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La restitution en droit civil est à la fois commune et incomprise. Les occasions de l'appliquer sont nombreuses, mais les juges peinent souvent à en suivre méthodiquement les règles. Cet ouvrage est le premier en droit québécois à approfondir le thème de la restitution des prestations, concept émergent en droit des obligations. Geste simple en apparence, le fait de "rendre ce qui a été reçu" soulève en réalité des difficultés importantes liées notamment au passage du temps. L'anéantissement du contrat, la réception de l'indu et l'impossibilité d'exécuter une obligation en raison d'un événement de force majeure ne sont que quelques-uns des cas visés. Cet ouvrage rend compte des fondements et du régime de la restitution en droit québécois. Il explique les dispositions du Code civil du Québec et en éclaire l'application. -- Résumé de l'éditeur
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Il y a maintenant près de 25 ans, était publiée la seconde édition de cet ouvrage concernant le droit de la santé et de la sécurité du travail. Bien entendu, depuis ce temps, les tribunaux, que ce soit la Commission des lésions professionnelles, le Tribunal administratif du travail ou encore les tribunaux de droit commun, soit la Cour supérieure, la Cour d'appel du Québec et, ultimement, la Cour suprême du Canada, ont rendu de multiples décisions sur les sujets abordés par notre ouvrage. Le nombre de décisions analysées se chiffrant par milliers, l'ouvrage présente une synthèse de la jurisprudence pour en dégager les principes et propose à l'occasion diverses interprétations. -- Résumé de l'éditeur
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Indigenous Nationals/Canadian Citizens begins with a detailed policy history from first contact to the Sesquicentennial with major emphasis on the evolution of Canadian policy initiatives relating to Indigenous peoples. This is followed by a focus on the
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We are in the age of statutes; and it is indisputable that statutes are swallowing up the common law. Yet the study of statutes as a coherent whole is rare. In these three lectures, given as the 2017 Hamlyn Lecture series, Professor Andrew Burrows takes on the challenge of thinking seriously and at a practical level about statutes in English law. In his characteristically lively and punchy style, he examines three central aspects which he labels interpretation, interaction and improvement. So how are statutes interpreted? Is statutory interpretation best understood as seeking to effect the intention of Parliament or is that an unhelpful fiction? Can the common law be developed by analogy to statutes? Do the judges have too much power in developing the common law and in interpreting statutes? How can our statutes be improved? These and many other questions are explored and answered in this accessible and thought-provoking analysis
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This book recounts the many and varied transformations in the history of law in Canada in the half century after Confederation.
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Good Judgment, based upon the author's experience as a lawyer, law professor, and judge, explores the role of the judge and the art of judging. Engaging with the American, English, and Commonwealth literature on the role of the judge in the common law tradition, Good Judgment addresses the following questions: What exactly do judges do? What is properly within their role and what falls outside? How do judges approach their decision-making task? In an attempt to explain and reconcile two fundamental features of judging, namely judicial choice and judicial discipline, this book explores the nature and extent of judicial choice in the common law legal tradition and the structural features of that tradition that control and constrain that element of choice. As Sharpe explains, the law does not always provide clear answers, and judges are often left with difficult choices to make, but the power of judicial choice is disciplined and constrained and judges are not free to decide cases according to their own personal sense of justice. Although Good Judgment is accessibly written to appeal to the non-specialist reader with an interest in the judicial process, it also tackles fundamental issues about the nature of law and the role of the judge and will be of particular interest to lawyers, judges, law students, and legal academics.
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"Of all the issues that bring mental health practitioners and the criminal courts together, fitness to stand trial is by far the most common. In Canada, thousands of fitness assessments, psychiatric reports, fitness hearings, and verdicts of either “fit” or “unfit” to stand trial are rendered every year. For such a common event, one would be inclined to think that, for the most part, the law is uncontroversial; that most of the issues have been settled. Fitness to Stand Trial lays out the law as it is seemingly settled, and discusses several areas where the law is much less settled."--Résumé de l'éditeur.