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In Canada, at what point can not pressing charges fail to prevent prosecution?
canada
The victim has a very limited role to play in charge approval. The charge will be brought either by the police or the Crown protector, depending on the province. This does not directly depend ...
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International Turkey Hunt
I cannot prove a negative, but I am going to go out on a limb and say that there is no Minnesota law preventing Juan from reaching out from the US side and grabbing his bird from Canada. (you didn't ...
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Does the English or the American rule prevail in Canada?
canada
The general rule is that the substantially successful party is entitled to "costs" on a prescribed scale (e.g. British Columbia; Manitoba) not full indemnity costs.
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Does the Canadian government translate court cases from English to French and vice versa?
The language of the judgment and existence of an official translation depends on the court and sometimes even the particular judgment. Unofficial proprietary reporters may produce unofficial ...
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If a former witness was found guilty of a crime or deemed otherwise unreliable, does it retroactively discredit their former cases?
canada
A jury should be cautioned about a Crown witness who provides inculpatory evidence when that witness has an established history of disreputable conduct that the judge views to impair the worth ...
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Legally speaking who is the employer, is it whoever is paying the employee, telling them what to do, who owns the assets they use etc?
germany
I am not sure why you have four different points there, maybe because other countries handle it differently.
Whoever is listed in your contract as the employer, is the employer.
I know, ...
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Does the Canadian government translate court cases from English to French and vice versa?
Here is the scanned English translation:
Racine, Demers and Nolin v. M.N.R. 1965
(You can right click to open the images in a new tab and magnify them to see the hard-to-read text. They are high-...
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When is an organization its own legal entity?
An organization is its own legal entity when it has been formally organized as such. In most jurisdictions it's not simply a question of registration; there must be formal articles of incorporation ...
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Does the word "proceeds" in corporate promises to charity have a specific meaning?
It has two meanings
There are gross proceeds which is all the income that the sale of the item realised, and there are net proceeds which is the gross proceeds less the direct costs of selling that ...
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Is British Columbia violating the 1949 Geneva Convention on Road Traffic by requiring foreign drivers to exchange their license within three months?
Art. 1
No Contracting State shall be required to extend the benefit [...] for
a continuous period exceeding one year.
This literally and clearly implies that the convention applies for a minimum ...
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