What is the effect of the chief offenders legislation of the past?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Grand Trunk Railway Co. v. Vogel, 1884 CanLII 14 (ON CA):
Then came the legislation of 1871, which in Scott v. Great Western R. Co., 23 C.P. 182, and in Allen v. Grand Trunk R., 33 U.C.R. 483, was soon discovered to be ineffectual as against the chief offenders; and the Act of 1875 was then passed expressly including them.
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