Beverley McLachlin

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Beverley Marian McLachlin PC CC (born September 7, 1943) is a Canadian jurist and author who served as the 17th chief justice of Canada from 2000 to 2017. She is the longest-serving chief justice in Canadian history and the first woman to hold the position. She is considered by many to be among the finest legal minds in the history of the Supreme Court.^[1]

The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin PC CC
McLachlin in 2007
17th Chief Justice of Canada
In office January 7, 2000 – December 15, 2017
Nominated by	Jean Chrétien
Appointed by	Adrienne Clarkson
Preceded by	Antonio Lamer
Succeeded by	Richard Wagner
Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong
Incumbent
Assumed office July 30, 2018
Appointed by	Carrie Lam
Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
In office March 30, 1989 – January 7, 2000
Nominated by	Brian Mulroney
Appointed by	Jeanne Sauvé
Preceded by	William McIntyre
Succeeded by	Louis LeBel
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia
In office 1988–1990
Appointed by	Jeanne Sauvé
Personal details
Born	Beverley Gietz (1943-09-07) September 7, 1943 (age 80) Pincher Creek, Alberta, Canada
Citizenship	Canadian
Spouses	Roderick McLachlin ​ ​ (m. 1967; died 1988)​ Frank McArdle ​ (m. 1992)​
Children	Angus McLachlin (b. 1976)
Alma mater	University of Alberta (BA, MA, LLB)
Profession	Judge
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	麥嘉琳
Simplified Chinese	麦嘉琳
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Mài Jiālín Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Mahk Gā Làhm Jyutping Mak^6 Gaa^1 Lam^4

In July 2018, McLachlin began a three-year term as a non-permanent judge on the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal, the first Canadian jurist nominated to the post. She was re-appointed for a second three-year term in 2021.^[2]

Early life and education

McLachlin was born Beverley Gietz in Pincher Creek, Alberta, the eldest child of Eleanora Marian (née Kruschell) and Ernest Gietz. Her parents, who were of German descent, were "fundamentalist Christians"^[3] of the Pentecostal Church.^[4] She received a B.A. and an M.A. in philosophy as well as an LL.B. degree (winning the gold medal as top student, and serving as notes editor of the Alberta Law Review) from the University of Alberta.^[5] She was called to the bar of Alberta in 1969, and to the Bar of British Columbia in 1971. McLachlin practised law from 1969 until 1975. From 1974 to 1981, she was a professor at the University of British Columbia.

McLachlin has one son, Angus (born 1976), from her first marriage to Roderick McLachlin, who took care of much of Angus's upbringing.^[6] Roderick McLachlin died of cancer in 1988, a few days after she was appointed chief justice of the B.C. Supreme Court.^[6] In 1992, McLachlin married Frank McArdle, a lawyer and the executive director of the Canadian Superior Courts Judges Association.^[6]

Judicial career

Canada

See also: Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Beverley McLachlin

In April 1981, McLachlin was appointed to the County Court of Vancouver. Five months later, in September 1981, she was appointed to the Supreme Court of British Columbia.^[7] In December 1985, McLachlin was appointed to the British Columbia Court of Appeal.^[7] In September 1988, McLachlin was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia.^[7] She was nominated by Brian Mulroney to be made a puisne justice to the Supreme Court of Canada on March 30, 1989.^[6] On the advice of Jean Chrétien, McLachlin was appointed the chief justice of Canada on January 7, 2000.^[7]

Upon being sworn into the Supreme Court of Canada, she also became a deputy of the Governor General of Canada together with the other justices of the Supreme Court. When Governor General Adrienne Clarkson was hospitalized for a cardiac pacemaker operation on July 8, 2005, McLachlin performed the duties of the governor general as the administrator of Canada.^[8] In her role as administrator, she gave royal assent to the Civil Marriage Act which legalized same-sex marriage nationally in Canada.^[8] She relinquished that task when the governor general returned to good health in late July.

While she was Chief Justice, McLachlin chaired the Canadian Judicial Council. She is also on the board of governors of the National Judicial Institute and on the advisory council of the Order of Canada. She is a member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada. McLachlin was made a commander of the Legion of Honour by the government of France in 2008.^[9][10] On December 15, 2006, she was appointed a commander of the Venerable Order of Saint John.^[11]

In July 2013, during the consultation period prior to appointment for Marc Nadon, Chief Justice McLachlin contacted justice minister Peter MacKay and the Prime Minister's Office regarding the eligibility of Marc Nadon for a Quebec seat on the Supreme Court.^[12] Prime Minister Stephen Harper stated that he had refused a phone call from McLachlin on the attorney general's advice. Harper's comments were criticized by the legal community and a complaint was forwarded to the International Commission of Jurists in Switzerland.^[13][14] The International Commission of Jurists concluded that Beverly McLachlin deserved an apology from Harper, but none had been given as of July 2014.^[15]

