Foreword

AuthorJanet Walker/Lorne Sossin
ProfessionOsgoode Hall Law School, York University/Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
Pages15-16
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FOR E WOR D
As a scholarly discipline, civil procedure has languished in the shadow
of its more fashionable academic cousins in the standard law school
curriculum. There has been a tendency for legal scholars to focus their
attention on substantive, rather than procedural, law. Yet as those who
work in the courts and in the f‌ield of dispute resolution know, the best
substantive rules will utterly fail to provide justice unless they are
matched with fair and eff‌icient procedures. The capacity of our legal
system to deliver accessible justice in civil, commercial, family, and
constitutional cases largely depends upon the strength and workability
of our rules of civil procedure.
In this highly readable study of the central issues of modern Can-
adian civil procedure, Professors Lorne Sossin and Janet Walker bring
the subject into to the light of day and demonstrate it to be not only an
important and interesting subject, but also one worthy of inquisitive
scholarly attention.
This book presents a refreshing approach to the subject of civil
procedure. The traditional matters of the structure of the courts, costs,
pleading, discovery, size and scope of litigation, disposition without
trial, and pre-trial relief are examined from a rich range of perspectives.
The reader is provided with a remarkably accessible and sophisticated
analysis of the doctrinal issues. The underlying purposes of the rules
are identif‌ied and used to explain the rules’ content and operation in a
way that will serve the needs of students and pique the interest of sea-
soned practitioners. Bringing to bear a healthy comparative perspec-

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