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Mitchell v. Peguis Indian Band - [1990] 2 SCR 85 - 1990-06-21
Supreme Court JudgmentsAboriginal law
Ronald Williams and Robert Sutherland, as the Chief and Councillors, [...] Q.B.); Williams v. Canada, [1989] 1 C.N.L.R. 184 (F.C.T.D.) Statutes and Regulations Cited [...] Q.B.) A third case has also implicitly agreed with Morse J., although there is no explicit discussion of the point: Williams v. Canada, [1989] 1 C.N.L.R. 184 (F.C.T.D.) (unemployment insurance benefits paid to a worker on a job creation project).
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Canada (Attorney General) v. Mossop - [1993] 1 SCR 554 - 1993-02-25
Supreme Court JudgmentsAdministrative law
Constitutional law
Williams, Patricia J. The Alchemy of Race and Rights. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991. [...] René Duval and William Pentney, for the appellant. Barbara A. McIsaac, Q.C., and Lisa Hitch, for the respondents the Attorney General of Canada, the Department of Secretary of State and Treasury Board of Canada. [...] As Thurlow C.J. wrote in Canadian Pacific Air Lines, Ltd. v. Williams, [1982] 1 F.C. 214, at p. 215, a Tribunal "has jurisdiction to determine whether what is alleged by the complainant is capable of being discrimination and, if so, whether discrimination has been established."
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R. v. Levkovic - 2013 SCC 25 - [2013] 2 SCR 204 - 2013-05-03
Supreme Court JudgmentsConstitutional law
Criminal law
Williams, Glanville. Criminal Law: The General Part, 2nd ed. London: Stevens & Sons, 1961. [...] As Glanville Williams explained in Criminal Law: The General Part (2nd ed. 1961), at pp. 575-76 (cited in D. Stuart, Canadian Criminal Law: A Treatise (6th ed. 2011), at pp. 20-21):
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Shafron v. KRG Insurance Brokers (Western) Inc. - 2009 SCC 6 - [2009] 1 SCR 157 - 2009-01-23
Supreme Court JudgmentsContract
Labour law
(Canada) Ltd. v. King (1989), 60 D.L.R. (4th) 293; Frederick E. Rose (London) Ld. v. William H. Pim Jnr. & Co., [1953] 2 Q.B. 450. [...] In Frederick E. Rose (London) Ld. v. William H. Pim Jnr. & Co., [1953] 2 Q.B. 450 (C.A.), Denning L.J. stated at p. 461:
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Childs v. Desormeaux - 2006 SCC 18 - [2006] 1 SCR 643 - 2006-05-05
Supreme Court JudgmentsTorts
Eric R. Williams and Jaye E. Hooper, for the respondents Julie Zimmerman and Dwight Courrier. [...] Solicitors for the respondents Julie Zimmerman and Dwight Courrier: Williams McEnery, Ottawa.
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Mathew v. Canada - 2005 SCC 55 - [2005] 2 SCR 643 - 2005-10-19
Supreme Court JudgmentsTaxation
Verlaan Investments Inc., William John Millar, NSFC Holdings Ltd., TFTI Holdings Limited, Douglas H. Mathew, [...] Verlaan Investments Inc., William John Millar, NSFC Holdings Ltd., TFTI Holdings Limited, Douglas H. Mathew,
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R. v. Stinchcombe - [1991] 3 SCR 326 - 1991-11-07
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
William B. Stinchcombe Appellant v. Her Majesty The Queen Respondent [...] William E. Code, Q.C., and John Kingman Phillips, for the appellant.
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Ontario Nurses' Association v. Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit - [1983] 2 SCR 6 - 1983-09-27
Supreme Court JudgmentsLabour law
Dr. D.J. Baum, C.G. Riggs, Esq., and William Walsh, Esq. and between [...] M.G. Picher, Esq., John C. Murray, Esq., and William Walsh, Esq. File No.: 16486.
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Powell v. Cockburn - [1977] 2 SCR 218 - 1976-04-01
Supreme Court JudgmentsEvidence
International law
I. App. 55; Pemberton v. Hughes, [1899] 1 Ch. 781; Harvey v. Farnie (1880), 5 P.D. 153; Salvesen v. Administrator of Austrian Property, [1927] A.C. 641; MacAlpine v. MacAlpine, [1958] P. 35; Middleton v. Middleton, [1967] P. 62; Williams v. North Carolina (1944), 325 U.S. 226; Ramsay v. Ramsay (1913), 108 L.T. 382 (Prob. [...] Mr. Justice Frankfurter in the Supreme Court of the United States made a finding to this effect in Williams v. North Carolina[16], where he confirmed the right, notwithstanding the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the Constitution, collaterally to impeach a decree of divorce made in another State, by proof that the Court had
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R. v. Kundeus - [1976] 2 SCR 272 - 1975-06-26
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Williams, Criminal Law, 2nd ed. (1961), p. 129, makes the point when dealing with the question of “transferred malice” as follows: [...] A number of authors who have examined this problem in depth and, particularly in relation to the “lesser crime” doctrine, have come to this very conclusion: see Williams, op. cit., at pp. 185 ff., Howard, Australian Criminal Law, 2nd ed.
