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Young v. Bella - 2006 SCC 3 - [2006] 1 SCR 108 - 2006-01-27
Supreme Court JudgmentsTorts
Leslie Bella, William S. Rowe and Memorial University of Newfoundland [...] Leslie Bella, William S. Rowe and Memorial University of Newfoundland Respondents [...] She took her concerns to the Director of the School of Social Work, Dr. William Rowe.
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R. v. Robertson - [1987] 1 SCR 918 - 1987-06-04
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Evidence
Williams, Glanville. Criminal Law: The General Part, 2nd ed. London: Stevens & Sons Ltd., 1961. [...] (Glanville Williams, Criminal Law, The General Part, at p. 141). (Emphasis added.) [...] Glanville Williams, supra, at pp. 909‑10, expresses his view that the defence of mistake of fact means that the accused has an evidentiary burden but not a persuasive burden.
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Droste v. R. - [1984] 1 SCR 208 - 1984-04-02
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Professor Glanville Williams Criminal Law, The General Part (2nd ed.), at p. 126, describes the operation of this concept as follows: [...] The authors of Smith and Hogan Criminal Law, supra, at pp. 60-61 present Professor Williams’ critique of the doctrine as applied to murder, and their response, as follows: [...] Williams regards the doctrine of transferred malice as a “rather arbitrary exception to normal principles”.
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McLellan Properties Limited v. Antoine Roberge and L.D. Roberge - [1947] SCR 561 - 1947-10-07
Supreme Court JudgmentsTrust
But it is admitted that the defect will be cured, if the Court should be of opinion that, under the Will of N.P. Berry, the equitable fee passed to William Berry. [...] * * * if it were left to me to decide, I should say that the Devise to William Berry has had the effect of curing the defect in the title. [...] As stated in Williams On Executors, 12th ed. 598, while executors cannot contract to sell by attorney
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Sayre & Gilfoy v. Security Trust Co. - (1920) 61 SCR 109 - 1920-06-21
Supreme Court JudgmentsPriorities and hypothecs
A. Judson Sayre And William M. Gilfoy (Defendants) Appellants; and [...] Grand Trunk Pacific Ely. v. Fort William Property Owners[8]. If not entitled to maintain the order as it stands the respondent asks that it should be set aside in toto and to that relief it is entitled. [...] of this order or a certified copy hereof cancel the existing Certificate of Title and issue a new Certificate of Title in the name of the said The Security Trust Company, Limited, and William Murray Connacher, free and clear of all encumbrances subsequent to and inclusive of the plaintiff's mortgage sued on herein;
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Marshall Brick Co. v. York Farmers Colonization Co. - (1917) 54 SCR 569 - 1917-02-19
Supreme Court JudgmentsPriorities and hypothecs
See Graham v. Williams[3]; Blight v. Ray[4]; West v. Elkins[5]; Gearing v. Robinson[6]; Orr v. Robertson2. [...] Graham v. Williams[17]; Gearing v. Robinson[18]; Slattery v. Lillis[19] at page 703; Quinn v. Leathem[20], at page 506. [...] This case is distinguished from the case of Graham v. Williams[30], much relied upon by the respondents; because in that case the builder or the intended purchaser never obligated himself to build, it was purely and simply a case of the owner permitting his lessee to erect some buildings and to advance him some money.
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Butler v. Murphy & Co. - (1909) 41 SCR 618 - 1909-05-04
Supreme Court JudgmentsAgency
Dear Sir,—Yours of recent date enclosing market report rec'd. I shall be North in about four weeks to look after the new crop, and if you can sell No. 2 oats for 37c. or better, in store Fort William, you had better sell 4,000 bus. for me, and I will be up at Snowflake then so I can look after the loading of them, and I [...] with his crop of 1907, wrote them on the 2nd of August of that year asking the best price for a certain quality of oats "on track at Snowflake" (which was a Canadian Pacific Railway station near his Manitoba farm), "or store Winnipeg, or Fort William" and to have daily market list sent to him for the next thirty days. [...] Dear Sir,—Yours of recent date enclosing market report rec'd. I shall be North in about four weeks to look after the new crop and if you can sell No. 2 oats for 37c. or better, in store Fort William, you had better sell 4,000 bus. for me, and I will be up at Snowflake then so I can look after the loading of them, and I will
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Montreal Transportation Co. v. New Ontario S.S. Co. - (1908) 40 SCR 160 - 1908-03-23
Supreme Court JudgmentsTransportation
Williams & Bruce Ad. Prac., 3 ed., p. 369; Secretary of State for India v. Hewitt[10]. [...] In the following year (1883), in the case of "The Eugenie", Mr. Justice Butt is said, in a note to Williams & Bruce, Admiralty Practice (3 ed.), at page 368, [...] Then, although the captain stated he had made a protest at Fort William and notice to produce it had been given, no protest was produced.
