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2 Jan 2014, 8:34 am
The Quebec Court of Appeal agreed with these findings in almost every instance, but reduced the overall awards by $1.6 million.In a judgment written by Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, the Supreme Court upheld the infringement ruling against the appellants, and partially allowed a cross-appeal by Robinson to reinstate damages excluded by the appeal court.In the case, the court weighed the need to protect artistic creators against the need to protect the public domain from proprietary… [read post]
20 Dec 2013, 12:08 pm
Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, writing for a unanimous court, stressed that the ruling is not about whether prostitution should be legal or not, but about whether Parliament’s means of controlling it infringe the constitutional rights of prostitutes. [read post]
20 Dec 2013, 7:55 am
Bedford will take effect in one year, inviting Parliament to try to come up with some other way to regulate the sex trade if it chooses to do so.Prostitution is technically legal in Canada but most related activities have been illegal, including living off the avails of someone else’s prostitution, but the court found that the provisions were overly broad or grossly disproportionate.Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin said many prostitutes “have no meaningful choice” but to… [read post]
6 Nov 2013, 5:47 pm
George Wythe, Beverley Tucker, Abel Upshur, and a couple of more obscure people are part of the story, too. [read post]
25 Oct 2013, 10:18 am
”On behalf of the majority in Cairney, SCC Chief Justice Beverley McLaughlin wrote: “If this air of reality test is met, the judge should leave the defence to the jury. [read post]
17 Oct 2013, 12:58 pm
” We have two international keynote speakers who are Warrior Women in their own right, The Right Honorable Beverley McLachlin, P.C., Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and Baroness Emma Nicholson of Winterbourne, Life Peer of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, our keynote speaker in 2011. [read post]
4 Oct 2013, 1:37 pm
Beverley was one of a kind. [read post]
1 Oct 2013, 12:26 pm
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada Beverley McLachlin shares a laugh with Arthur Milnes, commissioner of the non-partisan, non-profit Sir John A. [read post]
29 Jul 2013, 2:22 pm
The Council is chaired by The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of Canada.One of its essential functions is to examine complaints concerning the acts of federally-appointed judges. [read post]
5 Jul 2013, 8:31 am
However, McKercher possessed no relevant confidential information that could be used to prejudice CN,” Chief Justice Beverley McLaughlin wrote on behalf of a unanimous court.The bright line rule was established in the SCC’s landmark 2002 decision R. v. [read post]
24 Jun 2013, 8:30 pm
Alan Lenczner and another leading advocate will argue Shylock’s sentence before a panel of judges including Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin and former Justice Ian Binnie. [read post]
27 May 2013, 9:58 am
A heavy flow of work passes through the courts,” Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin wrote on behalf of a unanimous court in Cojocaru v. [read post]
29 Apr 2013, 4:00 am
Chief Justice Beverley McClachlin said in a speech (in 2002): “The law is, perhaps, the most important example of how words affect people’s lives. [read post]
25 Apr 2013, 7:19 am
”He notes the push is coming from Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin down through the whole justice system and beyond. [read post]
24 Apr 2013, 7:20 am
Beverley McLachlin and is chaired by Justice Thomas Cromwell. [read post]
24 Apr 2013, 6:17 am
The Committee, established by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Beverley McLachlin, and chaired by Supreme Court Justice Thomas Cromwell, was, in the words of the Backgrounder, also online, "convened to address the urgent and multiple issues surrounding access to justice in civil and family matters." [read post]
22 Apr 2013, 1:25 pm
Supreme Court of Canada Justice Morris Fish will be leaving the court at the end of the summer.Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin announced today that Fish wrote to Justice Minister Rob Nicholson to advise that he will retire from the country’s top court at the end of the spring session. [read post]
18 Mar 2013, 4:59 pm
The Institute of Parliamentary and Political Law / Institut de droit Parlementaire et politique is cooperating with the Université du Québec en Outaouais in Gatineau (right across the Ottawa River from Ottawa), to establish a program of study in parliamentary and political law known as Law and Democracy Week.This will be an intensive program of courses on institutions and instruments of governing, from a legal point of view and will take place May 13-17, 2013.Courses will cover the… [read post]
12 Mar 2013, 1:23 am
., From revolutions to constitutions: the case of EgyptAlex de Waal, African roles in the Libyan conflict of 2011 Philip Robins, Turkey's ‘double gravity’ predicament: the foreign policy of a newly activist powerClive Jones & Beverley Milton-Edwards, Missing the ‘devils’ we knew? [read post]
7 Mar 2013, 4:00 am
” They are also the same organizations that, in 1998, in a speech to a conference of the BC Council of Administrative Tribunals (BCCAT), Supreme Court of Canada Justice Beverley McLachlin (as she then was) described as “dispute resolving bodies” [that are not] “regulatory or licensing bodies” [and that] “seem to be doing what the courts have traditionally done. [read post]
