Developments in Aboriginal Law: The 2011-2012 Term – Charter Rights, Constitutional Rights, Taxation and Sentencing

• Main Authors: MacIntosh, Constance, Angrove, Gillian
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Schulich Law Scholars 2012
• Subjects: Supreme Court of Canada; Aboriginal Law Judgements; Lax Kw'alaams Indian Band v Canada (Attorney General); Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms; Alberta (Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development) v Cunningham; Bastien Estate v Canada; Dube v Canada; R v Ipeelee; R v Ladue; Courts; Indigenous; Indian; and Aboriginal Law; Jurisprudence; Law; Canada; Lax Kw'alaams; Metis
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.schulichlaw.dal.ca/scholarly_works/1572; https://dal.novanet.ca/permalink/01NOVA_DAL/1nek75v/alma990014117400107190

This year the Supreme Court of Canada released reasons for six major Aboriginal Law cases. In Lax Kw'allams Indian Band v Canada (Attorney General), the Court considered an application for a declaration that a First Nation possessed a constitutionally protected right under section 35(1) of the...