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Administrative Law, Helping Jurors Understand, The Constitution of Canada: a contextual analysis, Canadian Insurance Defence, Conflict of Laws and the Internet

Helping Jurors Understand, 2nd Edition / David Watt
KM583.W372 2023
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The objective of the Second Edition of Watt’s Helping Jurors Understand is simple: to better achieve timely, efficient, effective jury trials. To properly equip jurors to make findings of fact grounded exclusively on reliable evidence evaluated in accordance with governing principles and to render the verdict the law prescribes for those findings.

On the shelves now at our Kamloops, Vancouver and Victoria branches

Administrative Law: Principles and Advocacy, 5th Edition / Liz Nastasi
KM320.S671 2024
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Administrative Law: Principles and Advocacy, 5th Edition offers a comprehensive overview of key legal issues that arise in Canadian administrative law. This text introduces readers to the principles and procedures of this area of law as well as to some of the specific agencies, boards, and tribunals that have been created for the administration of justice.

This text is divided into three parts: Principles and Theory, Advocacy, and Challenging Administrative Decision-Making and Enforcing Orders. Readers are provided with a foundational overview of administrative law in Canada, practical information on participating in tribunal hearings, and the mechanisms in place for challenging decisions. This edition incorporates important changes to the judicial review framework that were introduced by the Supreme Court of Canada in its 2020 decision in Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v Vavilov.

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The Constitution of Canada: A Contextual Analysis, 2nd Edition / Jeremy Webber
KM70.W433 2021
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The first edition of this text quickly established itself as the classic introduction to the Canadian constitution. Setting it in its historical context, noting especially the complex interaction of national and regional societies, it shows how the constitution continues to morph and shape itself.

These changes are explored through key constitutional themes: democracy; parliamentarism; the rule of law; federalism; human rights; and Indigenous rights, and describes the country that has resulted from the interplay of these themes.

Clarity of expression and explanation, which never veers into simplicity, combined with the author's expertise, makes this the ideal starting point for the student or comparative lawyer keen to gain a strong understanding of how Canadian democracy and government works.

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Canadian Insurance Defence / Joshua Henderson
KN290.H46 2024
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Canadian Insurance Defence is an everyday resource that will quickly answer practical questions about the practice of insurance law and personal injury claims. It covers all aspects of insurance defence that a practicing lawyer may come across, from ‘A’ffidavits to ‘Z’ealous Advocacy and everything in between. The book takes readers through the step-by-step process of defending an insurance matter, starting from the common claims to which an insurance defence practitioner may be asked to respond, through to costs and appeals.

Chapters on determining liability, types of damages, procedural issues to consider, and coverage, along with thousands of cases from across Canada and the United States, ensures that Canadian Insurance Defence is an indispensable reference. As the only text addressing insurance defence in Canada, it contains articles written by leading personal injury and insurance defence practitioners.

More than 30 types of claims are covered, with each topic containing a recitation of the leading case laws to provide a broad overview of the law. Some sections include tactical considerations for properly prosecuting or defending an action.

This new publication also features helpful appendices relating to personal injury actions. It includes an extensive list of standard undertakings in a personal injury action, as well as a template of examination for discovery, consisting of more than 350 generic questions that may be tailored to suit most personal injury actions.

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Conflict of Laws and the Internet, 2nd Edition / Pedro De Miguel Asensio
KC2011.M54 2024
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In this thoroughly revised second edition, Pedro De Miguel Asensio presents a practical analysis of jurisdiction, choice of law, and recognition and enforcement of judgments in the context of online activities, examining areas where private legal relationships are most affected by the Internet. Addressing the tension between the ubiquity of the Internet and the territorial nature of national legal orders, the author sets out the latest developments across multiple jurisdictions in this dynamic field.

Key Features:

  • Updated coverage of EU Law and recent case law
  • Accessible guidance on how to combat illegal content
  • Scrupulous analysis of complex conflict of laws issues that arise with Internet activities
  • New sections providing extensive explanations of the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act
  • New material on other instruments in the fields of AI, crypto-markets, audiovisual media services, intermediary services, product safety and terrorist content online
  • Overview of key topics including information society services, digital services, data protection, defamation, copyright, trademarks, unfair competition and online contracts

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