Sentences with phrase «canadian legal history»

This is a transcription of the same records, thought lost for years, that were used by David Murray in Colonial justice: justice, morality and crime in the Niagara district, 1791 - 1849 (Toronto: Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, 2002)[Amicus No. 27216205].

I've been distracted today by a book that arrived in the morning mail: Frederick Vaughan, Viscount Haldane: «The Wicked Step - father of the Canadian Constitution» (Toronto: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History / University of Toronto Press, 2010)(LAC Amicus no. 38031823)(UTP pid no. 2758).

The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History has announced its 2010 Publishing Programme.

The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History invites young members of the profession for an evening of discussion and engagement with legal history.

On a personal note, I well remember being asked by the current Chief Justice (then Attorney General) Roy McMurtry to organize a lunch in the Sir John A. room at the Albany Club, in 1979, it must have been, to discuss Canadian legal history and the state of scholarship in the areaIf you want to see how far we've come see Christopher Moore's helpful reading list.

He was a part of Canadian legal history when he acted on behalf of Maher Arar.

With the exception of the first welcoming post by University of Toronto law professor, Jim Phillips, all the posts thus far are by Mary Stokes, the R. Roy McMurtry Fellow in Canadian Legal History at Osgoode Hall Law School.

The legal history scene in Canada has changed dramatically in the last twenty yearsSee In The Northern Archives Something Stirred: The Discovery Of Canadian Legal History by John McLaren.

Peter fostered not merely Canadian legal history but Ontario legal history.

Richard Peck Partner, Peck & Co., Vancouver Criminal lawyer Richard Peck has been a part of some of the most notorious cases in Canadian legal history.

Peter recognized that despite the pioneering work of Dick Risk, Canadian legal history needed such an institutional vehicle.

He was a History Professor at York University, author of five books, Editor - in - Chief of The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, and Associate Editor of The Ontario Historical Studies Series.

The culmination of her work on racial discrimination in Canadian legal history, Colour - Coded: A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900 - 1950, was awarded the noted 2002 Joseph Brandt Award.

Canadian Legal History Blog Bailie on Violet King in CJWL In the same issue of CJWL as Backhouse on the history of Sexual Harassment, Rachel Bailie has an article entitled «Minority of One: Violet King's Entry to the Legal Profession.»

Dr. Peter Oliver of York University was not a lawyer, but his work catalyzed the production of a corpus of Canadian legal history.

Jonathan Swainger (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press / Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 2007) arrived in my mailbox today.

The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History has been publishing a new blog, Canadian Legal History, for just over a month now.

This script is based on the case of Kenneth Parks, which made Canadian legal history when sleepwalking was raised as a defence to murder.

Canadian Legal History Blog Reposting: Moore response to Kay on Treaty 9 Okay, now it's officially viral!

Ottawa asked the Supreme Court to provide an opinion on the legality of the appointment, in a move unprecedented in Canadian legal history.

The case made Canadian legal history when it became the largest human rights settlement.

So began one of the most famous cases in Canadian legal history, R. v. Oakes, [1986] 1 SCR 103 < http://canlii.ca/t/1ftv6 >.

For the first time ever in Canadian legal history, I have designed an online course that provides comprehensive and easy - to - follow guidance that will enable you to effectively represent your case in the Small Claims Court without the help of a legal professional.

The second version emerged best in an affidavit given by historian Christopher Moore, author of two widely - read books on Confederation and several others on Canadian legal history and a two - time winner of the Governor General's Award for Literature.

Glen How's persistence, energy and devotion to law have earned him an important place in Canadian legal history.

He also had the distinction of receiving the Law Society of Upper Canada Award for Outstanding Achievement in Legal Studies, the Osgoode Society Prize for Canadian Legal History and the Law Foundation of Ontario Award for academic excellence.

For the first time in Canadian legal history, a definition for «terrorist activity,» together with several new terrorism - related offences, was written into our Criminal Code.

Scott is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Canadian Bar Association, the Advocates» Society and the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.

Erecting a monument to communism in the Judicial Precinct is also problematic from the perspective of Canadian legal history.

Canadian Legal History Blog Brown and Hudak, «Have you any recollection of what occurred at all?»

[6] http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/viola-desmond/, Constance Backhouse, Colour - Coded: A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900 - 1950 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 1999).

The Osgoode Society has announced the fall line up of new titles in its series of original writings on Canadian Legal History.

«When Canadian legal history is written, it may show that the profession was distracted by civility and failed to devote sufficient interest to access to justice,» he wrote in 2011.

There is a stimulus to digitalize and preserve the print record of Canadian legal history through the Canadian Association of Law Libraries.

One of the most famous cases in Canadian legal history — the Persons Case — was brought by five Alberta women — Emily Murphy (Herstory 1974), Nellie McClung (Herstory 1974), Irene Parlby (Herstory 1975), Henrietta Muir Edwards (Herstory 1976), and Louise McKinney (Herstory 1981).

Canadian Legal History Blog Reposting: Moore on Ancaster Treason Trials Museum Exhibit Chris Moore knows (almost) everything, volume 2000.

The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master, and the Trial That Shocked a Country (Toronto: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 2013) pp. 23 - 28.

(Sources: Interview of T. Ormston for OCJ History Project, 2014; Justice Ted Ormston, Transcript of Interview for Oral History Project, Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 2008; Interviews of A. Edgar and M. L. de Sousa for OCJ History Project, 2014.)

Earlier this week at its annual conference in Moncton, the Canadian Association of Law Libraries announced that the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History book series was the winner of the 2015 Hugh Lawford Award for Excellence in Legal Publishing.

Over the past 35 years, the Society has published books that cover the breadth of Canadian legal history, including the history of crime and punishment, women and the law, the legal treatment of minorities and much more.

Marilyn was the first and only administrator of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History for over 40 years.

Here's a random list of this year's winners and finalists: Canadian Legal History Blog, ClickLaw, Legal Feeds, Legal Post, Slater Vecchio Connected, Doorey's Workplace Law Blog, Legal Frontiers: McGill's Blog on International Law, The Court, Entertainment and Media Law Signal... more»

[i] Philip Girard, Bora Laskin: Bringing Law to Life (Toronto: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 2005) 180.

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he largest law firm collapse in Canadian history dominated the legal news in 2014.

About Dye & Durham Corporation: Dye & Durham Corporation is a wholly owned Canadian company with a long and reputable history of serving the legal profession and is Western Canada's premier supplier of worldwide legal support and information services.

From Canopy Growth (formerly Tweed Marijuana Inc.), where Phil Shaer is doing deals in a space that is part of a fundamental change in how society views cannabis, to the biggest corporate merger in Canadian history — Enbridge / Spectra — we have visited with legal departments small and large.

Writing in the Watershed Sentinal *, freelance writer / researcher Joyce Nelson characterizes this case as «one of the most important legal cases in Canadian history» and describes the crux of the issue as follows:

Reflecting on a law school's history and development naturally leads one to ponder the changing nature of legal education and the evolving functions law schools serve in Canadian society.

I like that the blog links to places I rarely visit: British Library: Canadian Collections History Matters NLM: Medicine in the Americas, 1619 - 1920 SSRN Legal History Page