Author Archives: Jonnette Watson Hamilton

About Jonnette Watson Hamilton

B.A. (Alta.), LL.B. (Dal.), LL.M. (Col.). Professor Emerita. Please click here for more information.

Do Covenants to Compensate for Designation as an Historical Resource Run with the Land?

PDF version: Do Covenants to Compensate for Designation as an Historical Resource Run with the Land? Case considered: Equitable Trust Company v Lougheed Block Inc, 2013 ABQB 209. The foreclosure proceedings taken with respect to the historic Lougheed Building at … Continue reading

Posted in Municipal Law, Property | 2 Comments

Consequences of being an OPCA Litigant?

PDF version: Consequences of being an OPCA Litigant? Case commented on: ANB v Hancock, 2013 ABQB 97. ANB v Hancock is Associate Chief Justice John D. Rooke’s second written judgment about an Organized Pseudolegal Commercial Argument (OPCA) litigant. As summarized … Continue reading

Posted in Civil Procedure, Vexatious Litigants | 2 Comments

A Rather Quick Response to a Rather Typical Vexatious Litigant

PDF version: A Rather Quick Response to a Rather Typical Vexatious Litigant Case commented on: Onischuk v Alberta, 2013 ABQB 89. The prominent September 2012 decision of Court of Queen’s Bench Associate Chief Justice John D. Rooke in Meads v … Continue reading

Posted in Civil Procedure, Vexatious Litigants | 7 Comments

What has Meads v Meads wrought?

PDF version: What has Meads v Meads wrought? Cases commented on: R v Duncan, 2013 ONCJ 160 (CanLII); R v Tyskerud, 2013 BCPC 27 (CanLII); Cassa v The Queen, 2013 TCC 43 (CanLII); R v Martin, 2012 NSPC 115 (CanLII); R … Continue reading

Posted in Civil Procedure, Ethics and the Legal Profession, Vexatious Litigants | 10 Comments

Introducing Conditional Immediate Indefeasibility: Section 170(1) of the Land Titles Act

PDF version: Introducing Conditional Immediate Indefeasibility: Section 170(1) of the Land Titles Act Legislation commented on: Land Titles Act, RSA 2000, c. L-4, s 170(1), as amended by the Land Titles Amendment Act, 2008, SA 2008, c 22, s 9. … Continue reading

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