The 2009 Hugh Lawford Award for Excellence in Legal Publishing awarded to Slaw.ca is well deserved recognition of the innovative and substantive contribution that Slaw is making to Canadian legal… [more]
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Spring was still in the air this week as Ontario's Ministry of Research and Innovation sought a special someone to help it evaluate co-investors and investment applications for its Emerging Technologies Fund.… [more]
Peg Duncan on Twitter points to an article on Law.com by an English academic, Adam Wyner, "Legal Ontologies Spin a Semantic Web." (By the way, if you're not following Peg… [more]
Are you sick of us talking about Twitter yet? It seems the possibilities are only just starting to be explored. Lawyers Weekly… [more] reporter Luigi Benetton recently interviewed a few of
To follow on from Carol Lynn Schafer's post, "Do TOS Have the Final Word on our Fundamental Rights and Freedoms?", readers might like to know that the Electronic Frontier Foundation… [more]
The legal profession is on the verge of an extremely serious problem. If you want to see what it looks like, check out what Chicago-based firm Mayer Brown has just… [more]
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is encouraging its members not to sign confidentiality clauses/agreements that prevent them from sharing information in their digital licenses. The press release states that… [more]
Wolfram Alpha is truly amazing, especially in the demo. Google also recently released a search engine that generates structured responses: Google Squared. It is less impressive, but then the examples… [more]
You gotta hand it to the Australians. While we're talking privacy or IP rights, they're talking about surfers rights! In a bit of a Friday fun link, see Surfing on… [more]
I had a chance this afternoon to pop into the collection of speaker presentations from the CALL conference, making me regret even more that I was not in attendance this… [more]
Since I was just asked for this decision and it's not on Canlii yet, here is a link to the Federal Court's decision yesterday.
Strong words from Zinn J for… [more]
Critical Update for Adobe Reader and Acrobat Versions 7-9 Coming June 9
by Dan Pinnington
June 5th, 2009
From the Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) blog.
Adobe expects to deliver security updates for Adobe Reader and Acrobat versions 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x for Windows and Macintosh… [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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