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  2. CanLII - Wikipedia

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    Other websites will often use CanLII as their primary source when referring to Canadian case law, [13] and as of the 10th Edition of the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation, is the designated preferred citation, in the absence of official court-issued neutral citations. [14] [15]

  3. Civil procedure in Canada - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Civil procedure - Wikipedia

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    Civil and criminal cases are usually heard in different courts. In jurisdictions based on English common-law systems, the party bringing a criminal charge (in most cases, the state) is called the "prosecution", but the party bringing most forms of civil action is the "plaintiff" or "claimant". In both kinds of action the other party is known as ...

  5. Section 24 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

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    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.

  6. Law of Canada - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Civil Code of Quebec - Wikipedia

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    At the time of Canadian Confederation, the Civil Code of Lower Canada replaced most of the laws inherited from the Custom of Paris and incorporated some English law as it had been applied in Lower Canada such as the English law of trusts. The former Civil Code was also inspired by the Louisiana Civil Code, the Field Code movement in New York ...

  8. Civil litigation - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 18 May 2006, at 16:24 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply ...

  9. Citation of Canadian legislation - Wikipedia

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    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 ...