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1996
Water law has been of great importance in Alberta's legal and economic community over the last seventy-five years. By the time the University of Alberta's Faculty of Law first opened its doors in 1921, the reformed law of water allocation had already reached maturity and was showing its first...
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Repatriation of cultural property and Aboriginal rights: A survey of contemporary legal issues
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ABSTRACT. As a result of increasedaboriginaldemands, museumsand govemments are reassessing their roles as guardians of various forms of cultural property. However, an underlyingpresumption in thisprocessis thatastrictlegalanalysisofownershipwill notfavour aboriginalownershipof the...
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407 ETR, Moloney, and the contested meaning of rehabilitation in Canada’s personal bankruptcy system
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Introduction: Every year, over one hundred thousand Canadians turn to the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act for relief from their indebtedness. They require assistance handling debt loads that they have no realistic chance of ever repaying. Their debts may cause them other problems such as...
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2016
Due to the high value that it placed upon the ownership of land, the common law traditionally was wary of intervening if the plaintiff non-contractually improved the defendant’s land. For the most part, liability was imposed only if the landowner acted unconscionably according to the doctrine of...
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2007
Lerner, Craig S., Yahya, Moin A.
Introduction: According to a recent issue of Business Week, many hotshots of American industry are fleeing publicly traded corporations for \"the money, freedom and glamour of private equity.\"' Among the reasons cited for their departure is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, which not only...
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2016
In this article, the author explores the jurisprudence surrounding a contentious area of tort law: wrongful life claims. These claims focus on the situation in which the physician’s negligence lies in the failure to provide the child’s parents with the opportunity to prevent the birth of the...
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Comment on partners in confederation, a report on self-government by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal peoples
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Introduction: On April 17, 1982, the Aboriginal and treaty rights of the Aboriginal peoples of Canada were recognized and affirmed in the Canadian constitution. In the following years, several First Ministers' conferences were held to address Aboriginal constitutional matters. A recurring topic...
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1996
Introduction: Beginning with its momentous decision in Pavey & Matthews Pty Ltd v Paul,' the High Court has accepted that the concept of unjust enrichment underlies the law of restitution. That concept commonly is said to be comprised of four elements: (i) an enrichment to the defendant, (ii)...