Brian Dickson : a judge's journey / Robert J. Sharpe and Kent Roach.

Toronto, Ont. : Published for The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, c2003.

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Dickson, Brian.

Courts -- Canada.

Judges -- Canada -- Biography.

Part 1: Introduction: 1. A judge's journey

Part 2: Life before the bench, 1916-1963: 2. Prairie upbringing

3. Off to war

4. Law and business, family and community

Part 3: A judge in Manitoba, 1963-1973: 5. Queen's Bench

6. Court of Appeal

Part 4: The Supreme Court, 1973-1984: 7. Starting slowly

8. Gaining ground

9. Compassion and equity

10. Write and rewrite

11. Fault and free will

12. Balanced federalism

13. Patriation of the constitution

Part 5: Chief Justice and the Charter, 1984-1990: 14. Chief Justice

15. Building the foundations

16. Continuity and change

17. Cracks in the foundations

18. Feeling the strain

19. Equality rights

20. Language rights and the national unity

21. The honour of the crown

Part 6: Retirement, 1990-1998: 22. Dickson of Canada.

Includes index.

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xiv, 576 p. : ill.