If no one hears from me again, tell my wife I love her...

[Barrister]

So I'm stuck in the crappiest hotel ever in Ross River, Yukon.

There's a forecast overnight low of -18C.  The heater is blasting out cold air.

There's a rangetop that I've cranked up to try and generate some heat, but I'm already covering myself with one blanket, and it's only 6pm.

If I freeze to death overnight, I'll miss you guys, and someone should call my wife up and tell her I lover her.

[Jaron]

If she asks why you were in a motel in the middle of no where, we'll know what to say:

The man had a hooker obsession.

[Barrister]

On the plus side, when I stayed here a year ago they didn't have wireless internet.

So now I can give you all a blow-by-blow account of my freezing my nuts off.

[Viking]

Are you arguing a case with a town hall of indians as a jury?

[Neil]

How is it legal for them to rent you a room with no heat in the Yukon?

[Caliga]

I bet you wish you were in Kentucky right now.  5C 

[Eddie Teach]

The man had a hooker obsession.

That'd be Ed.






The man loves his civil war hijacks.

[Barrister]

How is it legal for them to rent you a room with no heat in the Yukon?

As a colleague of mine likes to say,

"if it aint second rate, it aint northern".

I just hoping they got rid of the bedbugs here.

[Neil]

No heat in the north goes beyond second-rate.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Man Our government goes all out for it's people. :p Hope you survive, it'd be sad if your wife had to hear about your freezing to death from his "special internet friends".



:p

[Barrister]

No heat in the north goes beyond second-rate.

Well the temperature in the room itself is above freezing.  The cold air starts blasting if I turn the thermostat above 10C or so.  I figure I'm leeching heat from the neighboring rooms.

Thankfully I brought 2 sleeping bags, knowing this hotel's reputation (under previous owners) for crap.

[stjaba]

Random question, since you seem to be bored: Do Canadian casebooks(or courts, for that matter) ever cite American cases? Thediscussion of Carbolic Smoke Ball got me wondering if I had read any Canadian cases, and I think the answer is no. But just now I saw a reference to British Columbia Saw Mill Co v. Nettleship, which I assume mostly likely fell under Canadian jurisdiction. But it was just a two line quote, so I had minimal exposure to the wisdom of Canadian jurisprudence.

[Barrister]

Random question, since you seem to be bored: Do Canadian casebooks(or courts, for that matter) ever cite American cases? Thediscussion of Carbolic Smoke Ball got me wondering if I had read any Canadian cases, and I think the answer is no. But just now I saw a reference to British Columbia Saw Mill Co v. Nettleship, which I assume mostly likely fell under Canadian jurisdiction. But it was just a two line quote, so I had minimal exposure to the wisdom of Canadian jurisprudence.

Yes they do.  But nowhere near as often as they do British caselaw.

The source of our common law was the English common law.  In, say, Alberta, when it became a province in 1905 it simply adopted the entirity of the English common law up to that point.  Plus, appeals to the Privy Counsel were only abolished in the 1930s or so.  So a lot of that older caselaw continues to be binding authority in Canada.

US caselaw though is somewhat different.  The historic stuff is of no value whatsoever.  However as new legal issues have developed, the courts have looked to US precedents.  That is - new issues that haven't been considered by any court before.  The US decision is not binding of course, but can be highly instructive.  The one case that comes to mind is Daubert v Dow dealing with the admissibility of expert evidence - it has been adopted into Canadian jurisprudence.

[Viking]

Random question, since you seem to be bored: Do Canadian casebooks(or courts, for that matter) ever cite American cases? Thediscussion of Carbolic Smoke Ball got me wondering if I had read any Canadian cases, and I think the answer is no. But just now I saw a reference to British Columbia Saw Mill Co v. Nettleship, which I assume mostly likely fell under Canadian jurisdiction. But it was just a two line quote, so I had minimal exposure to the wisdom of Canadian jurisprudence.

More importantly, do they cite other commonwealth cases (as opposed to merely british cases).

[derspiess]

Wow, and I was pissed because of the crappy left speaker in my TV here at the Courtyard in NJ