The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1754-2004: From Imperial Bastion to Provincial Oracle

Published by University of Toronto Press 2004

The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1754-2004

From Imperial Bastion to Provincial Oracle

Edited by: Barry Cahill , Philip Girard and Jim Phillips

In the series Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442659834

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About this book

Editors Philip Girard, Jim Phillips, and Barry Cahill have put together the first complete history of any Canadian provincial superior court. All of the essays are original, and many offer new interpretations of familiar themes in Canadian legal history.

Author / Editor information

Cahill Barry :

Barry Cahill is an independent scholar living in Halifax.

Girard Philip :

Philip Girard is a professor of law at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University.
Phillips Jim :

Jim Phillips is a professor in the Faculty of Law and the Department of History at the University of Toronto.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Foreword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
Maps Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiv
Part I: Introduction
1. Introduction Philip Girard and Jim Phillips Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
2. Origins: The Courts of Westminster Hall in the Eighteenth Century Douglas Hay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
3. Colonial and Imperial Contexts Elizabeth Mancke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
Part 2: Overviews
4. The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia: Origins to Confederation Barry Cahill and Jim Phillips Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
5. The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia: Confederation to the Twenty-First Century Philip Girard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
6. A Collective Biography of the Supreme Court Judiciary of Nova Scotia, 1900-2000 R. Blake Brown and Susan S. Jones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	204
7. Halifax Homes of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court Brian Cuthbertson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Part 3: Case Studies
8. Michaelmas Term 1754: The Supreme Court's First Session James Muir and Jim Phillips Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
9. Women as Litigants before the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1754-1830 Julian Gwyn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	294
10. Her Majesty's Yankees: American Authority in the Supreme Court of Victorian Nova Scotia, 1837-1901 Bernard J. Hibbitts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
11. Instrumentalism and the Law of Injuries in Nineteenth-Century Nova Scotia James Muir Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361
12. Confederation, Adjudicative Culture, and the Law of the Constitution: The Late Nineteenth-Century Persistence of Local Autonomy in the Nova Scotia Supreme Court William Lahey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	392
13. 'To Err Is Human, to Forgive Divine': The Labour Relations Board and the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1947-1965 R. Blake Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	449
Appendix: The Records of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court Jim Phillips and John Macleod Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	491
Illustration Credits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	503
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	507
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	540

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 562

eBook

Published: December 15, 2004
ISBN: 9781442659834