From 0fa469b4f8e5fdff445acea6db8f74203a848597 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sancho McCann Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2023 08:31:29 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Note ONSC reference to ALR --- consent-reversal.html.pm | 19 ++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/consent-reversal.html.pm b/consent-reversal.html.pm index fa8fab2..90958a0 100644 --- a/consent-reversal.html.pm +++ b/consent-reversal.html.pm @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ ◊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 @@ -122,8 +123,8 @@ I could do a text search on them.} revealed five s. 70 reversals: #: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 @@ -293,9 +294,21 @@ actual case under appeal: a person might be acquitted or receive a new 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"