Marc Nadon has practised law in both Quebec and the United Kingdom, focusing on maritime and transportation law.
25 Facts About Marc Nadon
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Marc Nadon was an arbitrator and former lecturer in law at the Universite de Sherbrooke.
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Marc Nadon was born in St-Jerome, Quebec, on September 7,1949.
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Marc Nadon's father played professional hockey with the American Hockey League in the 1940s as well as being a businessman.
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Marc Nadon's mother was of Ukrainian background whose parents immigrated to Canada from Ukraine during World War I She was a professional singer, including singing at the Chateau Frontenac during the big band era.
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Marc Nadon's father spoke French and English, but his mother spoke Ukrainian and English.
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Marc Nadon later appeared with the Junior A Laval Saints.
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Marc Nadon chose his studies, though later claimed that he had turned down a draft offer from the Detroit Red Wings.
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In 2013, it was reported that while Marc Nadon was not actually drafted by the Detroit Red Wings, he did play with the Saint-Jerome Alouettes, a Junior A team whose midget affiliates were part of the Red Wings' farm team network.
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Marc Nadon has been married for over 30 years to Margaret Buchan, a Scotswoman from the town of Peebles, Scotland.
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Marc Nadon was admitted to the Bar of Quebec in 1974 and practiced law until 1993 at the firm of Martineau Walker, where he became a partner in 1981.
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Marc Nadon taught maritime law and transportation law at the faculty of law at the Universite de Sherbrooke from 1987 to 1992.
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Marc Nadon appeared before the Quebec Superior Court, and on occasion before the Quebec Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada.
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Marc Nadon sat on several occasions as an arbitrator of maritime law disputes and was given terms as ad hoc arbitrator, in particular in litigation.
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Marc Nadon led arbitration in London and New York on behalf of clients in Canada and abroad.
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Marc Nadon was appointed as a member of the Competition Tribunal on December 16,1998, for a term of seven years.
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Marc Nadon became a supernumerary judge on July 25,2011.
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Marc Nadon was a member of the Federal Courts Rules Committee for a number of years.
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Marc Nadon was the Chair of the Education Committee of the Federal Court of Appeal and a member of the Court's Law Clerks Committee.
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Marc Nadon was the only judge on three levels to side with the government.
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Marc Nadon was nominated by the Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper to be a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
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Marc Nadon was formally appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada on October 3,2013, and sworn in on October 7,2013.
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Marc Nadon's appointment was struck down as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in Reference Re Supreme Court Act, ss 5 and 6 on March 21,2014.
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In January 2018, at a McGill University law school presentation hosted by the Runnymede Society, Marc Nadon stated his view that the judiciary of Canada too often write their own interpretations of the 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and thus present their own notions of fairness as substantive law, instead of being guided by the text of the Charter.
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Marc Nadon sees himself in the tradition of an originalist and doctrinaire, in that judges must observe doctrine in order to protect the certainty of the law.
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