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Cry Me a River: Recovery of Mental Distress Damages in a Breach of Contract Action - A North American Perspective
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O'Byrne, Shannon, Cohen, Ronnie
The article focuses on the recovery of mental distress damages in breach of contract cases in an American and Canadian legal context. It argues that U.S. and Canadian courts should dismiss the general rule against the recovery of intangibles. The article offers discussions of mental distress...
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1998
Introduction: This article is concerned with the extent to which one party has a common law duty to disclose information to another, either antecedent to or during the life of a commercial contract.' Though the general rule for contractual negotiations is that there is no duty of disclosure, such...
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2005
Introduction The general rule in contracts is that a plaintiff is not entitled to general damages for mental distress and other intangibles such as annoyance, humiliation, upset, disappointment, frustration, anguish, or anxiety in the face of breach. There are a number of reasons why this is so...
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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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Definition and interpretation of fact in Canadian Aboriginal title litigation: A comment on Delgamuukw
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Asch, Michael, Bell, Catherine
Professors Asch and Bell argue that Aboriginal title litigation presents a unique set of evidentiary problems both for Aboriginal plaintiffs and the courts. The elements of proof of title are themselves imbued with an ethnocentrism which serves to ignore Aboriginal systems of land ownership and...
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2000
In this Article, Annalise Acorn examines the unique features of discrimination against women in academia, a workplace that is primarily concerned with the cultural production of intellectual cachet and scholarly authority. Acorn argues that one's scholarly authority is an end product of...
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2013
Introduction: Adorno’s words could be read alongside Klare’s critical focus on the political and moral dimensions of adjudicative law-making generally, and South African constitutional adjudication in particular. Klare (1998:150) asks: “Can we describe a method of adjudication that is politically...
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1993-01-01
Introduction: In 1984, Ernst Zundel, a commercial artist living in Toronto, was charged with two counts of spreading false news contrary to s. 181 (formerly s. 177) of the Criminal Code. Section 181 of the Criminal Code provides: Every one who wilfully publishes a statement, tale or news that he...
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Does a judge's party of appointment or gender matter to case outcomes: An empirical study of the Court of Appeal for Ontario
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Stribopoulos, James, Yahya, Moin A.
A recent study by Cass Sunstein identified ideological differences in the votes cast by judges on the United States Courts of Appeals in certain types of cases. He found that these patterns varied depending on the ideology of an appellate judge's co-panelists. In this study, we undertake a...
