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25 mai
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03:50
The Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (known as CPSR) has decided to wind up, having pushed for responsible – and notably peaceful – uses of information technology for over 30 years. As they say in their notice, back in 1981 there was no one else with their message. (...) -- Justice Issues, Miscellaneous, Technology: Internet
24 mai
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18:09
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Noise. Some like it, some don't. I go back and forth myself, donning a pair of noise-cancelling earphones when I have to fly but keeping the radio tuned to a classical station when I'm working. But, unlike a lot of people, I don't plug into music when I'm wandering out and (...) -- The Friday Fillip
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12:00
Many professionals find developing a business plan a daunting and somewhat scary thing to do. In law, so much of what a professional does is taught and yet one of the most important parts of practice – finding and keeping clients – is not. Lawyers like things that are definable and (...) -- Legal Marketing
23 mai
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Division 27 of Part 4 of the federal Jobs, Growth and Long-term Prosperity Act (legislation to implement Budget 2012 measures), which received royal assent on June 29, 2012, will repeal section 13 of the Statutory Instruments Act on April 1, 2014, and remove the requirement to deliver and sell (...) -- Legal Information, Legal Information: Libraries & Research, Legal Information: Publishing, Substantive Law, Substantive Law: Legislation, Technology, access to the Internet, Budget 2012 measures, Canada Gazette, deliver and sell printed copies, electronic publishing, electronic versions, Growth and Long-term Prosperity Act, Industry Canada statistics, Jobs, Printed Edition, sustainable development
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Each Thursday we present a significant excerpt, usually from a recently published book or journal article. In every case the proper permissions have been obtained. If you are a publisher who would like to participate in this feature, please let us know via the site's contact form. Hunger, (...) -- Thursday Thinkpiece
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12:00
A long time ago – sometime back in the last millennium, as a I recall – Michael Enright, the C.B.C. host and motorcycle rider – during yet another debate on gun control, said of the bill then before Parliament, “I should think it would be an obviosity.” Besides any (...) -- Justice Issues
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02:12
A few months ago we blogged about Rob Ford when he was removed from office and we asked all the haters to hold back from castigating the mayor for the wrong reason. Back in November we were disappointed to see so many people making fun of Ford for his weight and appearance. Well, we still hate (...) -- Justice Issues, Practice of Law
22 mai
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18:00
On Mother's Day, I sat down to write this blog – and reflected on the extra challenges that women associates still face in making it to partner. This is despite the fact that most law firms have generous maternity leave policies. From the firm's perspective, their greatest challenge in (...) -- Practice of Law
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On May 1st, a Texas law student uploaded the specs for 3D printing of a single-shot pistol to the web – specs that were downloaded over 100,000 times before the U.S. State Department asked that he remove them from his site. That same day, May 9th, U.S. President Barack Obama issued an (...) -- Legal Information
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11:30
We learn from the redoubtable Howard Knopf that the Couchiching Institute is having one of its celebrated roundtables in Ottawa on May 27 with Ottawa U law dean Bruce Feldthusen on The Future of Legal Education. As the announcement says: This comes at crucial time, when enrolments in American (...) -- Announcements
21 mai
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20:23
I appreciate the ability to borrow eBooks from my public library with a tap on an app. I am not currently able to make it as easy as that for my law firm library users who wish to review legal texts with mobile devices. Times are changing though and law firms are buying eBooks. At the Canadian (...) -- Legal Information: Libraries & Research, Technology
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Touchscreens have made a difference. Until fairly recently, the assumption could normally be made that people would provide input to their machines using a keyboard or a mouse. But not now. The people have spoken: we want touchscreens. Touchscreens more than justify the disruption they have (...) -- Legal Technology
20 mai
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15:00
Here's the scenario: A lawyer is retained to assist a client with a tort claim and an accident benefits claim. The client, meanwhile, has been informed that the long-term disability (LTD) benefits provided by her employer's group plan are about to be terminated. In an effort to forestall the (...) -- Reading: Recommended
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19 mai
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18:20
Technology is the game-changer in the legal field, and yet most lawyers are not very technologically inclined. LawTechCamp seeks to change that, bringing together non-lawyers from the tech sector and the lawyers who are eager to identify the opportunities of the future. Now in it's third (...) -- Education & Training: CLE/PD, Practice of Law: Future of Practice
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17 mai
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13:00
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13:00
For fun, most of the time — as anyone who lives near a school playground will know. That blast of raw sound, bigger than a shout, less prissy than a sung note, pours energy out of us in a way that demands the world take notice. And it can feel good, as all that pent up breath sweeps out (...) -- The Friday Fillip
16 mai
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13:00
A colleague writes of what seems like the perfect storm of open access hitting the students with whom she works… My students and I publish in the journal Evolution: Education and Outreach published by Springer. Great outlet for our work. But, they just went open access (good).The cost to (...) -- Legal Publishing
