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DR. AND MS. DICKIE Overview On January 17, 2007 the Supreme Court of Canada heard Leaka Helena Delia Dickie's appeal from a decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal.8 The case put the complicated questions of judicial discretion and imprisonment as a remedy for contempt of court before the Supreme Court of Canada on the relatively simple facts of a non-payor, Dr. Dickie, whose flagrant disregard for the orders of the lower courts was beyond dispute.
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... Thomas A Cromwell, Locus Standi: A Commentary on the Law of Standing in Canada (Toronto: Carswel...
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Reliance on fine points of law or murky and ever-changing bureaucratic processes and policies to avoid doing the morally right thing has always been a Canadian hallmark when it comes to dealings with Indigenous peoples. And it's something that hasn't changed under "Canada's New Government.
Get used to seeing that term, by the way. Prime Minister Stephen Harper has decreed that all government correspondence must contain those words: the Conservative Party of Canada is "Canada's New Government" and they don't want anyone to forget it, even for a second. And they certainly aren't even a little bit liberal, are they? Here's a list of the un-liberal things our new federal government has done just recently.
We've been holding out hope that the Indian Affairs minister wouldn't buy into this w...
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...In its commentary on the provision on the law applicable to juridica...
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...." (18) Despite these restrictions, a commentary on Justice Rand's commercial law jurisprudence hel...
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...(67) For recent (pre-Sanofi) Canadian commentary on the law of anticipation see H. Sam Frost, "The ...
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In a client update released earlier this month, we discussed the recent decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal in the CCAA proceedings of Indalex Li...
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... Thomas A Cromwell, Locus Standi: A Commentary on the Law of Standing in Canada (Toronto: Carswel...
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...Cromwell, Thomas A. Locus Standi: A Commentary on the Law of Standing in Canada. Toronto: Carswel...
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In her commentary, Professor Irene Ng offers a perspicacious assessment of the strengths and limitations of Messinger et al's article in the last issue of CJAS, "Seven Challenges to Combining Human and Automated Service." Professor Ng does not take issue with the author's conceptual framework or with the seven challenges that they identify, but instead suggests that their treatment of the topic could be deeper in two primary ways. In a nutshell, Ng argues that combining human and automated services requires both a systems perspective and a value perspective. They completely agree. Indeed, they see Ng's various suggestions regarding their seven challenges as revolving around her call for a coherent systems approach to hybrid service delivery. Echoing Professor Ng's message, they close wi...