What are the principles used in common law in Canada?
Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
The following excerpt is from Welcon (1976) Limited v. South River (Town), 2009 NLCA 59 (CanLII):
That those principles have been adopted as part of the common law in Canada was commented upon in Douglas J. Queen v. Cognos Incorporated, 1993 CanLII 146 (SCC), [1993] 1 S.C.R. 87. Iacobucci, J wrote:
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