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Canadian public law and other exciting things


  • April 21, 2014

    A Puff of Smoke

    I argued last week that the Supreme Court should find British Columbia’s “hearing fees,” which litigants must pay to bring a case in front of a judge, unconstitutional as a violation of the principle of the Rule of Law. But what about the Supreme Court’s decision in British Columbia v. Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd., 2005 SCC…

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    Constitutional law, The Justice System
    access to justice, courts, hearing fees, Rule of Law, underlying principles
  • April 17, 2014

    La constitution retrouvée

    J’ai écrit, il y a quelques mois, que le discours constitutionnel du Parti Québécois s’apparentait à celui du Tea Party américain (ainsi qu’à celui du UK Independence Party) en ce qu’il se fonde en bonne partie sur la notion d’une « constitution perdue ». La « constitution perdue » est celle d’une époque passée, abolie…

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    Constitutional law, History
    Charter, Patriation, Péladeau, politcs, Québec, Supreme Court of Canada
  • April 16, 2014

    Which Way to Court?

    I wrote yesterday about the oral argument which the Supreme Court heard on Monday in the case now known as Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia v. British Columbia (Attorney General), formerly Villardell v. Dunham. At issue is the constitutionality of the “hearing fees” which British Columbia requires a litigant setting a civil case down for…

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    Constitutional law, The Justice System
    access to justice, courts, hearing fees, Rule of Law, underlying principles
  • April 15, 2014

    Who Pays for Justice?

    Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard the oral arguments in the B.C. hearing fees case, now known as Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia v. British Columbia (Attorney General), a case I have much blogged about as it made its way through the B.C. courts (where it was known Villardell v. Dunham, both on trial and…

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    Constitutional law, The Justice System
    access to justice, Charter, courts, hearing fees, Rule of Law, underlying principles
  • April 11, 2014

    Truth and Sentencing

    In a pair of decisions delivered this morning, R. v. Summers, 2014 SCC 26, and a companion case, R. v. Carvery, 2014 SCC 27, the Supreme Court has endorsed the trial courts’ practice of routinely crediting time spent by accused persons before their sentencing on a more than one-to-one basis against the total duration of their sentence, the Truth in Sentencing Act,…

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    Criminal Law/Policy
    sentencing, tough on crime
  • April 9, 2014

    Blind Spots

    In a new and fascinating paper, Jeremy Waldron asks why it is that Sir Isaiah Berlin, in his work on the Enlightenment, paid no attention to “one of the most important achievements of the European enlightenment” ― what prof. Waldron calls “Enlightenment constitutionalism.” The paper is a reflection not only on Berlin and the constitutional ideas…

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    Constitutional Theory, History
    Berlin, constitutionalism, Enlightenment, Waldron
  • April 5, 2014

    Two Years, and Many Thanks

    I started this blog two years ago today. I didn’t really know what to expect ― whether anyone would read it, or even whether I’d keep going for very long. So its still being around, two years and 330 posts later, is a success. The readership, so far as I can tell from WordPress’s stats,…

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  • April 4, 2014

    Nouveaux médias, vieille loi

    La semaine dernière, le Directeur général de élections a exigé des producteurs d’un court documentaire intitulé La charte des élections et dénonçant la Charte de la honte du PQ comme une tactique électoraliste qu’ils cessent d’en faire la promotion et la distribution. Dans mon billet sur le sujet, j’avais estimé que le DGE avait probablement…

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    Law of Democracy
    elections, freedom of expression, politics, politique, Québec
  • April 3, 2014

    Absurde censure

    Un employeur québécois a-t-il le droit de dire à ses employés comment voter (ou ne pas voter)? C’est la question que pose un article paru dans La Presse ce matin. Louise Leduc écrit que le patron d’une usine de Delson « a envoyé une lettre à son personnel lui enjoignant de ne pas voter pour le…

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    Law of Democracy
    elections, freedom of expression, politcs, politique, Québec
  • April 2, 2014

    Danger in Definition

    I blogged some time ago about the difficulties that courts face when trying to define religion. In a recent interview, Judge Guido Calabresi (of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit), makes some interesting comments about this issue. (Most of Judge Calabresi’s interview deals with the case of Town of Greece v. Galloway,…

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    Constitutional law, Law and Religion
    religion, rights
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