The honour of the Crown and its fiduciary duties to Aboriginal peoples
By: J. Timothy S. McCabe
Publisher: LexisNexis
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Markham, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780433446149
Subjects: Indigenous peoples; Legal status, laws; Government relations; Native peoples; Autochtones; Droit; Relations avec l'État
Description: "The fundamental objective of the modern law concerning Aboriginal peoples in Canada is reconciliation. Recent jurisprudence of the Supreme Court of Canada has identified the honour of the Crown and its fiduciary duties as legal concepts at the heart of the reconciliation imperative. The Court has held that the honour of the Crown is "a core precept that finds its application in concrete practices" and that "where the Crown has assumed discretionary control over specific Aboriginal interests, the honour of the Crown gives rise to a fiduciary duty."

The Honour of the Crown and its Fiduciary Duties to Aboriginal Peoples is the first and only book to comprehensively present these central doctrines of Aboriginal law. It seeks to systematically order and organize the law as it has been articulated by the Supreme Court and further shaped by other courts, thereby clarifying the interrelations characteristic of the doctrines and providing a sure grasp of their origins, scope and practical effects."--pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Origin and Antecedents; title: The Relation Between the Honour of the Crown and the Crown's Fiduciary Duties to Aboriginal Peoples [Native peoples, First Nations]; title: The Honour of the Crown and Aboriginal Peoples; title: The Fiduciary Duties of the Crown to Aboriginal Peoples; title: Section 91.24 of the Constitution Act, 1867, the Honour of the Crown, and its Fiduciary Duties to Aboriginal Peoples.