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1995
Introduction: Alberta is set to become the first Canadian common law jurisdiction to comprehensively reform its judgment enforcement law. Although it was not the first province to study reform of this area of law,' it was the first to act. The Civil Enforcement Act (CEA) was passed on November...
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2012
How might one read a collection of transcriptions—such as The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume 1—that exemplifies how to read other texts deconstructively? In the spirit of Derrida’s text, a response to this question remains radically undecided; however, it certainly does not imply the absence of...
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2000
Gazing across the heterogeneous discourses claiming the rubric of criminology, a casual observer will likely be struck by pervasive discussions aimed at solving the 'crime problem'. Alongside the blaring choruses of technical experts one finds the hushed muses of sceptics and critics. They worry...
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2004
The author discusses the issue of medical intervention in pregnancy, and suggests that what is missing from the present discourse on pregnancy and the law is a theoretical framework for choice or decision-making in pregnancy. It is suggested that the inability to formulate an adequate mode of...
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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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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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Student review of selected panels at the Thelton E. Henderson Centre for Social Justice 2010 Symposium ‘Empowered Partnerships: Participatory action research for environmental justice
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Lund, Anna, Ben-David, Michelle, Fernandez, Ubaldo
The following articles are student responses and observations of a selected few panels at Berkeley Law's 2010 Symposium "Empowered Partnerships: Participatory Action Research for Environmental Justice" hosted by the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice and cosponsored by Students for...
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Lawyer-Politicians and Law Societies: Navigating the Intersection between Democracy and Accountability
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Keysel Alberto Aranzamendez Besa
In this essay that won the 2024 Sheldon M. Chumir Memorial Award in Ethics, Human Rights and Civil Liberties, I argue that striking the proper balance between a law society’s commitment to democracy and its jurisdiction over lawyer-politicians warrants the limiting of actionable complaints to...
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1995-01-01
Reif, Linda C., Marshall, Mary A.
The authors seek to highlight the office of the ombudsman, which represents a potentially powerful form of alternative dispute resolution. They first examine the \"classic\" ombudsman. This ombudsman is basically a neutral party who decides which side is justified in a dispute. They examine how...