Joseph Antonio Charles Lamer served as the sixteenth Chief Justice of Canada from 1990 to 2000, having joined the Supreme Court of Canada as a puisne justice in 1980 after earlier service on the Quebec Superior Court and Quebec Court of Appeal. He is regarded as one of the key architects, alongside his predecessor Brian Dickson, of how Canadian courts came to interpret the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms after its adoption in 1982. After his early retirement as Chief Justice he joined the law firm Stikeman Elliott and later served as Commissioner of the Communications Security Establishment.
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What was Antonio Lamer's career before he became a justice of the Supreme Court of Canada?
He practised law in Quebec, taught law at the University of Montréal, and served on the Quebec Superior Court and Court of Appeal before joining the Supreme Court of Canada in 1980.
Antonio Lamer was called to the Bar of Quebec in 1957 and practised law, particularly with Philip Cutler and Jacques Bellemare. He was also an associate professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Montréal and a lecturer in criminology, and he founded the Defence Attorneys' Association of Quebec. He was appointed to the Quebec Superior Court in December 1969 and became chairman of the Law Reform Commission of Canada in April 1976. He moved to the Quebec Court of Appeal in March 1978 and to the Supreme Court of Canada in March 1980, about ten years before he became Chief Justice of Canada.
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Joseph Antonio Charles Lamer (July 8, 1933, November 24, 2007) was a Canadian lawyer and jurist who served as the 16th Chief Justice of Canada from 1990 to 2000.
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Lamer practised in partnership at the firm of Cutler, Lamer, Bellemare and Associates and was a full professor in the Faculty of Law, Université de Montréal, where he was also a lecturer in criminology.
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Antonio Charles Lamer was a Canadian lawyer and jurist who served as the 16th Chief Justice of Canada from 1990 to 2000.
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Antonio Charles Lamer was a Canadian lawyer and jurist who served as the 16th Chief Justice of Canada from 1990 to 2000.
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P569 (date of birth): 1933
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P569 (date of birth): 1933-07-08
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P570 (date of death): 2007
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P570 (date of death): 2007-11-24
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P19 (place of birth): Montreal
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P20 (place of death): Ottawa
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