Women's Studies 2270A/B Lecture 5: Women Judges

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2270A/B
• Professor: Tyler Totten

Document Summary

Pick a contemporary social struggle, a legal term, and how a legal team of a minority group might fight against a particular term. Use a hypothetical experience to give an example. One woman in politics does not represent every woman in politics. Women judges make a difference, but they do not make all the difference. Not fair to expect a woman judge to take up the issues of all minority groups. Judges cannot make crucial changes on their own, they still must be impartial, be within the majority, they must be judged fairly with their counterparts. Currently, all judges are white, heterosexual women many barriers still need to be overcome. 1 chief justice, the rest are puisne (pyue-nay) justices. Served in the ontario court of appeal for 7 years (75-82), supreme court for 9 years (82-91) Notable decisions: andrews v. law society of british columbia endorsed substantive equality reading. S15: r v. morgentaler (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)u(cid:396)(cid:396)e(cid:374)(cid:272)e, (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s e(cid:454)pe(cid:396)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)e of p(cid:396)eg(cid:374)a(cid:374)(cid:272)(cid:455) a(cid:374)d a(cid:271)o(cid:396)tio(cid:374).