At paragraph 53 in Wellington, the court merely made closing obiter
dicta comments to illustrate that concerned family members of victims of crime often have rights to certain remedies.
These dicta comments suggest the Court of Appeal did not consider the Legislature had ousted the possibility of a common law tort by enacting the Privacy Act.
Not exact matches
But Barr vitiates his own potentially formidable case against Childs by continually allowing himself to be diverted from the great hermeneutical issues to attack Childs for this or that
comment, some of them mere obiter
dicta.
Poliquin contains some very strong
dicta supporting employers» interest in controlling employee use of their computer systems,
comments which are particularly significant if one accepts that the rules governing workplace privacy ought to be based on reasonable workplace norms.
The rest, as Cross goes on to explain, is
comment said by the way (obiter
dictum).
It was Alito's first written opinion this term, Kimberly Atkins at DC
Dicta notes, adding, «The decision was not entirely surprising, given the
comments from the justices during oral arguments in the case.»
Where not, they'd only be
comments (or obiter
dicta).
In my view, the Supreme Court of Canada can not be taken to have overruled an established line of authorities involving s. 91 (24), including Derrickson, when making
comments in obiter
dicta on another topic and without mentioning the authorities.
Given this, the Board's
comments quoted above are, strictly speaking, obiter
dicta.
Examples of category (2) include a citation to the aforementioned statute, proposed legislation that would amend the aforementioned statute, obiter
dicta in the aforementioned court opinion, a digest entry summarizing the aforementioned court opinion, and a journal article
commenting on the aforementioned statute.
In doing so, the Court
commented at some length, and entirely in obiter
dicta on this practice: