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The View Outside: What Kind Of Expression For Adolescents Outside The United States?, Edward J. Eberle
The View Outside: What Kind Of Expression For Adolescents Outside The United States?, Edward J. Eberle
Law Faculty Scholarship
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Bank Mergers In North America: Comparing The Approaches In The United States And Canada, Eric J. Gouvin
Bank Mergers In North America: Comparing The Approaches In The United States And Canada, Eric J. Gouvin
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This Article provides a summary comparison of the processes in the United States and Canada for governmental approval of bank mergers. The topic came to prominence in 1998 when four of Canada's five largest banks unveiled plans that would have resulted in the Royal Bank of Canada merging with the Bank of Montreal and the Toronto Dominion Bank combining with the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce ("CIBC"). These proposed mergers were rejected by the then Finance Minister, Paul Martin. The reasons given included: (1) the resulting banking industry structure would have concentrated too much economic power in the hands of …
Foreign Judgments At Common Law: Rethinking The Enforcement Rules, Tanya J. Monestier
Foreign Judgments At Common Law: Rethinking The Enforcement Rules, Tanya J. Monestier
Journal Articles
England and Canada have adopted divergent approaches to the enforcement of foreign civil and commercial judgments. An English court will only enforce a foreign judgment where the defendant submitted to the junsdiction of the foreign court, or was present in the foreign jurisdiction when served with process. This position. while protecting domestic defendants, is outdated and does little to further the objectives underpinning judgment enforcement- Canadian courts, by contrast, have been far more liberal than their English counterparts, enforcing foreign judgments in cases where there is a "real and substantial connection" between the dispute and the judgment forum. While this …