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Carrying On The Tradition: Justice Rothstein's Contribution To Canadian Tax Law, William Neil Brooks, Kim Brooks
Carrying On The Tradition: Justice Rothstein's Contribution To Canadian Tax Law, William Neil Brooks, Kim Brooks
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In this article, we review a selection of Justice Rothstein’s tax judgments with the object of making two observations about his contribution to Canadian tax law. First, Justice Rothstein, who was appointed to the Supreme Court two years after Justice Iacobucci retired, and in many ways stepped into his shoes as the Court’s tax judge, continued Justice Iacobucci’s formalist tradition. We provide evidence of Justice Rothstein’s formalist approach by examining one case he rendered while serving on the Federal Court Trial Division, Neuman; and two cases that were decided when he sat on the Federal Court of Appeal, Singleton and …