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I believe that my conclusion reflects the objectives or the contemporary arbitral jurisprudence.

Highlights from the latest WeirFoulds Estates & Trusts Newsletter

It is for the courts to interpret the law and not to make it.

Highlights from the latest Mack's Criminal Law Bulletin

Senten, Re | 2011 CarswellOnt 13104 | Reg. Scott W. Nettie

There is a point where the courts are being misused by constant and continuing efforts to keep a proceeding open instead of accepting the determination that has been made and moving on.

Highlights from this month's Police Powers Newsletter

In this appeal, the Court is called upon to answer the age-old question: If a tree falls in the forest and you are not around to replant it, how does it affect your taxes?   2013 CarswellNat 1469 Daishowa-Marubeni International Ltd.

On October 18, the Supreme Court of Canada released Cuthbertson v. Rasouli, 2013 CarswellOnt 14113, a decision affirming that a physician must obtain the consent of a patient’s substitute decision maker in order to withdraw life support. If the substitute decision maker refuses to give consent, the physician may challenge the refusal before the Consent and Capacity Board. The following excerpt contains a detailed overview of the law concerning the treatment of patients who are mentally incapable of providing consent.

R. v. Chehil | 2013 CarswellNS 693 | Supreme Court of Canada

R. v. Rocha | 2012 CarswellAlta 232 | Groves J.

The fact that the concept of time has not been lassoed by science so that one can travel back in time, making it impossible to physically make 54 … payments from 2005 to 2009, does not strip the support from maintaining its periodic nature.