The Mystery of Privity: Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada v Robinson (1915)

This article examines a little known decision of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council: Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada v Robinson (1915). The examination is historical and it provides a different insight into the understanding of privity of contract, a doctrine central to contract law. The examination reveals a process of trans-Atlantic legal migration in which English law was applied to resolve an Ontario case. The nature of the resolution is surprising because it appears to conflict with the better known decision of the House of Lords, Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company, Limited v Selfridge and Company, Limited, which a similarly constituted panel delivered in the same week. This article argues that there was a greater malleability in the resolution of cases concerned with privity than was thought to have existed. It is also argued that the power of Canadian railway capitalism is a significant factor in understanding the legal resolution of the case. Finally, it the article considers the use of English and American precedents relevant to the case. The application of English precedents to the case led to a resolution not entirely befitting Canadian conditions.

ECLAC Development of official statistics in the region. Report of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean on the development of official statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean

This document was prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC); and offers a description of the main trends in the development of official statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean and the principal challenges in that regard.The first chapter provides an analysis of the state of development of statistical production in the region, based on statistical information for 41 Latin American and Caribbean countries and eight specific areas. The institutional organization of national statistical systems in the region is also described. Chapter II examines the history and current status of mechanisms for regional and subregional coordination and of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC. Chapter III describes the main challenges for official statistics in the countries of the region and the strategies that the Statistical Conference of the Americas and ECLAC propose to implement in order to address them.

Report on the activities of the Commission since April 2000

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Report on the activities of the Commission since May 2002

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Report of the Thirtieth Session of the Commission

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Report of the activities of the Commission from June 2004 to December 2005

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Report of the Thirty-First Session of the Commission

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Report of the activities of the Commission from January 2006 to December 2007

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Report of the Thirty-Second Session of the Commission

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Programa de trabajo y orden de prelación: informe del Secretario Ejecutivo a la Comisión Económica para América Latina en su cuarto período de sesiones sobre la marcha de los trabajos = Work programme and priorities: Progress Report by the Executive Secretary to the Fourth Session of the Economic Commission for Latin America = Programme du travail et ordre des prioritats: Rapport soumis par le Secretaire Executif a la cuatrieme session de la Commission Economique pour l'Amerique Latine sur l'etat d'avancement des travaux

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