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551.
Finlay et al. v. Auld - [1975] 1 SCR 338 - 1973-10-02
Supreme Court JudgmentsProfessional law
William Gordon Finlay and Nancy Jean Finlay (Plaintiffs) Appellants; [...] As to the facts, there is the statement, made by the female plaintiff to the defendant, following the operation, that she was fine; there was no complaint, as I would expect, upon the hospital record during five days or upon discharge; there was no complaint of choking attacks to Dr. William Nicholas, although there was
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Toronto Railway Co. v. Fleming - (1913) 47 SCR 612 - 1913-05-06
Supreme Court JudgmentsTorts
William Fleming (Plaintiff) Respondent. 1913: April 8; 1913: May 6. [...] At the second trial before Sir William Meredith C.J.C.P., the jury again found for the plaintiff.
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Ostrom v. Sills - (1898) 28 SCR 485 - 1898-05-14
Supreme Court JudgmentsProperty law
Clute Q.C. and Williams for the respondents. The principles applicable to public waters do not extend to the flow of mere surface water. [...] Solicitors for the respondent: Clute & Williams. [1] 24 Ont. App. R. 526.
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Conger v. Kennedy - (1896) 26 SCR 397 - 1896-06-06
Supreme Court JudgmentsConstitutional law
On the 11th of December, 1889, at Napanee, in the province of Ontario, William Cox Allan was married to Janet C. Conger, then a widow. [...] At the time of the marriage William Cox Allan was domiciled in the North-West Territories, having his residence at Macleod, in those territories.
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Angus v. Union Gas & Oil Stove Co. - (1895) 24 SCR 104 - 1895-01-15
Supreme Court JudgmentsIntellectual property
WILLIAM ANGUS AND FRANK B. HOWARD (DEFENDANTS) Appellant; And THE UNION GAS AND OIL STOVE CO. (PLAINTIFFS) [...] APPEAL from a judgment of the Court of Queen's Bench for the province of Quebec, confirming a judgment of the Superior Court under which judgment the appellant William Angus was condemned to pay a sum of $6,000 jointly with the appellant Prank B. Howard, and the appellant Frank B. Howard con demined for the further sum of
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Bury v. Murray - (1894) 24 SCR 77 - 1894-10-09
Supreme Court JudgmentsEvidence
Art. 1187 C. C; Frostc v. Esson ([3]); Williams v. Rousseau ([4]); Roy v. McShane ([5]); Thibodeau v. Girouard ([6]). [...] It is, asserted by the appellant that the respondent was originally a mere prête-nom for one William Langan For- sixth or that the deed in question, if not made altogether for the behoof of Forsyth, was passed for the purpose, in the first place, of securing the payment to the respondent of certain moneys in which Forsyth
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Boyce v. The Phoenix Mutual Life Ins. Co. - (1887) 14 SCR 723 - 1887-06-22
Supreme Court JudgmentsInsurance
The Company respondent, on the 27th September 1876 issued a policy on the life of William A Charlebois, of Montreal, for the sum of $3,000, payable to his executors, administrators or assigns ninety days after proof of his death. [...] If the said William A. Charlebois shall at any time during the continuance of this policy, without the consent of the said company previously obtained in writing, visit any part of the Western Hemisphere lying between the tropics, or of the Eastern Hemisphere between the 36th parallel north and the Tropic of Capricorn, or
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R. v. D.L.W. - 2016 SCC 22 - [2016] 1 SCR 402 - 2016-06-09
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Eskridge, William N., Jr. Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861‑2003. [...] London: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1879. Hale, Matthew. [...] II. London: MacMillan and Co., 1883 (reprinted Buffalo, N.Y.: William S. Hein & Co., 1983).
