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55 Osgoode Hall L. J. 9 (2018)

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Special Issue

The CJPTA: A Decade of Progress


Judicial Jurisdiction in Canada: The

CJPTA-A Decade of Progress





JANET WALKER*


In 2016, the Court Jurisdiction and Proceedings Transfer Act (CJPTA) marked its tenth year
in force. Promulgated by the Uniform Law Conference of Canada, and adopted in British
Columbia, Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia, the CJPTA was developed to clarify and advance
the law of judicial jurisdiction. In a symposium hosted by Osgoode Hall Law School, ten
leading scholars were invited to present papers on specific questions in order to assess the
promise of the CJPTA to meet the needs of Canadians in the years ahead and to provide
leadership for the law in other parts of Canada. This article provides an overview of the
issues discussed in the symposium; it places the papers that were presented in the larger
context of developments in the law of judicial jurisdiction in Canada and internationally; and
it summarizes in an appendix the drafting reforms that might be made to the Act.




















    Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School. The author wishes to thank Professor Joost Blom for
    his astute and helpful comments on the draft of this paper.