By: Nigel Bankes PDF Version: Implementing UNDRIP: some reflections on Bill C-262 Bill Commented On: Bill C-262, An Act to ensure that the laws of Canada are in harmony with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples This post comments on Bill C-262 adopted by the House of Commons on May 30, 2018. The […]
By: Nigel Bankes PDF Version: Some Things Have Changed but Much Remains the Same: the New Canadian Energy Regulator Bill Commented On: Bill C-69, An Act to enact the Impact Assessment Act and the Canadian Energy Regulator Act, to amend the Navigation Protection Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts Given the discussions over […]
By: Jonnette Watson Hamilton PDF Version: Clarified: The Rebuttable Presumption of a Purchase Money Resulting Trust Case Commented On: Singh v Kaler, 2017 ABCA 275 (CanLII) Singh v Kaler is a useful case for two purposes. First, it clearly describes the work that a presumption does–making useful evidentiary points. Second, it clarifies the test for finding […]
By: Elysa Darling PDF Version: Landlords, Tenants, and Domestic Violence: The Family Homes on Reserves and Matrimonial Interests or Rights Act Legislation Commented On: Family Homes on Reserves and Matrimonial Interests or Rights Act, SC 2013, c 20 This blog post accompanies a series of posts written by Jonnette Watson Hamilton and Jennifer Koshan on Landlords, […]
By: Jennifer Koshan PDF Version: Reconciling the Application of the Interjurisdictional Immunity Doctrine to Aboriginal Title and Lands Reserved Case Commented On: McCaleb v Rose, 2017 BCCA 318 (CanLII) It is a challenge to teach the interjurisdictional immunity (IJI) doctrine these days, in part because the Supreme Court of Canada has been sending mixed, incomplete, and […]
