Publications
Debt Collection Practices, Final Report 42
This report sets out a rules of conduct which will provide a firm and ascertainable legal basis for the conduct of private debt collection agencies and the debt collectors, and rules of conduct which should apply to everyone including collection agencies but also including creditors who collect their own debts. Proposed standards of conduct include prohibitions and obligations stated in simple and intelligible language so it will provide and efficient method of enforcement of the […]
AREA OF LAW | Corporate and Commercial Procedure Property |
TAGS | agency, agent, collection, Collection Practices Act, creditor, debt, debtor |
FORMAT | Publications |
FILE | fr042.pdf |
ENACTMENT |
See generally, Civil Enforcement Act, SA 1994, c C-10.5 (now RSA 2000, c C-15). |
June 1, 1984
Service of Documents During Postal Interruptions, Final Report 34
Some statutes or statutory instruments provide for the service of a document by mail. This report addresses the issue of whether or not this purported service by mail is effective in the event of a mail strike. This report recommends that a provincial statute be enacted that will invalidate service by mail when the mail service is not in operation. In such a case the statute should allow a person to effect service personally or […]
AREA OF LAW | Procedure |
TAGS | acceptance, contract, document, mail, notice, offer, postal, Service, strike |
FORMAT | Publications |
FILE | fr034.pdf |
ENACTMENT |
The Service of Documents During Postal Interruptions Act, SA 1980, c 88 (now Judicature Act, RSA 2000, c J-2, ss 43-47). |
June 1, 1979
Statute of Frauds and Related Legislation, Research Paper 12
This report examines the provisions of the Statue of Frauds and the Guarantees Acknowledgment Act, an Alberta statute. Where the provisions of these Acts are still useful, the report recommends that it be retained and reformed, where they are not useful that they be abolished. The Statue of Frauds was enacted by the English Parliament in 1677 to prevent false claims being accepted by the courts by requiring that a number of kinds of contracts and dispositions of interest in […]
AREA OF LAW | Administration of Justice Corporate and Commercial Procedure Property Real Property |
TAGS | contract, evidence, goods, guarantee, Land, Property, real, sale, Statute of Frauds |
FORMAT | Publications |
FILE | RPNo.12.pdf |
March 4, 1979
Judicial Notice
AREA OF LAW | Administration of Justice Courts Procedure |
TAGS | |
FORMAT | Publications |
FILE | urp-78_11-Judicial-Notice_Flanz.pdf |
January 11, 1978
Credibility of Witnesses: Reputation for Veracity
AREA OF LAW | Administration of Justice Court Rules & Procedure Courts Procedure |
TAGS | |
FORMAT | Publications |
FILE | urp-78_6-Cred-of-Witnesses_Shone.pdf |
January 6, 1978
Exemption of Income and Assets From Garnishment and Execution
AREA OF LAW | Administration of Justice Corporate and Commercial Procedure |
TAGS | |
FORMAT | Publications |
FILE | urp-76_6-Exemption-from-Garnishment_Dunlop.pdf |
January 6, 1976
Representation of the Infant in Legal Proceedings – Who Speaks for the Child?
AREA OF LAW | Children Constitutional and Public Law Family Law Procedure |
TAGS | |
FORMAT | Publications |
FILE | urp-76_2-Who-Speaks-for-the-Child_McKeown.pdf |
January 2, 1976
Consent of Minors to Health Care
AREA OF LAW | Children Procedure |
TAGS | health, parent, consent, minor |
FORMAT | Publications |
FILE | urp-75_21-Consent-of-Minors_Bowker.pdf |
January 3, 1975
Validity of the Alberta Rules of Court, Final Report 15
Important parts of the Alberta Rules of Court may be more than the Rules of practice and procedure which the lieutenant-governor-in-council is not empowered to make. The Rules relating to garnishees and service ex juris are in some jeopardy. So are some Rules relating to costs, Rules relating to the jurisdiction of the court, and Rules relating to rights of appeal, and Rules imposing time limitations on substantive rights. Rules relating to evidence, including those […]
AREA OF LAW | Procedure |
TAGS | Appeal, Court, Evide, Limitation, Practice, Rule, Service, Substantive, Validity |
FORMAT | Publications |
FILE | fr015.pdf |
ENACTMENT |
The Attorney General Statutes Amendment Act, 1976 (No. 2), SA 1976, c 58, s 6(4) amending the Judicature Act (now RSA 2000, c J-2, s 63). |
January 2, 1975
Toward a Survival of Actions Act for Alberta
AREA OF LAW | Procedure |
TAGS | |
FORMAT | Publications |
FILE | urp-74_10-Survival-of-Actions_Esaw.pdf |
January 2, 1974