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Robert Taschereau, Canadian lawyer and jurist, 11th Chief Justice of Canada (born 1896)

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Robert Taschereau

Chief Justice of Canada from 1963 to 1967

Robert Taschereau was a lawyer who served as the 11th Chief Justice of Canada from 1963 to 1967, as a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1940 to 1963, and briefly as the Administrator of the Government of Canada for one month from March to April 1967 following…
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Chief Justice of Canada

Presiding judge of the Supreme Court of Canada

The chief justice of Canada is the presiding judge of the nine-member Supreme Court of Canada, the highest judicial body in Canada. As such, the chief justice is the highest-ranking judge of the Canadian court system. The Supreme Court Act makes the chief justice, a Crown in…
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