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"Tournament of Appeals investigates the leave to appeal process in Canada and explores how and why certain cases "win" a place on the Court's agenda and others do not. Drawing from systematically collected information on the process, applications, and lawyers. Roy Flemming offers both a qualitative and quantitative explanation of how Canada's justices grant judicial review. This study will draw the attention of lawyers, academics, and students in North America as well as in the Commonwealth or Europe, where the appeals process in the high courts is similar to that of Canada."--BOOK JACKET.
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A major reform of civil procedure began in 2002 in the wake of the Ferland report, itself inspired by Lord Woolf’s report on civil justice in England and Wales. In both reports, the idea of proportionality is central, but the Civil Procedure Rules, which also address the issue of litigation costs, codified it much more vigorously than legislation adopted here. Local impact studies are also less probative than those conducted in England. Yet the overall assessment of these reforms leads to similar conclusions and ought to persuade the Quebec legislature to carry matters further in order to counteract the effects of a pervasive adversarial culture. To this end, closer case management, a tighter control on oral discovery and the use whenever possible of single, court-appointed or party-designated experts, are all desirable. Seen from this angle, the reform of 2002 in Quebec lags behind the reform based on the Woolf report.
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"During the past decade, rapid developments in information and communications technology have transformed key social, commercial, and political realities. Within that same time period, working at something less than Internet speed, much of the academic and policy debate arising from these new and emerging technologies has been fragmented. There have been few examples of interdisciplinary dialogue about the importance and impact of anonymity and privacy in a networked society. Lessons from the Identity Trail: Anonymity, Privacy and Identity in a Networked Society fills that gap, and examines key questions about anonymity, privacy, and identity in an environment that increasingly automates the collection of personal information and relies upon surveillance to promote private and public sector goals." "This book has been informed by the results of a multi-million dollar research project that has brought together a distinguished array of philosophers, ethicists, feminists, cognitive scientists, lawyers, cryptographers, engineers, policy analysts, government policy makers, and privacy experts. Working collaboratively over a four-year period and participating in an iterative process designed to maximize the potential for interdisciplinary discussion and feedback through a series of workshops and peer review, the authors have integrated crucial public policy themes with the most recent research outcomes."--BOOK JACKET.
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The adversary system of trial, now the defining feature of Anglo-American criminal procedure, developed late in English legal history. For centuries, defendants were forbidden to have trial counsel. Prosecution counsel was allowed but seldom used. The criminal trial was meant to be a lawyer-free occasion at which the defendant could hear the accusing evidence and respond to it in person. The transformation from lawyer-free to lawyer-dominated criminal trials happened within the space of about a century, from the 1690s to the 1780s. This book explains how the lawyers captured the trial. In addition to conventional legal sources, the book draws upon a rich vein of contemporary pamphlet accounts about trials in London’s Old Bailey. The book also mines these novel sources to provide the first detailed account of the formation of the law of criminal evidence. Responding to menacing prosecutorial initiatives (notably reward-seeking thieftakers and crown witnesses testifying to save their own necks), the judges of the 1730s decided to allow the defendant to have counsel to cross-examine accusing witnesses. By restricting defense counsel to the work of examining and cross-examining witnesses, the judges intended that the accused would still need to respond in person to the charges against him. But defense counsel manipulated the dynamics of adversary procedure to defeat the judges’ design, ultimately silencing the accused and transforming the very purpose of the criminal trial. Trial ceased to be an opportunity for the accused to speak, and became instead an occasion for defense counsel to test the prosecution case.
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