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    Justice Bertha Wilson : one woman's difference / edited by Kim Brooks.

    • Title:Justice Bertha Wilson : one woman's difference / edited by Kim Brooks.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Brooks, Kim.
    • Published/Created:Vancouver : UBC Press, 2009.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Wilson, Bertha, 1923-2007.
      Canada. Supreme Court--Biography.
      Women judges--Canada--Biography.
      Judges--Canada--Biography.
    • Description:xi, 328 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
    • Series:Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.)
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780774817325 :
    • Contents:Preface / Claire L Heureux-Dube
      Introduction / Kim Brooks
      1 Bertha Wilson's Practice Years (1958-75): Establishing a Research Practice and Founding a Research Department in Canada / Angela Fernandez and Beatrice Tice
      2 A Traditionalist's Property Jurisprudence / Larissa Katz
      3 Power, Discretion, and Vulnerability: Justice Wilson and Fiduciary Duty in the Corporate/Commercial Context / Janis Sarra
      4 A Few More Spokes to the Wheel: Reasonableness, Fairness, and Justice in Justice Bertha Wilson's Approach to Contract Law / Moira L. McConnell
      5 Giving Emotions Their Due: Justice Bertha Wilson's Response to Intangible Loss in Contract / Shannon Kathleen O'Byrne
      6 Picking Up Where Justice Wilson Left Off: The Tort of Discrimination Revisited / Elizabeth Adjin-Tettey
      7 Paradigms of Prostitution: Revisiting the Prostitution Reference / Janine Benedet
      8 Contextualizing Criminal Defences: Exploring the Contribution of Justice Bertha Wilson / Isabel Grant and Debra Parkes
      9 "Finally I Know Where I Am Going to Be From": Culture, Context, and Time in a Look Back at Racine v. Woods / Gillian Calder 10
      Challenging Patriarchy or Embracing Liberal Norms? Justice Wilson's Child Custody and Access Decisions / Susan B. Boyd 11
      But Was She a Feminist Judge? / Beverley Baines 12
      I Agree/Disagree for the Following Reasons: Convergence, Divergence, and Justice Wilson's "Modest Degree of Creativity" / Marie-Claire Belleau, Rebecca Johnson and Christina Vinters 13
      Way of Being in the World / Lorna Turnbull 14
      Ideas and Transformation: A Reflection on Bertha Wilson's Contribution to Gender Equality in the Legal Profession / Melina Buckley 15
      Taking a Stand on Equality: Bertha Wilson and the Evolution of Judicial Education in Canada / Rosemary Cairns Way and T. Brettel Dawson 16
      Bertha Wilson: "Silences" in a Woman's Life Story / Mary Jane Mossman.
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