''Provincial Secretary of Prince Edward Island v Egan'',
941
Year 941 ( CMXLI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* May – September – Rus'–Byzantine War: The Rus' and their allies, t ...
S.C.R. 396 is a famous constitutional decision of the
Supreme Court of Canada
The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC; french: Cour suprême du Canada, CSC) is the Supreme court, highest court in the Court system of Canada, judicial system of Canada. It comprises List of Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada, nine justices, wh ...
.The Court upheld a provincial Act, which provided that anyone who was convicted of an impaired driving offence under the
Criminal Code will have their licence suspended, on the basis that the law was
in relation to the regulation of highway safety which is a valid provincial subject.
The case later became central to another key constitutional decision of ''
O'Grady v. Sparling
O'Grady v Sparling was a landmark Supreme Court of Canada decision on the constitutionality of overlapping federal and provincial laws. The Court held that there was no conflict between federal dangerous driving offences, which only prohibited "adv ...
'',
960S.C.R. 804.
See also
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List of Supreme Court of Canada cases (Richards Court through Fauteux Court)
External links
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Canadian federalism case law
Supreme Court of Canada cases
Supreme Court of Canada case articles without infoboxes
1941 in Canadian case law
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