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United States of America v. Dynar - [1997] 2 SCR 462 - 1997-06-26
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Williams, Glanville. “Attempting the Impossible ‑‑ A Reply” (1979‑80), 22 Crim. [...] In this, we again agree completely with Glanville Williams, who said: [...] See Glanville Williams, Criminal Law -- The General Part (2nd ed. 1961), at p. 710.
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O'Grady v. Sparling - [1960] SCR 804 - 1960-10-04
Supreme Court JudgmentsConstitutional law
This difference has been recognized and emphasized in the recent writings of Glanville Williams on Criminal Law, para. 28, p. 82, and by J. W. C. Turner in the 17th edition of Kenny's Outlines of Criminal Law. I adopt as part of my reasons Turner's statement of the difference to be found at p. 34 of Kenny: [...] At page 82 of his work Glanville Williams says: Responsibility for some crimes may be incurred by the mere neglect to exercise due caution, where the mind is not actively but negatively or passively at fault. [...] To use the terminology of Glanville 'Williams, Parliament has enacted that "advertent negligence" in the operation of a motor vehicle is a crime.
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Dube v. Labar - [1986] 1 SCR 649 - 1986-05-01
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Torts
Williams, Glanville L. Joint Torts and Contributory Negligence, London, Stevens & Sons, 1951. [...] Glanville Williams wrote in Joint Torts and Contributory Negligence (1951), at pp. 307‑08, that [...] Thus, it is of great importance to keep the two defences distinct (see Salmond and Heuston on the Law of Torts (18th ed. 1981), at pp. 472‑73, Glanville Williams, supra, at p. 308).
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R. v. Robertson - [1987] 1 SCR 918 - 1987-06-04
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Evidence
Williams, Glanville. Criminal Law: The General Part, 2nd ed. London: Stevens & Sons Ltd., 1961. [...] (Glanville Williams, Criminal Law, The General Part, at p. 141). (Emphasis added.) [...] Glanville Williams, supra, at pp. 909‑10, expresses his view that the defence of mistake of fact means that the accused has an evidentiary burden but not a persuasive burden.
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The Queen (Can.) v. Saskatchewan Wheat Pool - [1983] 1 SCR 205 - 1983-02-08
Supreme Court JudgmentsTorts
Writing in 1960 Glanville Williams stated that: The present position of penal legislation in the civil law ... may be oversimplified into two generalisations. [...] Glanville Williams is now of the opinion that the "irresolute course" of the judicial decisions "reflect no credit on our jurisprudence" and, with respect, I agree. [...] Glanville Williams is of the opinion, with which I am in agreement, that where there is no duty of care at common law, breach of non-industrial penal legislation should not affect civil liability unless the statute provides for it.
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Pappajohn v. The Queen - [1980] 2 SCR 120 - 1980-05-20
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
(Glanville Williams, Criminal Law, The General Part, at p. 141). (Emphasis added.) [...] Glanville Williams notes [Page 149] (Criminal Law, The General Part, p. 173, para. 65): [...] is to be found in the scholarly writings: Glanville Williams (Criminal Law, The General Part, para. 70, at p. 201): "The idea that a mistake, to be a defence, must be reasonable, though lurking in some of the cases, is certainly not true as a general proposition"; Glanville Williams, Textbook of Criminal Law, at p. 100;
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R. v. Lifchus - [1997] 3 SCR 320 - 1997-09-18
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
William Lifchus Respondent Indexed as: R. v. Lifchus File No.: 25404. [...] Williams, Glanville. Criminal Law: The General Part, 2nd ed. London: Stevens & Sons Ltd., 1961. [...] Williams, Glanville. Textbook of Criminal Law, 2nd ed. London: Stevens & Sons Ltd., 1983.
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R. v. Jorgensen - [1995] 4 SCR 55 - 1995-11-16
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Williams, Glanville. Criminal Law: The General Part, 2nd ed. London: Stevens & Sons, 1961. [...] Cartwright J., at p. 652, cited with approval a statement from Glanville Williams: [...] In his book on Criminal Law (1953) at pages 131 and 133, Mr. Glanville Williams says:__
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R. v. Maybin - 2012 SCC 24 - [2012] 2 SCR 30 - 2012-05-18
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Williams, Glanville. “Finis for Novus Actus?” (1989), 48 Cambridge L.J. 391. [...] Williams, Glanville. Textbook of Criminal Law, 2nd ed. London: Stevens & Sons, 1983. [...] Glanville Williams argues that while people are subject to the “causes” of nature, they have control over their actions and a voluntary act starts a new chain of causation, regardless of what has happened before.