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Carter v. Canada (Attorney General) - 2015 SCC 5 - [2015] 1 SCR 331 - 2015-02-06
Supreme Court JudgmentsConstitutional law
Courts
Lee Carter, Hollis Johnson, William Shoichet, British Columbia Civil Liberties Association and Gloria Taylor [...] Lee Carter, Hollis Johnson, William Shoichet, British Columbia Civil Liberties Association and Gloria Taylor [...] Lee Carter, Hollis Johnson, William Shoichet, British Columbia Civil Liberties Association and Gloria Taylor Appellants
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R. v. Pan; R. v. Sawyer - 2001 SCC 42 - [2001] 2 SCR 344 - 2001-06-29
Supreme Court JudgmentsConstitutional law
Criminal law
William F. Ehrcke, Q.C., and Mary Ainslie, for the intervener the Attorney General of British Columbia. [...] 95 As discussed by this Court in Sherratt, supra, and Williams, supra, a trial judge should permit challenges for cause under s. 638(1)(b) where there is a “realistic potential” of the existence of partiality on the part of jurors. [...] This being said, I acknowledge and agree with the concern raised in Williams, supra, at para. 11, that there is a risk that the views of a biased juror may infect the jury’s deliberations and create a risk that the verdict is not solely based on the evidence and law.
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Irvine v. Canada (Restrictive Trade Practices Commission) - [1987] 1 SCR 181 - 1987-03-26
Supreme Court JudgmentsAdministrative law
Pollock, Sir Frederick and Frederic William Maitland. The History of English Law, vol. 1, 2nd ed., reissued. [...] Wade, Henry William Rawson. Administrative Law, 5th ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982. [...] John Sopinka, Q.C., and David Brown, for the appellants Lorne Gilbert Coons, James Arthur Jobin, Donald Charles Grinstead, Hugh Fitzgerald Thomson, William Alexander Mowat and Bruce Scott Moore.
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Corporation Agencies Ltd. v. Home Bank of Canada - [1925] SCR 706 - 1925-11-02
Supreme Court JudgmentsFinancial institutions
On the face of these Williams was, without showing authority to do so, drawing cheques for his own purposes on the respondents' funds at their bankers. [...] Banking Company[31], where two firms were carrying on different businesses, Esson & Company, which was largely indebted to the respondent bank, and of which William Esson was a member, and Creighton & Company, of which the appellant Samuel Creighton and William Esson were also members, Creighton having no interest [...] Sir William Ritchie C.J., gave the following reasons for judgment in agreement with the other members of the court:
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Johnstone v. The Minister & Trustees of St. Andrews Church, Montreal - (1877) 1 SCR 235 - 1877-06-28
Supreme Court JudgmentsLease
The Statute under which the Defendants were created a Corporation, 12 Vic, Cap. 154, recites that the ground on which St. Andrew's Church was erected for the public worship and exercise of the religion of the Church of Scotland, in Montreal, was purchased by Alexander Rae and William Hunter, as Trustees, for the [...] Section 2.—The Corporation were to hold stand and be possessed of the lots of ground with the buildings thereon, forever, for the several limitations, trusts, provisions and uses declared and expressed in respect of the same by the deeds of sale referred to and the declaration by Alexander Rae and William Hunter (made [...] [82] Williams' Notes to Saunders, pp. 18, 19 [83] David v. , Thomas, 1 L. C. Jurist, p. 69.
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R. v. MacGillivray - [1995] 1 SCR 890 - 1995-03-30
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Robert C. Hagell and William Delaney, for the respondent. //Lamer C.J.// [...] And by doing so caused the death of William Francis Corsten. The advertent negligence can be inferred from the conduct and driving of the accused.
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The Queen v. Toews - [1985] 2 SCR 119 - 1985-09-19
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
William Firman, for the respondent. The judgment of the Court was delivered by [...] Solicitor for the respondent: William Firman, Prince George.
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Lamb v. Lamb - [1985] 1 SCR 851 - 1985-06-27
Supreme Court JudgmentsConstitutional law
Family law
William James Lamb Appellant; and Elizabeth Ann Lamb Respondent; [...] William Henkel, Q.C., and Margaret Unsworth, for the intervener the Attorney General for Alberta.
