Justice Brown and the Canadian Judicial Council: What’s going on? | Heather MacIvor

By Heather MacIvor (April 5, 2023, 10:21 AM EDT) -- On March 30, the Canadian Judicial Council (CJC) announced that a public complaint against Supreme Court Justice Russell Brown had been referred to a Judicial Conduct Review Panel. Justice Brown has been on leave since Feb. 1 while the CJC deals with the complaint about his alleged behaviour at a resort in Arizona. To make sense of this extraordinary situation, it’s helpful to know something about the legal framework....