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Fleming and Douglas v. McLeod - (1907) 39 SCR 290 - 1907-06-24
Supreme Court JudgmentsContract
William McLeod (Defendant) Respondent. 1907: May 10; 1907: June 24. [...] would do nothing whatever in any way to release William McLeod or George McLeod, Sr. [...] Solicitor for the respondent: William D. Carter. [1] 37 N.B. Rep. 630.
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Lenoir v. Ritchie - (1879) 3 SCR 575 - 1879-11-04
Supreme Court JudgmentsAppeal
"Charles B. Owen, S. H. Morse, Henry Fryor, Henry A. Grantham, William Howe, Hon. P. Carteret Hill, Alexander James, Peter H. LeNoir, James Thompson, James W. Johnston, William A. Johnston, M. H. Richey, Hon. Mather Byles Des Brisay, Hon. Daniel McDonald, J. N. Shannon Marshall, Robert G. Haliburton, Hon. Otto S. Weeks, J. [...] I further submit that the writ of scire facias is not as contended for the only proceeding to avoid Letters Patent, their validity may be questioned in actions at law, Perry v. Skinner[14]; William's Saunders rep.[15]; Foster on Scire Facias[16]. [...] Je me contenterai de dire que je partage l'opinion exprimée à ce sujet par le juge en chef Sir William Young.
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Ontario (Attorney General) v. Ontario (Information and Privacy Commissioner) - 2024 SCC 4 - 2024-02-02
Supreme Court JudgmentsAccess to information
William S. Challis and Linda Chen, for the respondent the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario. [...] FIPPA was enacted in 1987 based on recommendations made by the Ontario Commission on Freedom of Information and Individual Privacy, headed by Commissioner D. Carlton Williams, in 1980. [...] And as a matter of tradition, Cabinet often makes important announcements of policy decisions in the Legislative Assembly (Williams Report, at p. 286).
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Lilly v. The Queen - [1983] 1 SCR 794 - 1983-06-23
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
William Robert Lilly Appellant; and Her Majesty The Queen Respondent. [...] LAMER J.—William Robert Lilly, a licensed real estate broker, was convicted by a Saskatoon jury of theft of $26,759.58, monies that had been deposited in trust with Lilly Agencies Ltd. with respect to various real estate transactions. [...] That he, the said William Robert Lilly, between the 1st day of October, A.D. 1977, and the 2nd day of March, A.D. 1978, at the City of Saskatoon, in the Province of Saskatchewan, did steal approximately Twenty Six Thousand, Seven Hundred and Fifty Nine Dollars and Fifty Eight Cents ($26,759.58), more or less, being sums
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Fox et al. v. Royal Bank of Canada et al. - [1976] 2 SCR 2 - 1975-10-07
Supreme Court JudgmentsGuarantee and suretyship
Frank B. Fox, Eastern Shore Construction Limited, a body corporate, William H. Jack and Frank B. Fox carrying on business under the firm name and style of Bent Brook Farms, Ford H. Webber, Harpell H. Power and D.D. Lynds Appellants; [...] The essentials of the matter are that one William H. Jack, who had been an employee of Moirs Limited, had become involved in a number of ventures the most prominent of which were Eastern Shore Construction Limited and Dolphin Industries Limited, all of which dealt with the Royal Bank of Canada through Jack. [...] to the aforesaid judgments, such appellant would be entitled to an order for contribution as against the third parties Dolphin Industries Limited and Bentley and Archibald Limited and as against the other appellants, and to an order for indemnity as against the third parties Dolphin Holdings Limited and William H. Jack.
