Reckoning with Racism: Police, Judges, and the RDS Case by Constance Backhouse

Landmark Cases in Canadian Law

Reckoning with Racism: Police, Judges, and the RDS Case

Constance Backhouse

304 pages hardcover 2022

4 editions

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The 1997 RDS case is Canada’s most momentous race case. For the first time, the Supreme Court of Canada considered a complaint of judicial racial bias. Ironically, the judge in question was Corrine Sparks, the country’s first Black female judge. R...

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