Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII) http://www.canlii.org This non-profit organization maintains a search engine that provides access to a number of
judgments of courts across Canada.
A non-profit organization which maintains a search engine that provides access to a number of
judgments of courts across Canada.
Not exact matches
The consequence
of this recognition would be, in effect, the (constitutionality required) uniform enforcement
across Canada
of judgments of Canadian
courts.
Several landmark
judgments of the European
Court of Human Rights have helped to significantly strengthen the rule
of law and democracy
across the European continent.
But for the past 30 years, we've taken for granted that we can also offer the benefit
of all these European instruments and that English
judgments will be enforceable
across the EU — and as soon as those are stripped back, one may need to consider the balance between the general reputation
of English
courts and English law and the fact that we may need to say to clients that it may potentially become harder to enforce your debt overseas in the EU.
I came
across this opening paragraph in a
judgment of the British Columbia
Court of Appeal in Kripps v. Touche Ross & Co, 1991 CanLII 2261.
To the relief
of judgment creditors
across the country, the Supreme
Court ruled that
courts can use their inherent jurisdiction to make orders permitting the disclosure
of personal information, including personal information contained in mortgage discharge statements, and that such disclosures are permitted based on the implied consent
of the mortgagor.
In what has to be one
of the more unusual cases I have come
across, a Superior
Court judge has set aside a default
judgment after being satisfied that the process server hired by the plaintiff to serve its claim swore «untruthful» affidavits
of service which were subsequently relied on by the plaintiff to obtain default
judgment.
70 Because we drew briefs from Westlaw's database rather than directly from state and federal
court dockets
across the country, our sample is a convenience sample, and we make no claim that the sample represents each federal and state trial
court in proportion to the number
of summary
judgment motions actually filed.
Between December 2006 and January 2007, nine
courts from
across Canada issued
judgments certifying the class actions and approving the terms
of settlement as being fair, reasonable, and in the best interests
of the Class Members.
The
Court of Appeal brought tidings
of great joy to monitoring officers
across the land in a
judgment delivered on 18 December 2007.
This is an important
judgment because it is the first time
across the EU that the application
of the Modified Greenfield approach to regulation has been considered in detail by a higher
court.
Judgments amounting to thousands or even millions
of dollars are being awarded by
courts across the country in ever - increasing numbers.