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Basarsky v. Quinlan - [1972] SCR 380 - 1971-10-05
Supreme Court JudgmentsAction
Tannas v. Mosser, [1930] 1 W.W.R. 738; Pontin v. Wood, [1962] 1 All E.R. 294; Hall v. Meyrick, [1957] 2 All E.R. 722; Cooper v. Williams, [1963] 2 All E.R. 282; Fitzpatrick v. Schram, [1928] 1 W.W.R. 751, referred to. [...] Act at the same time as he was putting forward the claim under The Trustee Act. The omission of the appellant to give particulars of those on whose behalf an action under The Fatal Accidents Act could be taken is not in itself fatal and neither is the failure to refer to the latter Act specifically: Cooper v. Williams[6]. [...] This point was dealt with in Alberta in Fitzpatrick v. Schram[7], and in this regard also note should be taken of the judgment of Lord Denning M.R. in Cooper v. Williams (supra).
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WM. Morrissey Ltd. et al. v. Ontario Racing Commission - [1960] SCR 104 - 1959-11-30
Supreme Court JudgmentsCourts
IT WAS MOVED that the names of some of the horses referred to were not acceptable to the Commission and that a meeting of the Commission be called for May 27 next, at 2:00 p.m. in the Directors’ Room of the Ontario Jockey Club at Old Woodbine race track to further discuss the matter with Miss Armstrong and Mr. William [...] Miss C.B. Armstrong and Mr. William F. Morrissey attended at the Commission’s request and they are requested by the Commission to change the names of the following horses owned by Mr. Morrissey and raced by Miss Armstrong: [...] In the affidavit of Mr. William Morrissey, who was the president and the principal shareholder of the appellant company, it is stated that at this meeting the Chairman and the Vice-Chairman of the Commission accused him of having named the six race horses previously mentioned with names calculated to bring ridicule and
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Law, Union & Rock Insurance Co. v. Moore's Taxi Ltd. - [1960] SCR 80 - 1959-11-30
Supreme Court JudgmentsInsurance
APPEAL from a judgment of the Court of Appeal for Manitoba1, reversing a judgment of Williams C.J. Appeal dismissed. [...] The learned trial judge, Chief Justice Williams, dismissed the action on this ground, and the respondent having appealed to the Court of Appeal of Manitoba2, the appeal was allowed and judgment given for the respondent in the amount of $13,297.31. [...] The reasoning of Chief Justice Williams in his decision at the trial of this action appears to be predicated on the proposition that the respondent's liability was imposed
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R.H. Hunt and W. Mayo v. MacLeod Construction Co. et al. - [1958] SCR 737 - 1958-11-19
Supreme Court JudgmentsAction
The accident happened on the Trans-Canada highway a short distance west of Fort William on July 1, 1954, at 7.30 p.m. in good summer weather. [...] Solicitors for the plaintiff Hunt, appellant: Weiler & Weiler, Fort William. [...] Solicitor for the plaintiff Mayo, appellant: Bernard Shaffer, Fort William.
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Price v. Ordway / Veilleux v. Ordway - (1903) 34 SCR 145 - 1903-11-30
Supreme Court JudgmentsContract
WILLIAM PRICE (INTERVENANT) Appellant; And OSCAR WILLIAM ORDWAY (PLAINTIFF CONTESTING) [...] OSCAR WILLIAM ORDWAY (Plaintiff) Respondent. 1903: Oct 13; 1903: Oct 14; 1903: Nov 30
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Gilmour v. Magee - (1890) 18 SCR 579 - 1890-12-11
Supreme Court JudgmentsLease
An action was brought to recover possession of a cellar on the corner of Queen and Canal streets in the city of Ottawa, by Charles Magee, the owner of the property and the respondent in this case who, in September, 1882, verbally leased to one William McCaffrey, the premises in question, for a term to expire on November [...] tenure or occupation of William McCaffrey for the sum of $93.25 being rent due to me for the same on the 15th June, 1888, and for the purpose aforesaid distrain all such goods of the said William McCaffrey wheresoever they shall be found as have been carried off said premises but are liable by law to be distrained,” etc.
