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Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance v. Canadian General Electric Ltd. - [1981] 1 SCR 600 - 1981-05-11
Supreme Court JudgmentsInsurance
The trial judge appears to have preferred the description of the episode by Dr. Williams. [...] Elsewhere in cross-examination, however, Dr. Williams expressed views on the general nature of “explosions”: [...] The evidence of Dr. Williams accepted by the trial judge was to the [Page 617]
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852.
Nault v. Canadian Consumer Co. Ltd. - [1981] 1 SCR 553 - 1981-05-11
Supreme Court JudgmentsCivil procedure
George R. Hendy and William Brock, for the respondent. English version of the judgment of the Court delivered by
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853.
Young v. R. - [1981] 2 SCR 39 - 1981-05-11
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
In that case a trial had taken place over a period of twenty days, and there was an omission to direct the jury on many of the no doubt complex issues which had been considered in the course of it, but this court cited the words of SIR WILLIAM BRETT, M.R. [later Lord Esher], in Abrath v. North Eastern Ry. Co. (1883), 11
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854.
Wire Rope Industries of Canada (1966) Ltd. v. B.C. Marine Shipbuilders Ltd. et al. - [1981] 1 SCR 363 - 1981-03-19
Supreme Court JudgmentsCourts
Maritime law
H. Williams who generally reached conclusions similar to that of McCulloch.
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855.
Rothman v. The Queen - [1981] 1 SCR 640 - 1981-03-02
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Professor Glanville Williams, in The Proof of Guilt, (2nd ed., 1958), puts it this way (at pp. 37‑8):
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856.
Nova Scotia Government Employees Association et al. v. Civil Service Commission of Nova Scotia et al. - [1981] 1 SCR 211 - 1981-02-17
Supreme Court JudgmentsLabour law
William Wilson and Mollie Gallagher, for the respondents. The judgment of Laskin C.J. and Dickson, McIntyre and Chouinard JJ. was delivered by
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857.
Boggs v. R. - [1981] 1 SCR 49 - 1981-02-03
Supreme Court JudgmentsConstitutional law
Criminal law
William Henkel, Q.C., for the intervener, the Attorney General of Alberta.
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858.
Fulton et al. v. Energy Resources Conservation Board et al. - [1981] 1 SCR 153 - 1981-01-27
Supreme Court JudgmentsConstitutional law
William Henkel, Q.C., for the Attorney General of Alberta. T.B. Smith, Q.C., for the Attorney General of Canada.
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859.
R. v. Aziz - [1981] 1 SCR 188 - 1981-01-27
Supreme Court JudgmentsConstitutional law
Criminal law
Solicitor for the Attorney General for Alberta: William Henkel, Edmonton.
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860.
Swietlinski v. R. - [1980] 2 SCR 956 - 1980-12-18
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Comm. 198; and the words of Glanville Williams, Textbook of Criminal Law (1978), at p. 204:
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861.
Williams v. Hillier et al. - [1980] 2 SCR 368 - 1980-12-18
Supreme Court JudgmentsFamily law
Williams v. Hillier et al., Williams c. Hillier et autre, [1980] 2 SCR 368, [1980] 2 RCS 368 [...] Williams v. Hillier et al., [1980] 2 S.C.R. 368 Date: 1980-12-18 Ernest Charles Williams Appellant;
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862.
Beaufort Realties et al. v. Chomedey Aluminum - [1980] 2 SCR 718 - 1980-11-12
Supreme Court JudgmentsContract
William J. Simpson, Q.C., and Charles T. Hackland, for the plaintiff, respondent.
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863.
Homex Realty v. Wyoming - [1980] 2 SCR 1011 - 1980-11-12
Supreme Court JudgmentsMunicipal law
A copy of this subdivision agreement was registered against the lands of Homex by the Town Solicitor, William M’Clean Dawson, on September 25, 1975, with registration number 375351. [...] Other authorities to the same point are Ex parte Fry[26], at p. 737; The King v. General Commissioners for the Purposes of the Income Tax Acts[27], at p. 519; The King v. Williams[28], at p. 614, as to the exercise of discretion in the first instance.
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864.
Hechter et al. v. Thurston - [1980] 2 SCR 254 - 1980-10-21
Supreme Court JudgmentsSale
William Samuel Hechter and David William Gordon Reycraft (Plaintiffs) Appellants;
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865.
Gralewicz et al. v. R. - [1980] 2 SCR 493 - 1980-10-07
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Labour law
Roman Adolfe Gralewicz, John Royce, Roy Norris Willis, Roger Desjardins, Richard Thomasson, Edwin Aldon Williams, Hedley Harnum, Andre Bansept, William Lisenchuk, William Mercer and George Baldo (Plaintiff) Appellants; [...] (1) that Roman Adolfe GRALEWICZ, John ROYCE, Roy Norris WILLIS, Roger DESJARDINS, Richard THOMASSON, Edwin Aldon WILLIAMS, Hedley HARNUM, Andre BANSEPT, William LISENCHUK, Walter MERCER and George BALDO, between the 1st day of January 1971 and the 18th day of January 1977 in the Province of Ontario and elsewhere in the [...] That Roman Adolfe Gralewicz, John Royce, Roy Norris Willis, Roger Desjardins, Richard Thomasson, Edwin Aldon Williams, Hedley Harnum, Andre Bansept, William Lisenchuk, Walter Mercer, and George Baldo between the 1st day of January, 1971 and the 18th day of January, 1977, in the Province of Ontario and elsewhere in the
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866.
