Table Of ContentY 'LD
AR "00
BR ':0o>0
W LI •Nco.
A o
L
N to Materials for
KI o
S
A •to
A|
0fJ
^ » LEGAL PROCESS (SECTIONS I AND II)
FIRST YEAR 2003-2004
FALL 2003
VOLUME I
Professor Ayelet Shachar
Faculty of Law
University of Toronto
Storage
KE
8348.5
.343
als reproduced herein are solely for the educational use of students at the University
2003
of Toronto, Faculty of Law and are not for commercial sale or use.
v. 1
c. 1
nr' LB,,
AUG 2 8 2003
FACIH.IV ur lmH
UNIVERSITY«TCBO
Materials for
LEGAL PROCESS (SECTIONS I AND II)
FIRST YEAR 2003-2004
FALL 2003
VOLUME I
Professor Ayelet Shachar
Faculty of Law
University of Toronto
The materials reproduced herein are solely for the educational use of students at the University
of Toronto, Faculty of Law and are not for commercial sale or use.
Digitized by the Internet Archive
in 2018 with funding from
University of Toronto
https://archive.org/details/materialsforlega01shac_1
LEGAL PROCESS
Fall 2003
Professor AveSet Shachar
1 Introduction to the common law system
LI boundaries of C ivil Litigation
Kenneth E. Seott, “Two Models of the Civil Process," Vol. 27 Stanford Law-
Review 937 (1975) (excerpt).I
Adria Vasil. “Fast Food's Big Choke." Vol.22. No.43 NOW (2003) .4
Albie F. Sachs. “Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century: Real Dichotomies,
False Antagonisms" (excerpt).......9
1.2 Precedent; stare decisis; binding authority ; persuasive authority
G. F. Gall, “The Doctrine of Precedent and Stare Decisis" .14
( 'hart of Ontario 's C ourt System in Garry D. Watson, The civil litigation process
cases and materials (Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 1999) at 38.18
( harts of Persuasive and Binding Authority in Comparative Context in Gerald L.
Gall, The Canadian legal system (Toronto: Carswell, 1995) at 182-186...........19
Ha/pern v. Canada (Attorney General), Court of Appeal for Ontario, File
C39172, decision given on June 10.2003 .22
Claire Hoy. "Doing it democratically" Law Times, July 29, 2002, 7 .29
Department of Justice, “Minister of Justice Announces Reference to the Supreme
Court of Canada." July 1 7. 2003.30
“No Same Sex Marriage in N.B. until Law Passes." The Chronicle-Herald. July
24. 2003 D18.32
Recommended:
Eleanor Brown. “Why be Wedded to Gay Marriage?" The Globe and Mail.
August 8. 2002 A7.33
i
1.3 Philosophies of law and government; analytical frameworks
Purposive interpretation; positive law; legal realism; formalism; law and
economics; anti-subordination approaches (critical legal studies, feminism,
critical race theory)
Lon L. Fuller. "The Case of the Speluncean Explorers" (1999) 112 Harvard Law
Review 1834.....34
Recommended:
Paul N. Cox. ‘'An Interpretation and (Partial) Defense of Legal Formalism,” 36
Indiana Law Review 57 (2003) (excerpt).....51
Brian Leiter. “American Legal Realism,” forthcoming in The Blackwell Guide to
Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory (excerpt)...56
Nicholas Mercuro & Steven G. Medema, Economies and the Law: from Posner to
post-modernism (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997) at 5-25.60
Patricia .1. Williams. The alchemy of race and rights (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Press. 1991) at 146-148...70
1.4 Legal Reasoning
Catherine A. MacKinnon, “Equality Under Law,” in Sex Equality (Foundation
Press, 2001) (excerpt)...72
Allan C. Hutchinson. The law school hook: succeeding at law school, 2nd ed.
(Toronto: Irwin Law, 2000) at 25-38.76
Law Society of British Columbia v. Andrews, [1989] 1 S.C.R. 143....90
Lavoie v. Canada, 2002 SCC 23...96
2 The litigation process and the Rules of Civil Procedure
2.1 Parties to the litigation; amici curiae; standing; intervention
Rules of Civil Procedure, R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 194, r. 13, amended to O. Reg.
