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Thibodeau v. Air Canada - 2014 SCC 67 - [2014] 3 SCR 340 - 2014-10-28
Supreme Court JudgmentsStatutes
[101] In The King v. Williams, [1944] S.C.R. 226, Mr. Williams was fined as a result of his conviction under the Foreign Exchange Control Order, P.C. 7378, made under the War Measures Act, R.S.C. 1927, c. 206, for attempting to export a quantity of gold from Canada without a licence. [...] [102] There is a clear parallel between Williams and this case. The two provisions were enacted for very different purposes, as I discussed earlier. [...] Following the reasoning of Williams, there is no “repugnancy” between the two provisions.
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777.
Richard v. Time Inc. - 2012 SCC 8 - [2012] 1 SCR 265 - 2012-02-28
Supreme Court JudgmentsCivil law
William Miller, Director of Promotion Policy for the respondent Time Consumer Marketing Inc., himself testified that “[t]he sweepstakes are used to attract attention to our subscription promotions” (A.R., vol. [...] Indeed, he said he was unable to do so because he was not part of the company’s financial team (testimony of William Miller, at p. 32, lines 2‑4). [...] [William Miller] admitted [that Time Inc.] did [use the advertising scheme at issue over the years].
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778.
R. v. Pickton - 2010 SCC 32 - [2010] 2 SCR 198 - 2010-07-30
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Robert William Pickton Appellant and Her Majesty The Queen Respondent [...] Robert William Pickton Appellant v. Her Majesty The Queen Respondent [...] [1] Robert William Pickton became a person of interest to the police in early 2001 when a task force began collecting the DNA of women missing from the downtown eastside of Vancouver.
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779.
Air Canada v. M & L Travel Ltd. - [1993] 3 SCR 787 - 1993-10-21
Supreme Court JudgmentsTrust
[1983] B.C.L.C. 325 (Ch.), aff'd [1985] B.C.L.C. 258 (C.A.); Belmont Finance Corp. v. Williams Furniture Ltd. (No. 1), [1979] 1 All E.R. 118; Carl‑Zeiss‑Stiftung v. Herbert Smith & Co. (No. 2), [1969] 2 All E.R. 367; MacDonald v. Hauer (1976), 72 D.L.R. (3d) 110; Scott v. Riehl (1958), 15 D.L.R. (2d) 67; Horsman Bros. [...] International Sales and Agencies Ltd. v. Marcus, [1982] 3 All E.R. 551; Karak Rubber Co. v. Burden (No. 2), [1972] 1 All E.R. 1210 (Ch.), at pp. 1234-35; Belmont Finance Corp. v. Williams Furniture Ltd. (No. 1), [1979] 1 All E.R. 118 (C.A.), at pp. 129, 134; Underhill, supra, at p. 360; Pettit, supra, at pp. 159-60. [...] But in Belmont Finance Corp Ltd v Williams Furniture Ltd [1979] Ch 250 the Court of Appeal made clear that it is not sufficient that there should be misfeasance or a breach of trust falling short of dishonesty and fraud.
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780.
Cloutier v. The Queen - [1979] 2 SCR 709 - 1979-06-28
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
App. R. 184; Bussières v. Regem (1931), 53 Que. K.B. 16; R. v. Stewart, [1932] S.C.R. 612; Canada Sugar Refining Co. v. Reg., [1898] A.C. 735; Morin v. The Queen (1890), 18 S.C.R. 407; R. v. Ward (1972), 22 C.R.N.S. 153; R. v. Churton (1919), 31 C.C.C. 188; Henry Williams (1925), 19 Cr. App. R. 67; R. v. Page, [1965] Crim. [...] The accused, who is erroneously denied a peremptory challenge, is entitled to ask that the trial and the guilty verdict returned by an irregularly empanelled jury be annulled; it is not necessary for him to prove a prejudice; there is a "préjudice de droit"; as to this no doubt exists: R. v. Churton[10], Henry Williams [...] Proof of the motive for a crime is generally admitted as circumstantial evidence: in his Textbook of Criminal Law, Glanville Williams writes at p. 56:
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781.
The Canada Southern Ry. Co. v. Phelps - (1884) 14 SCR 132 - 1884-06-23
Supreme Court JudgmentsTorts
Citing inter alia Daniel v. Metropolitan R. R. Co.[6]; Williams v. G. W. Ry. Co.[7]; Hill v. O. S. & H. Ry. Co.[8]. [...] sec. 86; it is worthy of remark, however, that the observations of Lord Denman in support of this proposition, criticising the opinion to the contrary of Sir William Blackstone as expressed in his commentaries, and the observations of Lord Lyndhurst in Lord Canterbury's case[32], were unnecessary to the decision in [...] Neither that case, therefore, nor that of Vaughan v. Menlove,[34] therein referred to, can, I think, as I have endeavoured to point out in Jeffrey v. The Toronto, Grey & Bruce Ry. Co.[35], be said to establish such a proposition; against it must be taken the opinion of Sir William Blackstone and the
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782.