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As anticipated, since the federal Pooled Registered Pension Plans Act came into force December 14, 2012, several provinces have followed suit and tabled legislation to implement the new kind of portable deferred income plan, which is designed to provide retirement income to workers and (...) -- Substantive Law, Substantive Law: Legislation, employer-sponsored retirement pension plan, Pooled Registered Pension Plans, portable deferred income plan, Retirement, Voluntary Retirement Savings Plan
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Each Thursday we present a significant excerpt, usually from a recently published book or journal article. In every case the proper permissions have been obtained. If you are a publisher who would like to participate in this feature, please let us know via the site's contact form. (...) -- Thursday Thinkpiece
15 mai
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18:00
[The memosphere strikes again! Between submission and publication of this column, Omar Ha-Redeye posted a very informed and insightful Slaw entry entitled, "Access to Justice Starts With Legal Tuition". Playing Bell to my Meucci (that reads rather strangely), Omar covers much of the same (...) -- Justice Issues
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Much is made about women leaving the practice of law. For the most part, I find the concerns somewhat overstated, and the emphasis misplaced on gender issues when this is much more likely a signal that what firms are doing isn't working for a significant proportion of the profession. (A notable (...) -- Practice of Law, Practice of Law: Future of Practice, women lawyers
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The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (“CIPO”) has recently published two notices for patent examiners relating to patent interpretation[i], and in particular computer-related/business method type patents. These notices were released following a 2011 Federal Court of Appeal (...) -- Intellectual Property
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When does the law require you to follow up an email to see if it was received? Is that a matter of prudence only, i.e. if you really have to know, you had better follow up? Are you liable for negligence for not following up, in important cases, or all cases, if the message was not received? A (...) -- Technology: Internet, ulc_ecomm_list
14 mai
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18:01
When was the last time you got a great deal for less than 25 cents? If you're looking for excellent value for money, consider the work of law reform agencies. Law reform publications are a great resource for legal research. Michel-Adrien Sheppard regularly posts updates on Slaw on the work of (...) -- Legal Information: Libraries & Research, Miscellaneous
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17:13
A tweet this morning from Heather Colman alerted me to the Building Smarter Organizations event happening today in Toronto. If you are like me, and you are not in Toronto attending this event, you can still participate through the web. There is a Linked In Group and a #smartorg twitter (...) -- Education & Training, Technology: Office Technology
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In his new book “Tomorrow's Lawyer”, Richard Susskind claims that there are at least 13 “disruptive technologies” in law. A “disruptive technology” is one that fundamentally challenges and changes the functioning of a firm or sector (as opposed to supporting (...) -- Dispute Resolution
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13 mai
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23:13
Nora Rock, corporate writer & policy anylist at LAWPRO, has some good advice for lawyers now that the weather is getting warmer. While this article was initially aimed at Ontario lawyers, all lawyers in Canada could stand to do some 'spring cleaning' We had flurries last night (...) -- Reading: Recommended
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It takes a special kind of mind to love statistics, but only the wilfully obtuse ignore them. Prior to the 2008 recession the statistics for the legal profession could borrow the Olympic Games' motto – Faster, Higher, Stronger. Nearly five years later, higher numbers of law grads and (...) -- Practice of Law: Future of Practice, Practice of Law: Practice Management
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13:00
The more interconnected the world becomes, the more people (businesses, governments) are exposed to harm generated online. “Cyberthreats”have become a leading source of worry for many knowledgeable people. The Internet is a dangerous place. Hacking that was once the domain of geeks (...) -- Legal Technology
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12 mai
10 mai
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18:00
Jordan Furlong published another great column recently about how the word the word "disruption" is being used to describe many changes in legal practice and technology. He points out that the word is most often used to describe legal process innovation. The comment boards lit up with (...) -- Legal Publishing
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I billed 2,400 hours last year because I have the perfect work-life balance. Since its adoption into mainstream North American vocabulary in 1986, the term “work-life balance” has caused hypertension in and the impression of decreased work-ethic by senior lawyers and firm managers. (...) -- Practice of Law
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Microsoft has done some good things. Even as an Apple fan boy I can say that. One such Good Thing is Slate magazine, founded in 1996 (and a strong influence in my naming of Slaw, as it happens) under the auspices of Microsoft's MSN. In 2004 Slate passed into the hands of the Washington (...) -- The Friday Fillip
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Do you know of any means by which prosecutorial documents – like a notice of compliance or notice of laying of charges – can be delivered electronically? If a regulator, for example, wanted to require one of its regulated bodies to appear at a hearing, how can it ensure that the (...) -- Practice of Law, Technology: Internet
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9 mai
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16:06
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Each Thursday we present a significant excerpt, usually from a recently published book or journal article. In every case the proper permissions have been obtained. If you are a publisher who would like to participate in this feature, please let us know via the site's contact form. The (...) -- Thursday Thinkpiece
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Though my column focuses on legal information, in the United States legal education is intimately bound up with the trends in legal information. LEXIS and WESTLAW maintain a stranglehold on the marketplace by heavy investment in law school training. By putting boots on the ground in the form of (...) -- Legal Information
