down abortion law), R v Lavallée in 1990 (battered-wife syndrome as self-defence), Operation Dismantle v R in 1985 (judicial review), the minority decision in R v Stevens (1988) which was adopted later in R v Hess; R v Nguyen in 1990 (mens rea and statutory rape), Kosmopoulos v Constitution Insurance Co of Canada (piercing the "corporate veil"), the dissenting opinion in McKinney v University of Guelph in 1990 (mandatory retirement), Andrews v Law Society of British Columbia in 1989 (equality rights test), and Sobeys Stores Ltd v Yeomans in 1989 (interpretative authority of tribunals) which are among the foundational cases interpreting the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms that was enacted in 1982, the year that she was appointed to the Supreme Court. Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples From 1991 to 1996, Wilson was a Commissioner of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP). She gave a controversial and much-discussed speech about the role and influence of women in legal professions and the judiciary, titled "Will Women Judges Really Make a Difference?" Death Wilson developed Alzheimer's disease later in life and died in an Ottawa, Ontario retirement home on April 28, 2007, at the age of 83. See also Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Wilson References 1923 births 2007 deaths Alumni of the University of Aberdeen Companions of the Order of Canada Schulich School of Law alumni Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada Justices of the Court of Appeal for Ontario Members of the United Church of Canada People from Kirkcaldy British emigrants to Canada Canadian women judges Constitutional court women judges