, 1986
Nelson and others v. C.T.C. Mortgage Corp., [1986] 1 SCR 749		June 12, 1986
St. Anne Nackawic Pulp & Paper v. CPU, [1986] 1 SCR 704, 1986 CanLII 71 (SCC) [1986-06-12]		June 12, 1986
Boucher v. The Queen, [1986] 1 SCR 750		June 19, 1986
Mezzo v. The Queen, [1986] 1 SCR 802		June 26, 1986
Mills v. The Queen, [1986] 1 SCR 863		June 26, 1986
Carter v. The Queen, [1986] 1 SCR 981		June 26, 1986
Nero v. Rygus, [1986] 1 SCR 989		June 26, 1986
Canning v. The Queen, [1986] 1 SCR 991		June 26, 1986
ITO-Int'l Terminal Operators v. Miida Electronics, [1986] 1 SCR 752		June 26, 1986
Deutsch v. The Queen, [1986] 2 SCR 2		July 31, 1986
Case name	Argued	Decided	Dickson	Beetz	Estey	McIntyre	Chouinard	Lamer	Wilson	Le Dain	La Forest
Chambers v. The Queen, [1986] 2 SCR 29		July 31, 1986
Sorochan v. Sorochan, [1986] 2 SCR 38		July 31, 1986
The Queen v. Beauregard, [1986] 2 SCR 56		September 16, 1986
Kirkpatrick v. Maple Ridge, [1986] 2 SCR 124		September 16, 1986
R. v. Clermont, [1986] 2 SCR 131		September 16, 1986
Wile v. Cook, [1986] 2 SCR 137		September 16, 1986
Joe v. Canada, [1986] 2 SCR 145		October 2, 1986
Central Trust Co. v. Rafuse, [1986] 2 SCR 147		October 9, 1986
Scowby v. Glendinning, [1986] 2 SCR 226		October 9, 1986
R. v. Mannion, [1986] 2 SCR 272		October 9, 1986
R. v. Jones, [1986] 2 SCR 284		October 9, 1986
Construction Industry Commission v. M.U.C.T.C., [1986] 2 SCR 327		October 9, 1986
Royal Trust v. Potash, [1986] 2 SCR 351		October 9, 1986
R. v. Campbell, [1986] 2 SCR 376		October 9, 1986
E. (Mrs.) v. Eve, [1986] 2 SCR 388, 1986 CanLII 36 (SCC) [1986-10-23]		October 23, 1986
Case name	Argued	Decided	Dickson	Beetz	Estey	McIntyre	Chouinard	Lamer	Wilson	Le Dain	La Forest
Canada (Attorney General) v. Valois, [1986] 2 SCR 439		October 23, 1986
Re City of Oshawa and 505191 Ontario Ltd.		October 23, 1986
Dumas v. Leclerc Institute, [1986] 2 SCR 459		November 6, 1986
R. v. Krause, [1986] 2 SCR 466		November 6, 1986
R. v. Prince, [1986] 2 SCR 480		November 6, 1986
Ensite Ltd. v. R., [1986] 2 SCR 509		November 6, 1986
Canadian Marconi v. R., [1986] 2 SCR 522		November 6, 1986
Air Canada v. B.C. (A.G.), [1986] 2 SCR 539		November 27, 1986
Bank of Montreal v. Wilder, [1986] 2 SCR 551		November 27, 1986
RWDSU v. Dolphin Delivery Ltd., [1986] 2 SCR 573		December 18, 1986
Finlay v. Canada (Minister of Finance), [1986] 2 SCR 607		December 18, 1986
Carey v. Ontario, [1986] 2 SCR 637		December 18, 1986
Head v. The Queen, [1986] 2 SCR 684		December 18, 1986
Giouroukos v. Cadillac Fairview Corp., [1986] 2 SCR 707		December 18, 1986
R. v. Nehring, [1986] 2 SCR 709		December 18, 1986
Case name	Argued	Decided	Dickson	Beetz	Estey	McIntyre	Chouinard	Lamer	Wilson	Le Dain	La Forest
Canadian National Transportation Ltd. v. Alberta Provincial Court, [1986] 2 SCR 711		December 18, 1986
R. v. Edwards Books and Art Ltd., [1986] 2 SCR 713		December 18, 1986

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The list below consists of the reasons delivered from the bench by the Supreme Court of Canada during 1983. This list, however, does not include decisions on motions.

References

1986 decisions: CanLII

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