Molis v. R. - [1980] 2 SCR 356 - 1980-10-07
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
The significance of this case as well as of the many exceptions noted in Williams’ work is that Criminal Code, s. 19, is not absolute and cannot be applied without reserve to every situation where the essential mistake is one of law. [...] Apart from the exceptions arising out of specific mental elements of culpability such as fraud, Williams suggests several other approaches to exceptions, of which two seem to be pertinent to this case.
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867.
Public Trustee v. Guaranty Trust - [1980] 2 SCR 931 - 1980-10-07
Supreme Court JudgmentsEstates
In this regard the following paragraph from Williams and Mortimer on Executors, Administrators and Probate, at p. 703 is self-explanatory: [...] The extent to which the doctrine that his debt was extinguished was carried is further illustrated by the cases collected in Williams on Executors, vol. ii, p. 1180, which shew that an executor, having assets sufficient and properly applicable to pay a debt due to him from his testator, could not sue the testator’s heir nor
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868.
Reibl v. Hughes - [1980] 2 SCR 880 - 1980-10-07
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Professional law
the examination for discovery of the defendant and, in support of the defendant’s case, the testimony of the defendant and of a neurosurgeon, Dr. William Lougheed, who were the only two witnesses called for the defendant; (5) the duty of disclosure and review of the findings below and (6) whether causation was established.
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869.
Covert et al. v. Minister of Finance of Nova Scotia - [1980] 2 SCR 774 - 1980-07-18
Supreme Court JudgmentsTaxation
The question in that case was as to the liability of three daughters of the deceased, Thomas William Noad, for payment of succession duties.
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870.
Rabey v. R. - [1980] 2 SCR 513 - 1980-07-18
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Dr. Glanville Williams’ new book “Textbook of Criminal Law” (1978) is helpful in this discussion, in particular chapter 27. [...] At the conclusion of the discussion on Parnerkar, Williams makes the following comment, particularly apt in the present case: [...] Williams concludes that “On the whole, it would be much better if the courts kept to Lord Denning’s plain rule; the rule in Quick adds nothing to it”.
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871.
The Queen (Man.) v. Air Canada - [1980] 2 SCR 303 - 1980-07-18
Supreme Court JudgmentsConstitutional law
William Henkel, Q. C., for the intervener, the Attorney General of Alberta.
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872.
Greenwood Shopping Plaza Ltd. v. Beattie et al. - [1980] 2 SCR 228 - 1980-06-17
Supreme Court JudgmentsContract
Arthur Moreira, Q.C., Alexander S. Beveridge and A. Williams Moreira, for the plaintiff, appellant.
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873.
Pappajohn v. The Queen - [1980] 2 SCR 120 - 1980-05-20
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
(Glanville Williams, Criminal Law, The General Part, at p. 141). (Emphasis added.) [...] Glanville Williams notes [Page 149] (Criminal Law, The General Part, p. 173, para. 65): [...] be found in the scholarly writings: Glanville Williams (Criminal Law, The General Part, para. 70, at p. 201): "The idea that a mistake, to be a defence, must be reasonable, though lurking in some of the cases, is certainly not true as a general proposition"; Glanville Williams, Textbook of Criminal Law, at p. 100; Howard,
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874.
Jack Cewe Ltd. v. Jorgenson - [1980] 1 SCR 812 - 1980-04-22
Supreme Court JudgmentsLabour law
Gary William Jorgenson (Plaintiff) Respondent. 1979: October 29; 1980: April 22.
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875.
Schreiber Brothers Ltd. v. Currie Products Ltd. et al. - [1980] 2 SCR 78 - 1980-03-27
Supreme Court JudgmentsContract
Annable v. Coventry (1912), 46 S.C.R. 573; Cities Service Oil Co. v. Rubel (1930), 66 O.L.R. 475; Métivier v. Cadorette, [1977] 1 S.C.R. 371; Powell v. Streatham Manor Nursing Home, [1935] A.C. 243; Prudential Insurance Co. Ltd. v. Forseth, [1960] S.C.R. 210; Hood v. Hood, [1972] S.R.C. 244; Canadian William A. Rogers Ltd. [...] If it were not for the reference by Weatherston J.A. to Canadian William A. Rogers Ltd. v. Lucerne Metal & Plastic Products Ltd.[7], it would be difficult to appreciate that this was an action under The Sale of Goods Act. As in the Rogers case, it was enough here that the plaintiff show that a defect existed when the