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About a year ago, I announced the creation of a Canadian Centre for Court Technology (CCCT) “IntellAction” working group with the mandate to promote the modernization of court web sites… [more]

Are you interested in finding out what's going on in our courts… in terms of technology? If so, you can help the Canadian Centre for Court Technology (CCCT) developing an… [more]

This post concludes a series of post on the subject topic:

Presentation of the CCCT IntellAction Working Group on Court Web Site Guidelines (21 Jan 2010)
Presentation of the Working… [more]

Earlier last week, I presented the CCCT IntellAction Working Group selection of principles that should guide the design and organization of court web sites and further explained, in a later… [more]

Earlier this week, I presented the CCCT IntellAction Working Group selection of principles that should guide the design and organization of court web sites. In this post, I further explain… [more]

Back in January, I announced the formation of a working group under the auspices of the Canadian Centre for Court Technology (CCCT). The objective of this working group was to… [more]

Guidelines for Canadian Court Web Sites

by Patrick Cormier

January 21st, 2010

When Dominic Jaar became the CEO of the Canadian Centre for Court Technology, he immediately set out to constitute several "IntellAction" working groups. One of these groups had the mandate… [more]

Australian Court Serves Documents via Facebook

by Patrick Cormier

December 17th, 2008

So says Nick Abrahams in his similarly titled post of last week:
Today in what appears to be a first in Australia and perhaps the world, Master Harper of the… [more]

Leg@l IT 2008 — Les Nouvelles Dispositions De La LPC

by Patrick Cormier

April 21st, 2008

Me André Allard de l'Office de la Protection du Consommateur nous a présenté les nouvelles dispositions de la Loi sur la protection du consommateur. Entrée en vigueur en 1980, la… [more]

Pendant la séance plénière du lunch, tout comme l'an passé, nous avons eu droit à une présentation d'un panel judiciaire constitué comme suit:

Hon. Nicole Duval-Hesler, Cour d'appel du Québec… [more]

Leg@l IT 2008 — Bringing Lawyers and Clients Together

by Patrick Cormier

April 21st, 2008

At 9:40 am, the Conference moved forward with three simultaneous tracks:

Utilisation des technologies dans un contexte de droit transfrontalier (Me Patrick Gingras et Me Philippe Lortie)
Bridging the Gap:… [more]

Leg@l IT 2008 — Social Networking and Privacy

by Patrick Cormier

April 21st, 2008

David T.S. Fraser, from McInnes Cooper, opened his plenary session by emphasizing the fact that the Internet is about relationships – whether one on one (emails), one to few… [more] (IRC,

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SlawTips Top 10 Financial Errors: #9 Avoid Having a Written Office-Sharing or Partnership Agreement
Thursday, February 9

Max Amsterdam once said: “Business is the art of extracting money from another man’s pocket without resorting to violence.” The purpose of having a written agreement between all … »»

Practice

SlawTips Open Access Journals
Wednesday, February 8

There is good leagal content that doesn’t necessarily come in the neat packages that we usually look in.  Though our commercial legal database subscriptions have linked, vetted, edited, and easily. […] »»

Research

SlawTips Use join.me to Get on the Same Page Across the Web
Wednesday, February 8

When you need to collaborate on a document displayed on your screen, it’s great to have a colleague from down the hall come into your office and look over your … »»

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.

  • Banks and Banking - Liability of banks to third parties - Negligence - General

    The plaintiffs were the former shareholders of a company that failed. They sued the defendant bank alleging that it breached its contract with the company and the plaintiffs and breached a duty ...

  • Actions - Cause of action - General principles - New or extended cause of action - Opening of floodgates

    The plaintiff and defendant worked at different branches of the same bank. The defendant’s common-law husband was the plaintiff’s ex-husband. Over a four year period, the defendant ...

  • Aliens - Definitions and general principles - Immigration consultants

    The Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants (CSIC) had been designated as the sole regulatory body of immigration consultants in Canada from 2004 until June 2011. On June 30, 2011, Bill C-35 came into force, which significantly amended ...

  • Criminal Law - Sexual offences, public morals and disorderly conduct - Public morals - Obscenity - Possession of child pornography

    The accused was convicted of making child pornography available and two counts of possession of child pornography (see [2010] Sask.R. Uned. 197). Subsequently, he was sentenced ...

  • Criminal Law - Procedure - Charge or directions - Jury or judge alone - Directions regarding pleas or evidence of witnesses, co-accused and accomplices

    Rowe was convicted by a jury of five offences. He appealed.

    The Ontario Court of Appeal allowed ...

  • Narcotic Control - Offences - Possession - General

    The accused wished to access marijuana for medicinal purposes but did not have an authorization to possess marijuana issued under the Marihuana Medical Access Regulations. He was notified that a package of marihuana addressed to him had been ...

  • Narcotic Control - General - Legislation - Exemptions - Medicinal marijuana

    McCrady, who had an application pending under the Marihuana Medical Access Regulations (MMAR) to possess and grow marijuana, was convicted of possession of marijuana (Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA), s. 4(1)). Hearn pleaded guilty ...

  • Criminal Law - Sentence - Trafficking in hashish or marijuana (incl. possession for purposes of trafficking)

    The accused pleaded guilty to one count of possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking. He was sentenced to 30 days’ imprisonment to be served intermittently and 11 months’ ...

  • Municipal Law - Powers of municipalities - Particular powers - Imposition and collection of taxes or fees 

    Catalyst Paper Corp. operated a paper mill in the District of North Cowichan. Catalyst objected to the tax rate that it paid compared to residential ratepayers. In 2009, the ...


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