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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...

2010

Wood, Roderick J.

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...

2016

Wood, Roderick, J.

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...

2003

Billingsley, Barbara

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...

1991

Bell, Catherine

Section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982 recognizes the aboriginal and treaty rights of the aboriginal peoples. Section 35(2) defines \"the Aboriginal peoples of Canada\" as Indian, Inuit and Metis peoples. Although s. 35 may appear straightforward, the author points out its ambiguity. This...