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International Union Of Operating Engineers Local 721 V Municipal Spraying And Contracting Limited, Innis Christie Dec 1977

International Union Of Operating Engineers Local 721 V Municipal Spraying And Contracting Limited, Innis Christie

Innis Christie Collection

APPLICATION having been made to the Construction Industry Panel of the Labour Relations Board (Nova Scotia) on August 10, 1977, pursuant to Section 29(3) of the Trade Union Act, for an Order declaring that the Respondent, Willow Contracting Limited, is bound by Certification Orders L.R.B. No.'s 771 and 301 and by the voluntary recognition of the Applicant by the Respondent Municipal Spraying and Contracting Limited in the 1977 collective agreement between them and in preceding collective agreements, and for an Order declaring that Willow Contracting Limited is bound by the current collective agreement between Municipal Spraying and Contracting Limited and …


Construction Association Management Labour Bureau Limited V International Association Of Heat & Frost Insulators & Asbestos Workers, Innis Christie Nov 1977

Construction Association Management Labour Bureau Limited V International Association Of Heat & Frost Insulators & Asbestos Workers, Innis Christie

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The issue before the Panel on this preliminary objection is whether, on the assumption that the Respondents, contrary to Section 52 (h) of the Trade Union Act, have expelled or suspended an employee of one of the Applicant's member companies or have taken disciplinary action against or imposed any form of penalty on any such employee "by reason of his having refused to perform an act that is contrary to (the Trade Union) Act", that is a matter about which the employer or the Management Labour Bureau on his behalf, can complain under the Trade Union Act.


Mccarthy V International Brotherhood Of Electrical Workers, Local 625, Innis Christie Oct 1977

Mccarthy V International Brotherhood Of Electrical Workers, Local 625, Innis Christie

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A COMPLAINT having been made to the Construction Industry Panel of the Labour Relations Board (Nova Scotia) on May 25, 1977, pursuant to Section 52 of the Trade Union Act alleging that the Respondents violated Section 52 (f), (g), and (i) of the Trade Union Act;


Construction Association Management Labour Bureau Limited V International Union Of Elevator Constructors, Local 125, Innis Christie Oct 1977

Construction Association Management Labour Bureau Limited V International Union Of Elevator Constructors, Local 125, Innis Christie

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A COMPLAINT having been made to the Construction Industry Panel of the Labour Relations Board (Nova Scotia) on October 13, 1977, pursuant to Section 49 of the Trade Union Act of Nova Scotia by the Construction Association Management Labour Bureau Limited, Accredited Bargaining Agent on behalf of its member Otis Elevator Company Limited, that on October 11, 1977, an illegal work stoppage commenced and is continuing by employees of Otis Elevator Company Limited at the job site at Bayers Road Tower Two construction project and various other construction jobs as required by the Company in the Province of Nova Scotia, …


Legal And Diplomatic Developments In The Northwest Atlantic Fisheries, Douglas M. Johnston Oct 1977

Legal And Diplomatic Developments In The Northwest Atlantic Fisheries, Douglas M. Johnston

Dalhousie Law Journal

Within the astonishingly brief timespan of five or six years, a fundamental change has been wrought in the international law of fisheries. Even to those only fleetingly familiar with current developments in the law of the sea, it is apparent that the establishment of 200-mile fishing zones in many parts of the world must signify a major legal change in the world of fishing. Indeed many of us have already become sufficiently accustomed to the new order that it may be useful to remind ourselves of the old order which has now yielded place to it. The classical approach to …


Distributive And Retributive Justice In Canada, Patrick Kerans Oct 1977

Distributive And Retributive Justice In Canada, Patrick Kerans

Dalhousie Law Journal

The publications of the Law Reform Commission raise many ethical issues. One question - how distributive justice affects the working of retributive justice - is raised in several of their studies but not yet explicitly faced. This paper' approaches the question by way of a reflection on Paul Weiler's lucid and balanced argument, presented in "The Reform of Punishment". 2 1 fully agree with the polemic thrust of Weiler's essay, namely, that the rehabilitative model of corrections, which views crime as a disease, is inadequate and leads to injustice. What I aim to do here is to analyse and subject …