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Canadian Long Island Petroleums Ltd. et al. v. Irving Industries Ltd. - [1975] 2 SCR 715 - 1974-10-11
Supreme Court JudgmentsProperty law
Manchester case and says (at p. 361) that: “It has not been suggested that there is any subsequent authority or statute which weakens the force of what Vaughan Williams L.J. said.” Vaughan Williams L.J. delivered the judgment of the Court.
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Stewart et al. v. Routhier - [1975] 1 SCR 566 - 1974-01-21
Supreme Court JudgmentsTorts
(1867), L.R. 2 C.P. 311; Morton v. William Dixon, Ltd., [1909] S.C. 807; Paris v. Stetney Borough Council, [1951] 1 All E.R. 42; Noddin v. Laskey, [1956] S.C.R. 577 referred to.] [...] Hughes J.A., in giving reasons for the Court of Appeal, adopted the statement made by Lord Dunedin in Morton v. William Dixon, Ltd.[6], which had been also adopted in the House of Lords in Paris v. Stepney Borough Council[7], and restated by Rand J. in this Court in Noddin v. Laskey[8], at p. 585.
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District of North Vancouver v. McKenzie Barge & Marine Ways Ltd. - [1965] SCR 377 - 1965-02-01
Supreme Court JudgmentsMunicipal law
B. E. Emerson and B. W. Williams, for the defendant, appellant. R. C. Bray and K. S. Fawcus, for the plaintiff, respondent. [...] Solicitors for the defendant, appellant: Andrews, Swinton, Emerson and Williams, Vancouver.
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Robertson v. Quinlan - [1934] SCR 550 - 1934-06-06
Supreme Court JudgmentsEvidence
Angus William Robertson (Defendant) Appellant: and Ethel Quinlan and Others (Plaintiffs) Respondents; [...] (11) that on or about the 22nd day of June, 1927, three days before the said testator died, said Angus William Robertson, one of the defendants, personally and for his own benefit, acquired a number of shares, the property of the testator, in different companies;
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The King v. Reners - [1926] SCR 499 - 1926-06-14
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
with a view to compel Tom Fernet, William Hopkins, Joseph Thompson, Robert Brownell, and others, to abstain from doing what they had a lawful right to do, to wit: to work for the Alberta Block Coal Company Limited, did beset and watch the place where the said Tom Fernet, William Hopkins, Joseph Thompson, Robert
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The Governor and Company of Gentlemen Adventurers of England v. Vaillancourt - [1923] SCR 414 - 1923-04-03
Supreme Court JudgmentsTorts
case, that is to say the same in all its essential elements, was decided in the opposite sense in Williams v. Jones[10] But in Williams v. Jones 10Blackburn J., dissented on the ground that in the circumstances the act of smoking by the employee while engaged in the duties of his employment, the circumstances being such
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Corporation of Point Grey v. Shannon - (1922) 63 SCR 557 - 1922-03-29
Supreme Court JudgmentsMunicipal law
William Shannon and Other Respondents. 1922: February 9, 10; 1922: March 29. [...] had allowed an appeal from the assessment of the Court of Revision assessing the lands of William Shannon and another, the now respondents, at their actual value and not at their agricultural value.
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R. v. Ewanchuk - [1999] 1 SCR 330 - 1999-02-25
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Blackstone, William, Sir. Commentaries on the Laws of England, 4th ed., Book III. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1770. [...] Williams, Glanville. Textbook of Criminal Law, 2nd ed. London: Stevens, 1983. [...] As enumerated in s. 265(3) , these include submission by reason of force, fear, threats, fraud or the exercise of authority, and codify the longstanding common law rule that consent given under fear or duress is ineffective: see G. Williams, Textbook of Criminal Law (2nd ed. 1983), at pp. 551-61.
