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In August 2016 Colten Boushie, a twenty-two-year-old Cree man from Red Pheasant First Nation, was fatally shot on a Saskatchewan farm by white farmer Gerald Stanley. In a trial that bitterly divided Canadians, Stanley was acquitted of both murder and manslaughter by a jury in Battleford with no visible Indigenous representation. In Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice Kent Roach critically reconstructs the Gerald Stanley/Colten Boushie case to examine how it may be a miscarriage of justice. Roach provides historical, legal, political, and sociological background to the case including misunderstandings over crime when Treaty 6 was negotiated, the 1885 hanging of eight Indigenous men at Fort Battleford, the role of the RCMP, prior litigation over Indigenous underrepresentation on juries, and the racially charged debate about defence of property, self-defence, guns, and rural crime. Drawing on both trial transcripts and research on miscarriages of justice, Roach looks at jury selection, the controversial "hang fire" defence, how the credibility and beliefs of Indigenous witnesses were challenged on the stand, and Gerald Stanley's implicit appeals to self-defence and defence of property, as well as the decision not to appeal the acquittal. Concluding his study, Roach asks whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's controversial call to "do better" is possible, given similar cases since Stanley's, the difficulty of reforming the jury or the RCMP, and the combination of Indigenous underrepresentation on juries and overrepresentation among those victimized and accused of crimes. Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice is a searing account of one case that provides valuable insight into criminal justice, racism, and the treatment of Indigenous peoples in Canada.
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A History of Law in Canada is an important three-volume project. Volume One begins at a time just prior to European contact and continues to the 1860s, Volume Two covers the half century after Confederation, and Volume Three covers the period from the beginning of the First World War to 1982, with a postscript taking the account to approximately 2000.The history of law includes substantive law, legal institutions, legal actors, and legal culture. The authors assume that since 1500 there have been three legal systems in Canada – the Indigenous, the French, and the English. At all times, these systems have co-existed and interacted, with the relative power and influence of each being more or less dominant in different periods.The history of law cannot be treated in isolation, and this book examines law as a dynamic process, shaped by and affecting other histories over the long term. The law guided and was guided by economic developments, was influenced and moulded by the nature and trajectory of political ideas and institutions, and variously exacerbated or mediated intercultural exchange and conflict. These themes are apparent in this examination, and through most areas of law including land settlement and tenure, and family, commercial, constitutional, and criminal law.
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This introduction to legal history contains chapters on law and custom in early Britain, jury and pleading, real property, criminal procedure and more.
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"New in this edition: Material on aboriginal settlement trusts, sham trusts, gratuitous transfer to trustee of pre-existing trust, resettlement of trust, administrative and cy-près schemes, public appeals (fundraising), rebutting presumptions in context of illegal purposes, personal liability of trustees, exculpatory clauses, and tracing into the payment of a debt. ... updated with new case and statute law, including references to the 2015 Trustees Act of New Brunswick that is based on the Uniform Trustee Act of 2012"--Publisher's website
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"This unique publication is an in-depth presentation of the law, regarding issues that arise in the appeal process before the appellate courts of Canada -- scope information (Thomson Reuters Westlaw Canada).
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"L'art idolâtre la creation autant qu'il exalte la liberte. Le droit, bien au contraire, borne et reprime. La religion, pour sa part, forge les convictions et singularise les perceptions. Voilà mises en scene la liberte d'expression, artistique, la liberte de religion, fragile, et la liberte de repression, encadree. Ce triptyque evoque à lui seul les atermoiements du droit à l'egard de nombreux phenomenes artistiques controverses à l'echelle mondiale (les caricatures de Mahomet, Les Versets sataniques , les unes de Charlie Hebdo, les spectacles de Dieudonne, la piece Golgotha Picnic. Le present ouvrage aborde les liens entre l'art et la liberte d'expression, la protection des identites religieuses par l'entremise du droit penal et les contours de l'impunite juridique reservee à la satire. La reflexion à l'oeuvre prend appui sur l'abrogation recente du crime de blaspheme par de nombreux parlements pour sonder l'ampleur desormais devolue à la protection de la liberte de religion des croyants. L'apparente liberation de la parole incarnee par l'evacuation de cette infraction agit en trompe-l'oeil. Nombreuses sont les juridictions qui constatent la resurgence de l'incrimination du blaspheme sous le couvert d'infractions autres (incitation à la haine ou à la discrimination contre les croyants, denigrement des religions, obscenite, indecence). La dissonance entre la jurisprudence de la Cour europeenne des droits de l'homme et celle de la Cour suprême du Canada renvoie à une conception divergente de la conciliation parfois requise entre liberte d'expression et liberte de religion. L'occasion est donnee de s'interroger sur l'intensite du prejudice subi par le fidele qui voit sa croyance vilipendee par un contempteur qui se reclame de la liberte d'expression ou de la liberte artistique. La presente etude dresse les lignes de partage entre la tolerance, l'outrance et l'interdit penal."--Resume de l'editeur.
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"This comprehensive Commentary presents a contemporary legal perspective on the inherently interdisciplinary field of children's rights. Chapters analyse each article of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, along with its Optional Protocols ..." -- Provided by publisher.
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Canada imposes taxes based on taxpayer residence and on the source of income, and the rules relating to this international taxation are complex. This title presents a straightforward and lucid explanation of those rules, and how they are applied by the taxing authorities.
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"This is a reference tool for criminal law practitioners on section 11(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which guarantees the right to a trial within a reasonable period of time. It discusses key cases and topics of interest."-- Provided by publisher.
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"The book delivers a comprehensive overview of the foundational concepts, principles, sources, and institutions of the international legal system and how they are experienced and practiced domestically and in foreign relations"-- Résumé de l'éditeur.