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Legal Wit — Wishing Doesn't Make it True

Dressing up its pleading as the Plaintiff does cannot overcome the fact that absent a contract between the parties the Plaintiff cannot have an interest in the land.

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R. v. Spracklin | 2014 CarswellAlta 258 | Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench

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Word of the Week - Research

Public Performance of Musical Works, Re | 2012 CarswellNat 2381 | Abella J.

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Legal Wit — Making a Silk Purse out of a Dog's Ear

But as I earlier intimated, such a finding does not intimidate counsel for the defendant as he says that as council has declared that these matters amount to an "emergency" such cannot be questioned.

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Variation — L.M.P. v. L.S. Revisited — Section 17 of the Divorce Act Explained

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Inglis v. British Columbia (Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General) | 2013 CarswellBC 3813 | British Columbia Supreme Court

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Phrase of the Week - IP Address

Century 21 Canada Ltd. Partnership v. Rogers Communications Inc. | 2011 CarswellBC 2348 | Punnett J.

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Re Colossus Minerals Inc. | 2014 CarswellOnt 1517 | Ontario Superior Court of Justice

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Reference re Supreme Court Act, R.S.C. 1985 (Canada) | 2014 CarswellNat 640 | Supreme Court of Canada

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Word of the Week - Indexing

Century 21 Canada Ltd. Partnership v. Rogers Communications Inc. | 2011 CarswellBC 2348 | Punnett J.

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Legal Wit — A Kafka-esque Vortex. Sounds Good.

This application arises from one of what I understand are 1400 plus Canadians caught in a vortex under a portion of that legislation that would have impressed Franz Kafka.

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Copyright Infringement — What is a Substantial Part of a Work?

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