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- Obligations & Contracts37 lessons · 11 h 29 min
  1. Obligations and Contracts: Series Overview
    Up next22 minStep 1
  2. Introduction to the Law of Obligations
    22 minStep 2
  3. Core Rules of Contract Formation, Validity, and Effects
    27 minStep 3
  4. Other Sources of Obligations: Management of Business, Payment Not Due, and Unjustified Enrichment
    21 minStep 4
  5. Performance, Default, and Remedies for Non-Performance
    23 minStep 5
  6. Modalities of Obligations: Conditions, Terms, and Pluralities
    24 minStep 6
  7. Assignment, Subrogation, Novation, and Delegation of Obligations
    23 minStep 7
  8. Extinguishment of Obligations: Compensation, Confusion, Release, and Impossibility
    20 minStep 8
  9. Restitution of Performances: Principles, Modalities, and Third Parties
    20 minStep 9
  10. Sale and Consumer Protection: Cluster Overview
    22 minStep 10
  11. The General Law of Sale: Formation, Warranties, and Enforcement
    22 minStep 11
  12. Special Regimes of Sale: Instalment Sales and Residential Immovables
    21 minStep 12
  13. Exchange, Giving in Payment, and Alienation for Rent
    16 minStep 13
  14. Gifts in Quebec: Formation, Delivery and Revocation
    16 minStep 14
  15. Leases and Finance Leasing: Nature, Formation, and Distinctions
    20 minStep 15
  16. General Rules for All Leases
    22 minStep 16
  17. Residential Tenancy Rules
    18 minStep 17
  18. Securities and Remedies Related to Leases
    18 minStep 18
  19. Remedies for Non-Performance of Lease Obligations
    19 minStep 19
  20. The Administrative Housing Tribunal
    18 minStep 20
  21. Employment Contracts: the Civil Framework
    16 minStep 21
  22. Enterprise and Service Contracts: Performance and Price
    16 minStep 22
  23. Terminating Enterprise and Service Contracts
    16 minStep 23
  24. Construction Contracts: Acceptance, Payment and Warranties
    16 minStep 24
  25. Subcontracting: Payment and Liability in the Contractual Chain
    17 minStep 25
  26. Mandate: Formation, Powers, and Duties
    16 minStep 26
  27. Mandate, Third Persons, and Apparent Authority
    16 minStep 27
  28. Loan Contracts: Regimes, Obligations, and Consumer Protection
    16 minStep 28
  29. Nature and Legal Regime of Loans
    22 minStep 29
  30. Consumer Loan Rules Under Quebec's Consumer Protection Act
    16 minStep 30
  31. Suretyship: Formation, Scope, and Enforcement
    14 minStep 31
  32. General Concepts of Guarantee: Suretyship
    14 minStep 32
  33. Effects and Extinction of Suretyship
    14 minStep 33
  34. Insurance contracts: formation, policy and risk disclosure
    16 minStep 34
  35. Damage and liability insurance: coverage, claims and defence
    17 minStep 35
  36. Transaction: Settlement Formation, Finality, and Homologation
    17 minStep 36
  37. Arbitration Agreements: Consent, Scope, and Judicial Limits
    16 minStep 37
- Civil Responsibility16 lessons · 4 h 40 min
  1. General Conditions of Civil Liability for Personal Acts
    22 minStep 38
  2. Introduction to Damage (Prejudice) in Quebec Civil Law
    17 minStep 39
  3. Damage as a Condition of Liability
    18 minStep 40
  4. Liability for the Act or Fault of Another and for Things
    18 minStep 41
  5. Exemption and Apportionment of Liability
    18 minStep 42
  6. Civil Liability and State Compensation Schemes
    17 minStep 43
  7. Prescription in Quebec Civil Law
    18 minStep 44
  8. Compensation for Harm to Property
    16 minStep 45
  9. Compensation for Moral Harm
    18 minStep 46
  10. Compensation for Bodily Injury
    17 minStep 47