8 mai
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22:00
The National Self Represented Litigants Project headed by University of Windsor prof Julie Macfarlane has released its report, "Identifying and Meeting the Needs of Self-Represented Litigants.". There is also available an executive summary of the report. The Project interviewed 283 (...) -- Justice Issues, Practice of Law
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I did a quick and unscientific bit of research a couple of days ago, comparing use of the terms non-lawyer and non-doctor in the Twitter-verse. It seems that for the most part (on that day, at least), recent tweets referencing “non-doctor” were focused on the television serial, (...) -- Justice Issues, access to justice, Language
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Canada is far from perfect when it comes to its domestic human rights record. Obviously the scale and gravity of concerns do not compare with tragedies unfolding in countries like Syria or the Democratic Republic of Congo, the threat to survival faced by so many of Colombia's Indigenous nations (...) -- Justice Issues
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7 mai
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15:32
Dr. Sonia Lupien, a neuroscientist, shared 60 minutes on understanding the beast of stress. Her premise is that if you understand someone, you can deal with it. I understand stress from the user perspective. Like using a computer, I didn't know what the silicon in the chips was for. Dr. (...) -- Education & Training: CLE/PD
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10:00
♫ There's a Law, there's an Arm, there's a Hand There's a Law, there's an Arm, there's a Hand… ♫ Words, music and lyrics by Leonard Cohen. Lawrence Lessig wrote a very famous book called Code is Law (now in version 2 simply called Code v2). In (...) -- Practice of Law: Future of Practice
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In R. v. Neil, Justice Binnie stated that the duty of candour was an aspect of the duty of loyalty. As Justice Binnie put it, an aspect of the duty of loyalty is a duty of candour with the client on matters relevant to the retainer The fiduciary duty of candour was the basis for the earlier (...) -- Legal Ethics
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12:58
My last post discussed how parties are able to essentially “buy time” in our civil justice system. By simply refusing to carry out the next procedural step, defendants can relatively easily grind a proceeding to a halt for a year. The cost sanctions against first offenders on (...) -- Practice of Law
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6 mai
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22:08
We at LAWPRO have occasionally cautioned lawyers who specialize in one area of law about the dangers of dabbling in another, unfamiliar area. As a refreshing twist on that general advice, we're reminding lawyers that while dabbling can be dangerous, KNOWING the law in another area is never a (...) -- Reading: Recommended
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"Be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi's words could be women lawyers' "call to arms." Over the past few months, the conversations regarding the challenges that working women face have been loud… but maybe not so clear. Articles like… Atlantic (...) -- Legal Marketing
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5 mai
3 mai
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13:00
In the late 1980's and early 1990's, I put around two thousand lawyers through a hands-on computer course on how they could use a PC themselves. For a few years, one lawyer returned annually. Turns out that his motivation was to re-assure himself that his colleagues were still luddites when it (...) -- Legal Technology
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I'm sure I've confessed here before to being what others might call a "prescriptivist" where English usage is concerned. (I'm actually all for freedom of choice; it's just that I would prefer it to be an informed choice.) But I have a healthy respect for the power (...) -- The Friday Fillip
2 mai
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15:00
Since 2009, and most recently last December at the United Nations Sixty-seventh General Assembly Plenary, various countries—particularly Iran and North Korea—have raised various challenges to Canada's human rights record. However, on April 30, 2013, it was reported that members of (...) -- Justice Issues, Miscellaneous, Aboriginal peoples, access to social services, asylum seekers and refugees, Canada's Human Rights Record, discrimination against minorities and vulnerable groups, peer review, Policies and programs, rights of the child, United Nations, Universal Periodic Review process, violence against indigenous women
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Each Thursday we present a significant excerpt, usually from a recently published book or journal article. In every case the proper permissions have been obtained. If you are a publisher who would like to participate in this feature, please let us know via the site's contact form. THE (...) -- Thursday Thinkpiece
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I used to race our sailboat, a 35-footer (11 meters) that required a crew of about nine to be competitive. When I helmed, or steered the boat, I would sometimes drag down our performance with three common mistakes: Not good enough as a sailor Tried to do too much Didn't get my head out of the (...) -- Practice of Law
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1er mai
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CanLII is testing a new search interface! Check out beta.CanLII.org. The CanLII Blog reports: CanLII is proud to present a new search interface designed to unify the functionalities of its search engine under a single form that is at once easier and more powerful to use. This beta site allows (...) -- Legal Information, Technology
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When we come to a new fork in an old road we continue to follow the route with which we are familiar, even though wholly different, even better avenues might open up before us. George Manuel Yesterday, the Canadian Bar Association invited us to join a conversation about the future of law. (...) -- Practice of Law: Future of Practice, Canadian Legal Profession, CBA Futures
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One of the most stimulating and pleasing roles I have, is to be involved with very small numbers of students on Kingston University's Publishing Masters' degree, as a supervisor of dissertations and on the advisory board for the course. There are a number of such courses in the UK, including (...) -- Legal Publishing
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30 avril
