The equal authenticity rule (French: règle d’égale autorité) is a rule of judicial interpretation developed by Canadian courts as a way of interpreting...

describe detention in prison for an indefinite length of time; a judge may rule that a person be "detained at His Majesty's pleasure" for serious offences...

Constitution Indigenous self-government Pith and substance Double aspect Equal authenticity rule Paramountcy Living tree Implied Bill of Rights Interjurisdictional...

deferred more to the monarch. The previous oath required the monarch to rule based on "the laws and customs ... granted by the Kings of England". The...

amendments from Britain. In September 1981, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in the Patriation Reference that provincial consent was not legally necessary...

therefore be claimed by Members individually or by the House collectively. The rule for when parliamentary privilege applies is that it cannot exceed the powers...

established rules and procedures. The individuals involved must be "constituted as a public institution qua Parliament (on the basis of some rules and under...

Constitutionalism Constitutional economics Mixed government Parliamentary sovereignty Rule according to higher law Responsible government However, the independence...

society within Canada. Other aspects of the Canada Clause dealt with the rule of law, Canada as a parliamentary and federal system, Aboriginal Peoples...

Constitution Indigenous self-government Pith and substance Double aspect Equal authenticity rule Paramountcy Living tree Implied Bill of Rights Interjurisdictional...