263/03....106
Borowski v. Canada (Minister of Justice) (1983), 144 D.L.R. (3d) 657 (Sask.
Q.B.).........107
Canadian Council of Churches v. Canada, [1992] 1 S.C.R. 236.....109
Cristin Schmitz, "Intervenors set record. Supreme Court ’restrained' in 2000" The
Lawyers Weekly 20:46, April 13, 2001, 7.....113
Harvard University et. al. “Interest of Amici Curiae” (2002).114
Charles R. Lpp, "Do Bills of Rights Matter? The Canadian Charter of Rights and
Freedoms" (1996) 90:4 American Political Science Review' 765.121
n
Recommended:
(anadian Civil Liberties Association v. Canada (A C ). 1I998| O.J No. 2856.126
Jacques Steinberg, “After 25 Years, a Road Map for Diversity on Campus," The
.Yen York Times. June 24, 2003.147
2.2 Where to litigate; jurisdiction and forum non conveniens
Rules of ( ivil Procedure. R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 194. r. 17. amended to O. Reg.
263/03.150
Morguard Investment Ltd. I J)e Savoye..I 55
Bill Miller & Christine Haughney, "Old Law Creates Forum for War-Crimes
T rials" The Toronto Star. August 13, 2000, B1.157
Santa ( 7ara Pueblo v Martinez. 436 U.S. 49 (1978).159
('arnival ('raise Lines v. Shute. 499 U.S. 585 (1991).166
Recommended:
Hague Conference, Preliminary Draft Convention on Jurisdiction and the Effects
of Judgments in ( 'ivil and ('ommercial Matters. October 30, 1999.1 76
2.3 When to litigate; limitation periods
('onsumers Glass v. Foundation Company of Canada (1985). 51 O.R. (2d) 385
(Ont. C.A.)...181
Janet E. Mosher. "Challenging Limitation Periods: Civil Claims by Adult
Survivors of Incest" (1994) 44 University of Toronto Law Journal 169.184
M(K.) v. M.(H.).{ 1992] 3 S.C.R. 6.189
Fox Butterfield, “789 Children Abused by Priests Since 1940. Massachusetts
Says," New York Times. July 24, 2003.195
Limitations Act 2002.198
Recommended:
Andrew T. Kenyon & Simon Mackenzie, Recovering Stolen Art: Australian,
English and US Law on Limitations of Action (Public Law & Legal Theory
Working Paper No. 23. Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne. 2002).216
William K. Rashbaum, “New York Pursues Old Cases Based Just on DNA." The
New York Times, August 5, 2003.227
iii
2.4 Multi-party litigation; joinder; counterclaims; cross-claims; third-
party claims
Rules of Civil Procedure, R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 194, r.5, amended to O. Reg. 263/03.229
Rules of Civil Procedure, R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 194. r.27. amended to O. Reg.
263/03 .232
Rules of Civil Procedure, R.R.O. 1990. Reg. 194. r.28. amended to O. Reg.
263/03.. 236
Rules of Civil Procedure, R.R.O. 1990. Reg. 194. r.29. amended to O. Reg.
263/03..240
Teledata Communications v. Westburne Industrial (1990), 71 O.R. (3d) 466
(H.C.).245
Marc Edge, "SLAPPed Down" National (Canadian Bar Association) (June-July
2000) 11. 247
2.5 Class proceedings
Rules of Civil Procedure, R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 194, r. 12, amended to O. Reg.
263/03......252
Class Proceedings Act, 1992, S.O. 1992, c. 6.255
Kirk Makin, “Class-action Suits Explode into 'National Phenomenon'” The Globe
and Mail, July 19, 2003 .279
Anderson v. Wilson. (1999] O.J. no. 2494 (C.A.)...281
Nantais v. Telectronics Proprietary (1995), 25 O.R. (3d) 331 (Gen. Div), affd
(Div. Ct.), at 347... 286
Hollick v. Toronto (City), 2001 SCC 68...288
Thomas Claridge, “Appeal Court Narrowly Rejects Proposed Mohawk Class
Action.” The Lawyers Weekly, July 18. 2003 ..294
Deborah Glendinning & Meredith Gardiner. "International Class Action: Fact or
Fiction?" The Lawyers Weekly, June 7, 2002, 17.295
Recommended:
Garry D. Watson. "Class Actions: The Canadian Experience" (2001) 11 Duke
Journal of Comparative & International Law 269.297
Michelle Taruffo, "Some Remarks on Group Litigation in Comparative
Perspective" (2001) 1 1 Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law 405.307
IV
2.6 financing litigation; contingency lees; paralegals; insurance plans
Justice Statute Amendment Act. 2002. 3 16
Poonam Puri. "I inancing of Litigation b\ Third-Part} Investors: A Share of
Justice?" (1008) 36 Osgoode Hail Law Journal 515.
