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Law Reform In Canada: The Impact Of The Provincial Law Reform Agencies On Uniformity, Thomas W. Mapp
Law Reform In Canada: The Impact Of The Provincial Law Reform Agencies On Uniformity, Thomas W. Mapp
Dalhousie Law Journal
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 …
The New Principle Of Law Reform In Australia, Alex. C. Castles
The New Principle Of Law Reform In Australia, Alex. C. Castles
Dalhousie Law Journal
Until comparatively recent times, continuous, systematic law reform has not been favoured with strong support in those countries nurtured in the common law tradition. In particular, many lawyers in Australia, as elsewhere in the common law world, have tended, for the most part,' to be suspicious and perhaps, subconsciously, more than a little fearful of legal evolution through legislative action rather than judge-made law. This state of mind has belied the realities of the twentieth century life of the law and in many ways as well, the thrust of the law as it evolved in common law countries in the …