Gerald Le Dain: Difference between revisions

In 1984 Le Dain was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada.<ref name="BushnellHistory1997">{{cite book|author1=Ian Bushnell|author2=Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History|title=The Federal Court of Canada: A History, 1875-1992|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b5nYZTnI5MwC&pg=PA268|year=1997|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-4207-1|pages=268–}}</ref><ref>https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/former-judge-le-dain-dies-at-83/article18151541/</ref> In November 1988, he resigned from the bench after hospitalization for depression, presumably from overwork.<ref name="Bushnell1992">{{cite book|author=Ian Bushnell|title=Captive Court: A Study of the Supreme Court of Canada|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q5telT6zFRUC&pg=PA489|date=8 October 1992|publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP|isbn=978-0-7735-6301-8|pages=489–}}</ref><ref name="Backhouse2017">{{cite book|author=Constance Backhouse|title=Claire L’Heureux-Dubé: A Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qro4DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA340|date=6 November 2017|publisher=UBC Press|isbn=978-0-7748-3635-7|pages=340–}}</ref> A 2017 [[CBC Radio]] documentary claimed that Le Dain resigned under pressure from the chief justice, [[Brian Dickson]], due to the view at the time that a person suffering from depression could not fulfill the role of a justice.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/the-sunday-edition-january-14-2018-1.4471379/he-didn-t-have-a-choice-how-depression-cost-gerald-le-dain-his-supreme-court-post-1.4471385 |title='He didn't have a choice': How depression cost Gerald Le Dain his Supreme Court post - Home &#124; The Sunday Edition &#124; CBC Radio |publisher=Cbc.ca |date= |accessdate=2018-01-14}}</ref><ref name="CBCtranscript">{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/transcript-of-how-depression-cost-gerald-le-dain-his-supreme-court-post-1.4486700 |title=Transcript of "How depression cost Gerald Le Dain his Supreme Court post" - Home &#124; The Sunday Edition &#124; CBC Radio |publisher=Cbc.ca |date= |accessdate=2018-01-14}}</ref> Former justice [[Claire L'Heureux-Dubé]] said of the situation: "Justice Le Dain, being an exceptional mind and very great for the court, should have been given the time to get back healthy. And we thought that wouldn't be that long. Being forced to resign in such a position, it must have been terrible."<ref name="CBCtranscript"/>