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April 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message) The table below lists the decisions (known as reasons) delivered from the bench by the Supreme Court of Canada during 2024. The table illustrates what reasons were filed by each justice in each case, and which justices joined each reason.
The Supreme Court of Canada is the court of last resort and final appeal in Canada. Cases successfully appealed to the Court are generally of national importance. Once a case is decided, the Court publishes written reasons for the decision, that consist of one or more opinions from any number of the nine justices.
During this period, its decisions on Canadian appeals were binding precedent on all Canadian courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada. Any decisions from this era that the Supreme Court of Canada has not overruled since gaining appellate supremacy in 1949 remain good law, and continue to bind all Canadian courts other than the Supreme ...
Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada have the option of releasing reasons for a unanimous decision anonymously by simply attributing the judgment to "The Court".The practice began around 1979 by Chief Justice Bora Laskin, borrowing from the US Supreme Court practice of anonymizing certain unanimous decisions. [1]
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal by a Canadian-born former Guantanamo detainee who was seeking to wipe away his war crimes convictions, including for killing a U.S. soldier in ...
It determined that the Registrar's decision was unreasonable. [9] Thus, Vavilov was able to regain his Canadian citizenship. [4] The Court, in holding for Vavilov, established a new framework for determining the standard of review in Canadian administrative law. Firstly, the court decided that reasonableness was the default standard of review.
Suresh v Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) is a leading decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in the areas of constitutional law and administrative law.The Court held that, under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, in most circumstances the government cannot deport someone to a country where they risk being tortured, but refugee claimants can be deported to their ...
A former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada is stepping down from Hong Kong's top court, the city's officials said Monday, following a raft of other overseas judges' resignations from ...