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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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Introduces citizens to solutions for reforming the American campaign finance system
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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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Malini Vjaykumar, 2018 51-1 UBC Law Review 161, 2018 CanLIIDocs 11248
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The common law of assumed jurisdiction in Canada now consists of judges interpreting and applying the presumptive connecting factors established for tort claims in Club Resorts Ltd. v Van Breda and identifying and fleshing out the contours of presumptive connecting factors for claims other than tort. There is a pressing need for detailed analysis. While the presumptive connecting factor of a tort committed in the forum has been easy to apply in some cases, such as motor vehicle collisions, it has been much harder to apply in cases of defamation, misrepresentation, deceit and conspiracy. Beyond tort, presumptive connecting factors for certain causes of action such as breach of fiduciary duty, breach of confidence, or reversal of an unjust enrichment remain under-analysed. Little consensus exists on what aspects, if any, of these claims would constitute a sufficient connection for assumed jurisdiction. There are also important questions about how the presumptive connecting factor approach operates for several federal and provincial statutory causes of action, which differ in important ways from common law claims, and for assumed jurisdiction with respect to concurrent claims.
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Québec courts are experiencing an increase in the number of parties without legal representation. Although this trend is generally presented as a problem that generates extra costs and delays for the courts, the central issue is clearly that a large segment of the population is unable to afford legal expenses. However, what is the legal status of non-representation : is acting alone a right ? Although this is the approach generally taken by the courts, the extent of the right is strongly limited by the discretionary way it is implemented. An important distinction must be made between criminal and civil cases, in particular concerning protection for a right that is constitutional in criminal cases, but legislative in civil cases. Despite the lack of knowledge about the reasons why people choose not to be represented by a lawyer, a survey of the jurisprudence shows that acting alone is often considered to be a choice, which then has a significant effect on the implementation of the related judicial guarantees.
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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.
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