Sentences with phrase «best factum»

The prize for best factum was awarded to Bethany McKoy and Hannah Shaikh from Osgoode Hall Law School.

She is a 2017 Bowman National Tax Moot Champion («Best Factum - Appellant») and spent time behind the scenes as a legal intern with the Canada Revenue Agency.

UBC also swept the Peter Cory prizes for best factum, winning first place for their appellant factum and second place for their respondent's.

Not exact matches

The catalogue features documentation of Breitz's work, commissioned by The Power Plant, Factum (2009), a series of video portraits featuring seven sets of identical twins and one set of identical triplets, as well as illustrations of key works from Breitz's oeuvre: Him + Her (1968 - 2008), Legend (A Portrait of Bob Marley)(2005), Becoming (2003), and Four Duets (2000).

To find out more about any particular case, the Court's website has a section that allows users to find docket information, case summaries as well as factums from the parties.

Because court filings are public records, I think that syndicating SCC factums via public RSS feeds, and attaching to them a Canadian Creative Commons license («Attribution — no derivative — no commercial use» comes to mind), would be not only be fair; but would promote a better understanding of the Canadian Justice system.

Any person who fails to exercise reasonable care in signing a document is precluded from relying on non est factum as against a person who relies upon that document in good faith and for value.

Or, cutting to the chase, wouldn't the better way to decide whose to «blame» for this aridity be to compare what's in the factums with what's in the reasons?

«Denying a lawyer's right to free expression on behalf of a client in a court of law in favour of a vague definition of civility and its application after the fact fetters and chills the lawyer's ability to engage in vigorous advocacy,» Groia argues in his factum, «in turn damaging the public interest, as well as infringing [on] the ability of an accused or client to make full answer and defence in a judicial proceeding.»

This may be changing where factums are concerned, as noted by SLAWers, who seem to think that there are not good legal or pratical reasons to restrict access.

As I've said, we who are legally trained understand the whys and wherefores of the system, value the exquisite subtleties accompanying the intersection of jurisdiction, legislation and precedent, and appreciate the elegance of a well drafted contract or factum.

The best defense would be along the lines of fraud - in - factum or fraudulent inducement, i.e. that this term was slipped into the final draft in a manner expressly intended to mislead the signing party about what was being signed.

In this case, the L&LR Committee concluded that while the factum was well - drafted and of a high standard of quality, it did not meet the specific requirements of the Intervention policy.

Consider as well that documents (e.g., motions, written submissions, factums etc.) argue for you after you've left the courtroom and, at the same time, help build a record for appeal should this be necessary.

With the availability of Supreme Court factums on the Internet — where anonymity is not possible — it may well create the risk of counsel's argument in one case coming back to bite him or her.

Of note in this case is the court's reliance on both a fairly narrow (but common) reading of this rule, that restricts the right to file a reply factum very narrowly, as well as an «administrative practice» for the court to not even accept a reply factum unless leave is obtained by a judge.

Recipient of the Best Respondent's Factum award for the Frank M. Callaghan Memorial Moot at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.

As detailed in the factum, WSIB adjudicators are best placed to take an active role in stopping the discrimination too frequently experienced by workers re-entering the workplace.

Meeting the (costly) legal requirement to produce records is an activity that's well suited to project management; apparently writing a factum is not.

It is a good idea to review both the appellants» and respondents» factums to get a fuller picture.

Mr. Finkelstein appeared to be responding to the defendants» written submission that in order to enforce an implied duty of good faith, the court must find that such an implied term is necessary to give business efficacy to the Agreement [paras 113 - 114 of the Respondents» Factum].

* I (Eugene) was S.C.C. agent on this particular appeal, to Marc Richard Q.C. (now on the N.B.C.A.); CLICK HERE for the first page of the factum — a good example of a first paragraph that «leads with strength», ie strongest argument put up first — the whole para.

While in law school, Ben competed at the 2013 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, the world's largest moot court competition, where he won the Best Oralist Award in Canada and helped his team win the Best Respondent Factum in Canada.

I don't know who if anyone is betatesting this in Canada, but it would be a good idea for Canadian researchers to check the US Westlaw version to see if all the panoply of documents available in the US is relevant or necessary in Canada, outside of the factums that is.

It should be easier and cheaper to provide public access to the factums — the court could require them to be filed in soft as well as hard copy, if it does not do so already.