George Edwin King
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George Edwin King was a Canadian lawyer, politician, second and fourth premier of New Brunswick, and puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
King in 1895
Maher v Town Council of Portland is a Canadian constitutional law court decision dealing with the constitutional guarantees for denominational schools set out in section 93 of the Constitution Act, 18
George Edwin King
…appearing before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, at that time the court of last resort for Canada within the British Empire, in the case of Maher v. Town Council of Portland, which upheld the Act. In 1880 he became a justice of the province's supreme court, the Court of Queen's Bench of New Brunswick…
The Maher decision was one of the first cases interpreting s. 93 of the British North America Act, 1867
Premier Charles Fisher, whose government introduced the Parish Schools Act. He was later appointed to the Supreme Court of New Brunswick and sat on the challenge to the Common Schools Act. His concurring opinion was upheld by the Judicial Committee.
Chief Justice Ritchie, who wrote the majority decision upholding the Common Schools Act