Today's press release:
Dear users,
The Law Foundation of Ontario has funded a large project to extend the historical coverage of CanLII's case law databases. This project's first results are… [more]
archive for November, 2007
Astute readers of this feature (and some of the rest of you, too) will have noticed that I tend towards non-verbal Friday Fillips, seeking, I guess, relief from the "jaw-jaw"… [more]
We were discussing the role of the research lawyer in law firms the other day. In his post, Ted mentioned the oft-cited example of Bertha Wilson, the former research lawyer… [more]
Perhaps encryption isn't so easy after all, and some people could use a little primer. This is how I protect my laptop….
Wired – "How Does Bruce Schneier Protect… [more]
Sadly there's one more niche for advertising to ply its charms. Yahoo and Adobe have signed a deal for Adobe to provide space in PDFs for Yahoo-pushed advertising. The joint… [more]
In Eugene Meehan's Supreme Court letter today he states the facts of a proposed class action:
"The Applicants alleged that their flight back to Quebec City was delayed because of… [more]
This is interesting.
In an effort to make Dow Jones more 2.0, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Interactive Media is in talks to purchase LinkedIn. You may know that Murdoch already… [more]
Farewell to the Right Honorable Antonio Lamer, Former Chief Justice of Canada
by Michel-Adrien Sheppard
November 28th, 2007
The Right Honorable Antonio Lamer, the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court between 1990 and 2000 who passed away on the weekend, lay in repose earlier today in the… [more]
I've only just noticed that CanLII has warnings that alert you if you wind up at a version of a statute that predates the last update of the collection. See,… [more]
At last week's monthly meeting of Toronto legal research lawyers we discussed the availability of online PDF'ed versions of judicial decisions that have also been published in print by the… [more]
The Department of Justice Canada appears to have recently started to offer PDF, bilingual versions of key federal statutes on their site here.
An example is the Divorce Act… [more] current
As a follow up to my prior post on full-text keyword searching versus controlled vocabularies, I am wondering what law firms are doing regarding harvesting and re-using their internal research… [more]
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Available online today are four new chapters of the publication Women in Canada: A Gender-based Statistical Report, which explores the socio-demographic and economic circumstances of Canadian women in general.
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The bill amends the Constitution Act, 1867 by readjusting the number of members and the representation of the provinces in the House of Commons.
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Ars Technica: Law & Disorder: Startup hopes to hack the immigration system with a floating incubatorBlueseed plans to buy a ship and turn it into a floating incubator anchored in international waters off the coast of California.
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Under Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the flow of information out of Ottawa has slowed to a trickle.
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"…the IPC has exclusive jurisdiction to decide whether a record is in the custody or control of a university in the context of an access request…"
MLB Selected Case Summaries
These summaries of selected recent cases are provided each week to Slaw by Maritime Law Book.
More information.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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’ ...
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