The Supreme Court of Canada is the highest court in the judicial system of Canada. It comprises nine justices,whose decisions are the ultimate application of Canadian law,and grants permission to between 40 and 75 litigants each year to appeal decisions rendered by provincial,territorial and federal appellate courts. The Supreme Court is bijural,hearing cases from two major legal traditions and bilingual,hearing cases in both official languages of Canada.
A. Anne McLellan is a Canadian politician and academic who served as the ninth deputy prime minister of Canada from 2003 to 2006. She was a cabinet minister in the Liberal governments of Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin,and represented Edmonton in the House of Commons of Canada. She also held the positions of solicitor general,minister of health,and minister of justice of Canada.
Beverley Marian McLachlin is a Canadian jurist and author who served as the 17th chief justice of Canada from 2000 to 2017. She is the longest-serving chief justice in Canadian history and the first woman to hold the position.
Rosalie Silberman Abella is a Canadian jurist. In 2004,Abella was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada,becoming the first Jewish woman and refugee to sit on the Canadian Supreme Court bench. She retired from the federal bench in 2021.
Ronald Martland,was a Canadian lawyer and Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. He was the second Albertan appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada,taking the place of Justice Nolan,who died after only a short time on the Court.
Hersh Wolch was a prominent Canadian lawyer,born in Winnipeg,Manitoba.
The Court of King's Bench of Alberta is the superior trial court of the Canadian province of Alberta. During the reign of Elizabeth II,it was named Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta.
George Everett Klippert was the last person in Canada to be arrested,charged,prosecuted,convicted,and imprisoned for gross indecency before the decriminalization of homosexual acts in 1969;decriminalization was a direct result of the Klippert case.
The Court of Appeal for the Northwest Territories in Canada is the highest appellate court which hears appeals from criminal cases and civil cases of the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories.
Horace Harvey was a lawyer,jurist,and a Chief Justice of Alberta,Canada.
The Court of Appeal of Alberta is a Canadian appellate court that serves as the highest appellate court in the jurisdiction of Alberta,subordinate to the Supreme Court of Canada.
Patricia A. Rowbotham,is a Canadian judge who is currently a Justice at the Alberta Court of Appeal in Calgary,Alberta,Canada.
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) is a Canadian legal advocacy organization specializing in a social conservative approach to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The libertarian organisation has partnered with several right-wing backers in the United States.
Jody Wilson-Raybould,also known by her initials JWR and by her Kwak’wala name Puglaas,is a Canadian lawyer,author,and former politician who served as the member of Parliament (MP) for the British Columbia (BC) riding of Vancouver Granville from 2015 to 2021. She was initially elected as a member of the Liberal Party –serving as justice minister and attorney general from 2015 to 2019,and briefly as veterans minister and associate national defence minister in 2019 –until she resigned in response to statements from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during the SNC-Lavalin affair. She was later expelled from caucus and continued to sit in Parliament as an Independent and was reelected in 2019,but did not run in 2021. Before entering federal politics,she was a BC provincial Crown prosecutor,a treaty commissioner and regional chief of the BC Assembly of First Nations.
Women work in the legal profession and related occupations throughout Canada,as lawyers,prosecutors,judges,legal scholars,law professors and law school deans. In Canada,while 37.1% of lawyers are women,"50% ...said they felt their [law] firms were doing "poorly" or "very poorly" in their provision of flexible work arrangements". It was also reported that,in 2006 in Ontario,"racialized women accounted for 16% of all lawyers under 30" and that only 1% of lawyers were Aboriginal.
Malcolm H. Rowe is a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. Rowe is the first judge from Newfoundland and Labrador to sit on the Supreme Court.
In Reference re Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act 2021 SCC 11,the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on 25 March 2021 that the federal carbon pricing law is constitutional.
Michelle O'Bonsawin is a Canadian jurist serving as a puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada since September 1,2022. Before her appointment to the Supreme Court,she served as a judge on the Ontario Superior Court of Justice from 2017 to 2022. O'Bonsawin is the first Indigenous Canadian to serve as a Supreme Court justice.
Brendan Myers Miller is a Canadian lawyer based in Calgary who has worked on criminal and civil cases. His clients include the Blood Tribe First Nation,former National Hockey League player Theo Fleury,Alberta Minister Ric McIver,former Alberta Minister of Justice Jonathan Denis and Canada convoy protesters.
Mary T. Moreau is a Canadian jurist serving as a puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada since November 6,2023. She formerly served as the Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench of Alberta from 2017–2023. Her formal welcoming to the Supreme Court of Canada occurred on February 19,2024.
