Not exact matches
In addition to its client - specific legal opinion services, LAO LAW makes
available hundreds of general and specific memoranda, draft
factums, and other materials that can be downloaded.
The information published on a court web site may come from a variety of authors: judges, court staff (e.g. employees of courts administration), the justice department / ministry, public servants, lawyers (e.g. if
factums are
available on the court web site), etc..
Posting would increase public access to the process of the Supreme Court of Canada, and make the research contained in the
factums generally
available.
I don't know whether Canadian commercial publishers bother to try to sell SCC
factums; it would be foolish for counsel to pay when they're
available for free.
Factums are
available here; and this is the link to the webcast.
The parties»
factums are
available on the Supreme Court's web site.
An electronic version of the
factum must be
available.
Her Majesty the Queen, but the
factums aren't
available.
We're helping out the Canadian Bar Association's Supreme Court of Canada Liaison Committee by running a two minute survey about whether
Factums submitted to the Court should be made publicly
available (as is done for the United States Supreme Court).
The trial decision is not
available on - line, but I was able to secure a copy of the transcripts and the Crown appeal
factum.
Some courts even go beyond this content and use their websites to make additional materials
available to the public, including appellate
factums, transcripts, podcasts and in some specialized cases the pleadings.
A press release from the CLC can be found here, and the
factum by Paul J. J. Cavalluzzo and Michael D. Wright of Cavalluzzo Hayes Shilton McIntyre & Cornish is
available here through the CCLA.
Interestingly, CanLII doesn't currently collect and make
available SCC
factums and neither does LexUM, which otherwise publishes judgments for the Court.
Do you have a copy of the
factum used at the Court of Appeal, and is it
available online?
I can only find a partial
factum for the appellant,
available here, but if there's a more complete copy please email me so I can amend this post.
The
factum of some of the interveners are also
available online, such as the Coalition of West Coast Women's Legal Education and Action Fund & Justice for Children and Youth & Arch Disability Centre, and the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association.
You should glance at the parties»
factums which are
available on the SCC's website or, at the miminum (if you've sufficient background) read the Registrar's summary.
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.
The parties» Supreme Court appeal
factums are
available on the SCC web site.
The Court asks parties preparing
factums of submissions to limit parallel citations to two, beginning with the neutral citation when
available (s. 3) and to omit useless terms or information in certain circumstances (ss.
Intervener
factums became
available on the SCC website as of April 13: http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/case-dossier/rec-doc/af-ma-eng.aspx.
If you, like me, are interested in the issue of enterprise liability and the application of Salomon, you can still get your fix from the parties»
factums in this appeal,
available online here.