Comment On Ontario's Bill 110 "An Act To Provide For Warranties In The Sale Of Consumer Products, Nadine Cooper Mont Oct 1977

Comment On Ontario's Bill 110 "An Act To Provide For Warranties In The Sale Of Consumer Products, Nadine Cooper Mont

Dalhousie Law Journal

The government of Nova Scotia has recently made some limited improvements to the law of products liability1 . Merchant sellers are no longer permitted to contract out of the three basic obligations or "implied warranties" contained in the old Sale of Goods Act: to deliver a merchantable article, 2 fit for the buyer's purpose 3 which corresponds to the description under which it was sold. 4 The reformulation of these old common law obligations which first received statutory recognition in 18935, was done in a somewhat ambiguous and unsatisfactory manner. 6 Of far greater consequence to consumers however, is the …


Lobster Fishery Licensing: Injustice And Muddling Through, Rod Snow Oct 1977

Lobster Fishery Licensing: Injustice And Muddling Through, Rod Snow

Dalhousie Law Journal

Lobster means different things to different people: for some it is the ultimate in gourmet dining; for the lobster fisherman it is the object of his labour and investment and the key to his lifestyle. There are over 20,000 lobster fishermen in Atlantic Canada who land approximately 36 million pounds of lobster at an annual landed value of about $40 million.' Lobster is Atlantic Canada's single most valuable fishery, more valuable than cod or herring. 2 Management of the lobster fishery is entrusted to the Fisheries and Marine Service of Environment Canada. A central aspect of their management programme has …


On Contracting, R. A. Samek Oct 1977

On Contracting, R. A. Samek

Dalhousie Law Journal

Twelve years ago I drew attention in a paper to the importance of the discovery of performative utterances by the well known Oxford linguistic philosopher, John Austin, for a better understanding of the legal concept of contract.' In The Legal Point of View, I developed this concept into what I called the performative function of discourse,2 and in a recent paper I applied it to rebut an attack on the objective theory of contract. 3 My main aim in the present paper is to compare Austin's classification of infelicities, to which performative utterances are subject, with their legal analogues. Although …


Seat Belts And Contributory Negligence, Frans F. Slatter Oct 1977

Seat Belts And Contributory Negligence, Frans F. Slatter

Dalhousie Law Journal

There are now thirty-six cases mentioned in the Canadian and English reports where it has been argued that the failure to wear a seat belt amounts to contributory negligence. I The defence was successfully made out in only ten of these cases, with damages being reduced by five per cent to thirty-three and a third per cent under the applicable contributory negligence statutes. 2 This volume of litigation would not provoke comment were it not for the division of judicial opinion and the confusion of judicial thinking to be found in these conflicting decisions. Even in England where it was …


The New Principle Of Law Reform In Australia, Alex. C. Castles Oct 1977

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 …


Radical Criminology And The Law Reform Commission Of Canada – A Reply To Professor M. R. Goode, John Barnes, Randal Marlin Oct 1977

Radical Criminology And The Law Reform Commission Of Canada – A Reply To Professor M. R. Goode, John Barnes, Randal Marlin

Dalhousie Law Journal

Professor M. R. Goode' has recently attacked the criminal law work of the Law Reform Commission of Canada as "profoundly unsatisfactory" ' because the Commission has apparently adopted an outmoded theory of the criminal process. He maintains that the approach of the Commission has been vitiated by ... what may be loosely called a liberal-positivist ideology, which fails to question the most fundamental bases of the criminal process in a democratic capitalist society and the faiths which underlie them. This failing to question or to-give written consideration to current criticisms of this ideology has led, in Goode's view, to "the …