  11. Compensation for Death-Related Damages
    18 minStep 48
  12. Interest and the Additional Indemnity
    17 minStep 49
  13. General Commentary on Professional Liability
    15 minStep 50
  14. Liability of Lawyers
    16 minStep 51
  15. Liability of Notaries
    18 minStep 52
  16. Medical and Hospital Liability
    17 minStep 53
- Prior Claims & Hypothecs11 lessons · 3 h 09 min
  1. Foundations and the Common Pledge of Creditors
    16 minStep 104
  2. Prior Claims and Competing Creditors
    18 minStep 105
  3. Nature, Extent and Constitution of Hypothecs
    16 minStep 106
  4. Immovable Hypothecs: Constitution, Description and Rents
    17 minStep 107
  5. Movable Hypothecs and Claims: Delivery, Registration and Control
    17 minStep 108
  6. Publication, Opposability and Rank of Hypothecs
    18 minStep 109
  7. Construction Legal Hypothec: Claims, Deadlines and Rank
    17 minStep 110
  8. Other Legal Hypothecs: Public Claims, Co-ownership and Judgments
    18 minStep 111
  9. Exercising Hypothecary Rights: Notice and Surrender
    17 minStep 112
  10. Taking in Payment
    18 minStep 113
  11. Sale by the Creditor and Sale Under Judicial Authority
    17 minStep 114
- Civil Procedure12 lessons · 2 h 23 min
  1. The Quebec Civil Case: From Dispute to Outcome
    7 minStep 115
  2. Choosing the Court and Civil Procedure Route in Quebec
    10 minStep 116
  3. Starting and Defending Civil Proceedings
    13 minStep 117
  4. Case Management and Trial Readiness in Quebec
    11 minStep 118
  5. Preparing Evidence for a Quebec Civil Trial
    13 minStep 119
  6. The Civil Trial, Judgment and Legal Costs in Quebec
    12 minStep 120
  7. Civil Appeals in Quebec: Access, Deadlines and Review
    13 minStep 121
  8. From Judgment to Payment in Quebec
    14 minStep 122
  9. Revocation of Judgments in Quebec Civil Procedure
    12 minStep 123
  10. Seizure Before Judgment in Quebec
    11 minStep 124
  11. Injunctions and Urgent Civil Orders in Quebec
    14 minStep 125
  12. Small-Claims Procedure in Quebec
    13 minStep 126
- Evidence in Quebec Civil Law19 lessons · 5 h 19 min
  1. Sources and Scope of Quebec Civil Evidence Rules
    16 minStep 127
  2. Burden of Proof, Good Faith and Judicial Notice
    19 minStep 128
  3. Copies of Statutes, Authentic Acts and Semi-Authentic Acts
    16 minStep 129
  4. Private Instruments and Other Writings
    16 minStep 130
  5. Technological Documents, Copies and Transfers
    17 minStep 131
  6. Witness Testimony
    16 minStep 132
  7. Presumptions: Legal Rules, Res Judicata and Factual Inferences
    17 minStep 133
  8. Admissions in Quebec Civil Evidence
    18 minStep 134
  9. Presentation of Physical Evidence
    12 minStep 135
  10. Relevance and Exclusion of Illegally Obtained Evidence
    16 minStep 136
  11. Professional Secrecy and Privileged Communications
    20 minStep 137
  12. Proof of a Material Fact
    16 minStep 138
  13. The Best Evidence Rule: Originals and Legal Substitutes
    16 minStep 139
  14. Proof of a Juridical Act
    17 minStep 140
  15. Contradicting or Changing a Written Juridical Act
    19 minStep 141
  16. Hearsay and Out-of-Court Statements
    17 minStep 142
  17. Sanctions for Breach of Evidence Rules
    16 minStep 143
  18. Objections to Evidence: Grounds, Procedure and Appeal
    19 minStep 144
  19. Evidence Before Administrative Tribunals
    16 minStep 145
- General Principles of Criminal Law24 lessons · 4 h 30 min
  1. Introduction to General Criminal Law
    9 minStep 146
  2. Classification of Offences
    11 minStep 147
  3. Actus Reus: The Material Element of the Offence
    11 minStep 148
