The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1754-2004 : from imperial bastion to provincial oracle / edited by Philip Girard, Jim Phillips, and Barry Cahill.

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2004.

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Courts -- Nova Scotia -- History.

Courts -- Nova Scotia.

Pt 1. Introduction: 1. Introduction

2. Origins: The courts of Westminster Hall in the eighteenth century

3. Colonial and imperial contexts

Pt 2. Overviews: 4. The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia: origins to confederation

5. The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia: confederation to the twenty-first century

6. A collective biography of the Supreme Court judiciary

7. Halifax homes of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court

Pt 3. Case studies: 8. Michaelmas term 1754: the Supreme Court's first session

9. Woman as litigants before the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia

10. Her majesty's Yankees: American authority in the Supreme Court of Victorian Nova Scotia

11. Instrumentalism and the law of injuries in nineteenth-century Nova Scotia

12. Confederation, adjudicative culture, and the law of the constitution: the late nineteenth-century persistence of local autonomy in the Nova Scotia Supreme Court

13. 'To err is human, to forgive divine': the labour relations board and the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1947-1965.

Includes index.

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xii, 515 p. : ill. maps.