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CanLII offers free public access to over 2.4 million documents [2] across more than 300 case law and legislative databases. [3] The official websites of provincial governments, which provide access to primary legislative documents, are linked to CANLII online. [4]
Quebec is Canada's only civil law jurisdiction. [1] Therefore, its rules of civil procedure are distinct from the rest of the country. [1] In 2003, Quebec introduced a series of changes to its civil law, where it eliminated the statement of claim. [1] Instead, all actions are brought by way of motion. [1]
Civil procedure in Canada is jurisdictional with each province following its own rules of civil procedure. [2] However, each province must address the fact that due to the advancement of technology the discovery process enshrined in the rules of civil procedure can be potentially derailed due to the sheer volume of electronically stored information (ESI). [3]
An important aspect of civil liability law in Québec is the individual right to privacy and dignity. In title two of book one, the CCQ provides for a series of rights comparable to but broader than the privacy torts extant in both the common law provinces and in France and other jurisdictions with civil codes based on the Napoleonic Code.
The application of section 8 is not limited to the criminal context, and has become an issue in civil forfeiture litigation, with some courts holding that "exactly the same Charter principles apply to the manner in which that evidence is obtained as would be applicable in a criminal case". [13] [14]
The Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa, west of Parliament Hill. The legal system of Canada is pluralist: its foundations lie in the English common law system (inherited from its period as a colony of the British Empire), the French civil law system (inherited from its French Empire past), [1] [2] and Indigenous law systems [3] developed by the various Indigenous Nations.
The primary guide to statute citation in Canada is the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation, commonly called the "McGill Guide". [2] The Guide is produced by the McGill Law Journal of the McGill University Faculty of Law in Montreal in a fully bilingual format. It has been adopted by a number of Canadian law journals and courts as the ...
Under the heading "Enforcement," the section states: 24(1) Anyone whose rights or freedoms, as guaranteed by this Charter, have been infringed or denied may apply to a court of competent jurisdiction to obtain such remedy as the court considers appropriate and just in the circumstances.