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Evatt Francis Anthony "Tony" Merchant, KC (born 1944) is a Canadian lawyer, businessman, and former politician. His law firm Merchant Law Group LLP, which he founded in 1986, is best known for representing former students of Indian residential schools in the $1.9 billion Indian Residential School Settlement in 2006, the largest class-action settlement in Canadian history.
In January 2015, the office of the Attorney General of Canada launched a law suit in the Court of Queen's Bench for Saskatchewan, in Regina, Saskatchewan, on behalf of the Canadian federal government, against Tony Merchant's Regina, Saskatchewan-based Merchant Law Group. Tony Merchant, Q.C., who "is known as the king of class action lawsuits in ...
Attorney General of Canada v Merchant Law Group, 2015. In January 2015, the Attorney General of Canada, on behalf of the federal government launched a law suit against Tony Merchant's Regina, Saskatchewan-based law firm—Merchant Law Group (MLG). July 16, 2015 IRSSA ruling by Justice Neil Gabrielson
The Law Society of Saskatchewan was established in 1907, by the Legal Professions Act, following the establishment of the Province of Saskatchewan in 1905. Prior to 1907, lawyers in the province were governed by the 1885 Legal Profession Ordinance of the North-West Territories, of which the successor provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan had ...
The College of Law at the University of Saskatchewan is the university's law school. Located in Saskatoon in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, the College of Law was established in 1912 and is the oldest law school in Western Canada, a distinction it shares with the University of Alberta . Approximately 126 students are admitted to the ...
Paramountcy (Canada) In Canadian constitutional law, the doctrine of paramountcy ( French: prépondérance fédérale) establishes that where there is a conflict between valid provincial and federal laws, the federal law will prevail and the provincial law will be inoperative to the extent that it conflicts with the federal law. Unlike ...
v. t. e. Section 96 of the Constitution Act, 1867 ( French: article 96 de la Loi constitutionnelle de 1867) is a provision of the Constitution of Canada relating to the appointment of judges of the provincial superior, district and county courts. It provides that the judges of those courts are appointed by the Governor General of Canada.
Knight v Indian Head School Division No 19, [1990] 1 S.C.R. 653 is a leading decision of the Supreme Court of Canada on procedural fairness in Canadian administrative law. The Court created a threshold test to determine whether an administrative process invoked a common law duty of fairness based on the nature of the decision, relationship ...