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The Employer's Intentional Tort - Should It Be Recognized In Canadian Jurisdictions?, Leigh West
The Employer's Intentional Tort - Should It Be Recognized In Canadian Jurisdictions?, Leigh West
Dalhousie Law Journal
At the inception of Canadian worker compensation legislation, an historic trade off agreement was made between employers and their workers. By virtue of this agreement, the right of workers to sue their employer in tort was removed and in return workers were to receive swift, certain, but limited, compensation payments for job-related injuries and illness, regardless of fault. With a few minor exceptions, this agreement made worker compensation the exclusive remedy available to an injured worker. It also lodged with the various provincial worker compensation boards the responsibility to adjudicate whether or not the injury or illness claimed was one …
Local Elections In Canada, A Wr Carrothers
Local Elections In Canada, A Wr Carrothers
Dalhousie Law Journal
This book is the fifth in a series by the same author, and the same publisher, on Canadian Election Law. The previous books (with their sub-titles) are as follows: Political Rights (The Legal Framework of Elections in Canada); Lawmaking by the People (Referendums and Plebiscites in Canada); Money and Message (The Law Governing Election Financing, Advertising, Broadcasting and Campaigning in Canada); and, Election Law in Canada (The Law and Procedure of Federal, Provincial and Territorial Elections (two volumes)). The present book is sub-titled "The Law Governing Elections of Municipal Councils, School Boards and Other Local Authorities". The sub-title is a …