Lyman Duff

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Sir Lyman Poore Duff, Template:Postnominals, PC(UK) (7 January 1865 – 26 April 1955) was a Canadian lawyer and judge who served as the eighth Chief Justice of Canada. He was the longest-serving justice of the Supreme Court of Canada,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> until Beverley McLachlin’s 17-year tenure from 2000-2017.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Early life and careerEdit

Born in Meaford, Canada West (now Ontario) to a Congregationalist minister, Duff received a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics and metaphysics from the University of Toronto in 1887. After graduation, he taught at Barrie Collegiate Institute while studying for the bar.<ref name=":1" /> Duff later took courses at Osgoode Hall Law School and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1893.<ref name=":1" />

Duff practised as a lawyer in Fergus, Ontario, after being called to the bar.<ref name=":1" /> In 1895, Duff moved to Victoria, British Columbia, and he continued his career there. In 1895, he was appointed Queen's Counsel (Q.C.), which became King's Counsel (K.C.) on 22 January 1901 upon the death of Queen Victoria.<ref name=":1" /> In 1903, he took part, as junior counsel for Canada, in the Alaska Boundary arbitration.

In 1923, Mount Duff (Yakutat), also known as Boundary Peak 174, was named after him.<ref name="gnis">Template:Cite gnis</ref>

Judicial and other appointmentsEdit

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Bust of Duff in the Supreme Court of Canada building.

In 1904, he was appointed a puisne judge of the Supreme Court of British Columbia. In 1906, he was appointed a justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. On January 14, 1919, he was appointed to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.<ref>Appointment notice at Template:London Gazette</ref> Duff was the first and only Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada to be appointed to the Imperial Privy Council. In 1924, he was elected as an honorary bencher of Gray's Inn, at the recommendation of Lord Birkenhead.<ref name=":0" />

In 1931, he served as Administrator of the Government of Canada (acting Governor-General of Canada) between the departure of Lord Bessborough for England and the arrival of Lord Tweedsmuir.<ref name=":1">Template:Cite journal</ref> Duff took on the position, as the Chief Justice was unavailable. As Administrator, Duff opened Parliament and read the Speech from the Throne on 12 March 1931, becoming the first Canadian-born person to do so.Template:Citation needed

In 1933, Duff was appointed as Chief Justice of Canada, succeeding Chief Justice Anglin. He was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George the following year<ref>Appointment notice at Template:London Gazette</ref> as a result of Prime Minister Richard Bennett's temporary suspension of the Nickle Resolution.Template:Citation needed

When Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir died in office on February 11, 1940, Chief Justice Duff became the Administrator of the Government for the second time.<ref name=":1" /> He held the office for nearly four months, until King George VI appointed Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone as Governor General on June 21, 1940.<ref name=":1" /> Duff was the first Canadian to hold the position, even in the interim. A Canadian-born Governor General was not appointed until Vincent Massey in 1952.Template:Citation needed

Duff also heard more than eighty appeals on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, mostly Canadian appeals; however, he never heard Privy Council appeals from the Supreme Court of Canada while he served on the latter, otherwise, it would have been seen as a conflict of interest. The last Privy Council appeal heard by Duff was the 1946 Reference Re Persons of Japanese Race.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite ODNB</ref>

In 1942, Duff served as the sole member of a Royal Commission constituted to examine the Liberal government's conduct in relation to the defence of Hong Kong. The resulting report, which completely exonerated the government, proved to be controversial, and was seen by many as a whitewash.Template:Citation needed

Upon reaching the mandatory retirement age for judges in 1939, his term of office was extended by three years by a special Act of Parliament;<ref>Template:Cite canlaw</ref> in 1943, his term of office was extended for another year by Parliament.<ref>Template:Cite canlaw</ref><ref name=":0" /> He retired as Chief Justice in 1944.Template:Citation needed

ImpactEdit

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Duff poses with his bust at its official unveiling on September 5, 1947. In the photo (from left to right): J.L. Ilsley, J.C. McRuer, Duff, John T. Hackett, K.C., Prime Minister W.L. Mackenzie King and Chief Justice Thibaudeau Rinfret.

Duff employed a conservative form of statutory interpretation. In a 1935 Supreme Court of Canada judgment, he detailed how judges should interpret statutes:

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Duff has been called a "master of trenchant and incisive English," who "wrote his opinions in a style which bears comparison with Holmes or Birkenhead."<ref>Template:Cite journal at 51</ref> A former assistant of Duff, Kenneth Campbell, argued that Duff was "frequently ranked as the equal of Justices Holmes and Brandeis of the United States Supreme Court".<ref>Campbell 1974, at 243</ref> Gerald Le Dain, an academic and later a judge on the Supreme Court, asserted that Duff "is generally considered to have been one of Canada's greatest judges."<ref>Le Dain 1974, at 261.</ref> Other writers have taken a less favourable view, instead arguing that Duff's reputation is largely unearned; his biographer concluded that he was not an original thinker, but essentially a "talented student and exponent of the law rather than a creator of it."<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

More recent commentary has focused on Duff's legal formalism and its effect on Canadian federalism. A later successor Chief Justice of Canada, Bora Laskin attacked Duff's decisions, arguing that Duff used circular reasoning and hid his policy-laden decisions behind the doctrine of stare decisis.<ref>Template:Cite journal, at 1069-70.</ref> As well, Lionel Schipper noted that, in reviewing Duff's judgments, it was:

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