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Another Contender – Corporate Filing Services

by Connie Crosby

July 29th, 2005

On July 27th I spoke about the Competition Heating Up With Corporate Filing Services, and spoke only of LIVEDGAR from GSI and DisclosureNet from XP Innovations.
Eric Leduc has kindly… [more]

RSS Feeds for Alberta Legislation

by Steven Matthews

July 28th, 2005

As recently reported on the VLLB, the Alberta Queen's Printer has announced RSS feeds for both their website and QP Source Professional.
Sheldon Staszko, Director of Alberta Queen's Printer, made… [more]

Osler Goes Audio

by Connie Crosby

July 28th, 2005

Osler Hoskin Harcourt appeared to be the first major Canadian firm to employ RSS feeds from its website.  It has been using RSS to deliver newsletter articles from its various practice groups for the… [more]

Open Source and Beer

by Simon Chester

July 28th, 2005

Since we are getting close to the dog days / silly season:
'Free' Danish beer makes a splash
By Clark Boyd
Technology correspondent
The Danes love their beer, but increasingly… [more]

Competition Heating Up With Corporate Filing Services

by Connie Crosby

July 27th, 2005

Ever since the creation of the Canadian online corporate filings system SEDAR in 1997, the race has been on to develop a commercially viable service to provide more sophisticated search… [more]

Implications of Grokster for Search Engines

by Simon Chester

July 27th, 2005

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1911 Canadian Census Online

by Administrator

July 26th, 2005

This via ResearchBuzz: the Canadian Census from 1911 is now online. It may be of only tangential relevance to law, but historians and perhaps even property lawyers will find it… [more]

Taxonomy Letters

by Simon Fodden

July 26th, 2005

What follows is an exchange of emails (some excerpted) that preceded the launching of Slaw. I asked the group of core contributors about taxonomy — coming from "blogging," I felt… [more]

Interesting Miscellany for Law Students

by Simon Chester

July 26th, 2005

Just stumbled on a publication called Jungle Law, aimed at law students, which had a cute miscellany page:
herewith:
20 Random Bits of Lawyer Knowledge
We found them. Use them… [more]

Pervasive Computing

by Louise Tsang

July 25th, 2005

How ubiquitous, embedded, transparent and animated can the internet gets and what will happen then.  That was the topic of the plenary session at the Annual Meeting of the Association… [more]

Web Password Hashing

by Simon Fodden

July 25th, 2005

Researchers at Stanford University have developed a browser extension that:
transparently converts a user's password into a domain-specific password. The user can activate this hashing by choosing passwords that start… [more]

VALA KM Is Now BCLMA KM

by Steven Matthews

July 25th, 2005

Of note to many, the Vancouver Association of Legal Administrators (VALA) is now to be known as the British Columbia Legal Management Association (BCLMA).
If you haven't passed by as of… [more]

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SlawTips      

SlawTips Just the Facts
Wednesday, May 16

Today’s research tip is about facts. When research is assigned to juniors (and librarians for that matter) it is important to share facts that are critical to the research. It … »»

Research

SlawTips Minimize That Darn Office Ribbon for More Room on Your Desktop
Wednesday, May 16

If you are using Office 2007 or 2010, The Ribbon is now a part of your life. Some of you will be happy about this – some of you won’t.… »»

Technology

SlawTips Manage Chaos! Create a Shared Family Calendar
Thursday, May 10

Our lives as lawyers are hectic enough even before we factor in busy family events. Accordingly our tip is to create a ‘family’ calendar where every family member can enter … »»

Practice

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MLB Selected Case Summaries    

These summaries of selected recent cases are provided each week to Slaw by Maritime Law Book.
More information.
  • Harkat, Re 2012 FCA 122

    Aliens - Exclusion and expulsion - Power to detain and deport - Minister’s certificate - Review - Evidence

    In 2002, Harkat was detained pursuant to a ministerial security certificate issued under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) as a person inadmissible to Canada on grounds ...

  • Girouard v. Druet 2012 NBCA 40

    Contracts - Formation of contract - Signing - Electronic signature

    The plaintiff expressed an interest in purchasing the defendant’s (vendor’s) condo. The parties agreed to carry on their discussions through e-mail. Following an exchange of e-mails, the plaintiff claimed that the defendant was contractually bound to ...

  • Donell et al. v. GJB Enterprises Inc. et al. 2012 BCCA 135

    Barristers and Solicitors - Relationship with client - Confidential communications - General

    The petitioner was a Receiver appointed in March 2009 by a California court over the assets of GJB Enterprises Inc. (a “Ponzi scheme”) and its principals, the Berkes (the GJB parties). The court ordered ...

  • Dish Network L.L.C. et al. v. Rex et al. 2012 BCCA 161

    Practice - Costs - Funding before judgment - When interim or advance costs available

    The plaintiffs were “direct to home” satellite based subscription program providers. Rex and other defendants offered “grey market” services to Canadian residents to facilitate the unauthorized reception in Canada of the plaintiffs’ ...

TalkLaw/ParLoi    

This is a listing of a few upcoming events in Canada of interest to lawyers, law students, legal librarians, and others involved in the practice of law.

Clicking on any event in the list below will give you access to more information and to links allowing you to see the full entry and to add the event to your own calendar.

Click this link for a fuller version of the TalkLaw/ParLoi calendar of events and for instructions as to how to add events and calendars to your own calendar.