Capacity To Marry In The Conflict Of Laws: Some Variations On A Theme, H. Patrick Glenn Oct 1977

Capacity To Marry In The Conflict Of Laws: Some Variations On A Theme, H. Patrick Glenn

Dalhousie Law Journal

Problems of matrimonial capacity in the conflict of laws have traditionally been said to be resolved through a distributive application of the two personal laws in presence - to each his or her own law.' Yet the proponents of this "dual domicile doctrine" have met strong opposition from those who would recognize a paramount interest on the part of the State wherein the marriage is to be fixed, rather than that from which the parties may have come, in determining its validity. Savigny in Germany, 2 Bartin in France, 3 Cook in the U.S.A., 4 and Cheshire5 in England have …


Multilingualism And The Cbc Mandate: An Example Of Ineffectual Regulation, William Charland Oct 1977

Multilingualism And The Cbc Mandate: An Example Of Ineffectual Regulation, William Charland

Dalhousie Law Journal

The control of broadcasting, more than any other field subjected to regulation, demands, by its very nature, political neutrality. Given that control is deemed necessary,1 almost total delegation of that control must be made to an independent tribunal in order to avoid charges of political interference with the freedoms of speech and expression. The presence of the CBC as apublic corporation, however, raises questions as to the source and substance of the CBC mandate. What body is responsible for creating the goals or objects of this corporation? Who bears the responsibility initially to interpret and shape programming to meet these …


Sex Discrimination In Pension Plans, David Brown Oct 1977

Sex Discrimination In Pension Plans, David Brown

Dalhousie Law Journal

Legal problems involved in pension plans and the statutory regulation of pensions have been the subject of two recent articles in the Dalhousie Law Journal; Pensions: A Primer for Lawyers by Joel Fichaud' and Anne Malick's comment, Private Pensions - A Legislative Response - Nova Scotia Pension Benefits Act. 2 Sex discrimination in employment has also been well canvassed in this Journal in Elizabeth Lennon's article, Sex Discrimination in Employment: The Nova Scotia Human Rights Act. 3 The purpose of this note is to examine an issue at the nexus of these two subjects: sex discrimination in pension plans, principally …


Criminal Conspiracy In Canada, Terence Arnold Oct 1977

Criminal Conspiracy In Canada, Terence Arnold

Dalhousie Law Journal

Criminal Conspiracy in Canada "is primarily intended to provide the practitioner of criminal law in Canada with a guide through the maze of law surrounding the inchoate crime called criminal conspiracy"(p.iii). This intention has been realized. Professor Goode has presented a thorough, clear and well-documented account of the intricacies of his subject as they are likely to affect a conspiracy trial. And intricate the subject is, because the nature of the offence is difficult to define, and because the evidentiary and procedural problems which attend the conspiracy trial are easily susceptible to misunderstanding and confusion. Following a brief overview of …


Amherst (Town Of) V The Amherst Police Association, Innis Christie Sep 1977

Amherst (Town Of) V The Amherst Police Association, Innis Christie

Innis Christie Collection

APPLICATION having been made to the Labour Relations Board (Nova Scotia) on July 25, 1977, pursuant to Section 26 of the Trade Union Act to exclude the classification of Deputy Chief of Police from the description of the Bargaining Unit contained in L.R.B. No. 1359, dated August 18, 1969;


Northwest Construction Limited V International Union Of Operating Engineers, Local 721, Innis Christie Aug 1977

Northwest Construction Limited V International Union Of Operating Engineers, Local 721, Innis Christie

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APPLICATION having been made to the Labour Relations Board (Nova Scotia) on June 20, 1977 for revocation or variation of L.R.B. No. 440C by which the Respondent was certified as Bargaining Agent for a Bargaining Unit consisting of all employees of the Applicant engaged in the operation of cranes, bulldozers, trucks in excess of one ton capacity, and similar equipment, all those primarily engaged in the repairing and maintaining of same, but excluding all other employees, Foremen other than Working Foremen, and those equivalent to the rank of Foreman and above, Office Employees, and those employees excluded by Clauses (i) …


