Saulnier v RBC: A big catch for the fishing industry?
Last Friday, the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) released a decision that may prove to be the big catch the Canadian fishing industry was waiting for. In Saulnier v Royal...
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Equality Rights versus Aboriginal Reconciliation: An Assessment of R. v. Kapp
Handed down on June 27, 2008, R. v. Kapp, 2008 SCC 41, involves the interplay between sections 15 and 25 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, specifically in...
R. v. Kapp: Taking Section 15 Back to the Future
The Kapp (2008 SCC 41) ruling offers the most important addition to s.15 jurisprudence since the Law ([1999] 1 S.C.R. 497) decision of 1999. After a number of years of...
Saulnier – Is There Security in a Licence to Fish?
On January 23, 2008, the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) heard the case Saulnier v Royal Bank of Canada, [2008] 3 SCR 166. on appeal from the Nova Scotia Court...
