Principled Limitations on Access to Justice: Awaiting the Next Installment to the Canadian Chapter on the Chevron Saga

Further to my previous comment on this subject, “Principled Limitations on Access to Justice: the Last Installment to the Canadian Chapter on the Chevron Saga?” (posted, 22 June, 2018), I…

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Foreign Human Rights-Based Tort Claims Clear Last Jurisdictional Hurdles in Canadian Courts: Introducing “Transnational Torts”

On 21 November, the British Columbia Court of Appeal issued voluminous reasons for judgment in Araya v. Nevsun Resources Ltd.[2017] BCCA 401,upholding the decision of the trial court below, [2016] BCSC…

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