  4. Subjective Mens Rea: The Mental Element of the Offence
    11 minStep 149
  5. Objective Mens Rea: The Mental Element of the Offence
    10 minStep 150
  6. Actus Reus & Mens Rea: Coincidence and Common-Sense Inference
    10 minStep 151
  7. Participation in Offences by Natural Persons
    11 minStep 152
  8. Inchoate and Accessory Offences
    10 minStep 153
  9. Preliminary Considerations in Criminal Defences
    10 minStep 154
  10. Mistake of Fact and Mistake of Law
    12 minStep 155
  11. Consent, Age, Alibi and Other Defence Issues
    12 minStep 156
  12. Mental Disorder Defence
    13 minStep 157
  13. Automatism
    8 minStep 158
  14. Intoxication
    11 minStep 159
  15. Self-Defence, Obedience to Law & Correction of Children
    11 minStep 160
  16. Necessity, Duress & Impossibility
    12 minStep 161
  17. Provocation
    9 minStep 162
  18. Entrapment
    9 minStep 163
  19. Sentencing Principles
    13 minStep 164
  20. Sentencing Range & Options
    16 minStep 165
  21. Sentencing Evidence and Procedure
    12 minStep 166
  22. Person-Specific Orders in Criminal Law
    15 minStep 167
  23. Organizational Criminal Liability
    11 minStep 168
  24. Sentencing of Organizations
    13 minStep 169
- Criminal Procedure and Evidence27 lessons · 8 h 04 min
  1. Following a Criminal Case: Courts, Choices and Stages
    17 minStep 170
  2. Criminal Proof: From Evidence to Reasonable Doubt
    16 minStep 171
  3. Police Detention, Arrest and Access to Counsel
    16 minStep 172
  4. Searches, Seizures and Investigative Powers
    18 minStep 173
  5. Pretrial Release and Bail
    19 minStep 174
  6. Disclosure and third-party records
    17 minStep 175
  7. Charges, elections and pleas
    22 minStep 176
  8. The preliminary inquiry: deciding whether a case goes to trial
    17 minStep 177
  9. Trial fairness and unreasonable delay
    19 minStep 178
  10. Criminal evidence: relevance, admissibility and use at trial
    16 minStep 179
  11. Witnesses and testimony in a criminal trial
    18 minStep 180
  12. Physical and Documentary Evidence
    17 minStep 181
  13. Identification evidence: proving who committed the offence
    17 minStep 182
  14. Statements, silence and self-incrimination
    18 minStep 183
  15. Hearsay and prior statements
    19 minStep 184
  16. Character, convictions and sexual-history evidence
    19 minStep 185
  17. Privilege and confidentiality in criminal proceedings
    20 minStep 186
  18. Judge-alone and summary trials
    16 minStep 187
  19. Understanding a criminal jury trial
    19 minStep 188
  20. Charter remedies in criminal proceedings
    16 minStep 189
  21. Criminal appeals: routes, grounds and remedies
    18 minStep 190
  22. Extraordinary Remedies and Intervention in Criminal Proceedings
    18 minStep 191
  23. Youth Criminal Procedure: Rights, Release and Participation
    21 minStep 192
  24. Quebec Penal Procedure: From Statement of Offence to Review
    19 minStep 193
  25. International criminal cooperation: persons, evidence and safeguards
    18 minStep 194
  26. Defence counsel ethics: loyalty, advice and honest advocacy
    16 minStep 195
  27. Prosecution ethics: independent decisions and a fair process
    18 minStep 196
- Administrative Law & Judicial Review20 lessons · 8 h 21 min
  1. Structure and Organization of the Modern Administrative State
    25 minStep 197
  2. The Classification of Administrative Acts in Canadian and Quebec Law
    25 minStep 198
  3. Delegated Legislation and Subordinate Regulations
    22 minStep 199
  4. Administrative Policies, Directives, and Management Instruments
    20 minStep 200