In May 2015, McLachlin was invited to speak at the Global Centre for Pluralism, and said that Canada attempted to commit "cultural genocide" against aboriginal peoples in what she called the worst stain on Canada's human-rights record.^[16] University of Regina academic Ken Coates supported McLachlin, and said that she was "only stating what is clearly in the minds of judges, lawyers and aboriginal people across the country".^[17] Others were less sympathetic. Columnist Lysiane Gagnon called the comments "unacceptable" and "highly inflammatory" and suggested that McLachlin had opened herself up to accusations of prejudice.^[18] Gordon Gibson, another columnist, said the use of the word "genocide" was incendiary and disproportionate and that the Chief Justice's comments made her sound like a legislator.^[19]

McLachlin retired from the Supreme Court on December 15, 2017, nine months before reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75.^[20] Her successor as Chief Justice of Canada is Richard Wagner, who was nominated by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in 2017.^[21] Her successor as a justice of the court is Sheilah Martin, who was nominated by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau through a new process for judicial appointments to the Supreme Court of Canada that permitted, "any Canadian lawyer or judge who fits a specified criteria" to apply.^[22][23][24]

Hong Kong

McLachlin was nominated in March 2018 to become a non-permanent member of the Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong. The court appoints foreign judges from common-law jurisdictions outside of Hong Kong, of which McLachlin is the first Canadian, to sit as non-permanent members of the court.^[25] Her three-year appointment was approved by the Hong Kong Legislative Council,^[26] and the chief executive gazetted the appointment effective July 30, 2018.^[27] McLachlin's appointment was accompanied by those of Brenda Hale, also as non-permanent judge, and Andrew Cheung, as permanent judge, at the court.^[28][29] She was reappointed to the court in 2021 for a second three-year term.^[2] Her service on the court has been criticized amidst the Hong Kong pro-democracy protests and imposition of the National Security Law, which is seen by Western observers as threatening civil liberties in the city. As a Court of Final Appeal judge, McLachlin would be required to uphold the law in appellate judgements.^[2] A motion at the Law Society of Ontario to condemn her appointment was defeated 28–17 in February 2021.^[2] In June 2022, she announced her decision to remain on the court which she believes to still be independent.^[30]

Judicial philosophy

McLachlin has defined the judicial function as one that requires conscious objectivity, which she has described as follows:^[6]

What you have to try to do as a judge, whether you're on charter issues or any other issue, is by an act of the imagination put yourself in the shoes of the different parties, and think about how it looks from their perspective, and really think about it, not just give it lip service.

McLachlin has argued that courts may be justified in changing the law where such a change would accord with changes in society's values.^[31] She regards Edwards v Canada (Attorney General), in which the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council found that women were entitled to sit in the Senate of Canada, as a paradigm case in Canadian law.^[32] She has stated "courts are the ultimate guardians of the rights of society, in our system of government."^[33][34] She has also stated, "I think the court belongs to the Canadian people and it should reflect the Canadian people."^[6]

McLachlin has defended the view that "legal certainty"—the notion that there is one correct answer to a legal question, which judges can discover with diligence—is a "myth".^[35][36]

Mahmud Jamal, now a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, has argued that McLachlin's jurisprudence on the law of federalism is consistent with her "self-described judicial philosophy", namely that judges are to be "scrupulously non-partisan and impartial".^[37]

Writing

In 2018, McLachlin published a legal thriller novel titled Full Disclosure.^[38] Her memoir Truth Be Told: My Journey Through Life and the Law, was published in 2019. It won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing in 2020.^[39] McLachlin's second novel, Denial, was published in 2021 by Simon & Schuster.^[40]

Honours and awards

Coat of arms of Beverley McLachlin

Crest A great horned owl Proper perched on a pair of pincers fesswise Or set on a hockey stick Proper. Escutcheon Per fess Gules and Argent four pallets counterchanged overall a bezant charged with a balance Sable within a bordure compony Argent and Gules on a chief Or a pen nib between two lyres Sable. Supporters Two Labrador retrievers Sable each gorged of a collar compony Argent and Sable pendent therefrom a closed book Or charged with a livestock brand composed of the letter E and the letter G contourné both ensigned by a quarter arc embowed Gules and standing on a rocky mount set with Pacific dogwood flowers and pine trees Proper all above barry wavy Argent and Gules. Motto Wisdom Compassion Justice^[41]

McLachlin is the honorary patron of the Institute of Parliamentary and Political Law. From 2016 to 2020, she was a college visitor at Massey College.^[42] In 2017, she was elected Visitor of Queens' College, Cambridge. She has been awarded with over 31 honorary degrees from various universities, which include:

