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From  NEW! Part 8: Procedural RulesFrom: Guide to the Law and Practice of Anti-SLAPP Proceedings |
Part 8 includes chapters 35-40. Topics discussed in these chapters include procedural matters of anti-SLAPP proceedings, specifically, no further steps in proceeding, no amendment to pleadings, … | David Potts; Erin Stoik | 75 | 2022 | $7.50 Add |
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From NEW! Part 9: Procedural Issues in Anti-SLAPP MotionsFrom: Guide to the Law and Practice of Anti-SLAPP Proceedings |
Part 9 includes chapter 41-44. Topics discussed include anti-SLAPP motions, specifically interventions, apologies, retractions, and publication bans. | David Potts; Erin Stoik | 33 | 2022 | $3.30 Add |
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From  Part Four-Cambie Goes to Court: The Pre-trial Era 2009 to 2016 |
In this chapter, Day traces the multi-year legal battle over private surgical care in British Columbia, from the 2009 filing through the Supreme Court of Canada’s 2023 refusal to hear the appeal. | Brian Day | 162 | 2024 | $16.20 Add |
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From  Presuming Restraint |
Chapter 5 looks at a number of substantive criminal law doctrines in which one can see the gravitational pull of the presumption of restraint. In particular, it considers the courts’ … | Michael Plaxton | 39 | 2019 | $3.90 Add |
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From  NEW! Profile of the Judiciary |
This chapter offers a profile of the judiciary by examining interviews with current and retired judges and prothonotaries of the Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal and their observations. | Ian Greene | 29 | 2021 | $2.90 Add |
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From Reading Criminal Offences |
Chapter 2 concerns the rules that govern statutory interpretation. In interpreting criminal offences, courts are bound by the legislative purposes underpinning and animating the relevant … | Michael Plaxton | 50 | 2019 | $5.00 Add |
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From Representative Labelling |
Chapter 9 examines a further implication of the guidance function, taking the Supreme Court’s majority decision in Martineau as its point of departure. In Martineau, the majority struck … | Michael Plaxton | 36 | 2019 | $3.60 Add |
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From  Dissident in Search of ConsensusFrom: Beverley McLachlin |
Addresses McLachlin’s role in transforming the way the Supreme Court approach to making decisions. Explains how, under McLachlin’s leadership, the Court became more consensual and … | Ian Greene; Peter McCormick | 24 | 2019 | $2.40 Add |
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From  Social Networking and Cyber Research Undermining the Jury System |
Analysis of the effect of juror social networking and cyber research on the validity of jury verdicts. | Karen Eltis | 12 | 2016 | $1.20 Add |
Sovereignty, Restraint, and GuidanceCanadian Criminal Law in the 21st Century |
Students, academics, and lawyers often think of the substantive criminal law as if it were just another branch of the common law. On this understanding, it falls to the courts to decide on a … | Michael Plaxton | 614 | 2019 | View |
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From  NEW! Statistical Results: The Judges and the Supreme CourtFrom: Bench Strength |
In this chapter, Harnish examines statistics on the Supreme Court of Canada’s income tax decisions from 1920 to 2019. | Kerry Harnish | 12 | 2025 | $1.20 Add |
 Supreme Court on TrialJudicial Activism or Democratic Dialogue |
The Supreme Court of Canada has been accused of usurping Canadian democracy on a long list of divisive topics, including assisted dying, sex work, supervised injection sites, same-sex marriage, … | Kent Roach | 526 | 2016 | View |
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From NEW! The Administrative Independence of the Federal CourtsA Case for Reform |
This chapter argues that judicial independence is a pillar of our constitutional democracy and as such is a principle anchored in the Canadian state structure and recognized as essential to the … | Martine Valois | 37 | 2021 | $3.70 Add |
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From  The Charter Dialogue Between Courts and Legislatures or Perhaps the Charter of Rights Isn’t Such a Bad Thing After AllFrom: Essential Readings in Canadian Government and Politics, 2nd Edition |
1997 article by Peter W. Hogg and Allison A. Bushell arguing that critique of judicial review under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms based on democratic legitimacy is not sustainable. | Debra Thompson; François Rocher; Peter Russell | 10 | 2015 | $1.00 Add |
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From NEW! The Charter-Era JudgesFrom: Bench Strength |
In this chapter, Harnish traces how five Supreme Court of Canada judges shaped income tax interpretation from 1982 through the mid-2010s, following the implementation of the Charter of Rights and … | Kerry Harnish | 167 | 2025 | $16.70 Add |
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From The Charter’s Influential Response to Judicial ActivismFrom: Supreme Court on Trial |
Discussion of the negotiations leading to the adoption of the Charter, and its influence domestically and abroad. | Kent Roach | 19 | 2016 | $1.90 Add |
