privity in tenure

privity in tenure

land tenure [ tenure | land tenancy arrangement | system of land ownership | land tenure system ]

legal relationship [ legal relation ]

Report to Parliament, Sub-committee on the Penitentiary System in Canada: Standing Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs [ Report to Parliament, Sub-committee on the Penitentiary System in Canada ]

The areas of clinical law in which the society desires to work are those areas of law that particularly affect low-income individuals or disadvantaged communities, including legal matters related to the following: mediation and negotiation on housing and shelter, income maintenance, social assistance and other similar government programs; immigration law, human rights, health, work and disability, employment legal advice, representation and advocacy on these matters; test case representation on a poverty law issue if a case is found to be meritorious of such action; public legal education, production and translation of legal informati ...[+++]on, materials and workshops; independent legal advice, representation in court, duty counsel services, wills and powers of attorney, some contracts, some family law and child welfare law — I would like to note that many of these services are provided by the current legal aid civil program, but on a limited basis at this time; in family law, a third-party intervention service would be offered when a no-contact order, peace bond, emergency protection order or a civil restraining order prevents opposing parties from having direct contact when the court orders access to the children by the non-custodial parent — by that, I mean that a court may order that the non-custodial parent have access and to facilitate this and to avoid conflict, we would offer a third-party intervention, a place where the non-custodial parent could be with his or her children in a non-adversarial and non-threatening manner; an outreach component, including a 1-888 number to provide telephone-based legal assistance to low-income households across the Northwest Territories; a poverty law website of legal information in order to establish partnerships with isolated communities; and, very importantly, a community outreach advocate training program and policy that would be under the supervision of a lawyer.

(Return tabled) Question No. 334 Hon. Irwin Cotler: With regard to bijuralism and harmonization: (a) what measures are in place to ensure legislative bijuralism across all departments; (b) since the adoption of the “Policy on Legislative Bijuralism”, how has the Department of Justice (i) ensured that all legal counsel in the Department are made aware of the requirements of legislative bijuralism in order for them to be able to take it into account when advising client departments on legislative reforms, (ii) enhanced the capacity of the Legislative Services Branch to draft bijural legislative texts, (iii) undertook, in drafting both ver ...[+++]sions of every bill and proposed regulation that touches on provincial or territorial private law, to take care to reflect the terminology, concepts, notions and institutions of both of Canada’s private law systems; (c) since the adoption of the “Policy for Applying the Civil Code of Quebec to Federal Government Activities”, what measures are in place to ensure (i) changes to Quebec’s Civil Code are known and monitored by the government, (ii) assessment of federal legislation relative to changes to Quebec’s Civil Code, (iii) federal legislation is introduced to reflect, where necessary, changes to the Civil Code of Quebec; (d) with respect to the “Index of Bijuralism and Harmonization Caselaw” found online and indicating its most recent update was June 12, 2012, (i) how often is this page updated, (ii) given that some cases thereupon are from 2013, when was this page last updated, (iii) whose responsibility is it to update this page, (iv) what cases are currently being monitored for potential addition to this page; (e) with respect to cases involving bijuralism and harmonization, (i) in what ways are these made known to the Department, (ii) whose responsibility it is to monitor these cases, (iii), what role does the Federal government play in these cases if a party, (iv) what role does the government play if not a party, (v) who m ...

Question No. 964 Hon. Judy Sgro: With regard to the $16, 667 in professional and special services spent by the Minister of Labour in fiscal year 2010-2011 in her capacity as Minister of Natural Resources: (a) how much of this money was spent on legal services; (b) what was the nature, extent and purpose of those legal services; (c) was there any court case associated with those legal services and, if so, what is the citation of that case; and (d) what is the contact information, if any, such as telephone number or e-mail address, associated with those legal services?

6. After adoption of one of the acts referred to in paragraph 5(d) or final adoption of the act concerned, the General Secretariat shall make available to the public any documents relating to this act which were drawn up before one of such acts and which are not covered by any of the exceptions laid down in Article 4(1), (2) and (3), second subparagraph, of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, such as information notes, reports, progress reports and reports on the state of discussions in the Council or in one of its preparatory bodies (outco ...[+++]mes of proceedings), excluding Legal Service opinions and contributions.