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R. v. Goltz - [1991] 3 SCR 485 - 1991-11-14
Supreme Court JudgmentsConstitutional law
Considered: R. v. Smith, [1987] 1 S.C.R. 1045; referred to: R. v. Williams (1988), 26 B.C.L.R. (2d) 67; R. v. Konechny (1983), 10 C.C.C. (3d) 233; R. v. Lyons, [1987] 2 S.C.R. 309; R. v. Luxton, [1990] 2 S.C.R. 711; R. v. Guiller (1986), 48 C.R. (3d) 226; Steele v. Mountain Institution, [1990] 2 S.C.R. 1385; R. v. Alston [...] The Trial Court decided it was bound by the decisions of the Vancouver County Court in R. v. Williams (1988), 26 B.C.L.R. (2d) 67, and the B.C. Court of Appeal in R. v. Konechny (1983), 10 C.C.C. (3d) 233, to hold that s. 88(1) of the Act was valid and did not amount to the imposition of cruel and unusual punishment in [...] The mandatory minimum in s. 88 of the Act was again challenged subsequent to this Court's determination in R. v. Smith, supra, with conflicting results in the County Court -- in R. v. Williams, supra, and in the case on appeal.
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Tock v. St. John's Metropolitan Area Board - [1989] 2 SCR 1181 - 1989-12-07
Supreme Court JudgmentsTorts
Williams, David W. "Non‑natural Use of Land" (1973), 32 Cambridge L.J. 310. [...] The point is nicely put by Williams in his article "Non-natural Use of Land" (1973), 32 Cambridge L.J. 310, at p. 319, when he argues that the existence of planning authorities which ensure that virtually all development of land occurs pursuant to planning decisions "puts the question of land use into a completely different [...] Public sewerage and drainage systems are an indispensable part of the infrastructures necessary to support urban life, and it is clear in my mind that the storm sewer in question here was constructed pursuant to planning decisions of the very sort alluded to in Williams' comments.
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Curley v. Latreille - (1920) 60 SCR 131 - 1920-02-03
Supreme Court JudgmentsTorts
The French court extends the doctrine of the English deviation cases such as Venables y. Smith[11]; (see also Williams v. Koehler & Co.,[12]; and Chicago Consolidated Bottling Co. v. McGinnis[13]); and treats as merely an abuse of the employment what would in England be regarded as something clearly outside its course, [...] Both Vaughan Williams L. J. and Fletcher-Moulton L. J. dwell on the fact of the driver's belief that he was discharging his duty; he knew nothing of the limitation on the manager's right to use the company's cars. [...] In England under the like circumstances the master was held not liable (Williams v. Jones[61], by the majority of the Court of Exchequer (Erle C. J. Keating and Smith JJ.) on the ground that the lighting of the pipe was not in any way connected with the work for which the servant was employed.
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R. v. Sundman - 2022 SCC 31 - 2022-07-21
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
APPEAL from a judgment of the British Columbia Court of Appeal (Bauman C.J. and Fitch and Grauer JJ.A.), 2021 BCCA 53, 402 C.C.C. (3d) 463, [2021] B.C.J. No. 209 (QL), 2021 CarswellBC 309 (WL), substituting a conviction for first degree murder to the conviction for second degree murder entered by Williams J., 2018 BCSC 602, [...] A. Supreme Court of British Columbia, 2018 BCSC 602 (Williams J.) [13] The Crown argued that the appellant was guilty of first degree murder because the murder was planned and deliberate.
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Canada Labour Relations Board et al. v. Paul L’Anglais Inc. et al. - [1983] 1 SCR 147 - 1983-02-08
Supreme Court JudgmentsConstitutional law
Courts
William A. Anderson and Bruce Judah, for the intervener the Attorney General for New Brunswick. [...] Solicitor for the intervener the Attorney General for New Brunswick: William A. Anderson, Fredericton.
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R. v. Abbey - [1982] 2 SCR 24 - 1982-07-22
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Evidence
Although there is some controversy in academic circles, I adopt the more traditional view espoused by Glanville Williams (Criminal Law, The General Part, 2nd ed. [...] Glanville Williams in his Criminal Law, The General Part, supra, at p. 478 says:
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Harris v. Minister of National Revenue - [1966] SCR 489 - 1966-04-28
Supreme Court JudgmentsTaxation
The decision in the first of these cases, usually referred to as the Cement Company's case has been the subject of much adverse criticism; See Williams on Vendor and [...] Purchaser, 4th ed., vol. 1, p. 424, note (i); Gray op. cit. page 366 et seq, ss. 330.2 and 330.3; Articles by Mr. T. Cyprian Williams in 42 Sol. J. 628 and 650 and in 54 Sol. J. 471 and 501; and articles by Mr. Charles Sweet in 27 L.Q.R. 150 and 32 L.Q.R. 70.