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May 14, 2021 · While the proper framework for analyzing consent to sexual activity was succinctly set out in R. v. Hutchinson, 2014 SCC 19, [2014] 1 S.C.R. 346, it is the Criminal Code which establishes the requirement of a two-step analysis of consent to sexual activity.
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Aug 23, 2022 · For more than a century, Black's Law Dictionary has been the gold standard for the language of law. This edition contains more than 50,000 terms, including more than 7,500 terms new to this edition. It also features expanded bibliographic coverage, definitions of more than 1,000 law-related abbreviations and acronyms, and reviewed and edited ...
tort law’s core concepts and animating principles, to see how this body of law fits into our legal and political system, and to appreciate why there are good reasons to retain tort law while relying on courts regularly
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Mar 20, 2022 · We may be free to move towards a new definition of legal personhood that no longer seeks to adopt the often-fictitious characteristics of ‘man’, but instead seeks to encompass all entities deserving of justice and seeks to recognise our inherent reliance on others in almost every area of our lives.
- I. The “Audience” Question: Who Is The Relevant “Ordinary Reader”?
- II. Ordinary Meaning Subcanons
- Conclusion
Perhaps the most stunning finding Tobia reports is that judges and nonexperts have similar intuitions about the ordinary meaning of ordinary terms. Tobia bases this claim on survey data indicating that judges, law students, and laypeople were remarkably similar in the rates at which they categorized certain specific items (for example, “car,” “bus,...
Tobia also concludes that the ordinary meaning of specific words often is unclear, based on survey data indicating that laypeople regularly disagreed with each other about the ordinary meaning of several different statutory terms35 and that dictionary definitions, corpus linguistics, and collective intuition about ordinary meaning often diverged fr...
The experimental study described in Tobia’s Testing Ordinary Meaningis rich and full of valuable data about how laypersons judge ordinary meaning — and about the specific kinds of ordinary meaning that dictionaries and corpus linguistics tend to measure. In my view, it oversells a bit regarding the breadth of the information it provides about how j...
