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- 17Wood, Roderick J.
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- 9Bell, Catherine
- 9Billingsley, Barbara
- 9Harrington, Joanna
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2012
The author addresses two perennial problems in Canadian administrative law: the choice of a standard of review and the inconsistent application of the reasonableness standard. With these problems in mind, the Supreme Court of Canada in Dunsmuir set out to establish a 'principled framework that is...
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2012
A litigator I used to work with had a way with metaphors. He once described a legal argument as being a “long arrow with a really short bow” — the implication being that, while impressive and even intimidating at first instance, the argument really did not “fly” and failed to advance the law in a...
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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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2011
Introduction: It has never been in the best traditions of the criminal bar to quit a client over money. Having gone on the record as counsel for an accused, the lawyer is, as a matter of professional dignity, expected to have sorted out financial matters with the client in advance, and it is seen...
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2011
Percy, David R., McGillivray, David
The freehold oil and gas lease in Canada has had a perilous and uncertain existence. In the early cases, the courts applieda literal interpretation ofthe leases, resulting in numerous unexpectedly terminated leases. In recent years, there has been a resurgence of cases involving terminated...
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2011
The number of human rights ombudsman institutions has increased dramatically over the past three decades. Such institutions are prevalent in Latin America and in Central and Eastern Europe, and are increasingly found in other regions of the world as well. Forces such as democratization, public...
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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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Secured transactions law in Canada - Significant achievements, unfinished business and ongoing challenges
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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,...
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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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Student review of selected panels at the Thelton E. Henderson Centre for Social Justice 2010 Symposium ‘Empowered Partnerships: Participatory action research for environmental justice
Download2011
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...