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International : La permission d'appel n'est pas accordée à des compagnies étrangères qui exercent leurs activités dans l'industrie du tabac et qui sont poursuivies en vertu de la Loi sur le recouvrement du coût des soins de santé et des dommages-intérêts liés au tabac au Québec, leur exception déclinatoire ayant été rejetée en première instance.
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Summaries Sunday: OnPoint Legal Research

One Sunday each month OnPoint Legal Research provides Slaw with an extended summary of, and counsel’s commentary on, an important case from the British Columbia, Alberta, or Ontario court of appeal.

DETLOR v. BRANTFORD (CITY)2013 ONCA 560

1. CASE SUMMARY

Areas of Law: Municipal law; Aboriginal law; Constitutional and Charter law

~Bylaws containing specific reference to identifiable individuals in their preamble, and affecting Aboriginal people, will not be held to be invalid if they are of general application and do not touch on the “core of Indianness”~

Background: The Haudenosaunee people claimed unsurrendered rights to land in the . . . [more]

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Summaries Sunday: Maritime Law Book

Summaries of selected recent cases are provided each week to Slaw by Maritime Law Book. Every Sunday we present a precis of the latest summaries, a fuller version of which can be found on MLB-Slaw Selected Case Summaries at cases.slaw.ca.

This week's summaries concern: Judicial reasons / Discovery of settlement documents / Expropriation & interest / drug-sniffing dogs:
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Summaries Sunday: SOQUIJ

Bien que l'étendue de l'équité procédurale à laquelle est tenue la Commission d'enquête sur l'octroi et la gestion des contrats publics dans l'industrie de la construction soit très élevée, cette dernière était fondée, dans les circonstances, à refuser aux requérants le droit de contre-interroger l'auteur d'un témoignage les impliquant dans des tractations potentiellement répréhensibles.
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Summaries Sunday: Maritime Law Book

Summaries of selected recent cases are provided each week to Slaw by Maritime Law Book. Every Sunday we present a precis of the latest summaries, a fuller version of which can be found on MLB-Slaw Selected Case Summaries at cases.slaw.ca.

This week's summaries concern: Public interest evidentiary privilege / Criminal law restitution:
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Summaries Sunday: Supreme Advocacy

Summary of all appeals and leaves to appeal granted (so you know what the S.C.C. will soon be dealing with). For leaves, both the date the S.C.C. granted leave and the date of the C.A. judgment below are added in, in case you want to track and check out the C.A. judgment. (September 14 - October 4, 2013 inclusive).
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Summaries Sunday: OnPoint Legal Research

One Sunday each month OnPoint Legal Research provides Slaw with an extended summary of, and counsel’s commentary on, an important case from the British Columbia, Alberta, or Ontario court of appeal.

SABOURIN AND SUN GROUP OF COMPANIES v. LAIKEN, 2013 ONCA 530

1. CASE SUMMARY  Areas 0f Law:  Mareva Injunction; Contempt; Principle of Finality ~Civil contempt does not require finding of deliberate intent~
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