The enactment of class proceedings legislation revolutionized civil procedure in Ontario by providing citizens with a mechanism that both increased access to justice and served as powerful deterrent against wrongdoing. Suzanne Chiodo’s book, Class Actions Controversy: Origins Development the Proceedings Act, provides an in-depth exploration history social political forces influenced it.

A well-worn French proverb pronounces ‘ tout comprendre c’est pardonner’ (‘to understand all is to forgive all’). Is forgiveness the inevitable consequence of social scientific understanding actions and lives perpetrators serious wrongdoing? Do explanations provide excuses or justifications for that purport explain? In this essay, I seek clarification these intertwined explanatory moral questio...

Contrary to the implied suggestion in many restorative justice critiques of the status quo, the chief strength of restorative justice interventions does not lie in their rejection of punitiveness and retribution, but the empowerment of communities of care who are the most likely to respond effectively to both the causes and the consequences of criminal wrongdoing. Thus, it is the empowerment of...

Although the law generally does not permit an individual to profit by his own wrongdoing, that equitable principle may be inapplicable in the case of an individual who has been adjudicated insane (and therefore has not committed a wrong in the eyes of the law). This paper discusses three unusual legacies of a determination of insanity: the inheritance cases (permitting the insane killer to inhe...

Just because a physician/practice is innocent of any wrongdoing does not mean that it won't be captured in a net of prosecution. Each practice must look at what it needs to do defensively to both avoid the possibility of prosecution and, if an indictment is handed down, proactively defend itself in a cost-effective and positive fashion without having to negotiate a settlement when no fraud has ...

Alasia Nuti’s recent book Injustice and the Reproduction of History: Structural Inequalities, Gender Redress puts forward a compelling vision contemporary duties to redress past wrongdoing, grounded in idea “historical-structural-injustice”, constituted by “structural reproduction an unjust history over time through changes”. Such approach promises transcend familiar scholarly divide between “b...