{"id":32709,"date":"2025-09-15T11:02:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T17:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/?post_type=runnymede-events&#038;p=32709"},"modified":"2025-09-15T11:02:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T17:02:32","slug":"the-declaratory-judgment-its-availability-and-its-limitations","status":"publish","type":"runnymede-events","link":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/en\/runnymede-events\/the-declaratory-judgment-its-availability-and-its-limitations\/","title":{"rendered":"The Declaratory Judgment: Its Availability and Its Limitations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Please join us for a free talk by Professor Gerard Kennedy that will explore the<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cdeclaratory judgment\u201d\u2014i.e., <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a judgment that does not give parties any remedies beyond a declaration regarding a legal state of affairs\u2014at the Alt Hotel in St. John\u2019s, NL on Friday, November 14th, 2025, from 12:00\u20131:00 PM (NDT). <\/span><b>This event is presented by <\/b><b>the Runnymede Society&#8217;s St. John&#8217;s Lawyer Chapter.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Professor Kennedy will discuss <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">purposes of a declaratory judgment and the circumstances in which this remedy may be granted, as well as its advantages and limitations. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A light lunch will be provided. Registration is required.<\/span> <b>Participants can receive one hour of CLE credit for attending. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Register by scanning the QR code or clicking here: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/2grSTdafL4jf8H3D7\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/forms.gle\/2grSTdafL4jf8H3D7<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Gerard Kennedy<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an Associate Professor at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law. He earned his JD from Queen\u2019s University, where he received the Dean\u2019s Key, and went on to complete an LLM at Harvard Law School as a Frank Knox Memorial Fellow. He later earned his doctorate at Osgoode Hall Law School, supported by a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholarship and a SSHRC doctoral award, with visiting research positions at NYU School of Law and the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":241,"featured_media":32710,"template":"","event_organizers":[130],"event_venues":[218],"library-theme":[219],"class_list":["post-32709","runnymede-events","type-runnymede-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_organizers-runnymede-society","event_venues-alt-hotel-st-johns","library-theme-declaratory-judgments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/runnymede-events\/32709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/runnymede-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/runnymede-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event_organizers","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_organizers?post=32709"},{"taxonomy":"event_venues","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_venues?post=32709"},{"taxonomy":"library-theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library-theme?post=32709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}