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Secured transactions law in Canada - Significant achievements, unfinished business and ongoing challenges
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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,...
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1996
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...
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Statutory regulation of unfair business practices in Saskatchewan: Possibilities and pitfalls
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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...
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2010
Introduction: Working out a satisfactory legal analysis of subordination agreements is a slippery business. A subordination agreement involves a contractual modification of the legal rules that ordinarily govern the order of repayment or distribution to creditors or the priority ranking of their...
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2016
Introduction: On account of its population, its geography and its history, Canada has traditionally been a borrower of laws. In the commercial law field, it borrowed the English codifications of negotiable instruments law and sales law during the late Victorian era. More recently it borrowed the...
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2007
The article discusses the two issues including ambiguity and error in the statement regarding equitable remedy that will necessarily involve discretion and questions of fairness in the judgment held in the Supreme Court case Garland v. Consumers' Gas Co. in Canada. It explains why unjust ought is...
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The use of conciliation or mediation for the resolution of international commercial disputes
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The article focuses on international commercial disputes, which are typically between private partners. It then emphasizes the conciliation or mediation as a method for the resolution of such disputes. It explores more international rules and model laws for the use of conciliation as an...
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Whiten’s world: The Supreme Court of Canada’s insurance law decisions since Whiten v. Pilot Insurance Company
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Introduction: In the annals of Canadian insurance law, February 22, 2002, is a red letter day. On that date, the Supreme Court of Canada issued its decision in Whiten v. Pilot Insurance Co.,' upholding the trial jury's award of $1,000,000 in punitive damages against the insurer. The case was an...