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- Judges are Human Too: Introducing TheCourt.ca’s Judicial Biography Series
Unlike the often-contested nominations of judges to the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), nominations to Canada’s top court are a relatively routine affair. Although the recent nomination of Quebec jurist Nicholas Kasiser to the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) generated some debate over t … Read more »
- Appeal Watch: Fate of Federal Greenhouse Gas Legislation is Up in the Air
Author’s Note: The author wishes to thank Professor Bruce Ryder at Osgoode Hall Law School for supporting her research on this topic. How urgent is the need for coordinated national action on climate change? According to the Court of Appeal for Ontario (“ONCA”), urgent indeed. On June 28 2019, the O … Read more »
- Appeal Watch: BC’s Trans Mountain Pipeline Dispute is On Its Way to the SCC
At what point does a provincial environmental law which affects interprovincial pipelines stop being environmental legislation and start being an impermissible regulation of a federal undertaking? The British Columbia Court of Appeal (“BCCA”) was tasked with answering this question in the Reference … Read more »
- JW v Canada (AG) : The Judiciary’s Role in Supervising Residential School Settlement Agreements
Introduction Certain class action lawsuits require settlement agreements to ensure the fair distribution of settlement funds through an adjudicative process. An Independent Assessment Process (“IAP”) provides for an independent adjudicator to determine the validity of disputed claims. In JW v Canada … Read more »