Template:Infobox SCC/doc

Usage

For a detailed description of this template's usage, see the talk page or Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Canadian_law/CaseLawPolicy.

Common need {{Infobox SCC |case-name= |full-case-name= |heard-date= |decided-date= |citations= |docket= |history= |subsequent= |ruling= |ratio= |SCC=YEAR-YEAR |Unanimous= |Majority= |JoinMajority= |Concurrence= |JoinConcurrence= |Concurrence/Dissent= |JoinConcurrence/Dissent= |Dissent= |JoinDissent= |NotParticipating= |NotParticipatingFin= |LawsApplied= }}

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Court membership

The template will automatically add a list of Justices comprising the court when the SCC parameter is given the correct year range in the YYYY-YYYY format. Use the entry from the list below corresponding to the date on which the court heard the case (not necessarily the same year when the case decision was issued). This will automatically fill in the members of the court. For example, R. v. Oakes was heard on 1985-03-12, so use SCC=1985-1987. (Since the court composition changed in 1985, this was chosen instead of SCC=1984-1985 by examining the dates used to construct the chart of the Dickson court, or by reviewing equivalent sources.)

For cases heard since the last time the court membership changed, you may enter SCC=present. Updates to each such case page will eventually be necessary when the court's membership changes again. (If you instead enter a year range in this situation, each such page will need to be updated every time a new year begins with the same court composition.) Historically, some court compositions lasted less than a year; for cases heard in those situations, use the same year twice, e.g. SCC=2008-2008.

Court composition key

To view the make-up of each Court, see List of justices of the Supreme Court of Canada by court composition.

1875–1929	1929–1963	1963–2000	2000–present
1875-1878 1878-1879 1879-1888 1888-1892 1892-1893 1893-1895 1895-1901 1901-1902 1902-1902 1902-1903 1903-1905 1905-1906 1906-1906 1906-1909 1909-1911 1911-1918 1918-1923 1923-1924 1924-1924 1924-1927 1927-1929	1929-1930 1930-1931 1931-1932 1932-1933 1933-1933 1933-1935 1935-1935 1935-1936 1936-1939 1939-1940 1940-1943 1943-1944 1944-1944 1944-1947 1947-1949 1949-1954 1954-1956 1956-1957 1958-1959 1959-1962 1962-1963	1963-1967 1967-1970 1970-1973 1973-1977 1977-1978 1979-1979 1979-1980 1980-1982 1982-1984 1984-1985 1985-1987 1987-1988 1988-1988 1988-1989 1989-1990 1990-1991 1991-1992 1992-1997 1997-1998 1998-1999 1999-2000	2000-2002 2002-2003 2003-2004 2004-2005 2005-2006 2006-2008 2008-2008 2008-2011 2011-2011 2011-2012 2012-2013 2013-2014 2014-2014 2014-2015 2015-2016 2016-2016 2016-2017 2017-2019 2019-2021 2021-2022 2022-2023 present or 2023-present or 2023-2024

Implementation details

Technically, the court composition key is determined by a #switch function inside of the source code for {{Infobox SCC}}, and not in the documentation section above. Correspondence between these locations must be manually maintained.

If no entry in the #switch function matches the value of the SCC parameter, the page will be added to Category:Infobox SCC with no court composition, a hidden maintenance category.