Bradley W. Miller is a Canadian jurist who is a justice of the

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. Miller graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Laws in 1992. He received an LLM from the University of Edinburgh in 1994 and a DPhil in law from the University of Oxford in 2004. Between 1994 and 2011, he practised law at

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and at other firms in Toronto and Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. He was a professor at the

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from 2005 until his appointment to the

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on January 16, 2015. Miller was elevated to the Court of Appeal for Ontario on June 26, 2015, replacing

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, after spending six months as a justice of the Superior Court. , he had written no published opinions as a Superior Court judge. , Miller endorsed originalism, a theory of constitutional adjudication according to which constitutions should be interpreted according to the intent of their drafters. He also opposed same-sex marriage as of that date. Miller wrote the majority judgment in '' Toronto (City) v Ontario (Attorney General)'' when it came before the Court of Appeal in September 2019. In July 2020, he wrote a long dissent to the majority's holding in a ''Charter'' challenge to amendments to the ''Criminal Code'' involving

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as applied to Indigenous offenders. Miller also dissented in a case involving the legal test for a finding of racial profiling which came before the Court of Appeal in May 2021.

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