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The Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) (French: Régime d'aide financière aux étudiantes et étudiants de l'Ontario (RAFEO)) is a provincial financial aid program that offers grants and loans to help Ontario students pay for their post-secondary education. OSAP determines the amount of money that a student is eligible to receive by ...
These statutes were consolidated, and their provisions re-enacted by Cap. 139 of the Revised Statutes of Ontario, passed on the 31st December 1877. The Act of 1877 makes regulations for the qualification of barristers-at-law, and their admission to practice at the bar in Her Majesty's Courts of Law and Equity in Ontario.
This is a list of the order of precedence in Ontario as of January 14, 2023. [2] The King of Canada (His Majesty Charles III) Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (Edith Dumont OOnt) Premier of Ontario (Doug Ford MPP) Chief Justice of Ontario (George Strathy KC) Former Lieutenant Governors of Ontario, in order of their departure from office:
Precedent is a judicial decision that serves as an authority for courts when deciding subsequent identical or similar cases. [1] [2] [3] Fundamental to common law legal systems, precedent operates under the principle of stare decisis ("to stand by things decided"), where past judicial decisions serve as case law to guide future rulings, thus promoting consistency and predictability.
Law v Canada (Minister of Employment and Immigration) Supreme Court [1999] 1 SCR 497: Charter of Rights, section 15(1) (Equality rights) Establishes the "Law test" for identifying Charter-prohibited discrimination. Canada (AG) v Hislop: Supreme Court: 2007 SCC 10: Charter of Rights, section 15 (Equality rights)
The first is the term "provincial court", which has two quite different meanings, depending on context. The first, and most general meaning, is that a provincial court is a court established by the legislature of a province, under its constitutional authority over the administration of justice in the province, set out in s. 92(14) of the Constitution Act, 1867. [2]
Law Society of British Columbia v Mangat [2001] 3 S.C.R. 113, 2001 SCC 67 October 18, 2001 Paramountcy doctrine; practice of law R v Advance Cutting & Coring Ltd [2001] 3 SCR 209, 2001 SCC 70 October 19, 2001 Labour relations, freedom of association R v Nette [2001] 3 S.C.R. 488, 2001 SCC 78 November 15, 2001 Criminal causation Cooper v Hobart
They hear over 1,500 appeals each year, on issues of private law, constitutional law, criminal law, administrative law and other matters. The Supreme Court of Canada hears appeals from less than 3% of the decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, therefore in a practical sense, the Court of Appeal is the last avenue of appeal for most ...