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Listening to the dialogue: An examination of the degree of public and media attention provided to the legislative responses to court decisions involving equality rights and sexual orientation
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Introduction: Since the inception of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, legal and political scholars in Canada have grappled with the theory that judicial review under the Charter is part of a dialogue between the courts and the legislatures. According to the dialogue theory, once a...
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Revolution on the path to access to justice - A closer look at the 2009 and 2010 reforms to the rules of civil procedure in Alberta, Nova Scotia, Ontario and British Columbia
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Billingsley, Barbara, Franz, Joel
The article discusses the 2009 and 2010 reforms to the civil procedure rules in the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Nova Scotia, Ontario, and British Columbia, and it mentions access to justice and civil litigation in Canada, as well as Revised Rules for trials and pre-trial disclosures.
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Community pharmacists’ views and practices regarding natural health products sold in community pharmacies
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Background Reports of regulatory and evidentiary gaps have raised concerns about the marketing and use of natural health products (NHPs). The majority of NHPs offered for sale are purchased at a community pharmacy and pharmacists are “front-line” health professionals involved in the marketing and...
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1989
Introduction: At its simplest, the \"mistake of law doctrine\" holds that money paid under a mistake of law (as opposed to one of fact) is irrevocable. As any restitution lawyer can tell you, however, the doctrine is actually anything but simple. The amount of confusion which it has generated...
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2006
This article places F.R. Scott’s 1935 call for entrenched constitutional rights within the context of marked changes in constitutional scholarship in the 1930s—what the author refers to as the “newer constitutional law”. Influenced by broader currents in legal theory and inspired by the political...
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A comment on ITO Ltd. v. Miida Electronics Inc. - The Supreme Court of Canada, privity of contract and the Himalaya clause
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Introduction: In the transportation of goods by sea, the shipper contracts with a marine carrier usually agreeing to a term limiting the liability of the carrier for damage to or loss of the goods. The contract of carriage between the shipper and the marine carrier is evidenced by a bill of...
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The democratic challenge of incorporation: International human rights treaties and national constitutions
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According to Canadian Supreme Court Justice Claire L'Heureux-Dube, the global judicial community is engaged in a process of dialogue, especially in cases involving the determination of constitutionally protected human rights. However, as this author notes, if there is a process of dialogue taking...