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"Alice in Wonderland in comparison looks like a normal regime."

Streeper Contracting Ltd. v. Insurance Corp. of British Columbia (2013) | 2013 CarswellBC 545 | Fenlon J.

"[T]o abandon the path of principle and to determine admissibility on the basis of an imaginary set of circumstances."

"[S]ome Alice-in-Wonderland country of benign banking practices with which I am unfamiliar."

Gill v. Treasury Board (Department of National Defence) | 2013 CarswellNat 493 | William H. Kydd

"[I]t would be at least counterintuitive for a “base” or “pedestal” to be more prominent than what it is supporting."

"Anyway, it can forcefully be argued that judgments of the Court of Appeal are like a good wine and improve with age."

The duty to consult is a critical issue in the law governing the relationship between the Crown and Aboriginal peoples in Canada. This month's excerpt is an explanation of this important topic from the newly published Aboriginal Law title of the Canadian Encyclopedic Digest.

"The parties to these proceedings are either unaware of that classic novel's lesson or unenlightened by it."

"[N]o more than handing a document to a sheep and saying "By not repudiating this agreement, I may eat you." establishes a mutual and common intent."

The definition betrays the age of the by-law which was passed in 1963.

"[T]he only sensible course is to follow the time-honoured maxim, 'Sue everybody in sight.'"