An Early history of the 'By the Court' decisions on the Supreme Court of Canada

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dc.contributor.authorZanoni, Marc
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science
dc.contributor.supervisorMcCormick, Peter
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-18T21:40:38Z
dc.date.available2016-02-18T21:40:38Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.description.abstractThe Supreme Court of Canada has developed a practice of releasing some of the most important constitutional decisions as anonymous, which disregards a long standing judicial tradition of acknowledging which judge authored the opinion. Judgments that fit this style have been coined the ‘By the Court” decisions. Supreme Court scholars have recognized this practice, but there has been no scholarship dedicated to explaining its emergence. It is widely accepted that this practice emerged on the Supreme Court on our modern court in the 1970s, and it was a borrowed practice from a neighboring country. This thesis uses empirical evidence to demonstrate that the Supreme Court has used the By the Court style for nearly a century before the 1970s. It argues that this practice has organically grown through the Supreme Court of Canada’s own functioning, and identifies critical junctures to explain its evolution.en_US
dc.embargoNoen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/4421
dc.language.isoen_CAen_US
dc.proquest.subject0615en_US
dc.proquest.subject0398en_US
dc.proquest.subject0334en_US
dc.proquestyesYesen_US
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Political Scienceen_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Political Scienceen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science)en_US
dc.subjectanonymous judgementsen_US
dc.subjectBy the Court decisionsen_US
dc.subjectinstitutional operationsen_US
dc.subjectSupreme Court of Canadaen_US
dc.titleAn Early history of the 'By the Court' decisions on the Supreme Court of Canadaen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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