Journal Articles (Law)

1992

Wood, Roderick J., Wylie, Michael I.

The authors trace the chaotic growth of nonconsensual security interests in personal property. Rules governing non-consensual security interests are analyzed and shown to have developed in an inconsistent and unpredictable manner. The authors set out a framework to resolve the priority contests...

2014

Reif, Linda C.

Introduction: It is estimated that over one billion persons around the world live with some form of disability. Persons with disabilities (PWDs) are often discriminated against and subjected to more egregious treatment by state and non-state actors. Women and girls with disabilities are often...

2011

Percy, David R., McGillivray, David

The freehold oil and gas lease in Canada has had a perilous and uncertain existence. In the early cases, the courts applieda literal interpretation ofthe leases, resulting in numerous unexpectedly terminated leases. In recent years, there has been a resurgence of cases involving terminated...

1999

Buckwold, Tamara M.

Introduction: This article focuses on two related lines of judicial reasoning established by decisions of the Courts of Appeal of British Columbia and Saskatchewan in Seaboard Acceptance Corporation Ltd. v. Moen' and Andrew v. FarmStart. The companion issues they raise affect the right of secured...

2007

Yahya, Moin, A., Clements, Ryan

This article provides a detailed overview of the mad-cow saga that took place from 2003 until 2005, and discusses its adverse impact on the economic markets of Canada and the United States in terms of trade synergies and amicable commercial relationships. The authors go on to discuss the remedies...

2013

Wood, Roderick J.

Introduction: Two critical questions emerge when considering rescue and liquidation in Canadian restructuring law. The first is whether the use of the traditional restructuring to rescue a financially distressed firm has become a thing of the past - whether it is on its way out and being replaced...

1994

McInnes, Mitchell

The author argues that restitutionary relief should be available to life rescuers. Analyzed in terms of the Canadian principle of unjust enrichment, it can be said that a victim receives an enrichment and a rescuer suffers a corresponding deprivation when there is no juristic reason for the...

2011

Walsh, Catherine, Wood, Roderick J., Cuming, Ronald C.

Introduction: Secured transactions law in all of Canada's provinces and territories is today consolidated in a modern statutory framework: the Personal Property Security Act (PPSA) in the common law provinces and territories, and the Civil Code regime in Quebec. The road to reform was a long one,...

1996

Acorn, Annalise

The pioneering efforts of women such as Emily Murphy in Alberta during the early part of this century effected legal change and altered women's lives. Women began to see the law as a vehicle for social change, entitling them to property and giving rise to new expectations that a world of \"true...

1999

Buckwold, Tamara M.

Introduction: The introduction in March 1996 of the bill leading to the enactment of the Saskatchewan Consumer Protection Act came as something of a surprise, at least to members of the academic legal community and presumably to others as well. The legislation establishes a comprehensive scheme...