McIntyre I state \ Ontario (Attorne) (ieneral). 320
Julius Melnitzer. “ I he Business of' Running a ('lass Action." Law limes.
July 14.2003.
> > A
Ministrv of the Attorney (ieneral. "Regulation of Contingency Pees in Ontario."
2002....*..*.*. 337
"Private Insurance". 330
"Paralegals". 341
"Legal soft ware". 342
Recommended:
Peter deC. Cory, J Framework For Regulating Paralegal Praeliee in Ontario
Executive Summary and Recommendations (Ministry of the Attorney General.
Ontario. Canada. 2000). 344
Gillian K. Hadfield. "The Price of Law: How the Market for Lawyers Distorts the
justice System." 08 Miehigan Law Review 053 (2000) (excerpt) . .346
2.7 Access to justice
Lucie L. White. "Subordination. Rhetorical Survival Skills, and Sunday Shoes:
Notes on the Hearing of Mrs. G." (1000) 38 Buffalo Law Review 1.366
Stephen Ellman, "Client-Centredness Multiplied" (1002) 78 Virginia Law Review
1 103 at 1104-1170.378
Legal Aid Ontario, "About Legal Aid Ontario"!2003).384
Kirk Makin, "A taste of life in the legal aid trenches" The Globe and Mail. July 8
2002. B0.385
Recommended;
John D. McCamus. "The Reshaping of Legal Aid" in William A. Bogart. Access
to affordable and appropriate legal services in 2021) (Windsor. Ontario: Canadian
Bar Association. 2000) 41.386
v
2.8 Discovery; privilege and confidentiality
Rules of Civil Procedure, R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 194, r.30. amended to O. Reg.
: 263/03 .399
■
Rule.v of Civil Procedure, R.R.O. 1990. Reg. 194. r.31. amended to O. Reg.
| 263/03.. 407
Rules of Civil Procedure, R.R.O. 1990. Reg. 194. r.34. amended to O. Reg.
263/03.416
Grossman v. Toronto General Hospital (19839, 146 D.L.R. (3d) 280 (Ont. H.C.) .426
Rainbow Industrial Caterers v. Canadian National Railway (1986). 6 B.C.L.R.
(2d) 268 (S.C.). 429
Smith v. Jones, [1991] 1 S.C.R. 455.430
Ontario (Ministry of Environment) v. McCarthy Terault.438
Gavin Mackenzie, "Is keeping secrets in client's best interest?" Law Times,
February 28. 2000, 8.441
Robert A. kagan, “Adversarial Legalism and Civil Justice,”’ in Adversarial
Legalism (Harvard, 2001) (excerpt). 443
Recommended:
Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action (New York: Vintage Books) at 149-193.451
Cynthia Day Wallace, "'Extraterritorial' Discovery': Ongoing Challenges for
Antitrust Litigation in an Environment of Global Investment" (2002) 5 Journal of
International Economic Law 353.476
2.9 Settlement
Owen M. Fiss, "Against Settlement" (1984) 98 Yale Law Journal 1073 at 1075-
1090.485
Chris A. Carr & Michael R. Jencks, "The Privatization of Business and
Commercial Dispute Resolution: A Misguided Policy Decision" (2000) 88
kentucky Law Journal 183 .488
Michael P. Silver. Mediation and negotiation: representing your clients
(Markham, Ontario: Butterworths. 2001) at 3-14.496
Daniel Girard, "Teen bully finds justice, healing and the courage to apologize"
The Toronto Star. May 15. 2002. A7.502
Rules of Civil Procedure, R.R.O. 1990. Reg. 194, r.24.1, amended to O. Reg.
263/03 .503
Superior Court of Justice. “Civil Case Management: Toronto Update,” Summer
2003.511
vi
