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Bertha Wilson Fonds (R15636) Finding Aid No MSS2578 MIKAN Date: 21/06/2017 Bertha Wilson fonds (R15636) Page 1 Finding aid no MSS2578 Y:\App\Impromptu\Mikan\Reports\Description_reports\finding_aids_&_subcontainers_simplelist.im MIKAN Container File/Item Cr. file/item Hierarchy Title, etc Date of/de Extent/Media/Dim/Access cde # Contenant Dos./pièce Dos./item cr. Hiérarchie Titre, etc création Support ou Média / Dim. / Accès 4938705 Series Osler, Hoskin and Harcourt [textual record, graphic material] 1965-1972 4939542 1 1 File Ontario Law Reform Commission Report No. 1 1965 Textual records / 90 4939543 1 2 File Osgoode Hall Law School - Conference on Company Law 1965 Textual records / 90 4939544 1 3 File Portraits of Bertha Wilson n.d Graphic (photo) / 90 4939545 1 4 File York Un ive rsity Estate Planning Seminars 17-18 Textual records / 90 November 1972 4938706 Series Supreme Court of Ontario [textual record] 1962-1982 4938708 Sub-series Administrative and operational files [textual record] 1962-1982 4939546 1 5 File Abortion 1976 Textual records / 90 4939547 1 6 File Appeal Court Seminar 1980 1980 Textual records / 90 4939548 1 7 File Apellate Judges' Seminar, "Role of a Provincial Appellate Court" 1980 Textual records / 90 4939549 1 8 File Arnup, Justice John D., "The Writing of Judgments" n.d Textual records / 90 4939550 1 9 File Articles on Trusts [1975-1981] Textual records / 90 4939550 1 10 File Articles on Trusts [1975-1981] Textual records / 90 4939551 1 11 File Articles on Trusts in the Conflict of Laws [1975-1981] Textual records / 90 4939551 1 12 File Articles on Trusts in the Conflict of Laws [1975-1981] Textual records / 90 4939552 1 13 File Background Material - Elective Surgery 1962-1980 Textual records / 90 4939553 1 14 File Background Material for Use at Wiretapping Seminar 1977 Textual records / 90 4939554 2 1 File Canadian Judicial Council - Appeal Court Seminar [1975-1980] Textual records / 90 4939555 2 2 File Canadian Judicial Council - Appeal Court Seminar The Mental 1980 Textual records / 90 Element 4939556 2 3 File Character Evidence in a Criminal Trial n.d Textual records / 90 4939557 2 4 File Comments on the Occupier's Liability Act October 1980 Textual records / 90 4939558 2 5 File Conspiracy to Defraud 1977 Textual records / 90 4939559 2 6 File Consumer Class Actions in Canada - Some Proposals for Reform 1975 Textual records / 90 4939560 2 7 File Continuing Education 25 May 1978 Textual records / 90 4939561 2 8 File Correspondence 1976-1978 Textual records / 90 4939562 2 9 File Damage Assessments in Personal Injury Cases 1981 Textual records / 90 Page 1 Date: 21/06/2017 Bertha Wilson fonds (R15636) Page 2 Finding aid no MSS2578 Y:\App\Impromptu\Mikan\Reports\Description_reports\finding_aids_&_subcontainers_simplelist.im MIKAN Container File/Item Cr. file/item Hierarchy Title, etc Date of/de Extent/Media/Dim/Access cde # Contenant Dos./pièce Dos./item cr. Hiérarchie Titre, etc création Support ou Média / Dim. / Accès 4939563 2 10 File Economic Guidelines in Family Law 1980 Textual records / 90 4939564 2 11 File Economic Loss 1980 Textual records / 90 4939565 2 12 File Family Law - Continuing Education Program 1980 Textual records / 90 4939566 2 13 File Forensic Service of the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry 1977 Textual records / 90 4939567 2 14 File Insanity and the Criminal Trial Process 7 December Textual records / 90 1977 4939568 2 15 File Insanity as a Defence - The McNaghten Rules 1976 Textual records / 10 4939569 2 16 File Interlocutory Injunctions 1982 Textual records / 90 4939570 2 17 File Judicial Ethics 1977 Textual records / 90 4939571 2 18 File Judicial Writing Program 1976 Textual records / 90 4939572 3 1 File Kelly Committee, "Administration of Appellate Courts" 1977 Textual records / 90 4939573 3 2 File Law Society of Upper Canada, "Current Problems in the Law of 1975 Textual records / 90 Contracts" 4939574 3 3 File Law Society of Upper Canada, "Medicine and the Law" January 1977 Textual records / 90 4939575 3 4 File Law Society of Upper Canada, "Professional Liability: Architects and [1975-1981] Textual records / 90 Engineers" Materials 4939575 3 5 File Law Society of Upper Canada, "Professional Liability: Architects and [1975-1981] Textual records / 90 Engineers" Materials 4939576 3 6 File Materials on Included Offences 2 February Textual records / 90 1978 4939577 3 7 File Memoranda 1968-1981 Textual records / 90 4939577 3 8 File Memoranda 1968-1981 Textual records / 90 4939578 3 9 File Notes from a Talk Given to the Honourable Justices of the Supreme 19 March Textual records / 90 Court of Ontario 1981 4939579 3 10 File Ontario Lieutenant Governor's Advisory Review Board May 1981 Textual records / 90 4939580 3 11 File Phillips, M.S., "Forensic Psychiatric Services in Canada: A Study of September Textual records / 90 Current Services and Trends" 1980 4939581 3 12 File Presentation of an Appeal to the Court of Appeal and to the n.d Textual records / 90 Supreme Court of Canada in a Criminal Case 4939582 3 13 File Press Clippings - Supreme Court of Ontario 1978-1980 Textual records / 90 Page 2 Date: 21/06/2017 Bertha Wilson fonds (R15636) Page 3 Finding aid no MSS2578 Y:\App\Impromptu\Mikan\Reports\Description_reports\finding_aids_&_subcontainers_simplelist.im MIKAN Container File/Item Cr. file/item Hierarchy Title, etc Date of/de Extent/Media/Dim/Access cde # Contenant Dos./pièce Dos./item cr. 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Marlene Moore (17562) (Crim.) (Ont.) 17 May 1983 Textual records / 10 4939614 6 16 File Engineered Homes Ltd.
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