Report from Spain

Introduction The Spanish Constitution establishes in its Title X (articles 159 to 165) the Constitutional Court as a constitutional Body to which it confers the task of preserving the supremacy of the Fundamental Law by judicial proceedings[1]. Constitutional provisions have been developed by the Organic Law No. 2/1979. This legal text has been modified 5 […]

Judgments in Canadian Western Bank and Lafarge Canada

The SCC has released two important decisions dealing with federalism and the division of powers: they discuss the scope of the interjurisdictional immunity doctrine and the use of the federal paramountcy doctrine. In Canadian Western Bank, et. al v. Her Majesty The Queen in Right of Alberta, the appellant banks challenged changes made to the […]