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31 LawNow 10 (2006-2007)
The Honourable Justice Julius Isaac: A Model of Productive Retirement

handle is hein.journals/lanow31 and id is 232 raw text is: Feature Report on Older Adults and the Law The Honourable Justice Julius Isaac: A Model of Productive Retirement A Brian Seaman Some judges, as they approach retirement age, look forward to doing a lot more fishing. Others look forward to finally having lots of free time to perfect their golf swings. Others think about maybe getting around to writing that book they've always had in mind. However, if any of this was on Julius Alexander Isaac's to do list, it apparently wasn't at the top of that list. When the former Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Canada reached the mandatory retirement age for a judge in 1999, he opted instead to stay very much in the public eye, both on the national and international stages. Now, in looking back on his lifetime of dedication to the legal profession and service to community, that choice does not seem so surprising. When a studious teenaged boy shyly approached his favourite high school teacher six decades ago for advice about whether to pursue a career in law or teaching, the response he got was terse and, as life would unfold for that teen, prophetic. He said, 'Boy, don't you even think about teaching. You've got what it takes to be a lam . Julius Isaac chuckles fondly now at his schoolmaster's prescience, as he looks back on a legal career that has taken him from a farm on the Caribbean island nation of Grenada to the upper levels of the halls of justice in Canada and finally to a very public role in the hornet's nest of Jamaican politics where he put his life at risk just March/April 2007 6 LAWNOW

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