archive for August, 2005



Supreme Court Search Now Underway

by Connie Crosby

August 31st, 2005

The search is on for a new judicial appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada. For the first time ever, suggestions are being taken from the public… [more].
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Situational Tags

by Simon Fodden

August 29th, 2005

Yikes, outed by Connie as a guest blogger!
Now that my cover's blown, I'm going to cross-post something that I've just put on Out Of The Jungle, because it relates… [more]

Now Guest Blogging at Out of the Jungle – Simon F.!

by Connie Crosby

August 29th, 2005

Our very own Slaw founder Simon Fodden is waxing philosophic as this week's special guest blogger at Out of the Jungle. His first post went up today–do take a look!… [more]

Congressional Research Service Publications Liberated

by Simon Chester

August 26th, 2005

Thanks to Bill Pierce's blog for pointing out that the motherlode of Cyberlaw research has now been opened up to the great unwashed (like you and I).
The Franklin Pierce… [more]

Outsourcing Legal Research

by Simon Chester

August 26th, 2005

Interesting to read the account of some legal support services being outsourced to India, including legal research.
http://www.legalaffairs.org/printerfriendly.msp?id=808
The account of drafting a factum with North American trained LLMs doing… [more]

Sherbrooke Law Library Table of Contents Service

by Simon Fodden

August 25th, 2005

Simon Chester has pointed me to the Université de Sherbrooke Bibliothèque de droit table of contents service for Canadian journals — a local version of the much more ambitious service… [more]

Resources on Slaw

by Simon Fodden

August 24th, 2005

I've added a Resources page to Slaw: http://www.slaw.ca/resources, because it seems sensible to me to provide research tools that might not be otherwise available. I don't expect it to be… [more]

Legal Researchers – the Next Generation

by Mark Lewis

August 23rd, 2005

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AALL 2005 Conference Materials Available

by Connie Crosby

August 22nd, 2005

The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) has recently posted materials from its 2005 San Antonio conference held in July. PDF files of individual programme materials are available from this… [more]

Slaw at No. 1

by Simon Fodden

August 19th, 2005

Just now, and maybe only for this moment, Googling "slaw" produced our weblog as the very first hit for that word among "about 769,000" other pages. I've captured the moment… [more]

The Web of Law

by Louise Tsang

August 19th, 2005

Law Professor Thomas Smith (University of San Diego School of Law) has finished a law review citation study covering 385,000 law review articles, notes, comments, etc that appear in 726… [more]

Law Reports – the Future

by Nick Pengelley

August 19th, 2005

As I pack up my office at Queens, shred all the evidence, and prepare to move to Osgoode Hall, I pose a question for SLAW readers. By the year 2010,… [more]

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

noted on Slaw    

MLB Selected Case Summaries    

These summaries of selected recent cases are provided each week to Slaw by Maritime Law Book.
More information.

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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.