Sentences with phrase «common law world»

There are, unfortunately, some segments of the legal community in Canada that still do not fully appreciate what the Charter has done, not just for our country, but the international common law world.

The one major concern I have in all this is that we are back to having duplication of services and reporting, which has plagued legal publishing in the common law world since the nineteenth century, and has particularly been a concern in Canada.

We've done the legal legwork for you and crammed it all into an easy - to - read 59 - page eBook, Court Structures of the Common Law World.»

British legal publisher Justis is offering a free download of a document entitled Court Structures of the Common Law World (free registration required):

Now more frequently but not always described as Lexis Nexis, the business, with its classic brand name, remains by any measure or description, one of the handful of information icons of the Common Law world.

So how can these young students even begin to conceive of the structure of law «stuff» that they find online, why it has the citation that it has, what the citation relates to, unless they understand how the case law reporting system evolved in England, and then spread around the common law world?

Speaking in generalities and conscious of the many exceptions to weaken the statement, for the most part, Wolters Kluwer comes from and is most comfortable in the European, multi-lingual, Civil Law tradition while Thomson Reuters and LexisNexis are happier in that of the English - speaking, Common Law world.

One commentator describes the oppression remedy as «the broadest, most comprehensive and most open - ended shareholder remedy in the common law world»: S. M. Beck, «Minority Shareholders» Rights in the 1980s», in Corporate Law in the 80s (1982), 311, at p. 312.

They have been around a lot longer than Halsbury's in one form or other in the common law world, being descendants of the earlier digests and abridgments (the two names being somewhat synonymous), and to my mind linked to Blackstone's Commentaries which is generally taken to be the first systemic treatment of English law.

A book like the one you describe will be useful throughout the common law world, not just in Canada; and whilst Canadian constitutional pieties might just about justify not translating the relevant passages for a Canadian audience, it makes the book potentially far less useful in the rest of the Common law world where such pieties do not obtain, and it can not be assumed that the readers will have any second language, let alone that any such second lanaguage would French.

In any event, I have observed over the years that regulatory change related to the legal profession in the common law world begins in Australia and then moves around the globe, first to the UK, and finally to North America.

It is more like a legal treatise in the common law world, but with each chapter or major legal issue treated by a different author.

Law in the Common Law world was never taught at universities until the 1800's, with the exception of Oxford and Cambridge where Civil Law has been taught for many centuries.

Regulation of legal services differs in important ways across the common law world.

I was keenly interested, as I have agreed to contribute a chapter to a forthcoming (early 2016) collection on legitimate expectations in the common law world.

The courts and the various legislatures of the common law world have sometimes used interchangeably the terms «implied trust», «resulting trust» and «constructive trust», and the terminology is therefore somewhat confusing

Paul Daly, «A Pluralist Account of Deference and Legitimate Expectations», in Matthew Groves and Greg Weeks eds., Legitimate Expectations in the Common Law World (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2016)

Ontario was regarded as having the best legal training program in the common law world and a very major part of that was the practical training during the bar ad courses.

For example, the common law world does not require invoices be signed.

Generally, in the common law world, final courts of appeal have not as a uniform practice handed down a single judgment, one notable exception being the Privy Council.

Perhaps now is the time — the rest of the common law world is addressing the matter, so should Canada.

Within contract law the Canadian case of Canada Steamship Lines Ltd v R [1952] UKPC 1 on the interpretation of unfair terms contra proferentem, has proved incredibly influential in similar cases across the common law world.

Self - representing parties seems to be the new reality for courts around the common law world and so courts need to adapt the way they have traditionally operated in order to provide effective access to justice for unrepresented litigants.»

Simon Archer directs us to a Sydney Morning Herald piece from a couple of weeks ago reporting the public offering of shares in a law firm, Slater & Gordon Ltd., pretty much a first in the common law world.

maintains and develops the role of the highest court in the United Kingdom as a leader in the common law world.

Often referred to as the «one true exception'to the rule in Foss v Harbottle (1843) 2 Hare 461, 67 ER 189, the derivative suit has been seen as an important aspect of corporate governance reform outside of the common law world.

However, the fundamental distinction between a witness's evidence and a judge's directions was established in England centuries ago, and remains applicable throughout the common law world.