Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada have the option of releasing reasons for a unanimous decision without individual attribution by simply attributing the judgment to "The Court".
The practice began around 1979 by Chief Justice Bora Laskin, borrowing from the US Supreme Court practice of anonymizing certain unanimous decisions. Unlike in the US, which uses it primarily for uncontroversial cases, in Canada, it is used almost always for important and controversial cases.
It has been suggested that the practice has been used to give greater authority to the decision by having the entire court speak as a single voice.
Peter McCormick, a professor of political science at the University of Lethbridge who studies Canada's appellate courts states that there were 9 reported by the court decisions prior to Laskin's term as Chief Justice of Canada, 15 reported such decisions under Laskin's chief justiceship, and 51 reported such decisions under Brian Dickson's chief justiceship.
The following is a list of anonymous decisions that are attributed to "The Court":