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« Older EntriesThe Continuing Legal Education Society of BC
I am a new Board Member of the Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia. Learning about CLEBC has been an interesting and eye opening experience. I have relied upon CLEBC materials in writing this post.
What is CLEBC?
The Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia is a respected and relied upon source of [...]
Live blogging from CanLII meeting
I’m at the CanLII meeting at Osgoode Hall here in Toronto to learn more about their new legislation database. At the moment the speakers are thanking their funders.
Ivan Mokanov is presenting SATO, section and time-based operations. The first simple demo called up the Human Rights Code that was in force on a given date. [...]
Open Source Cell Phones
I gave up my cell years ago after I got soaked for local calls while out of my home network. I think in the end I was charged at both ends of long distance from my location to my home network, and then from my home network to my location (4 long distance charges in [...]
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Manic Mondays – A Prologue
As of tomorrow, the modern remnant of the “Long Vacation”[1] is over for us Canadian civil litigators. Some of us might be starting trials, tomorrow.
Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
I want to shoot
The whole day down
from I Don’t Like Mondays (c) The Boomtown Rats, Bob Geldof (1979)
Especially if one isn’t prepared. Preparation means facts and law. One can’t know [...]
Season of the Switch …
done to the tune of Donovan’s Season of the Witch (Kooper – Still’s Super Session version, of course).
When I look out my window,
Many sights to see.
And when I look in my window,
So many different people to be
…
Must be the season of the switch.
OK, so I switched a word. Sue me.
Simon F’s taken heart in hand, [...]
The Guardian praises Bailii
In praise of… free law
Leader – The Guardian
Monday September 3, 2007
History tends to forget that the Sheriff of Nottingham had a greater purpose than hunting down Robin Hood. Like every county sheriff, he was supposed to ensure that the burghers of Notts knew the law of the land, however recently it had been proclaimed [...]
Thanks to a Reader on Cannery Row
Nice to know we are being read on the Monterey peninsula
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Yes
Future of Scholarship is Where?
In the blogosphere, according to a piece in law.com entitled Is the Future of Legal Scholarship in the Blogosphere?
Though according to Warren Kinsella quoted in the Hill-Times, such views are so 2006, since blogs are passé and the action’s elsewhere.
Canadian Kyoto Report Released
This is the report that the federal government would probably prefer you didn’t find:
A Climate Change Plan for the Purposes of the Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act 2007.
Under the Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act 2007, the government was required to release a plan for climate change by Tuesday, August 21, 2007, according to [...]
Making the most of blogs and wikis
The McKinsey Quarterly’s August 2007 article “How companies can make the most of user-generated content” highlights strategies executives can employ when promoting the use of blogs and wikis within their own companies. Some examples:
Find out what inspires or motivates people to participate in online collaborative technologies
Identify thought leaders or well-connected people in your company and [...]
The Need to Digitize Historical Canadian Legislation
The recent posting on SLAW about Carl Malmud’s “maverick” actions of shaming the U.S. government by himself publishing American case law on the Internet got me thinking.
Can we in Canada not shame our governments into digitizing the historical versions of federal and provincial legislation in a manner similar to that done in Alberta through [...]
Truscott Decision Released
In one of the longest decisions in the Court’s history, the Court has closed the book on the case of R. v. Truscott:
we have concluded that, while it cannot be said that no jury acting judicially could reasonably convict, we are satisfied that if a new trial were possible, an acquittal would clearly be the [...]
Surprising BlackBerry Fan
Both the BBC and the Sunday People are reporting that Her Majesty has become fascinated with her BlackBerry which she uses to surf the net for racing results.
Prince Philip sounds more like his age, reported as commenting “At 85 he’s more reluctant to embrace technology and thinks his wife is like a distracted [...]
The CBA’s Support for the Rule of Law in Developing Countries
I returned last week from committee meetings of the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) at their annual meeting in Calgary. Having reached the 6-year maximum term for service on the CBA International Development Committee (IDC), I wanted to mention the IDC’s good work and make readers more generally aware of what that they do (particularly in [...]
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