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17:22
Back in 2009, I did a quick check on link rot in Canadian decisions on CanLII. Today I repeated my quick investigation of link rot in Canadian judicial decisions. To gather decisions with URLs I simply searched for the text "http://" in CanLII. I limited my results for 2012 decisions, (...) -- Legal Information: Information Management
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On September 11, 2008 N.S., a sexual assault complainant sat in a court room in Ontario and struggled to explain to a judge why she shouldn't have to remove her niqab, face veil, while she testified. “My face” she insisted, “is not going to show any signs of – it is not (...) -- Justice Issues, Substantive Law: Judicial Decisions
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In January 2012, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that his government would reshape the immigration system to make it “good for Canada”. This begged the questions whether the immigration had been “bad for Canada” (...) -- Justice Issues
29 avril
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19:33
I receive between 100 and 1,000 business-related e-mails per day. Out of necessity, over the last few years I've developed a numbers of systems that help me manage my inbox effectively. This is the third in a series of posts describing the systems I utilize to stay on top of my inbox. (...) --
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It isn't uncommon for real estate lawyers to be retained to act for both the purchaser of a property and the mortgage lender that is financing the purchase. However, a review of lender claims against lawyers for negligence suggests a misconception by some lawyers who believe that their only (...) -- Reading: Recommended
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Last week the Canadian Bar Association held a summit on access to justice in Vancouver. I spoke on active adjudication as a tool to enhance access to justice. My co-presenter, Darin Thompson, spoke about online dispute resolution. In preparing for my presentation, I was reflecting on the skills (...) -- Dispute Resolution
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28 avril
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In light of what's been happening to Canada's correctional system, it's disconcerting to listen to today's CBC Sunday Edition interview by Michael Enright of Marianne Vollan, who is the Director General of Correctional Services of Norway. Disconcerting because she lays out a (...) -- Justice Issues, Miscellaneous
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26 avril
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Another year of classes and exams has come to an end, which puts me in a reflective frame of mind; recently a topic that has been turning over in my mind is curriculum reform, which is a hot button topic on this Blog and at many law schools across this country and North America in general. As I (...) -- Education & Training: Law Schools
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One hoary definition of a gentleman is: a man who can play the accordion — but doesn't. Now, thanks to the magic of a Friday fillip, here's your chance to lose that straitening status of gentlewoman or gentleman. What's that you say? You can't play the accordion? But (...) -- The Friday Fillip
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A computer trainer I know well tells me that there was much discussion in his company as to whether they should charge for searches that returned no results. After great debate it was concluded that zero hits was a legitimate search result, and, as such, the company should charge for it. I (...) -- Legal Information
25 avril
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With this entry Slaw goes past an impressive milestone: our bloggers and columnists have given our readers ten thousand posts since Slaw began very nearly eight years ago. In that time we've acquired thousands of readers from Canada and around the globe and our complement has grown from (...) -- Administration of Slaw
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15:00
Beginning September 2, 2013, foreign nationals applying for Canadian visas from countries such as Haiti, Jamaica, Saudi Arabia, Albania, Afghanistan, Sudan, Syria, Columbia, Burma, Egypt, Yemen and Pakistan, will undergo mandatory fingerprinting and digital photo collection at new visa (...) -- Substantive Law, Substantive Law: Foreign Law, Substantive Law: Legislation, biometric, civil liberties, immigration, Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations, National security, Privacy Law, Security, Temporary Residents
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More than 1200 legal marketing professionals gathered in Las Vegas for the industry's largest conference earlier this month. This where marketers with a shared obsession for business development and client retention, sharpen their skills. Here are the best nuggets from the sessions I attended: (...) -- Legal Marketing
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Each Thursday we present a significant excerpt, usually from a recently published book or journal article. In every case the proper permissions have been obtained. If you are a publisher who would like to participate in this feature, please let us know via the site's contact form. Sexual (...) -- Thursday Thinkpiece
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24 avril
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Recently a precedent setting family law case involving a sperm donor claiming to be a parent of a child born to lesbian mothers was settled out of court. Not unlike many non-traditional families the women in this northern Ontario case conceived a child by way of donor sperm, but precedent (...) -- Justice Issues, Substantive Law: Legislation
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Slaw has just received word that the national Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters has placed four working group reports online. The Committee, established by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Beverley McLachlin, and chaired by Supreme Court Justice Thomas (...) -- Justice Issues
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Each Wednesday we tell you which three English-language cases and which French-language case have been the most viewed on CanLII and we give you a small sense of what the cases are about. For the week of April 16 – 23: R. v. Duncan 2013 ONCJ 160 5. At heart, Mr. Duncan's case was (...) -- Wednesday: What's Hot on CanLII
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23 avril
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The Legal Education Society of Alberta is recognizing the more that 600 people in Alberta, mostly lawyers, who volunteer their time to support legal education in our province. How are they doing that? By sharing a full day seminar with volunteers about a topic that is potentially useful to (...) -- Education & Training: CLE/PD
