Essays in Law Reform: THE JUDICIARY IN AN ERA OF LAW REFORM
In: The political quarterly, Band 37, Heft 4, S. 378-384
ISSN: 1467-923X
In: The political quarterly, Band 37, Heft 4, S. 378-384
ISSN: 1467-923X
In: University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, Uniform Probate Code: Remaking American Succession Law, Vol. 45, p. 727, 2012
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It is now generally acknowledged that during the course of the last decade the provincial law reform agencies' have emerged as a dominant force in the law reform movement in Canada. The author believes that an analysis of the reports published by these agencies, and the provincial legislation enacted in response to them discloses, however, that to a large extent the imporovements in provincial law that have been gained have come at the expense of uniformity of law among the provinces. This erosion of uniformity under the impact of the benign efforts of the provincial law reform agencies is the subject of this article. Several questions are addressed. Is this trend in the direction of diversity harmful? Why has the work of the agencies generated diversity rather than uniformity? What can be done to reverse the movement?
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In: The political quarterly, Band 37, Heft 3, S. 291-299
ISSN: 1467-923X
In: [2016] Conveyancer and Property Lawyer p.255
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In this report the Law Reform Committee presents its recommendations on the Marriage Act, Law of Inheritance, Electoral and Citizenship Law. Oral evidence given to the commission is included in detail
World Affairs Online
In: The Theory and Practice of Legislation, Forthcoming
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In: The Parliamentarian: journal of the parliaments of the Commonwealth, Band 77, Heft 2, S. 147-151
ISSN: 0031-2282
Michael Lobban shows how dissatisfaction with the law-equity split in English civil justice predated the Judicature Act reforms by two generations at least (one could argue two-and-a half centuries or more—periodization fails quickly). Lobban links the first modern debates over fusion to high legal politics on the one hand and to the more intricate internal problems of evidence, procedure, and jurisdiction on the other. Lawyers of the earlier Victorian age found the Chancery system bequeathed to them by Lord Eldon to be intolerable on two counts: it represented Old Corruption or monopolistic private control of public offices and it exacted heavy costs in procedural inconvenience, cost, and delay. Lobban does not see ideology such as Benthamite philosophy driving the rationalization of Chancery doctrine and institutions though he does not dismiss this factor entirely.
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In: Middle East international: MEI, Heft 519, S. 11
ISSN: 0047-7249
In: Science and public policy: journal of the Science Policy Foundation
ISSN: 1471-5430
In: Parliamentary affairs: a journal of comparative politics
ISSN: 1460-2482
In: The international & comparative law quarterly: ICLQ, Band 13, Heft 4, S. 1300-1315
ISSN: 1471-6895