Journal Articles (Law)
Items in this Collection
- 7McInnes, Mitchell
- 2Bell, Catherine
- 2Billingsley, Barbara
- 2Brown, Russell
- 2Harrington, Joanna
- 2Yahya, Moin A.
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2004
Leonard, Clayton, Bell, Catherine
Introduction: On 22 October 1993 Steve Powley and his son, both members of a Metis community near Sault Ste. Marie, were charged with hunting a moose without a licence and with knowingly possessing game hunted in contravention of Ontario's Game and Fish Act. The Powleys were acquitted at trial...
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2011
The article focuses on the advances made by the Supreme Court of Canada in the law of unjust enrichment on the case of Kerr versus Baranow which was clarified by Cromwell J. by returning to the first principles of unjust enrichment. The author states that the failure of the court to recognize the...
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BMP Global Distributions Inc. v. Bank of Nova Scotia: The unitary action in unjust enrichment
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In this article, the author discusses the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada on the unjust enrichment case BMP Global Distribution Inc. v. Bank of Nova Scotia. It states that the Supreme Court have granted the Bank of Nova Scotia the right to restitution following the mistaken payments,...
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2010
In 2006, a new Human Rights Council came into existence, replacing the former Commission on Human Rights with a restructured intergovernmental body for the global promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms. Heralded as a turning point for human rights within the UN system, it was hoped...
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2000-01-01
This paper explores the ethical and legal difficulties encountered by insurance defence counsel whenconfrontedwith a coverage problem on a liability insurance policy . Ordinarily, where a .claim is made against an individual insured by a liability insurance policy, defence counsel is hired by the...
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Employment discrimination based on sexual orientation: The American, Canadian, and UK response
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Cohen, Ronnie, O'Byrne, Shannon, Maxwell, Patricia
Introduction: One of the last frontiers in American civil rights protection concerns the extent to which lawmakers-both legislative and judicial-show a willingness to prohibit workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation. Regrettably, the record of the United States has been less than...
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2001
Discusses the case 'Attorney General v. Blake,' where the Canadian House of Lords accepted the concept of gain-based relief for breach of contract. Calculation of contractual relief with reference either to what the plaintiff lost or what the defendant gained; Delineation of the relevant cause of...
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2014
Introduction: Just over one hundred years ago, the first law students arrived at the University of Alberta, Faculty of Law. The University — still just a handful of brick buildings dotting a freshly cleared campus conveying more hopeful promise than venerable history — provided space, but not...
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Justifications and legal considerations for repatriation of First Nations material culture in Canada
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Introduction: The topic of repatriation of cultural items creates some discomfort as it may generate polarized perspectives and bring into focus issues of intercultural understanding, ethics, law, politics, knowledge, power, values, and economics. Questions such as “Who owns culture? Whose...