2012 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 2012. The table illustrates what reasons were filed by each justice in each case, and which justices joined each reason. This list, however, does not include reasons on motions.

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	Binnie	LeBel	Deschamps	Fish	Abella	Charron	Rothstein	Cromwell	Moldaver	Karakatsanis
Toronto Dominion Bank v. Canada, 2012 SCC 1 [1]	January 12, 2012	January 12, 2012			V
Catalyst Paper Corp. v. North Cowichan (District), 2012 SCC 2 [2]	October 18, 2011	January 20, 2012
Merck Frosst Canada Ltd. v. Canada (Health), 2012 SCC 3 [3]	November 12, 2010	February 3, 2012
Reference re Broadcasting Act, 2012 SCC 4 [4]	January 16, 2012	February 9, 2012
R. v. D.A.I., 2012 SCC 5 [5]	May 17, 2011	February 10, 2012

References

• 2012 decisions: CanLII, Lexum