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Senstad v. Makus - [1978] 2 SCR 44 - 1977-09-30
Supreme Court JudgmentsProperty law
Alfred William Makus (Defendant) Respondent. 1977: May 5; 1977: September 30. [...] And I, Mrs. Cleo Makus being married to the undersigned Alfred William Makus, do hereby give my consent to the disposition of our homestead, made in this agreement and I have executed this document for the purpose of giving up my life estate and other dower
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Alward et al. v. The Queen - [1978] 1 SCR 559 - 1977-06-24
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Barry Athey and William Kearney, for the respondent. The judgment of Laskin C.J. and Martland, Judson, Spence, Pigeon, Dickson and Beetz JJ. was delivered by [...] Solicitor for the respondent: William Kearney, Fredericton. [1] (1976), 32 C.C.C. 416.
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928.
Metropolitan Toronto v. Atkinson et al. - [1978] 1 SCR 918 - 1977-06-24
Supreme Court JudgmentsLease
Williams’ Canadian Law of Landlord and Tenant, 4th ed. 1973, at p. 549, s. 119, puts the matter succinctly:
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Tomell Investments Ltd. v. East Marstock Lands Ltd. - [1978] 1 SCR 974 - 1977-06-24
Supreme Court JudgmentsConstitutional law
William Henkel, Q.C., for the Attorney General of Alberta. The judgment of Laskin C.J. and Martland J. was delivered by
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930.
Madill v. Sommer Building Corpn. - [1978] 1 SCR 999 - 1977-06-14
Supreme Court JudgmentsLease
The Glengoil Steamship Co. v. William Pilkington (1897), 28 S.C.R. 146; R. v. Canada Steamship Lines Ltd., [1950] S.C.R. 532, rev’d. [1952] A.C. 192; Quebec Railway Light, Heat and Power Company v. Vandry,
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931.
Davey et al. v. Isaac et al. - [1977] 2 SCR 897 - 1977-05-31
Supreme Court JudgmentsAboriginal law
Paul Williams, for the Union of Ontario Indians. Bruce Clark, for Gary Potts et al. [...] people described as “Sachems or Chiefs and Principal Men of the Six Nations Indians” and King William the Fourth, under the terms of which there was surrendered to King William the Fourth a portion of the lands on the banks of the Ouse or Grand River, which had been the subject matter of the grant by King George the Third. [...] Solicitor for the Union of Ontario Indians, intervenant: Paul Williams, Toronto.
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932.
Moldowan v. The Queen - [1978] 1 SCR 480 - 1977-05-31
Supreme Court JudgmentsTaxation
William Moldowan Appellant; and Her Majesty The Queen Respondent.
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933.
Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital v. Koziol - [1978] 1 SCR 491 - 1977-05-17
Supreme Court JudgmentsAppeal
The appeal to this Court was taken only against the plaintiff Julie Kolesar, Administratix of the Estate of William Kolesar, deceased, and Terrance L. Jeffries. [...] Those injuries required, very much later, surgical treatment and on December 30, 1969 the late William Kolesar underwent surgical treatment by the defendant Dr. Bhalla. [...] Adopting that standard of care, Haines J. then turned to consider the evidence given by a large number of persons as to the care which the late William Kolesar actually did receive.
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934.
Smithers v. R. - [1978] 1 SCR 506 - 1977-05-17
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Evidence
The work of expert witnesses in an issue of this sort, as Glanville Williams has pointed out (Causation in Homicide [1957] Crim.
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935.
T. Eaton Co. v. Smith et al. - [1978] 2 SCR 749 - 1977-05-17
Supreme Court JudgmentsLease
The T. Eaton Company Limited, May Catharine Vickers, Executrix of the Estate of William F. Friel (deceased) (Plaintiffs) Appellants; [...] Albert E. Smith and Reginald E. Tuck by his executors Evelyn Tuck, Doris Reid, Reginald Tuck and William Nelson Hinton (Defendants) Respondents. [...] The Courts below have found, and the point is no longer in issue, that the fire was truly due to the negligence of an Eatons’ employee, the late William F. Friel whose estate is also an appellant.
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MacDonald v. R. - [1977] 2 SCR 832 - 1977-04-04
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
At approximately 2:00 a.m. on September 2nd, the appellant Pentiluk, accompanied by Gus Williams, the deceased Gregory Plytas and John Pearson, arrived at the party. [...] Gregory Plytas interceded and the appellant Pentiluk told her: “You are going to get yours too.” Pentiluk, Williams and Pearson then left; Plytas remained.
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McMillan v. R. - [1977] 2 SCR 824 - 1977-04-04
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
William George McMillan (Plaintiff) Appellant; and Her Majesty The Queen (Defendant) Respondent. [...] SPENCE J.—This is an appeal by the accused William George McMillan from the judgment of the Court of Appeal for Ontario pronounced on February 14, 1975.
