Legal Journals

ASEAN+3, FX Swaps & U.S. Foreign Policy
Finance ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as well as China, Japan and South Korea agreed yesterday on the minimum scale of a regional foreign reserve swap...

New ASEAN rights body should not be too ambitious: Singapore official
[JURIST] Singapore Second Foreign Minister Raymond Lim said in a speech Wednesday that the new human rights body of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) [official website] should not set initial standards too high [AFP report] for the organization's member states...

Biotechnology Law and Regulation
Biotechnology Law and Regulation - The ASEAN Perspective by Sufian Jusoh and published by Cameron May surveys the law and regulations relating to biotechnology activities in the 10 member countries of ASEAN...

Time to Charter a New Course
Opponents of charter schools are using a new report out by the Indiana University to argue there is practically no difference between the academic performance of students in charter schools versus those in traditional public schools...

Section 15 and Statute-Barred Charter Widows in Ravndahl v. Saskatchewan
One of my constitutional law professors once remarked that the rights-based ethic of my generation is largely informed by the fact of our coming of age in the post-Charter era. Personally, I believe that the Charter, for all of its positives, is a systemically underinclusive document...

Canadian Constitutional Law #25: Application of the Charter and Charter Standing
Whose behaviour is bound by the Charter? Sec 32 tells us it applies to government (as opposed to private actors), but in practice this is more difficult to define than it would seem...

Charter Calls Off Deep Packet Advertising Scheme, For Now
Charter Communications has suspended the controversial program where partner NebuAd would deep-scan packets to send targeted advertising to Charter customers. While some reports consider the program dead, that may not be the case...

Section 24(2) of the Charter: A legal fiction
In the mind of this Charter aficionado, the most significant recent development in Charter history is the Ontario Court of Appeal decision that effectively renders s. 24(2), the exclusion of unconstitutionally obtained evidence that could bring the administration of justice into disrepute provision, virtually non-existent...

Charter Cable
Faces Class Action for Unlicensed Workers

Hartford Class Action Settlement of $72.5M Approved
$72.5M Hartford Settlement Approved

$5.4 Million Quebec Breast Cancer Wait List Class Action Settlement Approved
$5.4 Million Quebec Breast Cancer Class Action Settlement Approved

Preliminary Audi Volkswagen Settlement Approved
Preliminary Audi Volkswagen Settlement Approved

$47.5 Million Settlement Approved for September 11 Plaintiffs
$47.5 Million Settlement Approved for September 11 Plaintiffs

$12 Million Settlement Approved in Air France Class Action
$12 Million Settlement Approved in Air France Class Action