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2008
Hutchison, Cameron, Yahya, Moin
Introduction: The recent Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit (CAFC) decision in NTP, Inc. v. Research in Motion, Ltd., (hereinafter the BlackBerry decision)1 ushered in a new era of jurisdictional uncertainty concerning transnation patent disputes. The court's standard of "control and beneficial...
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Comparative perspectives on the regulation of assisted reproductive technologies in Canada and the United Kingdom
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This article highlights some concerns with the regulatory structure envisioned by Canada's new Assisted Human Reproduction Act, principally by comparing Canada's proposed Assisted Human Reproduction Agency (AHRA) with the United Kingdom's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA). The...
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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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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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The future of thematic children’s rights institutions in a national human rights institution world: The Paris Principles and the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
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Introduction: Independent thematic human rights institutions have been established by some states to focus on the protection and promotion of one category of human rights or the rights of a vulnerable group.1 Children are a vulnerable population and, in response, thematic children’s rights...
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A Comment on ‘Six Months of the British Columbia Business Corporations Act: Changes and Challenges'
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Introduction: I would like to begin my brief comments by noting Linda Parsons and Kate Bake-Paterson's concluding prediction that - when all the dust settles - British Columbia's Business Corporations Act (the "BCBCA" or the Act) will become "a desirable statutory regime of choice among Canadian...
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Legislative reform and equal access to the justice system: An examination of Alberta’s new minor injury cap in the context of Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
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This article surveys the provisions in Alberta's new legislation limiting recovery for motor vehicle accident victims suffering from minor injury. The author argues that the legislation effectively limits access to the justice system for a class of persons (those suffering minor injury) and this...
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2012
The article offers information regarding dysfunctional relationship between the Federal Bank Act security system and the provincial Personal Property Security Act (PPSA) regimes. It presents two issues created by federal and a provincial personal property security system including the priority...
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2010
How should a sham be treated for tax purposes? In 1524994 Ontario Ltd. v. M.N.R., the Federal Court of Appeal treated a sham as if it reflected the true agreement between the parties in order to uphold a GST assessment. The result was inconsistent with existing jurisprudence and undesirable....
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2013
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...