Google's Gmail service is suffering an outage that has left 120,000 of its 150 million Gmail users without e-mail, contacts, labels and other content since the weekend. While some will no… [more]
archive for February, 2011
We are hearing so much these days about the changing landscape of legal services. See 'The End of Lawyers?' by Richard Susskind http://www.susskind.com/endoflawyers.html, or the writings of Jordan Furlong –… [more]
by Patrick Cormier
February 28th, 2011
Last Saturday, I shared on Slaw the first two recommendations of the CCCT IntellAction Working Group on Court Web Site Guidelines. In this post, I'm sharing our draft recommendations 3… [more]
Brock Rutter, a member of the New York and Vermont bars and former research assistant at the Berkman Center and now enrolled in the master's program at McGill Law School,… [more]
Professor Joseph Weiler, Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of International Law… [more], recently posted an entry on his blog about a criminal defamation charge lodged against him in France for
This is an article by Malcolm Mercer, partner and general counsel at McCarthy Tetrault in Toronto. It originally appeared in the September 2010 edition of LawPRO Magazine.… [more]
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The University of Western Ontario has been the only common law school in Canada without a student-run law review. Until now.
After years and several attempts of starting a student-run… [more]
Last Thursday, Ryerson University hosted a symposium entitled "Exploring the Future of E-mail, Privacy and Cloud Computing at Ryerson." It was co-hosted by a Ryerson administrative committee and Ryerson's Privacy… [more]
CCCT Court Web Site Guidelines – Recommendations 1 and 2: Use a WCMS
by Patrick Cormier
February 26th, 2011
This posts continues to expose on Slaw the draft Court Web Site Guidelines… [more] produced by the CCCT IntellAction Working Group on court web sites. In this post, we present recommendations
Google has announced a change in its algorithms that will clear out some of the link-farm spam generated by over-zealous SEO operators:
This update is designed to reduce rankings for… [more]
The European Union has begun a public consultation on online authentication in the context of its review of its Electronic Signature Directive of 1999.
An early assertion in the press… [more]
The Supreme Court of Canada has issued a Special Edition of its Bulletin of Proceedings containing a statistical overview of its activities for the period 2000-2010.
There are stats for… [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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MLB Selected Case Summaries
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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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