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Chief Justice W.R. Jackett : by the law of the land /
After graduating from the University of Saskatchewan's College of Law, Jackett was chosen as a Rhodes Scholar. He returned to Canada from Oxford not long before the outbreak of World War II and joined the ten-man Department of Justice as a junior lawyer. Through extraordinary hard work, rigorou...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Montreal [Que.] :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©1999.
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Full text (Wentworth users only) |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | After graduating from the University of Saskatchewan's College of Law, Jackett was chosen as a Rhodes Scholar. He returned to Canada from Oxford not long before the outbreak of World War II and joined the ten-man Department of Justice as a junior lawyer. Through extraordinary hard work, rigorous legal analysis, and a bent for organization, he eventually became Canada's eighth deputy minister of Justice. He left this position after three years to become general counsel for the Canadian Pacific Railway and was later appointed president of the Exchequer Court of Canada. He quickly revamped the level of service provided by the court to the legal profession and the public and was instrumental in both the creation of the Canadian Judicial Council and the design and creation of the new Federal Court of Canada. As the first chief justice of the Federal Court, he led the new court by example, moulding it into the most efficient and effective court in the country, despite opposition from provincial superior courts and the Supreme Court of Canada. After fifteen years on the Bench he retired in 1979 at the height of his judicial career, believing that this would help the Court develop. He continued to work in relative obscurity at what he loved best - solving legal problems - but never again appeared before the courts. |
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| Item Description: | Co-published by the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 361 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780773568075 0773568077 1282858297 9781282858299 9786612858291 661285829X |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |