Bibliographic record
Abstract
A majority of the Supreme Court of Canada, in a judgment written by Justice Abella, held that a promise by a husband to consent to a religious divorce (to provide a “get”) was legally enforceable under the Quebec Civil Code. According to Abella J., a contract dealing with a religious matter is enforceable, provided its object is not prohibited by law or contrary to public order. Justice Abella’s judgment, however, involved more (and perhaps less) than a determination that religious contracts are legally enforceable. She held that the husband’s promise to consent was enforceable not simply (and perhaps not significantly) because it was a voluntary obligation but because public policy supported the removal of barriers to religious divorce and remarriage. She was enforcing a voluntary obligation made by the husband, but she was also acting to mitigate the inequity of the divorce rules of Judaism. The question addressed only obliquely in this case is when, if ever, is the state justified in intervening to protect vulnerable group members from oppressive or unjust religious rules? a commitment to religious freedom involves respecting the individual’s spiritual choices and commitments. However, to regard a religious community as an association that members join and quit at will, is to miss both the value of religious association and its potential to limit and sometimes even to oppress its members.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".