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The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1754-2004
From Imperial Bastion to Provincial Oracle
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Editors Philip Girard, Jim Phillips, and Barry Cahill have put together the first complete history of any Canadian provincial superior court. All of the essays are original, and many offer new interpretations of familiar themes in Canadian legal history.
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Cahill Barry :
Barry Cahill is an independent scholar living in Halifax.
Girard Philip :Philip Girard is a professor of law at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University.
Phillips Jim :
Jim Phillips is a professor in the Faculty of Law and the Department of History at the University of Toronto.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Foreword
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Acknowledgments
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Contributors
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Abbreviations
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Maps
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1. Introduction
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2. Origins: The Courts of Westminster Hall in the Eighteenth Century
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3. Colonial and Imperial Contexts
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4. The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia: Origins to Confederation
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5. The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia: Confederation to the Twenty-First Century
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6. A Collective Biography of the Supreme Court Judiciary of Nova Scotia, 1900-2000
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7. Halifax Homes of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court
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8. Michaelmas Term 1754: The Supreme Court's First Session
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9. Women as Litigants before the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1754-1830
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10. Her Majesty's Yankees: American Authority in the Supreme Court of Victorian Nova Scotia, 1837-1901
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11. Instrumentalism and the Law of Injuries in Nineteenth-Century Nova Scotia
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12. Confederation, Adjudicative Culture, and the Law of the Constitution: The Late Nineteenth-Century Persistence of Local Autonomy in the Nova Scotia Supreme Court
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13. 'To Err Is Human, to Forgive Divine': The Labour Relations Board and the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1947-1965
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Appendix: The Records of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court
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Index
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