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R. v. Marshall - [1999] 3 SCR 456 - 1999-09-17
Supreme Court JudgmentsAboriginal law
A. William Moreira, Q.C., and Daniel R. Pust, for the intervener the West Nova Fishermen’s Coalition. [...] MacKinnon A.C.J.O. laid down the principle in Taylor and Williams, supra, at p. 236: [...] Dr. William Wicken, for the defence, spoke of “the Maritime coastal adaptation of the Micmac”:
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R. v. Lifchus - [1997] 3 SCR 320 - 1997-09-18
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
William Lifchus Respondent Indexed as: R. v. Lifchus File No.: 25404. [...] Williams, Glanville. Criminal Law: The General Part, 2nd ed. London: Stevens & Sons Ltd., 1961. [...] Williams, Glanville. Textbook of Criminal Law, 2nd ed. London: Stevens & Sons Ltd., 1983.
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R. v. Arcangioli - [1994] 1 SCR 129 - 1994-01-27
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
By John William Strong, General Editor. St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing Co., 1992. [...] William Cowan, a friend of Day's, testified that he saw a white man and a black man involved in an altercation with Day. However, he did not get a good look at the black man, nor could he make a photographic identification. [...] See also McMillan v. The Queen, [1977] 2 S.C.R. 824, at p. 828; and R. v. Williams (1985), 18 C.C.C. (3d) 356 (Ont. C.A.), at p. 366.
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Porter v. Purdy - (1909) 41 SCR 471 - 1909-04-05
Supreme Court JudgmentsLease
valued by two indifferent persons, one to be chosen by each party, which two parties, in case of disagreement, shall choose a third, the appraisement of whom, or any two of whom, shall be conclusive, as to the value of such buildings and improvements; at which time it shall be in the option of the said Charles William K. [...] Nudell v. Williams[5] is in the same direction. The observations by eminent judges in Hamlyn & Co. v. Wood & Co.[6] to the effect that cases upon other contracts are of little service stand good, yet the authorities largely got together in the argument of that case, and on the same subject of necessary implication [...] whom, or any two of them, shall be conclusive as to the value of such buildings and improvements; at which time it shall be in the option of the said Charles William K. Cunard, his heirs and assigns, to pay to the said Anne Cunard, her executors, administrators and assigns, such appraised value, or to continue the lease of
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Alberta (Attorney-General) v. Underwood - [1934] SCR 635 - 1934-06-06
Supreme Court JudgmentsConstitutional law
William Kenneth Underwood (Defendant) Respondent; and The Attorney General of Canada (Intervener) [...] RINFRET J.—The appellant, Gertrude Mary Neilson, by her next friend, her mother, brought this action for a declaration that the ceremony of marriage solemnized between her and the respondent, William Kenneth Underwood, on the 26th day of August, 1932, at the town of Okotoks, in the province of Alberta, was not valid, and to [...] The action of Gertrude Mary Neilson will accordingly be maintained; and it will be declared that her pretended marriage with the respondent William Kenneth Underwood was null and void and is therefore annulled.
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Ontario (Public Safety and Security) v. Criminal Lawyers' Association - 2010 SCC 23 - [2010] 1 SCR 815 - 2010-06-17
Supreme Court JudgmentsAccess to information
Constitutional law
William S. Challis, Stephen McCammon and Allison Knight, for the intervener Tom Mitchinson, Assistant Commissioner, Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario. [...] [8] This case arises out of the murder of Domenic Racco in 1983, for which four men (Anthony Musitano, Domenic Musitano, Guiseppe Avignone, and William Rankin) were originally charged. [...] This was despite the fact that the Williams Commission Report on which the Act was based had not specifically recommended its adoption (Ontario, Public Government for Private People: The Report of the Commission on Freedom of Information and Individual Privacy (1980) (the “Williams Commission” Report); Speech by Tom