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Slaw readers might like to take a look at Senate bill S-7, the Combating Terrorism Act, now before the House for third reading, a bill that proposes to abridge our civil liberties to a degree. As is often the case with bills the main purpose of which is to amend existing legislation, the text (...) -- Justice Issues, Substantive Law: Legislation
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Sunday morning 3:30 a.m. and my head finally hits a cushion. I have just done an Amsterdam – Istanbul – Sana'a in 11 hours. By Tuesday evening I have been totally submerged in Yemen, even though I do not speak Arabic. To compensate, I have become very sensitive to all other forms of (...) -- Practice of Law
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My clients, at least those who are not familiar with our civil justice system, expect a quick resolution of their case. They are often quite surprised to learn that a regular lawsuit will likely take years to run its course. What really shocks my clients though is how badly a lawsuit can become (...) -- Practice of Law
22 avril
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Part two of B.C.'s white paper on Justice reform commits to the appointment this year of a chair for the Civil Resolution Tribunal, and commits to invest in the technology needed to launch Canada's first "on line" tribunal. The Tribunal is to serve as an alternative to court (...) -- Practice of Law: Future of Practice
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The #1 cause of claims against Ontario lawyers practising in most areas of law is problems with lawyer-client communication. Considering lawyers' reputation for verbosity, this statistic seems counterintuitive, at least until you consider that some things are easier and more fun to talk about (...) -- Reading: Recommended
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The decision by Justice O'Donnell in R. v. Duncan (on SLAW here) has gained some notoriety in the legal community ((Katie Daubs, "Legal Decision with literary flourish and dry wit making the round…", Toronto Star, March 29, 2013) and was the subject of a SLAW post by Simon (...) -- Legal Ethics
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21 avril
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As much as I enjoy discussing how technology can improve and enhance legal practice, I firmly believe this technological transition has to begin before – in the law schools. Despite, or perhaps in spite of generational differences, the vast majority of legal graduates are technologically (...) -- Education & Training: CLE/PD, Education & Training: Law Schools
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Summaries of selected recent cases are provided each week to Slaw by Maritime Law Book. Every Sunday we present a precis of the latest summaries, a fuller version of which can be found on MLB-Slaw Selected Case Summaries at cases.slaw.ca. This week's summaries concern: Discharge of juror (...) -- Summaries Sunday
19 avril
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The plain English movement has been going on for a long time. The first law reports in England, The Year Books (1260 to 1535), were all in the French language. Legal texts were published in England in the French language in the 16th century. But French was not the language of the people and it (...) -- Legal Publishing
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One of my favourite quips fell from the misanthropic mouth of Brother Theodore ("philosopher, metaphysician, and podiatrist"): "I have gazed into the abyss, and the abyss has gazed into me . . . and neither of us liked what we saw.” This turn on Nietzsche's apothegm (...) -- The Friday Fillip
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Legal researchers and law librarians have long worried about the lack of a coherent strategy in Canada to ensure the digital preservation and archiving of legal and governmental information. A case in point is Louis Mirando's Slaw.ca post of Feb. 15th , 2013 on Library Budgets and (...) -- Legal Information, Technology: Internet
18 avril
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On December 4, 2012, the Saskatchewan government tabled Bill No. 85, An Act respecting Employment Standards, Occupational Health and Safety, Labour Relations and Related Matters and making consequential amendments to certain Acts (hereinafter referred to as the Saskatchewan Employment Act) in (...) -- Substantive Law, Substantive Law: Legislation, Consolidating Labour Legislation, Employment Law, Labour Law, Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan Employment Act
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Lawyers rely on an invisible infrastructure to power their law firms. Once those wires leave your computer and hit the wall, you cede control to others. Even if you haven't shifted any part of your practice to the cloud, you may have file or e-mail servers inside your firm that are managed by (...) -- Legal Technology
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Each Thursday we present a significant excerpt, usually from a recently published book or journal article. In every case the proper permissions have been obtained. If you are a publisher who would like to participate in this feature, please let us know via the site's contact form. IFC (...) -- Thursday Thinkpiece
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Prof. Larry Lessig gave a superb talk, "Free Culture," this evening at Harvard Law School. The talk is one of a series of special events Harvard Law professor and Berkman Center for Internet & Society director Terry Fisher organized for his 2013 Copyright course, in which I'm (...) -- Substantive Law: Legislation, Technology: Internet
17 avril
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Each year the ABA Techshow offers a fun feature that has the audience bombarded by the URLs of dozens and dozens of interesting sites delivered at a relentless rapid pace by a tag team of IT experts. You can access the YouTube video used in that presentation. But in case you find it hard to (...) -- Miscellaneous, Technology
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One thing I find consistent about privacy issues is an inconsistency in approach and viewpoint. What is and is not deemed acceptable seems to change dramatically based on several factors, including geographic location (which I suppose is really more of a cultural issue than a geographic one), (...) -- Miscellaneous, Technology
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For generations, Canada provided refuge and opportunities for individuals seeking a home where they could build a good life. Our strong legal system remains the foundation on which that home was built, offering protections to those who faced persecution for reasons such as the colour of their (...) -- Practice of Law: Future of Practice
