Sentences with phrase «canadian common law rule»

The drafters of the Uniform Act (I chaired the working group that prepared it) wanted to codify the principle because the Canadian common law rule was not as easy to demonstrate in the case law at the time (1998) as it has since become.

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Such evidence should include Canadian trade - mark registrations or evidence of use in Canada of common law marks along with a connection to Canada enough to establish the Canadian Presences Requirements under the rules.

I will then consider the principles that should apply to the assumption of jurisdiction and the doctrine of forum non conveniens under the common law conflicts rules of Canadian private international law.

To my admittedly biased eye, any «no publication» or similar rule is impossible to square with the principle of precedent, at least as we understand it in Anglo - Canadian common law.

The authors of McWilliams» Canadian Criminal Evidence observe that «[f] or more than two centuries the common law has woven a web of complex rules and exceptions

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I simply wish to remind my fellow Canadian lawyers and Canadian judges that the American legal profession has succeeded in codifying many of our difficult common - law rules of evidence, to argue that the Uniform Rules are worthy of our closest scrutiny and, finally, to advocate that the Canadian legal profession give consideration to the preparation of a similar code of evidence for use in this courules of evidence, to argue that the Uniform Rules are worthy of our closest scrutiny and, finally, to advocate that the Canadian legal profession give consideration to the preparation of a similar code of evidence for use in this couRules are worthy of our closest scrutiny and, finally, to advocate that the Canadian legal profession give consideration to the preparation of a similar code of evidence for use in this country.