Washington (State of) v. Johnson - [1988] 1 SCR 327 - 1988-02-25
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
With the assistance of Sharon A. Williams. Toronto: Canada Law Book, 1977. [...] William H. Corbett, Q.C., for the appellants. Barry Long, for the respondent.
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783.
Bank of Montreal v. Wilder - [1986] 2 SCR 551 - 1986-11-27
Supreme Court JudgmentsGuarantee and suretyship
The decision of Pollock C.B. was upheld on appeal ((1861), 7 H. & N. 354, 158 E.R. 510), Williams J. stating at pp. 510‑11: [...] 33. In commenting on the judgment of Williams J. in Watts v. Shuttleworth Lambert J.A. expresses the view that the reasons in that case did not turn on any proposition that the contract to insure became incorporated as a term of the guarantee.
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Minister of Finance of New Brunswick et al. v. Simpsons-Sears Ltd. - [1982] 1 SCR 144 - 1982-01-26
Supreme Court JudgmentsConstitutional law
William Henkel, Q.C., and Nolan D. Steed, for the intervener the Attorney General for Alberta. [...] Solicitor for the intervener the Attorney General for Alberta: William Henkel, Edmonton.
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Lafrance v. R. - [1975] 2 SCR 201 - 1973-08-27
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
[R. v. Wilkins, [1964] 2 O.R. 365 distinguished; R. v. Williams, [1953] 1 Q.B. 660, referred to.] [...] (See R. v. Williams[3], at p. 666.) The appellant took the vehicle without colour of right and deprived the owner of it temporarily.
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786.
N.R. Whittall v. Minister of National Revenue - [1968] SCR 413 - 1967-10-03
Supreme Court JudgmentsTaxation
(a) Both William Innes and Peace River Natural Gas Co. applied to the Province of British Columbia for a permit to prospect for petroleum and natural gas in a certain area of northern British Columbia. [...] (a) a 41⁄2% interest in a block of 10,000 acres of land carved out of Permit 22 and consolidated with the block of land mentioned in paragraph (b) subject to the 10% carried interest in favour of William Innes (which had been assigned to the Wilson Syndicate);
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787.
The Queen v. Jennings et al. - [1966] SCR 532 - 1966-04-26
Supreme Court JudgmentsTorts
Transportation
The action arose out of a collision between an automobile, hereinafter referred to as “the Jennings car”, owned by the respondent Jennings in which he and his wife the late Mary Jennings were passengers and which was being driven by their son William E. Jennings and an automobile, hereinafter referred to as “the Cronsberry [...] William Jennings was not seriously injured. The action was brought for damages suffered by the respondent Jennings personally and also, pursuant to The Fatal Accidents Act, for damages for the death of the late Mary Jennings.
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788.
Union Marine & General Insurance Company Limited v. Bodnorchuk et al. - [1958] SCR 399 - 1958-06-03
Supreme Court JudgmentsInsurance
The policy was delivered to the assured with a letter dated December 24, 1953, from A. D. McNally, who carried on business as an insurance agent under the name of Williams Agencies at Canora, and who was at that time the agent of the appellant company at that place. [...] Bell had succeeded to the interest of McNally in the business of the Williams Agencies at Canora.
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789.
Northern Assurance Co. Ltd. v. Brown - [1956] SCR 658 - 1956-06-11
Supreme Court JudgmentsInsurance
THE CHIEF JUSTICE:—We are all of opinion that for the reasons stated by the learned Chief Justice of Ontario[1] a judgment by the respondent against William J. Schnurr, who had applied to the appellant for an insurance policy and to whom the policy was issued by it, was not a condition precedent to the bringing of this [...] On April 4, 1949, the respondent, a pedestrian on a highway was struck and injured by an automobile owned by William J. Schnurr and driven by Louis Corbett with Schnurr’s consent.
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Northland Greyhound Lines Inc. v. Bryce and Royal Transportation Ltd. - [1956] SCR 408 - 1956-03-02
Supreme Court JudgmentsMotor vehicles
William Bryce (Plaintiff) Respondent; and Royal Transportation Limited (Defendant) Respondent. [...] The judgments of the members of the Court of Appeal in Williams v. Sykes and Harrison Limited 10, afford an illustration of the application in other circumstances, of course, of the principle which, in my judgment, is to be applied in the case at bar.
