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232 Search Results for: Registrar of the Supreme Court of Canada

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  • An Exceptional Law: Section 98 and the Emergency State, 1919-1936

    By Dennis G. Molinaro, Published by the University of Toronto Press. Section 98 of the Criminal Code of Canada was passed in 1919 following the Winnipeg general strike as a law aimed at ‘unlawful associations.’ Its very broad definition of unlawful association meant that it could be used against a wide variety of opponents of the status… Read more »

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  • Ian Bushnell

    Ian Bushnell is a legal scholar and was a Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Windsor. His book, The Captive Court: A Study of the Supreme Court of Canada, was a finalist for the 1995 Foundation for Legal Research Walter Owen Book Prize.

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  • Provincial Justice: Upper Canadian Legal Portraits

    edited by Dr. Robert Fraser. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 1992. This is an important reference guide and a highly entertaining book. In association with the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, which has published twelve monumental volumes dealing with Canadian lives from the year 1000 to 1900, we have selected some sixty biographies of Upper… Read more »

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  • Legacies of Fear: Law and Politics in Quebec in the Era of the French Revolution

    by F. Murray Greenwood, Emeritus Professor of History, University of British Columbia. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 1993. Many people assume that a French-English cleavage has always existed and historians have been uncertain as to just how it unfolded. This book provides the answer. Greenwood recreates a Quebec in which trust between the French… Read more »

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  • Doodem and Council Fire: Anishinaabe Governance through Alliance

    By Professor Heidi Bohaker. The Osgoode Society is thrilled to announce that Doodem and Council Fire: Anishinaabe Governance through Alliance, by Professor Heidi Bohaker, has been awarded the Canadian Historical Association’s Prize for Best Book in Political History Prize. Congratulations to Professor Bohaker. Doodem and Council Fire: Anishinaabe Governance Through Alliance also won the Ontario Historical Society’s Joseph… Read more »

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  • Law, Debt and Merchant Power: The Civil Courts of Eighteenth-Century Halifax

    By James Muir, Professor of Law and History, University of Alberta, published by the University of Toronto Press. This is a path-breaking study of the every day work of civil law and civil courts. It examines the type of litigation pursued (mostly debt), how the courts worked, and how the economy operated in a society… Read more »

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  • March 10, 2016 - Moore’s History of the Ontario Court of Appeal honoured by Ontario’s Speakers Book Awards

    Christopher Moore was recently honoured by being one of the finalists for Ontario Speaker Dave Levac’s Speakers Book Award. He received his medal at a ceremony held on March 7th. We congratulate Chris on this notable achievement.

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  • Deadly Swindle: An 1890 Murder in Backwoods Ontario That Gripped the World

    Our first Optional Extra title for 2024 is Ian Radforth, Deadly Swindle: An 1890 Murder in Backwoods Ontario That Gripped the World, published by the University of Toronto Press. Deadly Swindle  is a fascinating journey into life and law in late nineteenth-century Canada.  Its jumping off point is the murder of Frederick Cornwallis Benwell, whose body was discovered in the… Read more »

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  • A Thirty Years War: The Failed Public/Private Partnership that Spurred the Creation of the Toronto Transit Commission, 1891-1921

    by Ian Kyer, Independent Historian. Published by Irwin Law. The thirty year franchise granted by the City of Toronto to the privately owned Toronto Railway Company in 1891 brought the City a modern electric streetcar system.  But the city and its private sector transit provider never learned to work together.   Their relationship was marred… Read more »

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  • Unforeseen Legacies, Reuben Wells Leonard and the Leonard Foundation Trust

    by Bruce Ziff, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Alberta. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 2000. With great skill and diligence, Professor Ziff has taken hold of an apparently narrow topic and has used it to open up a wide window into some fascinating and neglected themes of the Canadian past. His subject is… Read more »