Canada has recently been deemed by comScore to be the "most connected country in the world" when it comes to broadband internet penetration and usage. While this is no doubt an accolade… [more]
archive for January, 2011
A while back I hooked up some CanLII RSS feeds for recent Supreme Court of Canada decisions and court of appeal decisions for BC, ON, QC to corresponding Twitter accounts,… [more]
practicePRO's Most Popular Malpractice Claim Prevention Downloads for 2010
by Dan Pinnington
January 10th, 2011
We’ve compiled the list of the forty most popular downloads for 2010. Many of them are consistently popular year to year, such as Peg Duncan's e-Discovery reading list, limitation periods… [more]
ACJNet from the Legal Resource Centre Alberta has long been a mainstay for Canadian legal researchers. This resource has now been relaunched as three new portals for the public and… [more]
by Lewis Parle
January 10th, 2011
It would not be a gross generalisation to say that many in the legal profession in the UK would wince at the idea of young people being taught to use… [more]
Glen Greenwald on Salon has a thrice-updated story on the U.S. Department of Justice's attempt to obtain from Twitter as much information as possible about a number of people associated… [more]
The debate over legal outsourcing is going mainstream, with a special report in yesterday's Toronto Star (print copy only; Legal temps fill holes, cut costs… [more]).
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A hat tip to my good friend and Sooner Jim Calloway for pointing out this helpful ZDNet iGeneration blog post on locking down Facebook.
While privacy as we used to… [more]
From the Law Library of Congress, a new report: New Zealand: Maori Culture and Intellectual Property Law.
The protection of the traditional cultural expressions of indigenous people from inappropriate use… [more]
While becoming a lawyer was always my career goal, I always felt one downfall to the career path was the lack of the opportunity to travel. As law is very… [more]
CALL has undertaken an new educational initiative this year, and the next of its series of webinars is to be held on January 25, 2011 from 1:00 - 2:30. Here are… [more]
Ahh 2011, brought to you by Canadian Copyright Laws; tablet wars, Facebook fatigue, (anti)social media, what does that cloud look like?, A Space Odyssey (if you read the title slightly… [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’ ...
TalkLaw/ParLoi
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