4 Originality: Nothing to Copy

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Tables and Figures ix
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction
6. What Are By the Court Decisions? 3
7. The Supreme Court of Canada Takes to the Constitutional Stage 16
8. Why Decision Presentation Formats Matter 27
9. The Road to By the Court Decisions
10. Originality: Nothing to Copy 49
11. Uniqueness: A Global Common Law Survey 63
12. Early History: The “Minor Tradition” 81
13. Emergence: The Birth of the “Grand Tradition” 101
14. The Modern By the Court Decisions
15. Inventory and Chronology of Decisions 117
16. A Typology of Decisions 128
17. Why These Cases? 170
18. Conclusion
19. The Meaning and Future of the By the Court Format 189
20. Notes 202
21. Bibliography 233
22. Index 240