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Sansregret v. The Queen - [1985] 1 SCR 570 - 1985-05-09
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Williams, Glanville. Criminal Law: The General Part, 2nd ed., London, Stevens & Sons Ltd., 1961. [...] The textwriters have also dealt with the subject, particularly Glanville Williams (Criminal Law: The General Part, 2nd ed., 1961, at pp. 157‑160). [...] Glanville Williams, however, warns that the rule of deliberate blindness has its dangers and is of narrow application.
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The Queen v. Rees - [1956] SCR 640 - 1956-06-11
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Professor Glanville Williams in his treatise on "Criminal Law" sums up the jurisprudence on the matter as follows:— [...] As stated by Professor Glanville Williams in his Criminal Law at p.131:— [...] In his book on Criminal Law (1953) at pages 131 and 133, Mr. Glanville Williams says:—
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Morgentaler v. The Queen - [1976] 1 SCR 616 - 1975-03-26
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Glanville Williams, op. cit., at p. 178 and in R. v. Newton and Stungo[11]). [...] In his review of the authorities, Williams asserts that in most of them that have recognized the defence the act was done to preserve life. [...] Glanville Williams expresses "grave doubt" that a suicide threat by a mother, and of course there was no such threat by the mother in this case, would in itself be sufficient to legalize an induced abortion: The Law of Abortion, supra, at p. 133.
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R. v. Chartrand - [1994] 2 SCR 864 - 1994-07-14
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Williams, Glanville. Criminal Law: The General Part, 2nd ed. London: Stevens & Sons Ltd., 1961. [...] Williams, Glanville. "Intents in the Alternative" (1991), 50 Cambridge L.J. 120. [...] Williams, Glanville. Textbook of Criminal Law, 2nd ed. London: Stevens & Sons, 1983.
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R. v. Stevens - [1988] 1 SCR 1153 - 1988-06-30
Supreme Court JudgmentsConstitutional law
Criminal law
Williams, Glanville Llewelyn. Criminal Law: The General Part, 2nd ed. [...] This truth is recognized by Glanville Williams, in Criminal Law, 2nd ed. [...] It is worth noting that immediately after this passage Professor Glanville Williams continues: "But...to maintain the prohibition involves punishing the unlucky ones who turn out to be wrong, while letting free those who happen to be right, and this offends the sense of justice".
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Libman v. The Queen - [1985] 2 SCR 178 - 1985-10-10
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Williams, Glanville. "Venue and the Ambit of Criminal Law" (1965), 81 L.Q.R. 276, 276‑288, 395‑421, 518‑538. [...] This approach was also encouraged by the views of a respected academic, Professor Glanville Williams; see "Venue and the Ambit of Criminal Law" (1965), 81 L.Q.R. 276, 276‑288, 395‑421, 518 et seq. [...] This seems more prevalent in England, at least in the eyes of some academics; see, for example, Glanville Williams, supra.
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Frame v. Smith - [1987] 2 SCR 99 - 1987-09-17
Supreme Court JudgmentsAction
Family law
Williams, Glanville. "The Foundations of Tortious Liability" (1939), 7 Cambridge Law J. 111. [...] Glanville Williams is now of the opinion that the "irresolute course" of the judicial decisions "reflect no credit on our jurisprudence" and, with respect, I agree. [...] Glanville Williams suggested a compromise between the two viewpoints.
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Droste v. R. - [1984] 1 SCR 208 - 1984-04-02
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
I am also of the view that this approach is consistent with the doctrine of transferred malice as outlined in Glanville Williams; The Criminal Law, the General part 2nd Edition, pages 125 to 137. [...] Professor Glanville Williams Criminal Law, The General Part (2nd ed.), at p. 126, describes the operation of this concept as follows: [...] Williams regards the doctrine of transferred malice as a “rather arbitrary exception to normal principles”.
