Brian Dickson

Robert George Brian Dickson (May 25, 1916 – October 17, 1998) was a Canadian lawyer, military officer and judge who served as the 15th chief justice of Canada from 1984 to 1990 and as a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1973 to 1984. He retired on June 30, 1990.

Dickson's tenure as chief justice coincided with the first wave of cases under the new Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms which, established in 1982, reached the Supreme Court from 1984 onwards. Dickson wrote several highly influential judgments on the Charter and laid the groundwork for the approach that the courts would take to the Charter.