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Duhamel v. The Queen - [1984] 2 SCR 555 - 1984-12-13
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
People v. Williams, 322 N.E. 2d 461 (1975); People v. Gray, 222 N.W. 2d 515 (1974); People v. Mann, 280 N.W. 2d 577 (1979); R. v. Bellisimo (1980), 4 W.C.B. 453; R. v. Kienapple, [1975] 1 S.C.R. 729; Gushue v. The Queen, [1980] 1 S.C.R. 798, referred to. [...] They have not yet been put within the reach of the doctrine by most of the common law jurisdictions that have extended issue estoppel to criminal law (save the States of Illinois in People v. Williams, 322 N.E. 2d 461 (1975), and Michigan, in People v. Gray, 222 N.W. 2d 515 (1974), and People v. Mann, 280 N.W. 2d 577
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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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Highway Victims Indemnity Fund v. Magnan - [1977] 1 SCR 793 - 1976-01-30
Supreme Court JudgmentsMotor vehicles
Sherwin-Williams Co. of Canada Ltd. v. Boiler Inspection & Insurance Co. of Canada, [1950] S.C.R. 187, affirmed [1951] A.C. 319; The Workmen’s Compensation Board v. Lachance, [1973] S.C.R. 428; Guardian Assurance Co. v. Town of Chicoutimi (1915), 51 S.C.R. 562; Quebec Fire Assurance Co. v. Molson (1851), 1 L.C.R. 222, 7 [...] Nothing allowed it to raise an argument foreign to the issue in a case where the defendants could in no way invoke plaintiff’s insurance as a ground of defence: Sherwin-Williams Co. of Canada Ltd. v. Boiler Inspection & Insurance Co. of Canada[2].
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Paradis v. The King - [1934] SCR 165 - 1933-12-22
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Lucien Gendron K.C., Oscar Gagnon and William Paradis for the appellant. [...] Solicitor for the appellant: William Paradis. Solicitor for the respondent: Valmore Bienvenue.
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Travers v. Casey - (1904) 34 SCR 419 - 1904-03-10
Supreme Court JudgmentsEstates
Cole v. Wade[19]; Holliday v. Overton[20]; Williams v. [Page 423] Pinckney[21]; Jarman's 12th rule, vol. 2, (5 ed.) 841; Ex parte Dawes[22], per Esher M.R. [...] Solicitor for the appellant: William Pugsley. Solicitor for the respondents: John L. Carleton.
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Hart v. McMullen - (1900) 30 SCR 245 - 1900-04-02
Supreme Court JudgmentsSale
See notes on Pinnington v. Galland and Hall v. Lund[38]; Washburn on Easements, p. 58; Rackley v. Sprague[39], and cases there cited; Hathorn v. Stinson[40]; Baker v. Bessey[41]; Richardson v. Bigtlow[42]; Lammott v. Ewers[43]; Oakley v. Stanley[44]; Bayley v. Great Western Railway Co.[45]; Broomfield v. Williams[46]. [...] Solicitor for the appellant: William A. Henry. Solicitor for the respondent: Norman J. Layton.
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Jordan v. Provincial Provident Institution - (1898) 28 SCR 554 - 1898-06-14
Supreme Court JudgmentsInsurance
We make special reference to the words of Sir William Ritchie, C.J., in FitzRandolph v. The Mutual Relief Society of Nova Scotia[11] at page 336. [...] avoid the policy if a statement of a material fact contained in the declaration is untrue, even though not to the knowledge of the assured; Porter, Insurance, (2 ed.) page 140; Macdonald v. Law Union Fire and Life Insurance Company[19]; Bunyon, Life Insurance, p. 41; Cooke, Life Insurance, p. 35; Duckett v. Williams[20].
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Desgagnés Transport Inc. v. Wärtsilä Canada Inc. - 2019 SCC 58 - [2019] 4 SCR 228 - 2019-11-28
Supreme Court JudgmentsConstitutional law
Tetley, William. “A Definition of Canadian Maritime Law” (1996), 30 U.B.C. L. Rev. 137. [...] Tetley, William. International Maritime and Admiralty Law. Cowansville, Que.: Yvon Blais, 2002. [...] Tetley, William. Maritime Liens and Claims, 2nd ed. Montréal: Yvon Blais, 1998.
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R. v. Downes - 2023 SCC 6 - 2023-03-10
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Randy William Downes Respondent - and - Attorney General of Ontario, Attorney General of Alberta and Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic [...] Randy William Downes Respondent and Attorney General of Ontario, [...] [2] On the facts of this case, the issue is whether a hockey coach, the respondent, Randy William Downes, committed the offence of voyeurism under s. 162(1)(a) by surreptitiously photographing 2 boys aged between 12 and 14 years old in their underwear in hockey arena dressing rooms, even if a person could not reasonably be