Jane Doe – revisited
To follow up on Julian Ho’s blog of Thursday, July 22, entitled, “Jane Doe v Alberta: What about the interests of the child?,” the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed Jane...
Monthly Archive: July 2007
Is the Class Action a Public Order Institution?
Both the majority and dissent in two cases on arbitration clauses that came out of the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) on Friday, July 13 make statements in obiter to...
R v Clayton: Further developing the common law power of police detention
Introduction In many ways, it is difficult to argue with the result of the Supreme Court of Canada’s (“SCC”) decision in R v Clayton, [2007] 2 SCR 725 [Clayton] released on...
SCC Numbers at the Half
In a post written this past February, I noted the downward trend in the number of decisions rendered by the SCC in recent years and, in particular, of the especially...