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Each Wednesday we tell you which three English-language cases and which French-language case have been the most viewed on CanLII and we give you a small sense of what the cases are about. For the week of April 9 – 16: R. v. Duncan 2013 ONCJ 160 5. At heart, Mr. Duncan's case was (...) -- Wednesday: What's Hot on CanLII
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16 avril
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I had to visit the Provincial Archives of Alberta today. I was looking for an Order of the Planning Board from 1981. Why? Because there was a reference to the document on the title for some land. This is not the first trip I have made to the Archives. I have visted the archives to find (...) -- Legal Information: Information Management
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Since our new design was implemented in December of last year, I've received lots of compliments — and a few expressions of particular concern from columnists. Their difficulty is that it was hard to see a list of all of the recent columns (as opposed to the daily blog posts) when (...) -- Administration of Slaw
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These are notes from a keynote address by Roger Martin, Dean, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto on April 15, 2013 at the Canadian Corporate Counsel Association National Spring Conference 2013 in Toronto. Note: these are my selected notes from this session; any inaccuracies or (...) -- Practice of Law, Practice of Law: Practice Management
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The Law and Justice Foundation of New South Wales has been doing some serious research into legal needs across Australia and how those needs are in fact met. The resulting Legal Australia-Wide Survey (LAW Survey), provides the first comprehensive quantitative assessment across Australia of an (...) -- Reading
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The arrival of a group of Cree youth from Whapmagoostui, the northernmost Cree village on Hudson Bay at the end of a 1,500 km walk (and the many friends they picked up along the way) after a two month trek through the northern bush should remind us that the spirit of Idle No More (INM) has not (...) -- Justice Issues
15 avril
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Unbundled legal services are one solution to the complex issue of access to justice and are likely to become more commonplace. Being aware of the risks of unbundled legal services will help you reduce your exposure to a malpractice claim. Here are several steps you can take to reduce your (...) -- Reading: Recommended
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14 avril
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I have an OCD-like compulsion of checking to make sure my phone is on me or nearby at all times. Although I have a passcode lock on it, losing my phone is of great concern, and I'm certain I'm not alone. There are ways to remotely wipe your phone, but if I did lose it I would (...) -- Technology
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Summaries of selected recent cases are provided each week to Slaw by Maritime Law Book. Every Sunday we present a precis of the latest summaries, a fuller version of which can be found on MLB-Slaw Selected Case Summaries at cases.slaw.ca. This week's summaries concern: Search warrants / Ojibway (...) -- Summaries Sunday
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On the second Sunday in each month we bring you a summary from Supreme Advocacy LLP of recent decisions at the Supreme Court of Canada. Supreme Advocacy LLP offers a weekly electronic newsletter, SupremeAdvocacyLettⓐr, to which you may subscribe. This first entry is a summary of all appeals (...) -- Summaries Sunday
12 avril
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21:55
Excerpted from LAWPRO Magazine, Student Issue #1, 2012 There isn't a simple magic formula for mapping out a career in law. You will make some decisions on where you would like to go, but there are many things outside your control which will impact on where you will end up. Factors such as (...) -- Law Student Week
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21:43
Some readers of Slaw will be saddened to hear that Ralph Scane has died. His death notice is in today's Globe & Mail. I was a colleague of Ralph for some 20 years at U of T and I remember his kindness, integrity and wide and eclectic legal knowledge. He came to the Faculty from (...) -- Miscellaneous
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One-third of the nearly 23,500 lawyers in private practice in Ontario are sole practitioners. As a solo, it's great to have the freedom that comes with being your own boss, but you also have full responsibility for all aspects of the operation of your law practice. Do you have what it takes to (...) -- Law Student Week
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I couldn't sell immortality at half price. I just don't have the skills that are necessary to persuade people to part with their money. Which may explain my fascination with the pitchmen at markets and fairs. Not that I'm a sucker for all things that dice, slice, mince and (...) -- The Friday Fillip
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13:00
As winter turns to spring and hockey gives way to baseball and soccer, I can't help but think about the role of referees and umpires and wonder why we don't use them more for commercial dispute resolution. Every competitive sport needs a referee or umpire. Even in recreational leagues, players (...) -- Dispute Resolution
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The Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC) should make disclosure mandatory in situations where public safety is at risk. The current Rulesof Professional Conduct (Rules) focus on protecting confidentiality: there are only four categories of permitted disclosure; of these, all are optional except (...) -- Law Student Week
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Lawyers (both new and old) and law students are exposed to high levels of stress on a daily basis. The results can be use, misuse or even addiction to drugs or alcohol, and challenges to physical or mental wellness. Stress is also a contributing factor in many LAWPRO claims. The Wellness (...) -- Law Student Week
11 avril
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It's an open secret that law students emerge from law school knowing loads about law, and frighteningly little about legal practice. How students cope with this gap depends on many factors, including personality, the nature of their first job (whether it's as a sole practitioner, or (...) -- Law Student Week
