2016 reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada

The table below lists the decisions (known as reasons) delivered from the bench by the Supreme Court of Canada during 2016. The table illustrates what reasons were filed by each justice in each case, and which justices joined each reason.

Reasons

Delivered the Court's reason	Joined the Court's reason	Filed a concurrence	Joined a concurrence
Filed a dissent	Joined a dissent	Filed a concurrence/dissent	Joined a concurrence/dissent
Did not participate in the judgment	Did not participate in the final disposition of the judgment	Not a member of the Court at the time of hearing or delivering
Decisions that do not note a Justice delivering the Court's reason are per coram. Multiple concurrences and dissents within a case are numbered, with joining votes numbered accordingly. Justices occasionally join multiple reasons in a single case; each vote is subdivided accordingly. Multiple unnumbered reasons are jointly written or delivered. Decisions that are given orally from the bench are denoted by a "V"; per coram decisions delivered orally from the bench only note a "V" on the most senior justice on the panel. An asterisk ( * ) in the Court's opinion denotes that it was only a majority in part or a plurality.

Case name	Argued	Decided	McLachlin	Abella	Cromwell	Moldaver	Karakatsanis	Wagner	Gascon	Côté	Brown
Canadian Pacific Railway Co. v. Canada (Attorney General), 2016 SCC 1 [1]	December 9, 2015	January 15, 2016
R. v. Seruhungo, 2016 SCC 2 [2]	January 15, 2016	January 15, 2016				V
R. v. Spicer, 2016 SCC 3 [3]	January 15, 2016	January 15, 2016				V
Carter v. Canada (Attorney General), 2016 SCC 4 [4]	January 11, 2016	January 15, 2016
R. v. Meer, 2016 SCC 5 [5]	January 21, 2016	January 21, 2016	V
R. v. Gagnon, 2016 SCC 6 [6]	February 23, 2016	February 23, 2016			V
R. v. Newman, 2016 SCC 7 [7]	February 25, 2016	February 25, 2016	V
Commission scolaire de Laval v. Syndicat de l’enseignement de la région de Laval, 2016 SCC 8 [8]	October 14, 2015	March 18, 2016
R. v. Knapczyk, 2016 SCC 10 [9]	January 20, 2016	March 22, 2016	V
R. v. Borowiec, 2016 SCC 11 [10]	January 20, 2016	March 24, 2016
Case name	Argued	Decided	McLachlin	Abella	Cromwell	Moldaver	Karakatsanis	Wagner	Gascon	Côté	Brown
Daniels v Canada (Indian Affairs and Northern Development), 2016 SCC 12 [11]	October 8, 2015	April 14, 2016
R. v. Lloyd, 2016 SCC 13 [12]	January 13, 2016	April 15, 2016
R. v. Safarzadeh-Markhali, 2016 SCC 14 [13]	November 4, 2015	April 15, 2016
World Bank Group v. Wallace, 2016 SCC 15 [14]	November 6, 2015	April 29, 2016
R. v. Shaoulle, 2016 SCC 16 [15]	April 29, 2016	April 29, 2016	V
R. v. Laliberté, 2016 SCC 17 [16]	April 29, 2016	April 29, 2016						V
Krayzel Corp. v. Equitable Trust Co., 2016 SCC 18 [17]	November 12, 2015	May 6, 2016
Heritage Capital Corp. v. Equitable Trust Co., 2016 SCC 19 [18]	January 22, 2016	May 6, 2016
Canada (Attorney General) v. Chambre des notaires du Québec, 2016 SCC 20 [19]	November 3, 2015	June 3, 2016
Canada (National Revenue) v. Thompson, 2016 SCC 21 [20]	December 4, 2014	June 3, 2016
Case name	Argued	Decided	McLachlin	Abella	Cromwell	Moldaver	Karakatsanis	Wagner	Gascon	Côté	Brown
R. v. D.L.W., 2016 SCC 22 [21]	November 9, 2015	June 9, 2016
Rogers Communications Inc. v. Chateauguay (City), 2016 SCC 23 [22]	October 9, 2015	June 16, 2016
R. v. Saeed, 2016 SCC 24 [23]	December 1, 2015	June 23, 2016
British Columbia (Workers’ Compensation Appeal Tribunal) v. Fraser Health Authority, 2016 SCC 25 [24]	January 14, 2016	June 24, 2016
R. v. Vassell, 2016 SCC 26 [25]	May 20, 2016	June 30, 2016
R. v. Jordan, 2016 SCC 27 [26]	October 7, 2015	July 8, 2016
R. v. Williamson, 2016 SCC 28 [27]	October 7, 2015	July 8, 2016
Wilson v. Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., 2016 SCC 29 [28]	January 19, 2016	July 14, 2016	1	*	2		1	1	1
Lapointe Rosenstein Marchand Melançon LLP v. Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP, 2016 SCC 30 [29]	December 3, 2015	July 15, 2016
R. v. K.R.J., 2016 SCC 31 [30]	December 2, 2015	July 21, 2016		1							2
Case name	Argued	Decided	McLachlin	Abella	Cromwell	Moldaver	Karakatsanis	Wagner	Gascon	Côté	Brown
R. v. Cawthorne	April 25, 2016	July 22, 2016
R. v. Gagnon	April 25, 2016	July 22, 2016

External links

• 2016 decisions: CanLII, LexUM