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Federal Court of Appeal case which found that when a claimant has been found inadmissible for security reasons, no discretion to determine refugee eligibility.

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Phrase of the Week - Use A Hand-Held Cellular Telephone

R. v. Ikede | 2015 CarswellNS 879 | Nova Scotia Supreme Court

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Legal Wit — The Judicial Chorus

If [the defendant] thinks he can wave away Meads v.

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British Columbia case in which the appellant raised a ground of appeal that had not been argued at trial.

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An employer was bound to an offer letter sent by email, and not by the employment agreement sent two days later and which included a provision limiting notice to the statutory minimum, and thus the employee was entitled to the common law notice period.

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Phrase of the Week - Voluntary Waste

CIBC Mortgages Inc. v. Fasami | 2015 CarswellAlta 784 | Alberta Court of Queen's Bench

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Legal Wit — Designer Criminals

[A friend] and [the defendant] and a few of their friends were often to be found in some of Toronto's most posh neighbourhoods.

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Recent decision in which a father was denied damages for non-pathological emotional harm caused by unplanned fatherhood.

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Failure of car's emergency brake not in control of defendant, didn't constitute negligence.

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R. v. Adamiec | 2013 CarswellMan 537 | Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench

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Legal Wit — Who Landed the Whale?

The appellant submits that the respondent has been unjustly enriched.

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This post summarizes an employment case in which the employer was held to a unilateral change it had made to the employment contract

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