Promoting and Protecting Apologetic Discourse Through Law: A Global Survey and Critique of Apology Legislation and Case Law
In: Oñati Socio-Legal Series, Band 7, Heft 3
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In: Oñati Socio-Legal Series, Band 7, Heft 3
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In: 78(1) Saskatchewan Law Review 31-126
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In: University of British Columbia Law Review, Band 40, S. 769-808
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In: Canadian Class Action Review, Band 4, Heft 1, S. 203-210
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In: Advocates' Quarterly, Band 29, S. 54-71
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This article situates the action in ADR theory by viewing it as a hybrid process that draws on both the command and consensus portions of a rational dispute resolution continuum. Class action legislation does this in a number of ways, the most important being the scope it gives to courts to approve or disapprove class settlements that have been privately negotiated by defence and class counsel. The rationale is to protect the interests of absent class members and ensure that the legislative goals of class actions-access to justice, judicial economy and behaviour modification-are well served. Class actions can thereby render moot some of the private/public debate over settlement by taking disputes out of the purely private realm and placing them in the quasi-public realm. However, this places courts in an unaccustomed role and calls for the need for more empirical research on settlement quality to help judges evaluate negotiated outcomes. A recently completed study by the Rand Institute for Civil Justice is suggested as a model for fulfilling this research need in Canada. The article's focus is comparative and Canadian, drawing on legislation and case law in Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia.
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In: Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Band 39, S. 817-841
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In: National Journal of Constitutional Law, Band 10, S. 69-113
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In: Queen's Law Journal, Band 30, S. 449-499
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