Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Fish

This is a list of all the reasons written by Morris Fish during his tenure as puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada up to the end of 2007.

2004

Morris Fish 2004 statistics 7 Majority or Plurality 0 Concurrence 0 Other 3 Dissent 0 Concurrence/dissent Total = 10 Written opinions = ? Oral opinions = ? Unanimous opinions = ?

	Case name	Issue	Co-authored by	Joined by
	R. v. Lyttle [2004] 1 S.C.R. 193; 2004 SCC 5	Cross examination	Major J.	Unanimous
	Transport North American Express Inc. v. New Solutions Financial Corp. [2004] 1 S.C.R. 249; 2004 SCC 7	Illegal contracts.	None	Deschamps J.
	R. v. Kehler [2004] 1 S.C.R. 328; 2004 SCC 11	Corroborating evidence by an accomplice	None	Unanimous
	R. v. Fontaine [2004] 1 S.C.R. 702; 2004 SCC 27	Mental disorder automatism	None	Unanimous
	Monsanto Canada Inc. v. Schmeiser [2004] 1 S.C.R. 902; 2004 SCC 34	Biological patent	McLachlin C.J.	Major, Binnie and Deschamps JJ.
	Banque nationale de Paris (Canada) v. 165836 Canada Inc. [2004] 2 S.C.R. 45; 2004 SCC 37	Law of obligations	None	McLachlin C.J. and Binnie, Arbour, LeBel JJ.
	Cabiakman v. Industrial Alliance Life Insurance Co. [2004] 3 S.C.R. 195; 2004 SCC 55	Employment law	LeBel J.	Iacobucci, Bastarache, Binnie, and Deschamps JJ.
	Glykis v. Hydro-Québec [2004] 3 S.C.R. 285; 2004 SCC 60	Interruptions of public services	LeBel J.	None
	R. v. Sazant [2004] 3 S.C.R. 635; 2004 SCC 77	Preliminary hearings	Bastarache J.	None
	Martineau v. M.N.R. [2004] 3 S.C.R. 737; 2004 SCC 81	Self-incrimination; Charter rights	None	Unanimous

2005

Morris Fish 2005 statistics 11 Majority or Plurality 1 Concurrence 0 Other 3 Dissent 0 Concurrence/dissent Total = 15 Written opinions = ? Oral opinions = ? Unanimous opinions = ?

	Case name	Issue	Co-authored by	Joined by
	R. v. Clark [2005] 1 S.C.R. 6; 2005 SCC 2	Criminal disorderly conduct	None	Unanimous
	R. v. Roberts [2005] 1 S.C.R. 22; 2005 SCC 3	Defence of provocation	None	None
	R. v. Ménard [2005] 1 S.C.R. 24; 2005 SCC 4	Appealing jury verdict; jury instruction	None	Unanimous
	R. v. Decorte [2005] 1 S.C.R. 133; 2005 SCC 9	Arbitrary convention; Charter; First Nation police powers	None	Unanimous
	R. v. Paice [2005] 1 S.C.R. 339; 2005 SCC 22	Defence of consent; R. v. Jobidon	None	None
	R. v. Chow [2005] 1 S.C.R. 384; 2005 SCC 24	interception of communications	None	Unanimous
	H.L. v. Canada (Attorney General) [2005] 1 S.C.R. 401; 2005 SCC 25	Appellate review, questions of fact	None	McLachlin C.J. and Major, Binnie and Abella JJ.
	R. v. Dionne [2005] 1 S.C.R. 665; 2005 SCC 29	Circumstantial evidence	None	Unanimous
	R. v. Fice [2005] 1 S.C.R. 742; 2005 SCC 32	Conditional sentencing	None	Deschamps J.
	Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd. v. Ontario [2005] 2 S.C.R. 188; 2005 SCC 41	Freedom of the Press, open courts	None	Unanimous
	R. v. Woods [2005] 2 S.C.R. 205; 2005 SCC 42	Compelling breath samples	None	Unanimous
	R. v. Hamilton [2005] 2 S.C.R. 432; 2005 SCC 47	Counselling criminal offences by email	None	McLachlin C.J. and Bastarache, Binnie, LeBel and Deschamps JJ.
	R. v. R.C. [2005] 3 S.C.R. 99; 2005 SCC 61	Forensic DNA analysis	None	McLachlin C.J. and Major, Binnie and Deschamps JJ.
	Contino v. Leonelli-Contino [2005] 3 S.C.R. 217; 2005 SCC 63	Shared custody	None	None
	May v. Ferndale Institution [2005] 3 S.C.R. 809; 2005 SCC 82	Transfer inmates; Habeas corpus	LeBel J.	McLachlin C.J. and Binnie, Deschamps and Abella JJ.

2006

Morris Fish 2006 statistics 4 Majority or Plurality 0 Concurrence 0 Other 2 Dissent 0 Concurrence/dissent Total = 6 Written reasons = ? Oral reasons = ? Unanimous reasons = ?

	Case name	Issue	Co-authored by	Joined by
	R. v. Chaisson 1 S.C.R. 415; 2006 SCC 11	Arbitrary detention; appeals	None	Unanimous
	R. v. Rodgers 1 S.C.R. 554; 2006 SCC 15	DNA samples; Charter	None	Binnie and Deschamps JJ.
	R. v. Graveline 1 S.C.R. 609; 2006 SCC 16	Criminal appeals	None	McLachlin C.J. and Bastarache, Binnie, Abella and Charron JJ.
	R. v. Gagnon 2 S.C.R. 621; 2006 SCC 17	Giving reasons for a judgment	Deschamps J.	None
	Blank v. Canada (Minister of Justice) 2006 SCC 39	Solitictor-client privilege	None	McLachlin C.J. and Binnie, Deschamps and Abella JJ.
	Robertson v. Thomson Corp. 2006 SCC 43	copyright in electronic databases	LeBel J.	Bastarache, Deschamps, Rothstein JJ.
	R. v. Krieger 2006 SCC 47	Right to trial by jury; jury nullification	None	Unanimous
	R. v. Déry 2006 SCC 53	Attempted conspiracy	None	Unanimous
	R. v. Angelillo 2006 SCC 55	Sentencing; fresh evidence	None	Binnie J.
	R. v. Larche 2006 SCC 56	Sentencing	None	Unanimous
	R. v. Morris 2006 SCC 59	Aboriginal treaty rights	McLachlin C.J.	None

2007

* Note: This table current up to January 4, 2007