Free and Commercial Access to the Law
Slaw’s own Ted Tjaden is quoted in this week’s Lawyers’ Weekly on whether the free access to the law movement has reached the point of such reliability and comprehensiveness that it can be considered as an adequate substitute for the commercial giants. Canlii’s Daniel Poulin comes to the defence of Canlii.
. . . [more]“I rarely use free resources,” Tjaden said.
“We have the luxury of having one of the better-equipped law libraries in a Canadian law firm with extensive print resources and online subscriptions.
“Although free search engines do supplement the legal research I do, we continue to rely on the value-added