- Jean Beetz
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name = Jean Beetz
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office = Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
termstart =January 1 1974
termend =November 10 1988
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predecessor =Douglas Abbott /Emmett Hall /Bora Laskin
successor =Charles Gonthier /Peter Cory
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birthdate = birth date|1927|3|27|mf=y
birthplace =Montreal ,Quebec
deathdate = death date and age|1991|9|30|1927|3|27|mf=y
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spouse =Jean-Marie Philémon Joseph Beetz (
March 27 ,1927 –September 30 ,1991 ) was a Canadianjurist andpuisne justice of theSupreme Court of Canada .Born in
Montreal ,Quebec , the son of Jean Beetz and Jeanne Cousineau, he earned a B.A. in 1947 from theUniversité de Montréal and an LL.L in 1950. He was awarded aRhodes Scholarship and received a B.A. fromOxford University in 1953. Returning to Canada he became an assistant professor teaching constitutional law at the Université de Montréal in 1953. He was appointed byPierre Trudeau , a former student of his, to the Quebec Court of Appeal in 1973 and was soon elevated to theSupreme Court of Canada onJanuary 1 ,1974 . He retired in 1988, and in 1989 he was made a Companion of theOrder of Canada .Judgments
Beetz's area of expertise was constitutional law. Consequently, he would often take part in major federalism decisions. More than anyone else on the Court at the time, he supported the provinces in the division of powers.
List of judgments
* "
Société des Acadiens v. Association of Parents " (1986) (majority)
* "Beauregard v. Canada " (1986) (dissent)References
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