After graduating from the University of Saskatchewan's College of Law, Jackett was chosen as a Rhodes Scholar. He returned to Canada from Oxford not long before the outbreak of World War II and joined the ten-man Department of Justice as a junior lawyer. Through extraordinary hard work, rigorous legal analysis, and a bent for organization, he eventually became Canada's eighth deputy minister of Justice. He left this position after three years to become general counsel for the Canadian Pacific Railway and was later appointed president of the Exchequer Court of Canada. He quickly revamped the...
After graduating from the University of Saskatchewan's College of Law, Jackett was chosen as a Rhodes Scholar. He returned to Canada from Oxford not l...
Fifty years ago Heward Stikeman and Fraser Elliott began the law firm that bears their name as a tax boutique with a new approach to tax and business law. Their fundamental principle was not to explain to clients why the law prohibited them from doing what they wanted to do, but instead to use the law to find a means of accomplishing their objectives. Over the years Stikeman Elliott has attracted an extraordinary range of talented young lawyers and given them every chance to develop their potential. As the firm has grown from a tiny enterprise to a national and global organization, its...
Fifty years ago Heward Stikeman and Fraser Elliott began the law firm that bears their name as a tax boutique with a new approach to tax and business ...
Rocke Robertson was a McGill-trained surgeon who served at the front lines in the Sicilian and Italian campaigns in World War II. Post-war experience led him to the height of the medical profession and appointment as Chief of the Department of Surgery at McGill and Surgeon-in-Chief at the Montreal General Hospital. From those posts, he was named Principal of McGill University, the first of its graduates to hold the office. Apart from the usual demanding job of managing faculty, students and alumni and the general business of the University, he was plunged into the midst of political upheaval...
Rocke Robertson was a McGill-trained surgeon who served at the front lines in the Sicilian and Italian campaigns in World War II. Post-war experience ...
In its sixty-year existence, the Stikeman Elliott firm has played a role in many of the most significant transactions in Canadian business history, appearing before the major courts of the country in precendent-setting litigation. Its members are at the top of the legal profession and its reach is global. Clients include major foreign investors requiring advice for entry into Canada, as well as for investments in many other parts of the world. In Stikeman Elliott: The First Fifty Years, Richard Pound recounted how Heward Stikeman and Fraser Elliott developed their small tax boutique into a...
In its sixty-year existence, the Stikeman Elliott firm has played a role in many of the most significant transactions in Canadian business history, ap...
