TY  - GEN
T1  - Tracings of Gerald Le Dain's life in the law
A2  - Baker, G. Blaine
A2  - Janda, Richard, 1959-
LA  - English
PP  - Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago
PB  - McGill-Queen's University Press
YR  - 2019
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1080211072
AB  - "Gerald Le Dain (1924-2007) was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada in 1984. This collectively written biography traces fifty years of his steady, creative, and conciliatory involvement with military service, the legal academy, legislative reform, university administration, and judicial decision-making. This book intersperses contributions from the in-house historian of the law firm where Le Dain first practised, from students and colleagues in the law schools where he taught, from a research associate in his Commission of Inquiry into the non-medical use of drugs, from two of his successors on the Federal Court of Appeal, and from three judicial clerks to Le Dain at the Supreme Court of Canada. Also reproduced here is a transcript of a recent CBC documentary about his 1988 forced resignation from the Supreme Court following a short-term depressive illness, with commentary from Le Dain's family and co-workers. Gerald Le Dain was a tireless worker and a highly respected judge. In a series of essays that cover the different periods and dimensions of his career, Tracings of Gerald Le Dain's Life in the Law is an important and compassionate account of one man's commitment to the law in Canada."--
CN  - KE8248.L42 T73 2019
SN  - 9780773556195
SN  - 0773556192
SN  - 9780773556188
SN  - 0773556184
SN  - 9780773555181
KW  - Le Dain, Gérald E., : 1924-2007.
KW  - Canada. : Supreme Court.
KW  - Canada. : Supreme Court
KW  - Judges : Canada : Biography.
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY : Lawyers & Judges.
KW  - LAW : Civil Procedure.
KW  - LAW : Legal Services.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Government : Judicial Branch.
KW  - Judges
KW  - Canada
KW  - Biography
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Biographies.
ER  -