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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Verrelli, Nadia, Author.

Contributor:

Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). Institute of Intergovernmental Relations.

Verrelli, Nadia, 1975- editor.

Series:

Queen's policy studies.

Queen's Policy Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canada. Supreme Court.

Canada.

Canada. Supreme Court--Officials and employees--Selection and appointment.

Judges--Selection and appointment--Canada.

Judges.

Judicial process--Canada.

Judicial process.

Constitutional courts.

Genre:

Libros electronicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309 p.)

Distribution:

Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2016.

Place of Publication:

Montréal [Québec] ; Kingston [Ontario] : Intergovernmental Relations, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, McGill-Queen's University Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 alternative methods of selection. This book explores the institutional features of the Court, whether the existing process used to select judges ought to be reformed, the overall legitimacy of the Court, as well as the selection and appointment processes of Supreme Court justices in other liberal democracies.

Contents:

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 and 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

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

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 and 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

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 the federal state / Arthur Benz and 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 and 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

The Supreme Court of Canada : a chronology of change / Jonathan Aiello.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781553394501

155339450X

9781553394518

1553394518

OCLC:

951829962