Having reviewed the relevant case law, and with great respect for all those who hold a contrary view, I am not at all satisfied that the Supreme Court of Canada has directly, or by necessary implication, overruled R.

I confess to finding the situation rather surreal — one, indeed, that would have excited the admiration of Lewis Carroll.

In 1947 that irreverant sage George Bernard Shaw made this observation: To expect an average farmer to be not only a sower and a reaper, but an agricultural chemist, an accountant, a meteorologist, a veterinary expert, a merchant, a financier and a resident housekeeper all united in a single Admirable Crichton is ridiculous; yet this is our practice.

I have reviewed the affidavit of service and I must say that I have grave doubts as to its accuracy.

I do not regard the length or thickness of the evidentiary and rhetorical record as necessarily revealing much, because a great volume of material may actually indicate that the lawyers spent too little time preparing the matter.

Perhaps the persons involved in naming the Cranberry Village project were prescient in that cranberries grow naturally in bogs.

George Orwell warned that lurking behind the fun offered by competitive sports is the threat of the arousal of "the most savage combative instincts".

In the midst of legal proceedings respecting the division of family property, how the petitioner thought breaking and entering his estranged wife's home and removing a raft of chattels would assist the parties in reaching a property resolution is uncertain.

This is a cautionary tale of an elephant and a turtle, in close quarter.

From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!1   …   This case requires the court to determine the meaning of the word "from" as used in s.

If a tree is cut down in the forest, and a judge hears about it, who owns that tree? This is a contest, under s.

Proof beyond a reasonable doubt requires a high degree of proof, but it does not demand certainty.