archive for August, 2007



Yes

by Simon Chester

August 31st, 2007

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The Tiny Limits of Storage

by Simon Chester

August 31st, 2007

Just a month after a science fiction writer speculated on storage devices the size of a grain of sand comes news from the magazine Science … [more]of developments in magnetic anisotropy

Save the Reading Room

by Simon Chester

August 31st, 2007

Today's Guardian Blog"Guardian Blog… [more] contains an impassioned plea to keep the world's most famous reading room as just that.
The Reading Room was Karl Marx's office. It was used

Future of Scholarship Is Where?

by Simon Chester

August 31st, 2007

In the blogosphere, according to a piece in law.com entitled Is the Future of Legal Scholarship in the Blogosphere?
Though according to Warren Kinsella quoted in the Hill-Times… [more],

The Friday Fillip

by Simon Fodden

August 31st, 2007

Earlier this week on Slaw Evan Van Dyk asked about podcasts and got a number of good suggestions. Must be the Zeitgeist, because at roughly the same time Alex Iskold… [more]

Canadian Kyoto Report Released

by Connie Crosby

August 31st, 2007

This is the report that the federal government would probably prefer you didn't find:
A Climate Change Plan for the Purposes of the Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act 2007… [more].
Under

Blogger.com Under Attack

by Simon Fodden

August 30th, 2007

Google's blogging platform, Blogger, is coming under increasing attack from a talented group of spammers, according to a report today on the BBC.
Gogle's Blogger site is being used by… [more]

Rage Pages on Wikipedia

by Steven Matthews

August 30th, 2007

Seems that digging into Wikipedia's online community is all the rage these days (bad pun intended). Following up on Connie's post last week on Wikiscanner, we now have Wikirage. This… [more]

Making the Most of Blogs and Wikis

by Agnese Caruso

August 30th, 2007

The McKinsey Quarterly's … [more]August 2007 article "How companies can make the most of user-generated content" highlights strategies executives can employ when promoting the use of blogs and wikis within their

Buying a Condo? Law Library Now a Selling Feature

by Simon Chester

August 30th, 2007

Slaw readers with the recollection of Funes the Memorious may recall a posting about a hotel in Chandigarh which advertised a law library as one of its guest features.
Today's… [more]

Paterva's Evolution

by Simon Fodden

August 30th, 2007

A company called Paterva (which might be South African) is offering Evolution, a search engine that focuses on people and organizations (and associated data such as phone numbers, email addresses… [more]

Small Arms Survey 2007 – Americans Own Most of the Guns

by Michel-Adrien Sheppard

August 29th, 2007

This week, the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International Studies released its Small Arms Survey 2007.
The Survey is supported by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, and receives contributions… [more]

SlawTips      

SlawTips Cash Flow Reports – Part 1
Thursday, May 17

Following on our earlier Top 10 Financial Errors posts, this is the first in a series of 10 posts dealing with Cash Flow Reports and in particular, cash flow management.… »»

Practice

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

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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.

  • 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    

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