The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1754-2004 : from imperial bastion to provincial oracle / / editors, Philip Girard, Jim Phillips, Barry Cahill

• Pubblicazione: Toronto ; ; Buffalo ; ; London : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2004; ©2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (562 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, portraits
• Disciplina: 349.716
• Soggetto topico: LAW / Courts
• Persona (resp. second.): GirardPhilip; PhillipsJim <1954->; CahillBarry
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Maps -- Part I: Introduction -- 1. Introduction / Girard, Philip / Phillips, Jim -- 2. Origins: The Courts of Westminster Hall in the Eighteenth Century / Hay, Douglas -- 3. Colonial and Imperial Contexts / Mancke, Elizabeth -- Part 2: Overviews -- 4. The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia: Origins to Confederation / Cahill, Barry / Phillips, Jim -- 5. The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia: Confederation to the Twenty-First Century / Girard, Philip -- 6. A Collective Biography of the Supreme Court Judiciary of Nova Scotia, 1900-2000 / Brown, R. Blake / Jones, Susan S. -- 7. Halifax Homes of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court / Cuthbertson, Brian -- Part 3: Case Studies -- 8. Michaelmas Term 1754: The Supreme Court's First Session / Muir, James / Phillips, Jim -- 9. Women as Litigants before the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1754-1830 / Gwyn, Julian -- 10. Her Majesty's Yankees: American Authority in the Supreme Court of Victorian Nova Scotia, 1837-1901 / Hibbitts, Bernard J. -- 11. Instrumentalism and the Law of Injuries in Nineteenth-Century Nova Scotia / Muir, James -- 12. Confederation, Adjudicative Culture, and the Law of the Constitution: The Late Nineteenth-Century Persistence of Local Autonomy in the Nova Scotia Supreme Court / Lahey, William -- 13. 'To Err Is Human, to Forgive Divine': The Labour Relations Board and the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1947-1965 / Brown, R. Blake -- Appendix: The Records of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court / Phillips, Jim / Macleod, John -- Illustration Credits -- Index -- Backmatter
• Sommario/riassunto: Prepared to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the establishment of Nova Scotia's Supreme Court, this important new volume provides a comprehensive history of the institution, Canada's oldest common law court. The thirteen essays include an account of the first meeting in 1754 of the court in Michaelmas Term, surveys of jurisprudence (the court's early federalism cases; its use of American law; attitudes to the administrative state), and chapters on the courts of Westminster Hall, on which the Supreme Court was modelled, and the various courthouses it has occupied. Anchoring the volume are two longer chapters, one on the pre-confederation period and one on the modern period.Editors Philip Girard, Jim Phillips, and Barry Cahill have put together the first complete history of any Canadian provincial superior court. All of the essays are original, and many offer new interpretations of familiar themes in Canadian legal history. They take the reader through the establishment of the one-judge court to the present day ? a unique contribution to our understanding of superior courts.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1754-2004
• ISBN: 1-4426-5983-1; 1-4426-5553-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819309203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II