Honorary degrees

Location	Date	School	Degree
British Columbia	27 September 1990	University of British Columbia	Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)^[43]
Alberta	1991	University of Alberta	Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)^[44]
Ontario	June 1995	University of Toronto	Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)^[45]
Ontario	Spring 1999	York University	Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)^[46]
Ontario	2000	Law Society of Upper Canada	Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)^[47]
British Columbia	2000	Simon Fraser University	Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)^[48]
Alberta	2000	University of Calgary	^[49]
Ontario	8 June 2000	Brock University	Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)^[50]
British Columbia	November 2000	University of Victoria	Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)^[51]
Alberta	Spring 2001	University of Lethbridge	Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)^[52]
Nova Scotia	2002	Mount Saint Vincent University	Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL)^[53]
Prince Edward Island	2002	University of Prince Edward Island	Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) ^[54]
Quebec	2003	Université de Montréal	Doctorate ^[55]
Nova Scotia	2004	Dalhousie University	Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)^[56]
Northern Ireland	2004	Queen's University Belfast	Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)^[57]
Manitoba	27 May 2004	University of Manitoba	Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)^[58]
Ontario	14 November 2004	Carleton University	Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)^[59]
Maine	7 May 2005	University of Maine at Fort Kent	Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL)^[60]
Philippines	2006	Ateneo de Manila University	Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)^[61]
Ontario	18 June 2010	University of Windsor	Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)^[62]
Ontario	2010	Ryerson University	Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)^[63]
Nova Scotia	2010	Cape Breton University	Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)^[64]
Ontario	2011	Queen's University	Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)^[65]
Quebec	June 2011	Concordia University	Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)^[66]
Ontario	26 October 2012	University of Western Ontario	Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)^[67]
Ontario	2012	Lakehead University	Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)^[68]
Scotland	2014	University of Edinburgh	Doctorate^[69]
Quebec	2015	Bishop's University	Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)^[70]
Ontario	31 May 2016	Laurentian University	Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)^[71]
Quebec	1 June 2016	McGill University	Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)^[72]
Alberta	28 April 2017	Lethbridge College	Bachelor of Applied Arts^[73]
Newfoundland and Labrador	19 October 2017	Memorial University of Newfoundland	Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) ^[74]
Ontario	2019	University of Ontario Institute of Technology	Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)^[75]

• Order of Saint John – Commander^[31]

Memberships and fellowships

Country	Date	Organisation	Position
Canada	March 2011	Royal Heraldry Society of Canada	Vice Patron^[76]
United States of America		American College of Trial Lawyers	Honorary Fellow^[77]

See also

• List of Supreme Court of Canada cases (McLachlin Court)

Selected publications

Books

• McLachlin, Beverley M.; Wallace, Wilfred J. (1987). The Canadian Law of Architecture and Engineering. Toronto: Butterworths. ISBN 978-0-433-39160-9.
• McLachlin, Beverley (2018). Full Disclosure. Toronto: Simon & Schuster Canada. ISBN 978-1-5011-7279-3.
• McLachlin, Beverley (2019). Truth Be Told: My Journey Through Life and the Law. Toronto: Simon & Schuster Canada. ISBN 978-1-9821-0498-6.
• McLachlin, Beverley (2021). Denial: A Novel. Toronto: Simon & Schuster Canada. ISBN 978-1-9821-0499-3.

Articles

• McLachlin, Beverley (1990). "The Role of the Court in the Post-Charter Era: Policy-Maker or Adjudicator?". University of New Brunswick Law Journal. 39: 43–64.
• McLachlin, Beverley (1991). "The Charter: A New Role for the Judiciary". Alberta Law Review. 29 (3): 540–559. doi:10.29173/alr1544. ISSN 1925-8356.
• McLachlin, Beverley (2007). "The Charter 25 Years Later: The Good, the Bad, and the Challenges". Osgoode Hall Law Journal. 45 (2): 365–377. doi:10.60082/2817-5069.1245. S2CID 146383118.
• McLachlin, Beverley (June 2010). "Judging the 'Vanishing Trial' in the Construction Industry". Construction Law International. 5 (2): 9–14.^{[permanent dead link]}

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Further reading

• Erb, Marsha C. (Summer 2020). "A Remarkable Journey to the 'Centre Chair'". Judicature. 104 (2). from the original on March 9, 2021. Retrieved March 9, 2021.
• Fine, Sean (January 12, 2018). "How Beverley McLachlin found her bliss: Where she came from and what she leaves behind". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved July 12, 2021. Sean Fine talks to the recently retired Supreme Court chief justice, and weighs the impact of the legal architecture she helped set in place
• Smith, C. Lynn (1996). "Beverley McLachlin". In Salokar, Rebecca Mae; Volcansek, Mary L. (eds.). Women in Law: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook. Greenwood Press. pp. 159–170. ISBN 978-1-4294-7634-8. OCLC 70764020.

External links

• Supreme Court of Canada biography

Legal offices
Preceded by None	Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong 2018–present	Incumbent
Order of precedence
Preceded by Stephen Harper as Former Prime Minister	Order of Precedence of Canada as Former Chief Justice	Succeeded by George Furey as Speaker of the Senate of Canada