Christopher Salmon Patterson

Christopher Salmon Patterson

Christopher Salmon Patterson (born January 16, 1823 in London , † July 24, 1893 ) was a Canadian lawyer who was a judge at the Supreme Court of Canada between 1888 and his death in 1893 .

Life

Patterson, son of John Patterson and his wife Ann Patterson, graduated from the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and emigrated to Canada in 1845, where he settled in Picton in the province of Ontario . After being admitted to the bar, he took up a position as a lawyer in 1851 as a partner in the law firm of Philip Low, where he had previously worked as a student. In 1856 he went to Toronto and was there until 1874 a partner in the law firm Wilson, Patterson & Beaty . In 1871 he became a member of a commission to investigate the amalgamation of common law , i.e. the prevailing legal system in English-speaking countries, which is based not only on laws but also on relevant judicial judgments of the past - so-called precedents - (case law) and also on judicial interpretation is trained, with the so-called equity , i.e. the rules to supplement the common law to compensate for hardship. This commission was headed by John Wellington Gwynne , who was also a judge of the Supreme Court of Canada between 1879 and 1902. Together with Gwynne he was also a judge at the Ontario Court of Error and Appeal in 1874 .

On 27 October 1888 his appeal was made to the judge at the Supreme Court of Canada by Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald . Patterson served on the Supreme Court until his death on July 24, 1893.

Web links

• Supreme Court of Canada - Portrait (English)