4th Annual Chevrette-Marx Lecture 2018

"What is a 'democratic society'?"

By The Right Honourable Lord Justice Singh, of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales

With a commentary by The Honourable Mr. Justice Chamberland, of the Court of Appeal of Québec

 

About the speakers

Sir Rabinder Singh was called to the Bar (Lincoln’s Inn) in 1989 and was in practice at the Bar from 1990 to 2011. He was elected a Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn in 2009. From 2003 to 2011 he was a Deputy High Court Judge and Recorder of the Crown Court from 2004 to 2011. He was appointed a High Court Judge (Queen’s Bench Division) in October 2011. He was a Presiding Judge of the South Eastern Circuit from 2013 to 2016 and the Administrative Court liaison judge for the Midland, Wales and Western circuits during 2017. He is a member of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal. He was a visiting Professor of Law at the London School of Economics from 2003 to 2009 and has been an Honorary Professor of Law at Nottingham University since 2007 and a Visiting Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford since 2016. His publications include The Future of Human Rights in the UK (1997) and (as co-author with Sir Jack Beatson and others) Human Rights: Judicial Enforcement in the UK (2008). Lord Justice Singh was appointed to the Court of Appeal of England and Wales in October 2017.   Born in Montreal, Justice Jacques Chamberland attended the Collège de Saint-Laurent (B.A. 1968) and the Université de Montréal, where he obtained his Law degree in 1971 (LL.L.).  He was admitted to the Bar of Quebec the following year. From 1972 to 1988, he practiced law with the firm Lavery de Billy, in Montréal, until his appointment, on March 16, 1988, as Deputy Minister of Justice and Deputy Attorney General for Quebec. He continued to serve in these capacities until his appointment to the Court of Appeal on June 10, 1993. Deeply interested in all issues dealing with the international protection of children and the relevant private international law conventions, Justice Chamberland regularly takes part in the work of The Hague Conference on Private International Law in this field, particularly with regard to the civil aspects of international child abduction. He is still involved in the Hague Conference on Private International Law in this field and until recently, he was one of two Canadian judges who are members of the International Network of Judges in The Hague. From September 2000 to June 2010, he chaired the Research Ethics Board of the Clinical Research Institute of Montreal (CRIM), services for which he was awarded its Médaille du mérite on November 10, 2010. From November 2016 to December 2017, Justice Chamberland chaired the Commission of Inquiry on the Protection of the Confidentiality of Journalistic Sources, whose report was filed on December 14, 2017. He has since resumed his duties as a judge at the Quebec Court of Appeal and continues his involvement in the work of The Hague Conference on Private International Law and the Singapore Family Justice Courts’ International Advisory Council.

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