L’Honorable Louise Charron: une analyse quantitative comparée de sa jurisprudence (The Hon. Louise Charron: A Comparative Quantitative Analysis of Her Jurisrpudence)

Ce chapitre offre un portrait statistique des decisions de la juge Louise Charron pendant la periode ou elle a siege a la Cour supreme du Canada soit de 2004 a 2011. Il porte une attention particuliere aux donnees quantitatives des opinions unanimes, majoritaires, dissidentes sur les motifs et sur le resultat auxquelles la juge Charron a participe soit en les signant ou en les redigeant. Il compare les statistiques de la juge Charron a celles de ses collegues de la plus haute institution judiciaire du pays depuis 1982. La philosophie judiciaire de la juge Charron orientee vers la recherche du consensus, la collegialite et l’inclusion des idees de ses collegues constitue une hypothese explicative de ses tres faibles taux de dissidences.This chapter is a statistical portrait of the judicial decisions of Justice Louise Charron between 2004 and 2011, the period in which she sat on the Supreme Court of Canada. It focuses in particular on quantitative data about unanimous opinions, majorities, dissenting and concurring reasons for cases in which Justice Charron participated, either as a panel member signing on to a judgment or as the author of reasons. The study compares Justice Charron’s profile of decisions to that of her colleagues on the country’s highest judicial institution. It hypothesizes that the small number of dissents and concurrences in which Justice Charron took part reflects her judicial philosophy, which appears to be oriented toward consensus-building, collegiality and the inclusion in her judgements of the ideas of her colleagues.