Canadian Maverick: The Life of Ivan C. Rand.
by William Kaplan, Toronto Lawyer
Published for the Osgoode Society by the University of Toronto Press.
Cost: $45.00
Student Price: $20.00
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Ivan Rand had a long, varied and remarkable career. He is best known
for his Supreme Court of Canada judgments in a series of cases
emanating from Quebec in the 1950s and dealing with civil rights,
cases which established limits on the government's ability to
persecute unpopular religious minorities. To labour lawyers he is
also an icon for his invention of the 'Rand formula', one of the
defining features of Canadian labour law. Rand was also a member of
the United Nations special committee on Palestine in 1947, the
founding Dean of the University of Western Ontario law school, and
three times a royal commissioner, looking into the problems of the
Canadian coal industry, the misconduct of Mr. Justice Leo A.
Landreville, and labour disputes in Ontario. In this thoroughly
researched and fast-paced book, William Kaplan traces Rand's life and
career in all its richness and controversy - Rand as lawyer,
politician, judge, dean, and royal commissioner - through many
seminal events of the twentieth century in Canada. The Rand that
emerges is variously inspiring, frustrating to understand, sometimes
contradictory, always complex.
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