Mckay V Retail, Wholesale & Department Store Union, Local 1015, Innis Christie Jul 1977

Mckay V Retail, Wholesale & Department Store Union, Local 1015, Innis Christie

Innis Christie Collection

APPLICATION having been made to the Labour Relations Board (Nova Scotia) on June 2, 1977, pursuant to Section 27 of the Trade Union Act of Nova Scotia, for Revocation of L.R.B. No. 935, dated June 14, 1965, which certified the Retail, Wholesale & Department Store Union, Local 1015, AFL, CIO, as Bargaining Agent for certain employees of John Hunter Limited (Red & White Foodmaster), Springhill, Nova Scotia, the predecessor of the Intervener employer;


International Union Of Elevator Constructors, Local 125 V Otis Elevator Company Limited, Innis Christie Jun 1977

International Union Of Elevator Constructors, Local 125 V Otis Elevator Company Limited, Innis Christie

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A COMPLAINT having been referred by the Minister of Labour to the Construction Industry Panel of the Labour Relations Board, pursuant to Section 34 of the Trade Union Act, in which the Complainant alleged that Otis Elevator Company Limited has violated Section 33 (b) of the Trade Union Act by decreasing rates of wages or terms or conditions of employment of employees to whom notice to bargain had been given;


Kentville Hospital Employees Association V Kentville Hospital Association, Innis Christie Jun 1977

Kentville Hospital Employees Association V Kentville Hospital Association, Innis Christie

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A COMPLAINT having been referred to the Labour Relations Board (Nova Scotia) by the Minister of Labour pursuant to Section 34 of the Trade Union Act, wherein the Kentville Hospital Employees Association alleged that the Kentville Hospital Association had violated Section 33 (b) of the Act by altering terms of conditions of employment of one employee, namely David Andrews, in relation to whom notice to bargain had been given;


Nova Scotia Government Employees Association V Board Of Governors Of College Of Cape Breton, Innis Christie Jun 1977

Nova Scotia Government Employees Association V Board Of Governors Of College Of Cape Breton, Innis Christie

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A COMPLAINT having been referred to the Labour Relations Board (Nova Scotia) by the Minister of Labour pursuant to Section 34 (1) of the Trade Union Act in which the Complainant alleged that the College violated Section 33 (a) by failing to made every reasonable effort to conclude and sign a Collective Agreement;


The Halifax North End Project, Jim Ortego Jan 1977

The Halifax North End Project, Jim Ortego

Dalhousie Law Journal

Criminology is the unhappiest ship afloat in the sea of social science research. No one has been able to find the answer to the two simple questions that are a permanent plague: Why do people commit crime? How do you persuade them not to do it again? Each generation or so, any number of experts from diverse disciplines and political philosophies burst upon criminology with the answer to the crime problem. In the last fifty years they have taken the discipline, such as it is, through borstal training, open institutions, guided group interaction, open ended research designs and any number …


Equality Before The Law And The Indian Act: In Defence Of The Supreme Court, Patrick N. Mcdonald Jan 1977

Equality Before The Law And The Indian Act: In Defence Of The Supreme Court, Patrick N. Mcdonald

Dalhousie Law Journal

The British North America Act' declares in section 91(24) that the exclusive legislative authority of Parliament extends to "Indians, and Lands reserved for the Indians". The Canadian Bill of Rights provides that no law of Canada shall be applied so as to abridge the right of the individual to equality before the law without discrimination by reason of race, national origin, colour, religion or sex. Three recent decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada have grappled with the reconciliation of constitutional authorization and statutory proscription. The trilogy has evoked a virtually unprecedented volume of critical comment, the common feature of …


An Examination Of Some Of The Recent Amendments To The Ontario Landlord And Tenant Act, Morley Gorsky Jan 1977

An Examination Of Some Of The Recent Amendments To The Ontario Landlord And Tenant Act, Morley Gorsky

