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◊define-meta[short-title]{Consent reversals}
◊define-meta[snippet]{Consenting to reverse under s. 70 of the Supreme Court Act. What does this mean for precedent?}
◊define-meta[original-date]{2023-09-23}
◊define-meta[edited-date]{2023-09-24}

◊declare-work[#:id "SCA" #:type "statute" #:title "Supreme Court Act"
#:volume "R.S.C." #:year "1985" #:chapter "S-26" #:url
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#:short-form "Mills"]

◊declare-work[#:id "Shorting" #:type "legal-case" #:title "R v
Shorting" #:year "1996" #:citation "110 CCC (3d) 383" #:url
"https://canlii.ca/t/gbgr2" #:short-form "Shorting"]
Shorting" #:year "1996" #:citation "110 CCC (3d) 383" #:jurisdiction
"SCC" #:url "https://canlii.ca/t/gbgr2" #:short-form "Shorting"]

◊declare-work[#:id "RAL" #:type "legal-case" #:title "R v ALR" #:year
"2001" #:citation "[2001] 11 WWR 413" #:parallel-citation "Bulletin of
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trial. But the ◊em{reasons} are often left unimpugned by a consent
reversal. Those reasons speak beyond the particular case.

◊declare-work[#:id "Dutt" #:type "legal-case" #:title "R v Dutt"
#:citation "2011 ONSC 3329" #:url "https://canlii.ca/t/flqc4"
#:short-form "Dutt"]

◊declare-work[#:id "ALR-CA" #:type "legal-case" #:title "R v ALR"
#:citation "141 CCC (4d) 151" #:jurisdiction "Man. C.A." #:year "1999"
#:url "https://canlii.ca/t/1flcv"]

Courts frequently rely on reasons for points of law, even though the
ultimate judgment may have been reversed "on other grounds." A consent
reversal is just a special case of this more general occurrence.
reversal is just a special case of this more general occurrence. In
fact, this is exactly how the Ontario Superior Court has treated
◊em{ALR}.◊note{◊see["Dutt" #:pinpoint "para 54" #:terminal ""], citing
◊cite["ALR-CA" #:terminal ""] and noting that it had been reversed "on
a different basis."}

◊declare-work[#:id "Sweet" #:type "legal-case" #:title "Sweet
Productions Inc et al v Licensing LP International SÀRL et al"
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