archive for October, 2007



Supreme Court of Canada Client Satisfaction Survey

by Michel-Adrien Sheppard

October 31st, 2007

The Supreme Court of Canada has published an executive summary of a client satisfaction survey of recent Registry Branch customers. The Registry Branch is the administrative arm of the Court.… [more]

Canadian Lawyer Magazine – "Associates" Magazine

by Ted Tjaden

October 31st, 2007

Today's Bar Talk in The Globe & Mail suggests that the Canadian Lawyer… [more] Magazine is soon to formally launch its new magazine aimed at Associates (and to be called by

Nino Scalia Meets Bullitt

by Simon Chester

October 30th, 2007

Fast car chases are a staple of every action film ((I leave it to the dweebs… [more] to debate whether Bullitt, French Connection or Ronin takes the medal.)) What is unusual

New Humanities Research Network

by Simon Fodden

October 30th, 2007

 
The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is pleased to announce the creation of the Humanities Research Network (HRN). HRN will provide a world-wide, online community for research in all… [more]

Veropedia Launched

by Evan VanDyk

October 30th, 2007

Wikipedia has been both celebrated and panned on these pages. Its strength is that anyone can edit it, meaning there are thousands of people out there to improve every article.… [more]

Kline Strong – Death of a Legal Pioneer

by Simon Chester

October 29th, 2007

Few lawyers in Canada – I except the wonderful Milt Zwicker – will remember the name of Kline D. Strong who died at the weekend. But he transformed the practice… [more]

Jurisdictional Details

by Michael Lines

October 29th, 2007

I'll tie this to the privacy, law enforcement, and copyright disputes grab bag topic cluster to justify linking to these recent cool developments of the "geographic web":
3D WorldViewer Everyscape… [more]

Stephen Fry Talks Dork

by Simon Fodden

October 29th, 2007

The marvelous English actor Stephen Fry (Oscar Wilde, Jeeves and Wooster, etc. etc. and the impending ITV series about a solicitor, Kingdom) has a new column for the Guardian Weekend… [more]

Last week I was fortunate to attend the international conference Law Via the Internet held in Montreal, hosted by the good folks at LexUM who bring us our CanLII system.… [more]

Wiki Wha Hae – the Scots Are Here

by Simon Chester

October 29th, 2007

Today's Glasgow Herald… [more] reports on a new service called CaseCheck, which is built on an open source blog platform. The service sprang from an innovative on-line dispute resolution service.
CaseCheck

Mind42

by Simon Fodden

October 29th, 2007

Mind42 ("for two" — the notion being collaboration) is an online mindmapping tool that manages to capture pretty much the best of all the features of mindmapping. You can create… [more]

A Discordant Takedown

by Simon Fodden

October 27th, 2007

Almost two weeks ago the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP), a volunteer-run wiki administered and housed in Edmonton, received a takedown notice from Aird & Berlis LLP acting for… [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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