British Columbia Supreme Court Rules Annotated 2017 + CD-ROMAllan P. SeckelJames C. MacInnis
The British government lost its legal battle to have the right to trigger Britain's exit from the EU without first getting the approval of the British Parliament. Judges in the Supreme Court in London ruled by 8-3 in favor of a group of individuals who challenged the government's insistence...
The Supreme Court has maintained that internet platforms such as social media are not responsible for users' content and actions, even if it results in criminal conduct or death. On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled that Twitter could not beheld responsiblefor aiding and abett...
Supreme Court ruled Jan. 23 that the government's attachment of a Global Positioning System (GPS) to a person's vehicle and its use of the device to monitor the movements of the vehicle constitute a search under the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Privacy and civil liberties ...
In 2016 SCC 56 the Supreme Court of Canada corrected a wrong turn in the Canadian law of rectification, returning it to a position of harmony with the approach taken in English and Australian law. This note examines the case and explores the position adopted in two leading Commonwealth ...
The Supreme Court ruled that businesses can force employees to solve disputes through arbitration, blocking potential class-action lawsuits in a victory for businesses.
A Supreme Court ruling that the six-year limitations period for challenges to regulations begins to run only from the date when a plaintiff first suffered damage, not from a rule’s adoption, makes many longstanding federal rules vulnerable.
Austrian Supreme Court rejected the alleged infringement of the right to a fair trial, claiming it neither "recognizes any abuse of the legality, nor in violation of the right to property", on contrary, "it is necessary in the public interest", according to Holzinger. ...
The Supreme Court has now issued its awaited opinion in Warner v. Nealy, ruling that plaintiffs can recover damages for copyright infringement that is more than three years old, at least under the discovery accrual rule. We covered this case when the Cou
Where the state stands: West Virginia has enacted legislation allowing for a state-run health care exchange, but the state has slowed the pace of setting it up to see how the Supreme Court rules. —- Wisconsin Number of uninsured: 526,000 state residents are uninsured, or about 9 percent....