William R. McIntyre : paladin of the common law
"Using archival resources, interviews with contemporaries, and legal sources, W.H. McConnell traces McIntyre's personal evolution from defending the Charter as a workable counterpoint to established common law principles to gradual disenchantment with its overuse, by many of his colleagues and the lower courts, for developing social policy. In retrospect McIntyre's reservations have been prophetic: the "interventionist" trend has given rise to considerable criticism of the court by legal professionals, the media, and the Canadian public. He remained, however, a staunch proponent of freedom of expression and, in the Andrews case, framed the pivotal definition of "equality rights" in section 15 of the Charter that is still prevalently applied in Canadian courts."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2000
Published for Carleton University by McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, ©2000
Biographies
ix, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780886293413, 0886293413
43281127
I. Early Influences: Education and Wartime
II. Practice in Victoria
III. A Judge in British Columbia
IV. The Supreme Court of Canada
V. McIntyre's Constitutional and Quasi-Constitutional Decisions
VI. Criminal and Other Decisions
VII. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms
VIII. The Summing Up