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The author, a judge, describes his legal problems after publishing his controversial book "Bad medicine", challenging the government's decision to subsequentially re-assign him.

• Introduction
• Fundamental principles
• Stay issues
• Appeal issues
• Transitional issues.

• Overview
• The core duties of an estate representative
• The tasks of an estate representative
• Communication
• Getting started: initial problems encountered in administering an estate.

• Introduction
• Partial stays
• Public interest requirement for leave to appeal
• The appeal barrier of Section 44(3)
• Appeals policy.

• Principles and objectives
• Core appeal process
• Leave to appeal
• Interim relief pending appeal
• Court assistance
• Summary: recommended procedures
• Appendixes: Criminal appeal rights and courts; Criminal rules of Canadian provinces and territories; Sentence appeal questionnaire.

• Introduction and history of the joint ventures project
• Should the law recognize a joint venture as a legal relationship among the joint venturers that is not a partnership?
• Relationship of non-partnership joint venturers to third parties.

• Posthumously conceived children
• The current law in Alberta
• Law and policy in other jurisdictions
• Options for reform.

This report discusses the position of posthumously conceived children under the law of succession in Alberta and outlines some possible options for reform. It is unlikely that parentage can be established for posthumously conceived children under Alberta's Family Law Act, and therefore the link for inheritance purposes is missing. Even if parentage could be established, the fact that reproduction occurs sometime after the death of one of the parents brings in other factors affecting whether and how inheritance rights on intestacy might be created. These issues include: the orderly administration of estates; the interests of other intestate heirs; the best interests of the child. The decision whether or not to grant inheritance rights requires placing some values ahead of others. There is also an ongoing concern that the deceased had consented, while alive, to parentage and inheritance rights operating after their death. Similar issues arise with respect to wills, although it may be possible for a testator to make a gift to a posthumously conceived child if the drafting is carefully carried out. The provisions of the Wills and Succession Act, rules relating to perpetuities and class closing, necessitate very careful wording of any gift to a posthumously conceived child. Report for Discussion 23 seeks to explain the issues and suggests possible options for how the law should respond.

• Introduction
• Comparison of the present and previous law of Alberta
• Should lack of "uniqueness" continue to be a bar to a grant of specific performance?
• Protection of purchasers' rights
• Conclusion and draft legislation.

• Introduction
• Testamentary capacity of minors
• Statutory wills for persons without testamentory capacity
• Oral wills and electronic wills
• Exempt wills
• Holograph wills
• Will formalities
• Witnesses to a will.

• Introduction
• Background
• The Uniform Acts
• Adapting the Uniform Acts for Alberta
• Other suggested improvements to the Uniform Acts
• Consequential amendments to Alberta Statutes
• Recommendations
• Appendix A: Uniform Enforcement of Canadian Judgments and Decrees Act
• Appendix B: Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act
• Appendix C: Uniform Court Jurisdiction and Proceedings Transfer Act.