Legal History
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From  Public Lands and Natural ResourcesHistory |
Historical overview of how public lands and resources came into being in Canada before Confederation. | Alastair R. Lucas; Arlene J. Kwasniak; Elaine L. Hughes | 18 | 2016 | $1.80 Add |
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From Public Lands and Natural ResourcesConfederation and Onwards |
Historical overview of the development of public lands and resources at Confederation and during the subsequent expansion of the country. | Alastair R. Lucas; Arlene J. Kwasniak; Elaine L. Hughes | 25 | 2016 | $2.50 Add |
 Public Law at the McLachlin CourtThe First Decade |
Beverley McLachlin was sworn in as the seventeenth Chief Justice of Canada on 7 January 2000. This book focuses on constitutional and administrative law decisions rendered in the first decade of … | Adam M. Dodek; David A. Wright | 447 | 2011 | View |
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From  Regina v StewartIs Information Property? From: Property on Trial |
Examination of the history and consequences of a 1988 Supreme Court of Canada case regarding the relationship between confidential information and property. | C. Ian Kyer | 39 | 2012 | $3.90 Add |
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From  Seeking the Upper Hand, 1892–93From: Thirty Years' War |
Account of political activities surrounding the enactment of the legislation to incorporate the Toronto Railway Company. | C. Ian Kyer | 16 | 2015 | $1.60 Add |
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From Seeking Victory By Other Means, 1912–14From: Thirty Years' War |
Account of the City’s attempt to purchase the Toronto Railway Company and the Toronto Electric Light Company. | C. Ian Kyer | 10 | 2015 | $1.00 Add |
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From Select BibliographyCanadian Property Law Histories From: Property on Trial |
List of case studies and other works used as source material for the essays in the collection. | Bruce Ziff; Eric Tucker; James Muir | 6 | 2012 | $0.60 Add |
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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 |
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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 Busy Harbours of Canadian FederalismThe Division of Powers and Its Doctrines in the McLachlin Court |
The past fifty years of division of powers jurisprudence has been more about the doctrines and methods of analysis of legal federalism—pith and substance, double aspect, ancillary powers, … | Peter C Oliver | 33 | 2011 | $3.30 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 Confederation Debates in the Province of CanadaFrom: Essential Readings in Canadian Government and Politics, 2nd Edition |
Excerpts of parliamentary debates by John A. Macdonald and George-Étienne Cartier from 1865 regarding the proposed federal union. | Debra Thompson; François Rocher; Peter Russell | 8 | 2015 | $0.80 Add |
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From  The Courts and Canadian FederalismFrom Watertight Compartments to Shared Responsibility From: Constitutional Law, 5/e |
Review of how constitutional cases decided by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council interpreted the division of legislative powers and affected the subsequent development of shared jurisdiction. | Byron Shaw; Padraic Ryan; Patrick J. Monahan | 20 | 2017 | $2.00 Add |
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From "The courts have turned women into slaves for the men of this world"Irene Murdoch's Quest for Justice From: Property on Trial |
Examination of a 1973 Supreme Court of Canada decision on marital property rights from the perspective of the wife’s lawyer and in the context of a feminist movement for law reform. | Angela Cameron; Angela Chaisson; Vanessa Gruben | 34 | 2012 | $3.40 Add |
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From The Duty to Consult Aboriginal PeoplesGovernment Approaches to Unresolved Issues |
The Aboriginal jurisprudence of the McLachlin Court encourages governments and Aboriginal communities to reach negotiated solutions to land and harvesting disputes without resort to litigation. … | Lori Sterline; Peter Landmann | 22 | 2011 | $2.20 Add |
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From  The Early Campaign for Reform and the OLRC Report |
Chapter 3 covers the period from the early 1970s, when class actions began to be discussed in Ontario in the context of federal competition legislation and provincial consumer protection laws, to … | Suzanne Chiodo | 42 | 2018 | $4.20 Add |
