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I. Introduction
This article addresses the confidentiality of material disclosed in the course of legal proceedings in the Supreme Court of British...
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... was no longer a third party in the litigation. Cases Cited. Applied: Odhavji Estate v. Woodhouse..., the more likely it is that the trial process will successfully come to grips with the parties' ...
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On Friday, June 13, 2008 the Alberta Court of
Queen's Bench dismissed the claims of dissenting
shareholders in Deer Creek Energy Limited ...
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In Double N, the City of Edmonton required that all equipment in the bid be made no earlier than 1980. One bidder (Sureway) submitted an apparently compliant bid, listing a 1980 unit in one part of its bid, but elsewhere it referred to a 1977 or 1980 rental unit. The plaintiff, a competing bidder, advised city officials that Sureway was "probably" bidding including pre-1980 equipment, but no investigation by the city was made into this allegation. On being advised that its bid was too high, the plaintiff requested permission to bid based on older equipment, but was refused. After Edmonton awarded the contract to Sureway, it discovered that Sureway's equipment was manufactured in 1977 and 1979. The city attempted to compel it to use newer machines, but later permitted it to use the older...
...This opened the door to a cascade of litigation relating to alleged unfairness in the tender proce... that the "integrity" of the tender process is maintained. Such an approach disregards the fac...
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... the rule and its effect on the cost of litigation, and (c) to consider the influence of the rule on ... Kenneth Scott's two models of the civil process: the conflict resolution and the behaviour modific...
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This article explores the experiences of clients inside the Collaborative Law process. Analyzing the results of a pilot study, the authors discuss the degree to which clients were meaningfully engaged in the process, and identify reported imbalances in power as one of the most significant barriers to client engagement. Clients' reflections also help to identify the degree to which Collaborative Law's unique features either overcame or exacerbated significant imbalances. While lawyers had considerable influence over how the process was experienced, what clients brought to the table also appeared influential, leading the authors to conclude that more attention must be paid to screening.
... they had something to gain by avoiding litigation, but only some managed to achieve the degree of em...
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... at stake are a function of the civil process of dispute adjudication. . Adversarial proceedings...
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... fair and durable settlement early in the process; minimizing the escalation of conflict; possibly r...
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... significant risk early in the litigation process. As a result, most of the legal battles that deter...
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... set out the procedure by which civil litigation is administered in Alberta and it has been over 40... a multi-year consultation and review process the new Rules came into force on November 1, 2010....