Public law: cases, commentary, and analysis

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Record Type:

Book

Call Number:

KM20.F671 2020

Publisher:

Emond Montgomery Publications

Publication Date:

2020

Edition:

4th edition

Author(s):

Haigh, Richard A
Forcese, Craig
Dodek, Adam

Additional Author:

Bryden, Phillip L
Liston, Mary
MacIntosh, Constance

Subject(s):

Public law - Canada - Cases.
Public law - Canada - Textbooks.

Table of Contents:

Table of casesChapter one - Public law in CanadaI. Basic building blocksII. Drilling down: the workings of public lawIII. Two modes of accountability in the exercise of public powerIV. From parliamentary to constitutional supremacy and back?Part I Se...

Table of cases
Chapter one - Public law in Canada
- I. Basic building blocks
- II. Drilling down: the workings of public law
- III. Two modes of accountability in the exercise of public power
- IV. From parliamentary to constitutional supremacy and back?

Part I Setting the stage

Chapter two - Legal theory in relation to public law
- I. Introduction
- II. Positivism and natural law
- III. Feminist perspectives on law
- IV. Critical legal studies
- V. Law and economics
Chapter three - Indigenous Peoples and public law
- I. Introduction
- II. Indigenous Peoples and the Canadian state
- III. Indigenous - state relations prior to 1982
- IV. Section 35 of the Constitution Act and the Doctrine of Reconciliation
- V. Modern treaties and land claims agreements
- VI. Indigenous Peoples and human rights protections
Chapter four - Sources of Canada law
- I. The common and civil law traditions
- II. Statutory law
- III. International law
Chapter five - Recurring constitutional principles in Canada Public law
- I. The Constitution of Canada
- II. Principles underpinning public law
- III. Constitutional amendment
Chapter six - Parliament and its components
- I. The monarch and Governor General
- II. Senate
- III. House of Commons
Chapter seven - The functions of parliament
- I. Bringing the constituent elements of parliament together
- II. Key actors in parliament
- III. Parliamentary procedure
- IV. Parliamentary law-making
Chapter eight - The executive and its functions
- I. Introduction
- II. Functions performed by executive institutions in Canada
- III. Sources of executive power
- IV. Constitutional constraints on the delegation of statutory power to the executive
- V. Executive institutions and their relationship to the political executive
Chapter nine - The courts and the judiciary
- I. Structure of the Canadian Court System
- II. Judicial appointments
- III. Judicial independence

Part III Interplay between the courts and the political branches of government

Chapter ten - Statutory interpretation
- I. Introduction
- II. Approaches to interpretation
- III. An overview of the modern approach to statutory interpretation: its components and its methods
- IV. The modern approach in action
- V. Interpretation and criticism of the modern approach
Chapter eleven - Constraints on legislative and administrative action
- I. Introduction
- II. The role of constitutional judicial review in a democratic society
- III. Judicial review of an administrative action

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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