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R. v. Schwartz - [1988] 2 SCR 443 - 1988-12-08
Supreme Court JudgmentsConstitutional law
Courts
Criminal law
Williams, Glanville Llewelyn. The Proof of Guilt, 3rd ed. London: Stevens & Sons, 1963. [...] (Glanville Williams, The Proof of Guilt (3rd ed. 1963), pp. 184‑85). [...] Reference was made to a passage from pp. 184‑85, Glanville Williams, The Proof of Guilt (3rd ed. 1963), in support of the argument against making exceptions to the principle that the Crown bear the onus of proof.
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Moore v. The Queen - [1979] 1 SCR 195 - 1978-10-17
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
The point under discussion is dealt with at some length by Dr. Glanville Williams in an article entitled “Demanding Name and Address” appearing in (1950), 66 Law Quarterly Review, at p. 465. [...] Dr. Williams refers to the case of Hatton v. Treeby[4] as an illustration of this principle. [...] The “reciprocal duty” argument advanced by the Crown in this case was considered by Dr. Glanville Williams in the article to which I have referred.
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Canadian Dredge & Dock Co. v. The Queen - [1985] 1 SCR 662 - 1985-05-23
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Williams, Glanville. Textbook of Criminal Law, London, Stevens & Sons, 1978. [...] Williams, Glanville. Textbook of Criminal Law, 2nd ed., London, Stevens & Sons, 1983. [...] Glanville Williams, in Textbook of Criminal Law (1978), states, at p. 947:
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R. v. Briscoe - 2010 SCC 13 - [2010] 1 SCR 411 - 2010-04-08
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Williams, Glanville. Criminal Law: The General Part, 2nd ed. London: Stevens & Sons, 1961. [...] Glanville Williams explains the key restriction on the doctrine: The rule that wilful blindness is equivalent to knowledge is essential, and is found throughout the criminal law.
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R. v. Bernard - [1988] 2 SCR 833 - 1988-12-15
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Evidence
Williams, Glanville Llewelyn. Textbook of Criminal Law, 2nd ed. London: Stevens & Sons, 1983. [...] The test is not whether a reasonable and sober person would have made the same mistake but whether the accused would have made the same mistake if he had been sober; see Glanville Williams, Textbook on Criminal Law, 2nd ed. [...] (Assuming this is at all possible in a rape case, see Glanville L. Williams, The Mental Element in Crime (1965), p. 47.)
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Smith et al. v. McInnis et al. - [1978] 2 SCR 1357 - 1978-03-07
Supreme Court JudgmentsProfessional law
Alexander D. McInnis, William F. Meehan and T. Daniel Tramble, a partnership under the name of Mclnnis, Meehan & Tramble (Defendants) Respondents. [...] In Joint Torts and Contributory Negligence, (p. 328) Glanville Williams, submits “that at common law the defence of contributory negligence applied in substance (whatever the precise language used) to actions in contract as well as to actions in tort (para. 59)”. [...] In the same book, Glanville Williams expresses the opinion that the Law Reform (Contributory Negligence) Act, 1945 (U.K.), is applicable to liability in contract as well as in tort.
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R. v. Tutton - [1989] 1 SCR 1392 - 1989-06-08
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Williams, Glanville. Criminal Law: The General Part, 2nd ed. London: Stevens & Sons, 1961. [...] This difference has been recognized and emphasized in the recent writings of Glanville Williams on Criminal Law, para. 28, p. 82, and by J. W. C. Turner in the 17th edition of Kenny's Outlines of Criminal Law. I adopt as part of my reasons Turner's statement of the difference to be found at p. 34 of Kenny: [...] Professor Glanville Williams in his work Criminal Law: The General Part (2nd ed. 1961) explained the minimal nature of the mental element for advertent negligence and the important evidentiary use of objective standards in determining the subjective state of mind of what he terms advertent negligence.
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R. v. Levkovic - 2013 SCC 25 - [2013] 2 SCR 204 - 2013-05-03
Supreme Court JudgmentsConstitutional law
Criminal law
Williams, Glanville. Criminal Law: The General Part, 2nd ed. London: Stevens & Sons, 1961. [...] As Glanville Williams explained in Criminal Law: The General Part (2nd ed. 1961), at pp. 575-76 (cited in D. Stuart, Canadian Criminal Law: A Treatise (6th ed. 2011), at pp. 20-21):