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The Dalhousie Legal Aid Service, Harvey Savage Sep 1975

The Dalhousie Legal Aid Service, Harvey Savage

Dalhousie Law Journal

In a seminal article on the feasibility of a 'Clinical Lawyer-School', Jerome Frank identified the kind of discontent that has since spawned clinical law programs in law schools. Ostensibly, the students were to study cases. But they did not and they do not study cases. They do not even study the printed records of cases (although that would be little enough), let alone cases as living processes. Their attention is restricted to judicial opinions. But an opinion is not a decision. A decision is a specific judgement, or order or decree entered after a trial of a specific law-suit between …


"Appropriate And Just": Section 24 Of The Canadian Charter Of Rights And Freedoms And The Question Of Judicial Legitimacy, W A. Bogart Jun 1956

"Appropriate And Just": Section 24 Of The Canadian Charter Of Rights And Freedoms And The Question Of Judicial Legitimacy, W A. Bogart

Dalhousie Law Journal

At the heart of procedural law lie questions concerning the role of courts in a liberal democratic state. What is the essence of their function? What is the proper relationship between the judiciary and other governmental institutions? What is the well-spring for values with which courts can make law? The questions are perennials and will be asked so long as there is interest in the workings and malfunctions of all aspects of government. Courts, like all institutions of government, are continually being assessed on their own terms and in relation to other branches. In Canada this examination has received a …


Survey Of Carleton's Law Graduates, R Lynn Campbell Jun 1956

Survey Of Carleton's Law Graduates, R Lynn Campbell

Dalhousie Law Journal

Law is offered as an undergraduate social science discipline at Carleton University. Students may take programs leading to both Major and Honours B.A. degrees in law or may also undertake the study of law in a combined Major or Honours program in conjunction with another discipline.' The purpose of the program is to promote an awareness of the place of rules respecting human conduct in political, social and economic environments and to provide insights of other disciplines relevant to particular legal problems. Carleton University is the only post secondary educational institution that offers the study of law in this form. …


Developments In Legal Education, Faculty Of Law, Civil Law Section, University Of Ottawa, Raymond A. Landry Jun 1956

Developments In Legal Education, Faculty Of Law, Civil Law Section, University Of Ottawa, Raymond A. Landry

Dalhousie Law Journal

The present Faculty of Law of the University of Ottawa was inaugurated in 1953, although law had been taught at the Institution from 1887 to shortly before the First World War. This first venture in the teaching of the law was addressed to students both from Ontario and Quebec and the objective of the Faculty, at that time, was to teach both legal systems and to prepare students for the practice of law in both provinces. We will endeavour to present the developments in legal education from the perspective of the Civil Law Section although, unavoidably, the presence of the …