A good part of Slaw is playing hookey today, visiting the ABA TECHSHOW at the Chicago Hilton. It's the 25th Anniversary show, so we are having fun looking forward and… [more]
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I attended a Women's Law Association of Ontario dinner recently where Chief Justice Winkler provided the following tips on how to succeed in law:
1. Law is a helping profession. Help… [more]
♬ My kind of town.
Chicago is my kind of town.
Chicago is my kind of razzmatazz
And it has all that jazz…♬… [more]
Lyrics and music by: Sammy Cahn and
I read with great interest a recent article by Chris Anderson in Wired Features how video on YouTube is having the unexpected effect of allowing people to learn–and innovate–at an… [more]
The Canadian Association of Law Libraries/Association Canadienne de Bibliothèques de Droit has launched upon its first distance learning initiative, with two more webinars coming up shortly.
Joan Rataic-Lang will be presenting a… [more]
I have a confession to make: I have never learned how to use PowerPoint. When I started giving presentations a number of years ago, I opted to buy my own… [more]
The Canadian Association of Law Libraries is hosting a webinar next week.
Wednesday September 29, 2010 Time 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. (EDT) The Unified Theory of Everything (in Information… [more]
The wonderful folks at AustLII, that powerhouse in the legal information institute movement, have just launched their International Law Library on WorldLII. From the press release [PDF]:
The International Law… [more]
Ontario Personal Injury Reforms and Catastrophic Update
by Omar Ha-Redeye
Sunday, September 5th, 2010
Ontario Regulation 34/10 to the Insurance Act… [more] became effective on September 1, 2010, along with several other significant changes affecting personal injury and motor vehicle collision practice in Ontario.
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With the Law Librarian Conversations podcast settling into its new home at CALI (the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction), the new podcast Law School Tech Talk has now been started.… [more]
UPDATE: I've been informed that the papers are reserved for those who attended only. Please, then, treat this simply as a list of papers that were in fact given. Presumably,… [more]
Coming up this fall are two conferences dealing with aspects of law and technology that you won't want to miss:
The Canadian Forum on Court Technology, hosted by the Canadian… [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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