People Principles Progress: The Alberta Court of Appeal’s First Century 1914-2014
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by David Mittelstadt
Spread over 10 Chapters, representing 10 eras of leadership, a reader will perhaps be surprised to see the remarkable consistency of the Court in asserting and protecting what Sir William Blackstone called the “outworks” of freedom, democracy and equal justice under the rule of law. The Court attempted to erect what James Madison called the “parchment barriers” to protect those things. At the same time, the Court was a Court of the people. It dealt with property disputes, tort claims, wills and estates, land law, employment law, criminal justice, and laws of family. In retrospect, some might say that the Court did not always get the balance right.
But this is a real Alberta story – a compilation of many narratives – about real people, who were imbued with and devoted to principles, and who, anonymously and unknown to most of their contemporaries and their descendants, contributed to progress in Alberta society.
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