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Summit; The Business of Public Sector Procurement - Vol. 7 Nbr. 7, November 2004

Misfeasance in Public Office

In this article we seek to shed some light on what could become tomorrow's headline, the tort of misfeasance in public office. In common law, persons who exercise the legal powers of ...... The tort languished for many years in the backwaters of the law, until the recent SCC decision in Odhavij Estate ...

Winnipeg Free Press - April 14, 2007

Charter Matters, but Not Much

... Common law relationships and gay partnerships have won ...

Supreme Court of Canada - April 10, 2008

Laurentide motels ltd. v. Beauport (City), [1989] 1 S.C.R. 705 (1989)

... on appeal from the court of appeal for quebec Municipal law -- Extra-contractual liability of municipalities ...... Firefighting -- Applicable law: public or private law -- Whether civil law applies to a municipality ...

Cour Suprême du Canada - April 10, 2008

Q.N.s. paper co. c. Chartwell shipping ltd., [1989] 2 R.C.S. 683 (1989)

... mandataire? -- Faut-il appliquer les principes de common law ou de droit civil? -- Loi sur la Cour ...... Elle a appliqué les principes du Code civil du Québec relatifs à la responsabilité d'un ...

Canada Gazette, July 05, 2000

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Part II - Official regulations

... Canada and who, if the dependant is the spouse or common-law partner of that person, is at least 16 years ...... country class, means (a) the member's spouse or common-law partner; (b) a dependent son or dependent ...

Gazette du Canada, April 04, 2007

Faillite et l'insolvabilité - Règles correctives visant les Règles générales

Partie II - Règlements officiels

... aux règles du tribunal applicables aux instances civiles. 29. L'alinéa 116(1)b) de la version anglaise ......) Description Le Canada est un pays bijuridique où coexistent des systèmes de common law et de droit civil. Le système de common law ...

Canada Law Articles in English - (December 01, 2008)

The Supreme Court Of Canada Endorses Liability Without Fault Inenvironmental Matters In Quebec

Mr Guy Du Pont - Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg

On November 20, the Supreme Court of Canada rendered its much anticipated judgment in St. Lawrence Cement Inc. v. Barrette, allowing a action ...... it endorses the controversial legal doctrine of civil liability without fault for abnormal ...

Canadian-American Public Policy - Nbr. 2000, July 2000

Who decides what? Civil-military relations in Canada and the United States.

Drawing useful conclusions from comparative studies in civil-military relations is confounded by the fact ...... Most studies begin from the assumption that the civil control of the military is the desired end state ...