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Archibald v. Nesting - [1953] 2 SCR 423 - 1953-11-17
Supreme Court JudgmentsMotor vehicles
William D. Archibald and Lionel George Talbot (Defendants). Appellants; [...] Eileen Florence Nesting and Clarence William Madsen (Plaintiffs) .Respondents ;
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Arnold v. Dominion Trust Co - (1918) 56 SCR 433 - 1918-04-15
Supreme Court JudgmentsInsurance
The question to be decided on the appeal is whether the sum of $75,000, being part of the proceeds collected from life insurance on the life of William Robert Arnold, deceased, belongs to the appellants who are the widow and infant children of the deceased or constitutes part of his general estate. [...] The present action has been instituted by the appellant to claim a sum of $75,000, being part of the proceeds from life insurance of her husband, William Robert Arnold.
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Phelan v. Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Co. - (1915) 51 SCR 113 - 1915-02-02
Supreme Court JudgmentsTransportation
This car formed part of a train made up at Fort William, in Ontario, but how long before the nineteenth of January, on the evening of which it came into the Melville yard, no one seems to know, or, indeed, to have cared. [...] There was ample evidence before the jury from which men of sense exercising common local knowledge might well have said all these things might, from its history, have happened to this car since it had got placed in train No. 91 at Fort William.
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Rhodes v. Perusse - (1908) 41 SCR 264 - 1908-12-15
Supreme Court JudgmentsTransportation
the public highway or cove road, in rear toward the north-west by a reserved road or street on one side to the south-west by lot number three sold to the said William Simpson and on the other side to the north-east by a lane or passage of the width of twenty feet between the property above described and that of Benjamin [...] Bounded in front, towards the south-east by the public highway or cove road, in rear towards the north-west by a reserved road or street on one side to the south-west by lot number three sold to the said William Simpson and on the other side to the north-east by a lane or passage of the width of twenty feet between the
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Oppenheimer v. Brackman & Ker Milling Co. - (1902) 32 SCR 699 - 1902-11-17
Supreme Court JudgmentsAppeal
Oriental Inland Steam Navigation Company v. Briggs[1] ; Cole v. Sumner[2] ; Magann v. Auger[3] ; Skillings v. Royal Insurance Company[4] ; Falck v. Williams[5]. [...] There is no doubt, as Sir William Anson says in his book on contracts, 5th ed. p. 298,
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Taylor v. Robertson - (1901) 31 SCR 615 - 1901-11-16
Supreme Court JudgmentsProfessional law
We also refer generally to Hebb v. Pun Pong ([18]); Lee v. Everest ([19]); Boyle v. Busby ([20]); Smith v. Broadbent & Co. ([21]); Ford v. Williams ([22]); Rascorlla v. Thomas ([23]); Lampleigh v. Braithwait ([24]); Snow v. Hix ([25]). [...] See also Ford v. Williams ([95]). As regards the alleged "express indemnity", the court below say that the evidence is conflicting and that in view of the conclusion they have reached upon the implied indemnity
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Preeper v. The Queen - (1888) 15 SCR 401 - 1888-12-15
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
The defendants, William Preeper and Jane Doyle, were jointly indicted for the murder of one Peter Doyle, and two questions were reserved under c. 174, s. 259 R. S. C. for the consideration of the justices for crown cases reserved in the Province of Nova Scotia. [...] The jury who tried the above cause attended the said service, and the Reverend William Brown was the officiating clergyman and preached a sermon on the said occasion.
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Levi v. Reed - (1880) 6 SCR 482 - 1881-02-11
Supreme Court JudgmentsTorts
The parties consent and agree to the statement of special case hereto annexed, consisting of the Declaration, the Pleas, the depositions of the witnesses examined by both parties except those of William Edwards, John Gorman, William Lowry, James Bracken, James McCammon, Mary Ann Henderson (Mrs. Rolston) and Thomas
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R. v. Van der Peet - [1996] 2 SCR 507 - 1996-08-21
Supreme Court JudgmentsConstitutional law
Blackstone, Sir William. Commentaries on the Laws of England, vol. 2. [...] Holdsworth, Sir William Searle. A History of English Law, vol. 11. London: Methuen, 1938. [...] 174. See, on the doctrine of continuity in general, Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England (1769), vol. 2, at p. 51, Joseph Chitty, A Treatise on the Law of the Prerogatives of the Crown (1820), at p. 119, and Sir William Searle Holdsworth, A History of English Law (1938), vol. 11, at pp. 3-274.
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Re: Resolution to amend the Constitution - [1981] 1 SCR 753 - 1981-09-28
Supreme Court JudgmentsConstitutional law
Ross W. Paisley, Q.C., and William Henkel, Q. C., for the Attorney General for Alberta. [...] As Sir William Jowitt said, and quoted earlier, we must [Page 789] operate the old machinery perhaps one more time. [...] Solicitors for the Attorney General for Alberta: Ross W. Painsley and William Henkel, Edmonton.