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» Lexicon of Civil Procedure (Quebec)
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English and French Lexicon of Civil Procedure (Quebec)
Lexique français et anglaisde procédure civile
École du Barreau (Quebec Bar School)
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acceptance
acceptation
accounting
reddition de compte
accounting party
rendant
accounts payable (trade)
comptes-fournisseurs
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Tweedle Yves and Tweedle Évens
Lawyer Yves-Marie Morissette on his own cannot declare people crazy. Dr. Évens Villeneuve on his own knows no law. But, together, Yves supplies Évens with the alleged “symptoms” (alleged abusive litigation), and Évens obligingly declares Yves's target litigants “crazy”. Even more fun, neither Yves nor Évens has ever met the litigants.
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The “Great Writ” Reinvigorated? Habeas Corpus in Contemporary Canada
The "Great Writ" Reinvigorated?Habeas Corpus in ContemporaryCanadaD E B R A P A R K E S
I. INTRODUCTION
In his engaging essay delivered at the 2nd Annual DeLloyd J. Guth Visiting Lecture in Legal History at Robson Hall in 2012, “Habeas Corpus, Legal History and Guantanamo Bay,”1 Professor James Oldham provides insight into the contemporary debates in the United States about the scope and significance of the ancient
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Factum of the CCLA in defence of the Writ of Habeas Corpus
Source: http://www.scc-csc.ca/WebDocuments-DocumentsWeb/34609/FM050_Intervener_Canadian-Civil-Liberties-Association_.pdf
Court File No. 34897
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF CANADA
(ON APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEAL OF ALBERTA)
B E T W E E N:
DIANE KNOPF, WARDEN OF MISSION INSTITUTION, ET AL.Appellants
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GURKIRPAL SINGH KHELARespondent
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THE CANADIAN CIVIL LIBERTIES ASSOCIATION, THE BRITISH COLUMBIA CIVIL LIBERTIES ASSOCIATION, THE CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF ELIZABETH
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Barreau du Québec c. Siminski (English) (1999)
WARNING This is NOT an official Law Report. You cannot present this page in court, by photocopying or otherwise. If you need this report for a case, you must get the official law report. For this purpose, you may inquire with a Reference Librarian at an accredited (i.e., university) law library.
-- Non-Official English Translation --
Barreau du Québec v. Siminski
12 May 1999, Superior Court
REJB 1999-12677 – Full Text
Superior Court (Civil Division)
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Judicial Profiles: Lyse Lemieux, Chief Justice of Quebec Superior Court
Quebec judge quitsover drunk-driving charge
ALLISON DUNFIELD
Globe and Mail Update
Published Thursday, Aug. 19, 2004 12:53PM EDT
Last updated Wednesday, Apr. 08, 2009 10:37PM EDT
Lyse Lemieux, the Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Quebec, said Thursday that she will retire as a result of a drunk-driving incident.
In a statement, Judge Lemieux, 68, describes the Aug. 5 incident as "extremely unfortunate."
According to her statement, she hit city property and was charged with driving
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Canada as a Post-Modern Kritarchy (1998)
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Canada as a Post-Modern Kritarchy, or Why Should Judges Make Political Decisions? (1994) 3 Inroads
Yves-Marie Morissette, Canada as a Post-Modern Kritarchy, or Why Should Judges Make POLITICAL Decisions? (1994) 3 Inroads, p. 122-155
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“Juridical personality” in the Civil Code of Québec, extract updated to 1 September 2015
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© Éditeur officiel du Québec
Updated to 1 September 2015
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CIVIL CODE OF QUEBEC
PRELIMINARY PROVISION
The Civil Code of Québec, in harmony with the Charter of human rights and freedoms (chapter C-12) and the general principles of law, governs persons, relations between persons, and property.
The Civil Code comprises a body of rules which, in all matters within the letter, spirit or object of its provisions, lays down the jus commune, expressly
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“La personnalité juridique” dans le Code civile du Québec, extrait à jour au 1er septembre 2015
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À jour au 1er septembre 2015 [Ce document a valeur officielle seulement quand en ligne par le gouvernement.]
CODE CIVIL DU QUEBEC
DISPOSITION PRÉLIMINAIRE
Le Code civil du Québec régit, en harmonie avec la Charte des droits et libertés de la personne (chapitre C-12) et les principes généraux du droit, les personnes, les rapports entre les personnes, ainsi que les biens.
Le code est constitué d'un ensemble de règles qui, en toutes matières
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Section III – Code of Civil Procedure (Updated to 1 September 2015)
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Updated to 1 September 2015
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Chapter C-25
BOOK I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
TITLE II
THE COURTS
CHAPTER III
POWERS OF COURTS AND JUDGES
SECTION III
POWER TO IMPOSE SANCTIONS FOR IMPROPER USE OF PROCEDURE
This Section is inserted by section 2 of chapter 12 of the Statutes of 2009 (An Act to amend the Code of Civil Procedure to prevent improper use of the
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Ontologie de la quérulence
The Ontology of Quarrelsomeness
This featured item is an exclusive English translation of an interview in French with Yves-Marie Morissette by Myriam Jézéquel, a researcher who writes for the Quebec Bar Review. The original French article appeared under the title, "Ontologie de la quérulence" in Volume 34, Number 8 of the Quebec Bar Review on May 1st, 2002. Any flaws in the English translation are entirely our fault; Ms. Jézéquel and the Quebec Bar Association have nothing to do with it.
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Pathology and Therapeutic of the
Warlike Litigant
Foreword
This featured item is an exclusive English translation of an article in French by Yves-Marie Morrissette, Rhodes Scholar and legal adviser to the veiled Communist Parti Québécois (PQ). (You can read the PQ's Communist manifesto of 1972 or download it from the sidebar at CANADA How The Communists Took Control.)
The French article translated here, Pathologie et thérapeutique du plaideur trop belliqueux, first appeared in 2001 in volume 155 of a yearly journal of the Quebec Bar Association.
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Canada’s Legal Profession: Self-Regulating in the Public Interest?
Canada’s Legal Profession: Self-Regulating in the Public Interest?
By John Pearson
Published in The Canadian Bar Review, April 2015
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ABSTRACT
The only justification for state actors to delegate the legislative and judicial functions inherent in the self-regulation of a profession is the public interest.
But this paper argues that Canada’s self-regulating legal profession was born out of professional self-interest. For much of its history, the profession
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Welcome to JudicialMadness
Judges are declaring lawyerless litigants “crazy” from the bench in Quebec!
[UPDATED 6 May 2016] This is a new website, by a team of one in Montreal, Canada. My objective here is to focus on a subject of grave concern for the average individual who may choose to pursue his or her own interests at court without a lawyer.
In Quebec, for nearly two decades, one man has successfully pushed the legal system into adopting an arbitrary and despotic approach to pro-se litigants, meaning lawyerless
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An Appeal to Psychiatrists
The New York Review of Books
March 18, 1982
Peter B. Reddaway
A defiant appeal to world psychiatrists has recently been smuggled to the West from a Russian labor camp in the Urals. The author, Dr. Anatoly Koryagin, is a Soviet psychiatrist who was given a twelve-year sentence last June for opposing the use of political psychiatry to lock up and torture dissidents. His analysis of the practice was published in April in Western medical journals. Now he calls for an international campaign.
Doctors
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