The Supreme Court and the Conventions of the Constitution

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aut.relation.endpage47
aut.relation.journalSupreme Court Law Review (2d)en_NZ
aut.relation.startpage31
aut.relation.volume78en_NZ
aut.researcherSirota, Leonid
dc.contributor.authorSirota, Len_NZ
dc.contributor.editorHarrington, Men_NZ
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-06T21:59:51Z
dc.date.available2017-08-06T21:59:51Z
dc.date.copyright2017en_NZ
dc.date.issued2017en_NZ
dc.description.abstractConventions are among the most important rules of the Canadian constitution. Yet orthodox legal theory does not recognize them as being rules of law, a view which the Supreme Court of Canada endorsed in the Patriation Reference. Nevertheless, both before and after the Patriation Reference, the Court's jurisprudence engaged with existing or alleged constitutional conventions. This article reviews this jurisprudence, and the scholarly commentary that responded to it. It concludes that the Court's endorsement of the orthodox view that there exists a rigid separation between conventions and law was poorly justified, and ought to be abandoned.
dc.identifier.citation(2017) 78 Supreme Court Law Review (2d) 31. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2974403
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/10723
dc.publisherLexisNexis Canadaen_NZ
dc.relation.urihttps://ssrn.com/abstract=2974403
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dc.subjectConstitutional conventions; Canada; Dicey; Patriation Reference
dc.titleThe Supreme Court and the Conventions of the Constitutionen_NZ
dc.typeJournal Article
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