Nakashima v CanadaResearcherMonique F. UlyssesResearcherLauren ChalaturnykMetadata authorConnell ParishMetadata authorGordon Lyall
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Exchequer Court of Canada.
Dominion Law Reports.
1944.
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In this case it was ruled that the ‘Custodian of Enemy Property is an independent person and not a servant or agent of the Crown, and hence a petition of right against the Crown does not lie in respect of acts of the Custodian’ and that ‘[n]othing turns on the fact that Minister of Crown was appointed Custodian’ (487), therefore supposedly absolving the government of responsibility for the dispossession of Japanese Canadians.
PlaintiffsNakashimaDefendantsThe KingJudgesJustice of CanadaThorson