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Bedford Service Comm’n. v. A.G. (N.S.) et al. - [1977] 2 SCR 269 - 1977-03-22
Supreme Court JudgmentsAdministrative law
Solicitor for the respondent, the Halifax-Dartmouth Regional Authority: A. William Cox, Halifax.
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Leary v. The Queen - [1978] 1 SCR 29 - 1977-03-08
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
(Assuming this is at all possible in a rape case, see Glanville L. Williams, The Mental Element in Crime (1965), p. 47.)
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940.
R. v. Cooper - [1978] 1 SCR 860 - 1977-03-08
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
At all material times, Gerald William McKendry was employed by the federal government, in DREE, as a director of the Special Analysis Group.
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941.
McNamara Construction et al. v. The Queen - [1977] 2 SCR 654 - 1977-01-25
Supreme Court JudgmentsCourts
Solicitor for the Attorney General for Alberta, intervenant: William Henkel, Edmonton.
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942.
Sokoloski v. R. - [1977] 2 SCR 523 - 1977-01-25
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
The issue is dealt with by Williams, Criminal Law (2nd ed. 1961) at pp. 356-357, in terms which commend themselves to me, as follows: [...] Although the correctness of this decision has been doubted (see Williams, Criminal Law (2nd ed. 1961), at pp. 672-73), it does not call for any re-examination here.
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943.
Northern Electric Co. Ltd. v. Manufacturers Life Ins. Co. - [1977] 2 SCR 762 - 1976-11-16
Supreme Court JudgmentsContract
Priorities and hypothecs
While it is difficult if not impossible to assign to each of the three words “request”, “privity” and “consent” a meaning which will not to some extent overlap that of either of the others, after carefully reading all the authorities cited I accept as settled law the view enunciated in Graham v. Williams, 8 O.R. 478; 9 O.R.
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944.
Fidelity and Casualty Co. of New York v. General Structures Inc. - [1977] 2 SCR 1098 - 1976-10-05
Supreme Court JudgmentsInsurance
William Harold Booth (Defendant) Mis en cause. 1975: December 5; 1976: October 5.
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945.
Warkentin v. The Queen - [1977] 2 SCR 355 - 1976-07-12
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
On her return a few minutes later to Williams Lake, she met another friend and was finally convinced to go to the police. [...] Helen Sandy, an 18-year-old native Indian girl, lives a few miles from Williams Lake. [...] On her return to Williams Lake, a few minutes later, she met another friend and was finally convinced to go to the police.
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946.
Commerce & Industry Insurance Co. et al. v. West End Investment Co. - [1977] 2 SCR 1036 - 1976-06-29
Supreme Court JudgmentsInsurance
For the civil lawyer the lessee acquires only a personal right, a claim of enjoyment (Mignault, Le droit civil canadien, Vol. 7, p. 233), whereas in common law the lessee holds part of the property right—he has an “estate or interest in the land or premises demised” (Williams’ Canadian Law of Landlord and Tenant, 4th ed.,
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947.
Schwartz v. R. - [1977] 1 SCR 673 - 1976-05-05
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
As stated in Glanville Williams, Criminal Law, 2d ed., p. 492: “The earlier authorities had gone on moral wrong.”
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Silburn v. Antagon Construction Co. Ltd. - [1977] 2 SCR 271 - 1976-05-05
Supreme Court JudgmentsMotor vehicles
William Thomas Silburn Appellant; and Antagon Construction Company Ltd. Respondent.
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949.
United States of America v. Shephard - [1977] 2 SCR 1067 - 1976-05-05
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Hodge's Case (1838), 2 Lewin 227, 168 E.R. 1136; Re Lattimer (1906), 10 C.C.C. 244; Girvin v. The King (1911), 45 S.C.R. 167; R. v. Atwood and Robbins (1788), 1 Leach 464, 168 E.R. 334; R. v. Pipe (1966), 51 Cr. App. R. 17; R. v. Caulfield (1973), 10 C.C.C. (2d) 539; R. v. Williams (1975), 21 C.C.C. (2d) 1, referred to.] [...] The judgment in the Dimaulo case is conveniently reproduced as an appendix to the respondent's factum and a consideration of the jurisprudence and authority there cited discloses that the learned judge relied in great measure on certain statements contained in an article by Mr. Glanville Williams in the Criminal Law [...] Of even greater significance is the judgment of the Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada in R. v. Williams[21], a case in which leave to appeal to this Court was refused last December.
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Di Iorio v. Warden of the Montreal Jail - [1978] 1 SCR 152 - 1976-04-01
Supreme Court JudgmentsConstitutional law
Criminal law
Although this is not explicitly stated in the Code, it appears to me that the principle enunciated by Vaughan Williams J. in Re Armstrong[51], (cited in Poje, at p. 518) would be applicable and the imprisonment would determine ex debito justitiae as soon as the person committed yielded obedience to the order of the