- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 515 pages, [24] pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, portraits.
- Summary
- "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."--Jacket.
- Uniform Title
- Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1754-2004 (Online)
- Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian publishers collection.
- Subject
- Nova Scotia. Supreme Court > History
- Note
- Issued as part of the Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian publishers collection.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Also available in print version.
- System Details (note)
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Contents
- Introduction / Philip Girard and Jim Phillips -- Origins: the courts of Westminster Hall in the eighteenth century / Douglas Hay -- Colonial and Imperial contexts / Elizabeth Mancke -- The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia: origins to Confederation / Barry Cahill and Jim Phillips -- The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia: Confederation to the twenty-first century / Philip Girard -- A collective biography of the Supreme Court Judiciary of Nova Scotia, 1900-2000 / R. Blake Brown and Susan S. Jones -- Halifax homes of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court / Brian Cuthbertson -- Michaelmas Term, 1754: the Supreme Court's first session / James Muir and Jim Phillips -- Women as litigants before the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1754-1830 / Julian Gwyn -- Her Majesty's Yankees: American authority in the Supreme Court of Victorian Nova Scotia, 1837-1901 / Bernard J. Hibbitts -- Instrumentalism and the Law of Injuries in nineteenth-century Nova Scotia / James Muir -- 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 -- 'To err is human, to forgive Divine': the Labour Relations Board and the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1947-1965 / R. Blake Brown -- Appendix: the records of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court / Jim Phillips and John Macleod.
- OCLC
- ssj0001472856
- Title
The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1754-2004 [electronic resource] : from imperial bastion to provincial oracle / edited by Philip Girard, Jim Phillips, and Barry Cahill.
- Imprint
Toronto [Ontario] : Published for The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, [2004]
- Series
Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian publishers collection.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Additional Formats
Also available in print version.
- System Details
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Girard, Philip.
Phillips, Jim.
Cahill, Barry.
Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.
Canadian Electronic Library (Firm)
- Other Form:
Print version 0802080219 9780802080219