The Clawbies website design is now updated, and the season opening post is up. Yes, it's time for the (6th!) Canadian Law Blog Awards!
Whether you're a blogger or blog… [more]
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Well today is Friday, and if our friends at CanLII have predicted correctly, they will soon be delivering more than one million search results!
Congratulations to everyone involved in making… [more]
Most law firms have a history of using Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF) to distribute their brochures, papers and longer written pieces. That practice matches what web usability experts have… [more]
The Wall Street Journal has a new piece on Amazon's e-book lending service. Operating under the Amazon's $79/year Prime service, the e-book lending will only work on Kindle and Kindle… [more]
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GG Speech: 100th Anniversary of the Appointment of the First Canadian JAG
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Current JAG: Brigadier-General Blaise Cathcart
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The following post just went live on the VLLB, but it's appropriate for the legal research community here at Slaw too. One of Stem's clients, Quickscribe, has announced the relaunch… [more]
Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell have an excellent piece in Law Practice Today on 10 non-marketing uses of social media; very basic items such as 'reconnecting', or 'learning a new… [more]
It’s arguably the most important thing on your law firm’s website, the whole reason why it exists. Yet it’s usually parked in some distant corner of the site, and a… [more]
If you're interested in the online sound bites coming out of the 2011 ILTA conference, here are a couple of worthy sources:
There seem to be two Twitter hashtags running,… [more]
One-term searches in Google will no longer offer a link to Google's dictionary website. It's been shut down.
The preferred behaviour is now to have users:
Conduct a single-term search;… [more]
With the Canadian Law Blogs List now surpassing 300 entries (100 in the past year), along with the continued growth of law firms and lawyers using Twitter, Canadian legal web-commentary… [more]
There's a new Columbia research study that looks at our ever growing reliance on search engines for memory recall. Not a ton of surprises here. Yes, we've become more reliant,… [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.
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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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