Thomas Rodney Berger QC OC OBC was a Canadian politician and jurist. He was briefly a member of the House of Commons of Canada in the early 1960s and was a justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia from 1971 to 1983. In 1974, he became the royal commissioner of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry, which released its findings in 1977. He was a member of the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia.
Justice Berger died on April 28, 2021. A lawyer, arbitrator, and judge, as well as a political activist and feminist, Nancy Morrison practiced law and adjudicated in Ontario, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Yukon, and Northwest Territories. As a judge, she served for nine years on the British Columbia Provincial Court and 15 years on the Supreme Court of British Columbia. Raised in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, she now lives in Vancouver, BC.
Her memoir Benched: Passion for Law Reform was published in 2018 in the Durvile Reflections series. For most of his 33 years on the bench Judge John Reilly was the circuit judge for the Stoney Nakoda First Nation at Mînî Thnî (Morley), Alberta. During his career he became interested in Indigenous justice and saw the failure of the 'white' legal system to do justice for Indigenous Peoples. He is author of Bad Medicine: A Judge's Struggle for Justice in a First Nations Community, Bad Judgement: the Myths of First Nations Equality, and Judicial Independence in Canada, and Bad Law: Rethinking Justice for a Postcolonial Canada. Lorene Shyba PhD is publisher at Durvile & UpRoute Books and series editor of the Durvile True Cases series. Author, activist, and filmmaker Raymond Yakeleya is Dene First Nations from Tulita, Northwest Territories.
He is series co-editor of Durvile's Indigenous Spirit of Nature book series.
Justice Berger died on April 28, 2021. A lawyer, arbitrator, and judge, as well as a political activist and feminist, Nancy Morrison practiced law and adjudicated in Ontario, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Yukon, and Northwest Territories. As a judge, she served for nine years on the British Columbia Provincial Court and 15 years on the Supreme Court of British Columbia. Raised in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, she now lives in Vancouver, BC.
Her memoir Benched: Passion for Law Reform was published in 2018 in the Durvile Reflections series. For most of his 33 years on the bench Judge John Reilly was the circuit judge for the Stoney Nakoda First Nation at Mînî Thnî (Morley), Alberta. During his career he became interested in Indigenous justice and saw the failure of the 'white' legal system to do justice for Indigenous Peoples. He is author of Bad Medicine: A Judge's Struggle for Justice in a First Nations Community, Bad Judgement: the Myths of First Nations Equality, and Judicial Independence in Canada, and Bad Law: Rethinking Justice for a Postcolonial Canada. Lorene Shyba PhD is publisher at Durvile & UpRoute Books and series editor of the Durvile True Cases series. Author, activist, and filmmaker Raymond Yakeleya is Dene First Nations from Tulita, Northwest Territories.
He is series co-editor of Durvile's Indigenous Spirit of Nature book series.
