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The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1754-2004 : from imperial bastion to provincial oracle / edited by Philip Girard, Jim Phillips, and Barry Cahill.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publications of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal HistoryPublisher: Toronto ; London : published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: xii, 515 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0802080219
  • 9780802080219
Other title:
  • Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, seventeen fifty four-two thousand and four
  • Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, seventeen fifty four-two thousand four
  • Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1754 to 2004
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 349.716 22
LOC classification:
  • KEN7935.4
Contents:
1. Introduction / Philip Girard and Jim Phillips -- 2. Origins : the courts of Westminster Hall in the eighteenth century / Douglas Hay -- 3. Colonial and imperial contexts / Elizabeth Mancke -- 4. The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia : origins to confederation / Barry Cahill and Jim Phillips -- 5. The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia : confederation to the twenty-first century / Philip Girard -- 6. A collective biography of the Supreme Court judiciary of Nova Scotia, 1900-2000 / R. Blake Brown and Susan S. Jones -- 7. Halifax homes of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court / Brian Cuthbertson -- 8. Michaelmas Term, 1754 : the Supreme Court's first session / James Muir and Jim Phillips -- 9. Women as litigants before the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1754-1830 / Julian Gwyn -- 10. Her Majesty's Yankees : American authority in the Supreme Court of Victorian Nova Scotia, 1837-1901 / Bernard J. Hibbitts -- 11. Instrumentalism and the law of injuries in nineteenth-century Nova Scotia / James Muir -- 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 -- 13. 'To err is human, to forgive devine' : the Labour Relations Board and the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1947-1965 / R. Blake Brown -- App. The records of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court / Jim Phillips and John Macleod.
Review: "Prepared to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the establishment of Nova Scotia's Supreme Court, this volume provides a wide-ranging history of the institution, Canada's oldest common law court. The thirteen essays include an account of the first meeting in 1754 of the court in Michaelmas Term; surveys of jurisprudence covering such topics as the court's early federalism cases, its use of American law, and attitudes to the administrative state; and chapters on the courts of Westminster Hall, on which the Supreme Court was modelled, and the various courthouses it has occupied. Comprehensive introductory chapters on the pre-confederation and modern periods provide a contextual framework for the volume."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction / Philip Girard and Jim Phillips -- 2. Origins : the courts of Westminster Hall in the eighteenth century / Douglas Hay -- 3. Colonial and imperial contexts / Elizabeth Mancke -- 4. The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia : origins to confederation / Barry Cahill and Jim Phillips -- 5. The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia : confederation to the twenty-first century / Philip Girard -- 6. A collective biography of the Supreme Court judiciary of Nova Scotia, 1900-2000 / R. Blake Brown and Susan S. Jones -- 7. Halifax homes of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court / Brian Cuthbertson -- 8. Michaelmas Term, 1754 : the Supreme Court's first session / James Muir and Jim Phillips -- 9. Women as litigants before the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1754-1830 / Julian Gwyn -- 10. Her Majesty's Yankees : American authority in the Supreme Court of Victorian Nova Scotia, 1837-1901 / Bernard J. Hibbitts -- 11. Instrumentalism and the law of injuries in nineteenth-century Nova Scotia / James Muir -- 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 -- 13. 'To err is human, to forgive devine' : the Labour Relations Board and the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1947-1965 / R. Blake Brown -- App. The records of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court / Jim Phillips and John Macleod.

"Prepared to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the establishment of Nova Scotia's Supreme Court, this volume provides a wide-ranging history of the institution, Canada's oldest common law court. The thirteen essays include an account of the first meeting in 1754 of the court in Michaelmas Term; surveys of jurisprudence covering such topics as the court's early federalism cases, its use of American law, and attitudes to the administrative state; and chapters on the courts of Westminster Hall, on which the Supreme Court was modelled, and the various courthouses it has occupied. Comprehensive introductory chapters on the pre-confederation and modern periods provide a contextual framework for the volume."--BOOK JACKET.

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