French Abstract: Si l’« égalité des armes » est à ses premiers balbutiements en droit processuel au Québec, son potentiel de croissance semble considérable. Après en avoir défini la nature et vu ses ancrages juridiques – l’article 23 de la Charte québécoise et les principes...

In the last 20 years, Elmer Driedger's modern principle has emerged as THE expression of the Supreme Court of Canada's preferred approach to statutory interpretation. The authors examine this fundamental development in Canadian law, including the variable relations between Driedger's quote and...

The paper argues that the main reason why there was once a need for domestic courts in Canada to invoke the methodology of treaty interpretation relates to the common law-based exclusionary rule on preparatory work (or travaux préparatoires). The hypothesis is that, now that this rule has been...

The modern articulation of the constitutional principle of the rule of law is credited to A.V. Dicey, who identified three essential elements of what is generally considered a formal version of the concept. Namely, (1) to be ruled by law, not by discretionary power, (2) to be equal before the...