Western Journal of Legal Studies

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In working to promote legal scholarship in Canada, the WJLS provides opportunities for law students at Western to engage in the critical assessment, editorial preparation and final publication of academic essays on pressing legal topics. The editors welcome high-quality submissions from students, lawyers and professional ...

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Taking Proportionality Seriously: A Countercultural Approach

Proportionality was introduced into Ontario’s Rules of Civil Procedure in 2008. A plain reading of Rules 1.04(1) and (1.1) is the ‘traditional’ interpretation of proportionality: that proportionality is merely the means of furthering efficiency and e...

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Gendered Credibility on Trial

This article provides a comprehensive historical account of the doctrine of recent complaint, an evidence law principle which expressly disadvantages sexual assault survivors if they do not disclose their assault at the first reasonable opportunity....