The SS Daisy Legal History Committee will have a display both at the upcoming Canadian Association of Provincial Court Judges convention. This booth will showcase the publications and prints the committee has available for purchase.
A Ferryland Merchant-Magistrate: The Journal and Cases of Robert Carter, Esq., J.P. Volume II 1841 - 1852 Where: The Regional Arts Centre Building, Ferryland When: Saturday, November 22, 2014 Time: 2:00pm - 4:00pm More information
Please join us online on Thursday, March 30 at 7:30 p.m. (7:00 p.m. ADT) for this month's NLHS lecture: The Mysterious Lambert de Boilieu by Robin McGrath Recollection of Labrador Life was first published in England in 1861 by Lambert de Boilieu, then reprinted with editing and notes by Thomas F. Bredin by Ryerson Press in...
The Law Society's SS Daisy Legal History Committee is launching the Women’s Legal History Project and celebrating the first woman admitted to the Bar, Louise M. Saunders, 90 years after her call. Louise M. Saunders was born in Greenspond, Bonavista Bay. She studied law under Sir Richard Squires, and in 1933, she became the province’s first...
The S.S. Daisy Legal History Committee is pleased to announce a special event to launch the 1949 Newfoundland Law Reports (17 Newfoundland Law Reports). The Newfoundland Law Reports currently span from 1817 to 1948. Cases from 1949 to 1971 were not formally published. Cases after 1971 were published by the Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island...
Join Us for a Dramatic Reading of Leviathan Unbound Location: LSPU Hall Admission: Free and open to the public The S.S. Daisy Legal History Committee invites you to a dramatic reading of Leviathan Unbound: Currie et al. v. Macdonald et al., a play by John Joy. This compelling work revisits a pivotal 1948 legal case...