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said that ‘the policeman’s lot is not a happy one’; of late, the policeman’s lot,
in my view, is becoming unhappier and more dangerous all the time.”
Stacey F. Robertson was appointed as a member and the chair of the Financial
Services Tribunal for a term ending December 13, 2024.
In Miller v. Miller, A-37-98 (1999), the Supreme Court of New Jersey
observed that the “plaintiff’s sophisticated investment skills are to him what
Luciano Pavarotti’s voice is to him: the ‘asset’ that is capable of earning a significant
amount of money.”
Gilbert and Sullivan’s Utopia Limited concerns a distant kingdom whose
leader (with a daughter just back from Cambridge University) is convinced
that he should “go down in posterity renowned / As the First Sovereign in
Christendom / Who registered his Crown and Country under / The Joint
Stock Company’s Act of Sixty-Two”. The kingdom goes as far as “applying
the Limited Liability principle to individuals, and every man, woman, and
child is now a Company Limited with liability restricted to the amount of
his declared Capital! There is not a christened baby in Utopia who has not
already issued his little Prospectus!”
James P. Carwana and Diana Valiela were appointed as members of the
Environmental Appeal Board, the Forest Appeals Commission and the Oil
and Gas Appeal Tribunal for terms of two years. Daphne E. Stancil and
Robert V. Wickett, Q.C., were reappointed to these boards for terms ending
December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively.
One critic of the concept of a “unilateral contract” has noted that “nobody
would call a monologue a unilateral conversation; or a soprano solo a unilateral
duet; or a lecture a unilateral debate. … In other words, a promise is
always unilateral, and a contract is always bilateral – at least”: John S. Ewart,
“Anson on Contract” (1920) 40 Can LT 86 at 87, as quoted in Saskenergy Incorporated
v. ADAG Corporation Canada Ltd., 2019 SKQB 263 at para. 23.
The Moulin Rouge and the Folies Bergère adopted the music from “Galop
Infernal” in the opera Orpheus in the Underworld to accompany the can-can.
“That the Chicago Cubs turn out to be the doormat of the National League
would not entitle the season ticket holder to a refund for the remaining
games, any more than the star tenor’s laryngitis entitles the opera goer to a
refund when the understudy takes over the role”: Seko Air Freight, Inc. v.
Transworld Systems, Inc., 22 F.3d 773 (7th Cir. 1994).