  5. Parliamentary Oversight in Quebec and Canadian Administrative Law
    27 minStep 201
  6. Administrative Oversight in Quebec and Canadian Law
    18 minStep 202
  7. Administrative Justice in Quebec: The LJA Regime and the Administrative Tribunal of Quebec
    23 minStep 203
  8. Constitutional Foundations of Judicial Review in Canada
    25 minStep 204
  9. Standards of Review in Canadian Administrative Law
    24 minStep 205
  10. The Culture of Justification in Administrative Law
    28 minStep 206
  11. The Legality of Administrative Action and the Standards of Judicial Review
    25 minStep 207
  12. Judicial Review of Discretionary Power in Canadian Administrative Law
    26 minStep 208
  13. Procedural Fairness in Canadian and Quebec Administrative Law
    26 minStep 209
  14. Interaction of Constitutional Law and Administrative Law
    25 minStep 210
  15. Independence and Impartiality of Administrative Bodies in Canadian and Quebec Law
    24 minStep 211
  16. Limits on Judicial Review in Administrative Law
    22 minStep 212
  17. Judicial Review under the Code of Civil Procedure
    29 minStep 213
  18. Judicial Review in the Federal Courts
    30 minStep 214
  19. The Government Contracting Regime
    28 minStep 215
  20. The Extra-Contractual Liability of the State
    29 minStep 216
- Corporate & Commercial Practice19 lessons · 7 h 17 min
  1. Foundations, Constitutional Jurisdiction, and Constitutive Laws in Quebec Corporate Practice
    29 minStep 217
  2. Partnerships and Unincorporated Associations in Quebec Civil Law: Foundations, Modalities, and Liability Regimes
    29 minStep 218
  3. Business Registration and Public Disclosure in Quebec: The Legal Publicity Regime, Bill 78 Transparency, and Register Opposability
    24 minStep 219
  4. Incorporation and Organization of the Business Corporation in Quebec: Pre-Incorporation Contracts, Articles, and Corporate Records
    24 minStep 220
  5. Corporate Powers and Capacity in Quebec Law: The Demise of Ultra Vires, Charter Protections, and Third-Party Reliance
    27 minStep 221
  6. Internal Governance: Directors and Officers
    26 minStep 222
  7. Duties of Directors and Officers
    25 minStep 223
  8. Common Law and Civil Law Liability of Directors and Officers
    25 minStep 224
  9. Share Capital: Structure, Class Rights, and Capital Maintenance in Corporate Law
    26 minStep 225
  10. Issuance and Acquisition of Shares: Subscription, Capital Maintenance, and Financial Solvency Tests
    25 minStep 226
  11. Transfer, Gift, and Pledge of Shares: Commercial Conveyancing and Security Entitlements
    20 minStep 227
  12. Shareholder Powers and Remedies: Corporate Democracy, Inspection Rights, and Minority Protections
    22 minStep 228
  13. Shareholder Agreements: Unanimous Shareholder Agreements, Governance Clauses, and Judicial Remedies
    20 minStep 229
  14. Oppression Remedy and Redress for Abuse or Inequity in Canadian and Quebec Corporate Law
    22 minStep 230
  15. Derivative Actions and Corporate Remedies in Canadian and Quebec Law
    22 minStep 231
  16. Piercing the Corporate Veil in Canadian and Quebec Law
    15 minStep 232
  17. Mergers, Acquisitions, and Public Company Transactions in Canadian and Quebec Law
    22 minStep 233
  18. Dissolution, Liquidation, and Winding-Up of Business Corporations in Canadian and Quebec Law
    21 minStep 234
  19. SR&ED Tax Credits and the Exfiltration of Canadian Intellectual Property
    13 minStep 235

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Medical & Hospital Liability14 lessons, not counted in the path’s progress

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