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In December, fellow Slaw marketing columnist Doug Jasinski wrote a great post about LinkedIn's new makeover. His post walked you through the Skills and Endorsements feature (that LinkedIn is placing a lot of emphasis on), and the new look for LinkedIn Company Pages, with their new large (...) -- Legal Marketing
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In an effort to better understand sole and small-firm involvement in providing pro-bono legal services, the Ontario Bar Association is conducting a very short survey. Completing the survey should take no longer than two or three minutes and the information will be used in assisting the OBA's (...) -- Announcements
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B.C. is the home of innovation when it comes to law in this country, moving ahead with new ideas and new ways of providing its citizens with access to justice. We've talked about the foray into online dispute resolution and about the Ministry of Justice two-part White Paper on Justice (...) -- Justice Issues, Legal Information: Publishing, Practice of Law
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Sophisticated, stylish and elegant. These qualities are highly regarded in the fashion industry and embody something or someone who is chic. However, these qualities are not exclusive to the world of fashion. Professional criticism that is sophisticated, stylish and elegant should be tolerated (...) -- Law Student Week
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13:00
You might have heard already, but we are experiencing a mobile revolution. The message from market research companies is loud and clear – mobile web access is growing exponentially. What's more, Search Engine Watch reports a Google survey of mobile users found that they are five times (...) -- Legal Technology
10 avril
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18:11
A not-new UK law was given regulatory effect this week and enables the British Library to archive the .uk web, just as it already receives legal deposit of UK print materials. The import of the new regulatory changes in effect April 6 is, I gather, that the archive can built by automated crawl, (...) -- Legal Information: Libraries & Research, Technology: Internet
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This article originally appeared in the December 2010 issue of LAWPRO Magazine. It refers to LAWPRO coverage for Ontario lawyers, but the dangers listed would likely apply to any lawyer's errors and omissions coverage. On occasion, lawyers have engaged in activities that have made them (...) -- Practice of Law
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You have likely already been warned about the potential impact of your social media involvement on your professional reputation. Hopefully, you already know enough to carefully tailor access to your “personal” online persona, and you stay on top of untagging yourself in too-wild (...) -- Law Student Week
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18:00
Lawyers need to be of good character when they enter the profession but what does good character look like in lawyers already practising in the profession? To answer this, I will turn to Legally Blonde's very own, Elle Woods, to demonstrate why I think Daniel Bibb[1], a Manhattan Assistant (...) -- Law Student Week
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16:43
For some years now Slaw has acted as a repository for the memos and precedent opinions of the Toronto Opinions Group (TOROG), an informal group of lawyers primarily practising with the Toronto offices of the larger Canadian law firms, with an interest in third party (or transaction) opinion (...) -- Administration of Slaw
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A recent Ontario Superior Court case gives some interesting guidance on regulatory jurisdiction over Internet activities. Civil jurisdiction is not completely resolved, but there are lots of cases, and criminal jurisdiction is also ‘known' to some extent. What regulators can do or should (...) -- Substantive Law, ulc_ecomm_list
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Each Wednesday we tell you which three English-language cases and which French-language case have been the most viewed on CanLII and we give you a small sense of what the cases are about. For the week of April 2 – 9: R. v. Duncan 2013 ONCJ 160 5. At heart, Mr. Duncan's case was (...) -- Wednesday: What's Hot on CanLII
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With an uncritical eye the Chief Justice of Ontario's report on professionalism makes a virtuous call for higher standards of professionalism for lawyers. It is a response to the reality of declining professionalism. The report, as well as the prevailing discussion on professionalism, does not (...) -- Law Student Week, Practice of Law: Future of Practice
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Firms are navigating a tough financial climate, suppressed growth rates, and declining demand. Previous downturns have been transitory, as the industry has been able to recover within a few years. However this time the landscape has changed and the legal sector is not expected to return to (...) -- Practice of Law
9 avril
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22:57
May El-Abdallah is a former articling student at LAWPRO. This article originally appeared in the 2012 Student Edition of LAWPRO Magazine. Law school can be a steep learning curve, and stepping into the world of practice can seem even more daunting. One of the most common complaints I hear from (...) -- Law Student Week
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19:02
I have never had the opportunity to practice my craft in a law school library having only worked as a law librarian in private firms. By the time I meet law students, they have had the benefit of learning about legal research in the academic setting. Though legal research practice in a law firm (...) -- Education & Training: Law Schools, Legal Information: Libraries & Research
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In a competitive job market, it's important to consider not only what kind of work YOU want to do (and in what kind of environment), but also what legal employers are looking for in a new hire. This does NOT mean that you need to contort yourself and your interests into a one-size-fits-all (...) -- Law Student Week
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16:45
From an Access Copyright press release: Monday, April 8, 2013: Canada's writers and publishers take a stand against damaging interpretations of fair dealing by the education sector. Access Copyright is taking legal action—on three fronts. The actions focus on York University, (...) -- Miscellaneous, copyright, Education
