Justice Bertha Wilson: One Woman's Difference

by Kim Brooks

Book Overview

Bertha Wilson's appointment as the first female justice of the Supreme Court of Canada in 1982 capped off a career of firsts. Wilson had been the first woman lawyer and partner at a prominent Toronto law firm and the first woman appointed to the Ontario Court of Appeal. Her death in 2007 provoked reflection on her contributions to the Canadian legal landscape and raised the question, what difference do women judges make? Justice Bertha Wilson examines...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774817321
• ISBN13: 9780774817325
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 344 Pages