Daniel Jutras appointed amicus curi忙 by the Supreme Court of Canada
Professor Daniel Jutras, Dean of the Faculty of Law and Wainwright Chair in Civil Law, has been appointed by the Supreme Court of Canada to serve as amicus curi忙 in the Reference on the Reform of the Senate of Canada that was brought to the Court by the Governor in Council.
Dean Jutras will be working with Mr. John Hunter of the Hunter Litigation Chambers Law Corporation in Vancouver, also appointed amicus curi忙 by the Supreme Court. Locally, Dean Jutras will be assisted by Ms. Kate Glover, a DCL candidate in the Faculty.聽 The team has been directed by the Court to exercise its 鈥渋ndependent judgment regarding the reference questions posed by the Governor in Council, and to make submissions on the merits.鈥�
They will present written submissions by mid-September 2013, and oral submissions will be heard by the Court in mid-November 2013. All provinces and territories have intervened in this reference.聽Dean Jutras said, 鈥淭his promises to be one of the most significant constitutional cases of the decade.鈥�
on the Reference by the Governor in Council concerning reform of the Senate.