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November 17, 2011

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Slaw Site News – 2011-11-17

Site news for those who read Slaw only via RSS or email

1. Comment Watch:

In the last week there were 56 comments. You might be particularly interested in these:

  • the 15 comments on Yosie Saint-Cyr's post "Should the Government Make Remembrance Day a Public (Statutory) Holiday?", which surface concerns about militarization and whether the point is to have a holiday.
  • the extended exchange between David Cheifetz and guest blogger Erik Magraken on his post, "Tort Reform For The Better: Adding Liquidity to Dry Judgements."
  • the debate following Gabriel Granatstein's post, "Mandatory Union Awareness Training at Apple"

You can subscribe to the comments on Slaw either as a separate matter (RSS, email) or as part of a subscription combining posts and comments (RSS, email).

2. SlawTips

This week's tips on SlawTips are:

You’ll find a brief excerpt of this week’s tips on Slaw, but the links above will take you to the full versions, along with 100 more tips. Advice you can use — short and to the point — every Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday.

You can get to SlawTips at either tips.slaw.ca or slawtips.ca and you can subscribe by RSS or email. You can also follow SlawTips on Twitter: @slawtips

3. Maritime Law Book Selected Summaries

This week's Maritime Law Book case summaries are in precis on Slaw and full at cases.slaw.ca.

  • R. v. Vuradin (F.) 2011 ABCA 280 [Criminal jury charge]
  • R. v. Sexton (K.M.) 2011 NBCA 97 [Unreasonable search & seizure]
  • R. v. Sarrazin (R.) et al. 2011 SCC 54 [Criminal appeals]
  • McQueen v. Echelon General Insurance Co. 2011 ONCA 649 [Contract damages]
  • Felipa v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) 2011 FCA 272 [Tenure of federal judges]
  • Beacon Hill Service (2000) Ltd. v. Esso Petroleum Canada et al. 2011 ABQB 138 [Barrister as potential witness]
  • Thomas v. Aviva Insurance Co. 2011 NBCA 96 [Insurance]

Thus far, 142 summaries in total are available on cases.slaw.ca. You can subscribe to MLB-Slaw Selected Case Summaries via RSS or email.

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    Limitation of Actions - Actions in contract - Actions for debt - General

    Moody died on December 3, 2005, leaving four adult children. Pursuant to Moody’s will two of her children, James and Tyrell, were appointed executors of the estate. It was alleged that, during her ...

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