By the Court

Part 1: Introduction

1 What are By the Court decisions?

2 The Supreme Court of Canada Takes to the Constitutional Stage

3 Why Decision Presentation Formats Matter

Part 2: The Road to By the Court Decisions

4 Originality: Nothing to Copy

5 Uniqueness: A Global Common Law Survey

6 Early History: The “Minor Tradition”

7 Emergence: The Birth of the “Grand Tradition”

Part 3: The Modern By the Court Decisions

8 Inventory and Chronology of Decisions

9 A Typology of Decisions

10 Why These Cases?

Part 4: Conclusion

11 The Meaning and the Future of the By the Court Format

Notes; Bibliography; Index