From:                                         Matthew Hoyle <MHoyle@oeclaw.co.uk>

Sent:                                           Friday 4 October 2024 13:48

To:                                               Mitchell McInnes; obligations@uwo.ca

Subject:                                     Re:

 

To me that appears to be a repudiation not only of the entire doctrine of precedent and stare decisis, but of the entire judicial method. 

 

I cannot fathom how a judge in any legal tradition could say that. 

 

Matthew Hoyle

Barrister

One Essex Court

 

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From: Mitchell McInnes <mmcinnes@ualberta.ca>
Sent: Friday, October 4, 2024 1:41:15 PM
To: obligations@uwo.ca <obligations@uwo.ca>
Subject:

 

Steven Elliott wrote: "The CJ’s comment cannot have been made with private law in mind."

 

That's what I thought when I initially heard about the story. But it turns out that the Chief Justice did have private law in mind. He is quoted in one of Canada's newspapers as saying: 

 

"The judicial landscape has changed completely, and a decision five years old is often, in commercial or civil matters, already a very old decision. To make a long story short, I am simply telling you that the legal interest in these historical decisions is very minimal" 

 

Mitchell

 

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Mitchell McInnes

Faculty of Law

University of Alberta

Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2H5

 

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