Dalhousie Law Journal

Ontario's was the first Canadian legislature to attempt to overcome certain anomalies in the law applicable to residential tenancies.' The effect of many of the Act's provisions remained uncertain until authoritative court decisions were rendered. Would the courts view the Act as intending to overcome the traditional orientation of landlord and tenant law towards land law doctrine? Sufficient time has now passed for many of the most important provisions of the Act to have been adjudicated upon by the superior courts, and it would be safe to say that the Act usually has been given a liberal interpretation. Many of …


Compensation On Expropriation: The Effect Of Zoning And Other Land Use Restrictions On The Award, Daniel F. Potter Jan 1977

Compensation On Expropriation: The Effect Of Zoning And Other Land Use Restrictions On The Award, Daniel F. Potter

Dalhousie Law Journal

The purpose of this article is to ascertain the extent to which the existence of publicly-imposed land use restrictions affects the quantum of compensation payable on expropriation. As yet, this matter has not arisen in the case law of Nova Scotia. However, if the events which surrounded the plans for the now abandoned Sackville landfill site project, discussed below, are any precursor of things to come, the effect of use restrictions on compensation awards will not much longer be a moot issue. The problem has, of course, come before the courts and compensation tribunals in other Canadian jurisdictions where the …


The Right To Life Of Potential Persons, E. H. W. Kluge Jan 1977

The Right To Life Of Potential Persons, E. H. W. Kluge

Dalhousie Law Journal

The law accords an individual the right to sue for damages sustained in utero when these damages are the result of what would otherwise be described as criminally negligent treatment. Recent court actions involving children subjected to the influence of thalidomide during certain critical stages of their fetal development 1 make this only too clear. 2 At the same time, however, the law also permits abortion: the deliberate and intentional killing of fetuses at precisely those stages of their development at which thalidomide damage would be sustained were the drug to be administered. 3 In adopting these two stances, the …


Parodoxes Of Canadian Legal Education, H. W. Arthurs Jan 1977

Parodoxes Of Canadian Legal Education, H. W. Arthurs

Dalhousie Law Journal

If the history of Canadian legal education should ever be written, these years of the mid-1970s will surely be viewed as a period of critical significance. For at least a quarter-century, growth has been the predominant theme: growth in student numbers and faculty complements; growth in democratic decision-making by both faculty and students, but also - inevitably - in the bureaucratic structures of faculties; growth of physical facilities and indeed, of whole new faculties; growth of libraries and of the pace and variety of research; growth of curricula and of teaching methods; growth in professional esteem and in public contribution; …


Canada In Question: Federalism In The Seventies, David Covert Jan 1977

Canada In Question: Federalism In The Seventies, David Covert

Dalhousie Law Journal

Canada in Question is an apt title for D. V. Smiley's book discussing federalism in the seventies and the future of the Canadian federalist system. In this second edition, not only does he incorporate recent developments but he expands and re-casts several chapters in order to provide the reader with a more comprehensive coverage of the Canadian federal system. Smiley, in the first seven chapters, deals almost exclusively with the structures and processes of Canadian federalism, whereas the final three chapters are devoted to what he terms a more "speculative analysis of the relations between these structures and processes" (p. …


Declaratory Judgments In Theoretical Cases: The Reality Of The Dispute, A. H. Hudson Jan 1977

Declaratory Judgments In Theoretical Cases: The Reality Of The Dispute, A. H. Hudson

Dalhousie Law Journal

It has long been recognised that a declaratory judgment may have special advantages in many contexts. Bailhache J. once went so far as to describe the power to grant declarations as one of the most useful functions of the Commercial Court in England,1 and, when the case went on appeal, Atkin L.J. described the declaration as "'one of the most valuable contributions that the courts have made to the commercial life of this country". 2 Despite the unqualified warmth of dicta such as these, the courts in England and Canada have stressed that there are limits to the availability of …