Slaw Site News – 2011-10-05

Site news for those who read Slaw only via RSS or email

1. Comment Watch:

In the last week there were 35 comments. You might be particularly interested in:

• a long and thoughtful comment by “A Recent Grad” on The Future of Articling in Ontario
• the other 8 comments on Omar Ha-Redeye’s post on The Future of Articling in Ontario.
• the comments to Jason Wilson’s provocative column, I Am Now an App.

You can subscribe to the comments on Slaw either as a separate matter (RSS, email) or as part of a subscription combining posts and comments (RSS, email).

2. SlawTips

This week’s tips on SlawTips are:

• Tuesday: Technology: Google’s Amazing New “Search by Image” Functionality
• Wednesday: Research: Follow the Class
• Thursday: Practice: Plan for Success

You’ll find a brief excerpt of this week’s tips on Slaw, but the links above will take you to the full versions, along with 100 more tips. Advice you can use — short and to the point — every Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday.

You can get to SlawTips at either tips.slaw.ca or slawtips.ca and you can subscribe by RSS or email.

3. Maritime Law Book Selected Summaries

This week’s Maritime Law Book case summaries are in precis on Slaw and full at cases.slaw.ca.

• 2011 MBCA 77 [Practice]
• Carter Brothers Ltd. v. Registrar of Motor Vehicles (N.B.) 2011 NBCA 81 [Delegated legislation]
• Ladner v. Wolfson et al. 2011 BCCA 370 [Constructive trust]
• Pacific Newspaper Group Inc. v. Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, Local 2000 et al. 2011 BCCA 373 [Administrative law]
• R. v. Twitchell (M.A.) 2010 ABQB 693 [Search warrant, laptop]

Thus far, 101 summaries in total are available on cases.slaw.ca. You can subscribe to SlawTips via RSS or email.