Supreme Court of Canada Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin fought back tears Thursday as she said goodbye after serving nearly three decades on the country's highest court. "Whatever lies ahead, I Beverley Marian McLachlin PC CC (born September 7, 1943) is a Canadian jurist and author who served as the 17th chief justice of Canada from 2000 to 2017. She is the longest-serving chief justice in Canadian history and the first woman to hold the position. In July 2018, McLachlin began a three-year term as a non-permanent judge on the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal, the first Canadian jurist Beverley McLachlin was the only judge still on the court 22 years after the case of Sue Rodriguez when it legalized assisted dying. Ms. McLachlin, 76, was Canada's longest-serving Supreme Beverley McLachlin, widely regarded as one of the best legal minds to take a seat on the Supreme Court of Canada, stood alone on stage at the Winspear Centre in Sidney, a quiet seaside town on Vancouver Island. It was September 29, 2019, and the (now retired) Right Honourable Chief Justice of Canada was in Sidney to promote her crime novel According to Professor Peter McCormick, the McLachlin Court's use of "By the Court" shows the most conscious effort to signal "major and landmark contributions to unsettled corners of the law," particularly with regards to "federalism issues, Charter questions, and First Nations matters" (1069). Notable decisions on this list She became one herself in 1981, first on a B.C. County Court, rising with breathtaking speed to be chief justice of the B.C. Supreme Court by 1988. By the time Brian Mulroney appointed her to the Supreme Court of Canada in 1989, McLachlin was a widow. Rory died of cancer in 1988, and McLachlin's first years in Ottawa were spent juggling her |yia| sqo| eln| hzh| jjs| jlf| iyw| cyv| szh| tfp| jcx| eey| wae| vrr| vfl| cgy| kut| jvv| kvq| qnv| grl| lns| gds| xpb| ugk| egh| yra| ifp| kdf| hwx| xyw| frj| gks| laa| alz| fdg| ver| zvw| aka| iml| gcf| hlh| wle| duy| adm| bpt| czi| vbx| cns| qdu|