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The Canadian legal profession has never been shy to rationalize and justify its role in society. The public relations campaign launched by the Ontario Bar Association in February is just the latest in a long history of institutional advertising efforts tracing as far back as the 1930s when the (...) -- Legal Ethics
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13:00
Lawyers work hard and play hard, except for the play part. This asymmetry is owed to the great demands on time and energy that the law profession features as it clings to the old adage that being a lawyer is not a job, it's a life. With an air of resignation, this vision of the 24/7 advocate is (...) -- Law Student Week, Practice of Law: Future of Practice
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The Superior Court has ruled that a potential home purchaser has forfeited a $100,000 deposit because her lawyer “deliberately let the clock run out” and failed to check her fax machine for two hours leading up to the 6 p.m. closing deadline. The purchaser signed an agreement to (...) -- Practice of Law
8 avril
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Last summer the law section of The Guardian newspaper in the UK asked readers to submit their ideas for "books every law student should read". The response included everything from Charles Dickens to Richard Susskind, with many more suggestions appearing in the comments section. (...) -- Law Student Week
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18:00
I came into the legal profession in the early 1990's, just as the age of the “national” law firms was dawning. The big downtown Vancouver firms of my formative years – all independents – were soon swept up in a maelstrom of merger mania with their equivalents in Toronto (...) -- Legal Marketing
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The FAQs below answer some of the more common questions we hear from newly called lawyers. The answers will help you determine if you need insurance coverage (or whether you're exempt) and which steps you need to take to get your LAWPRO insurance coverage in place. What is professional (...) -- Law Student Week
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Nothing in the Law Society of Upper Canada's Rules of Professional Conduct places much real pressure on the profession to incorporate equality in a meaningful way. If law schools cannot instill the true worth of equality into the minds of future lawyers, the expectation for a truly diverse (...) -- Education & Training: Law Schools, Justice Issues, Law Student Week
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7 avril
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21:00
For over 10 years LAWPRO Magazine has provided Ontario lawyers with a wealth of practice management and claims prevention content. It is delivered (in paper or electronic format) to every practicing lawyer in Ontario. In 2012 LAWPRO decided to extend the reach of the magazine beyond lawyers (...) -- Law Student Week
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There's not much that the large law firms have as an advantage over mid-size and small firms. Their bloated overhead, high-priced rent, and unnecessary bureaucracy, all translates into higher operating costs passed on to clients. There is one thing which does hold large law firms apart (...) -- Legal Information: Information Management, Technology: Office Technology
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There is a lot to think about beyond substantive law when you are starting a law practice. With that in mind, under the practicePRO banner LAWPRO has created the New Lawyer Resource page containing what we feel are the best resources we have to offer to new and soon-to-be-lawyers. The page has (...) -- Law Student Week
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As we did last year, we're having a modest Law Student Week on Slaw. In the coming week we'll post each day a student essay chosen by Slaw columnist and Ottawa University law prof Adam Dodek from papers submitted by his first year students. As well, the Lawyers' Professional (...) -- Administration of Slaw, Law Student Week
5 avril
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13:00
Like most vertebrates, human beings are more or less bilaterally symmetrical. Sure, you've got a mole on one shoulder and your liver is very much one-sided. But still, it's not as though we all had a lone tentacle growing out of a single hip. So how come left and right? It's a (...) -- The Friday Fillip
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13:00
Janice has hit her stride. She has a busy practice in a speciality area of law at a large regional law firm. She is actively involved in the administration of her firm and weaves regular client development activities into the work day. She and her husband Nick, a corporate lawyer, have two (...) -- Practice of Law
4 avril
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Do governments owe us clean air and clean water? Many Canadians expect our government to protect us from contamination and other environmental harms in outdoor air, water and land. But is this a legal right? The first formal recognition of environmental rights is found in the Stockholm (...) -- Justice Issues
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On April 1, 2013, the federal government launched the new Social Security Tribunal, which aims to simplify the process of appealing government decisions related to benefits under the Employment Insurance Act, Canada Pension Plan and Old Age Security Act. . . . (...) -- Justice Issues, Substantive Law, Substantive Law: Legislation, Canada Pension Plan, Department of Human Resources and Skills Development Act, Employment Insurance Act, Growth and Long-term Prosperity Act, Jobs, New Social Security Tribunal, Old Age Security Act, process of appealing government decisions
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Each Thursday we present a significant excerpt, usually from a recently published book or journal article. In every case the proper permissions have been obtained. If you are a publisher who would like to participate in this feature, please let us know via the site's contact form. Unruly (...) -- Thursday Thinkpiece
3 avril
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CANLII and the Quest for Comprehensive Case Law Databases CanLII now appears to be wallowing in the murky waters of determining what constitutes a "comprehensive" case law database. This question has plagued commercial legal publishers for more than two decades without anyone (...) -- Legal Publishing
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In 2008, a woman was stopped on the streets of Ottawa, questioned, and arrested for public intoxication. When inside the cellblocks, she was restrained by four male officers. Sergeant Steve Desjourdy then used scissors to cut her shirt and bra off. She was then left topless in a cell for three (...) -- Justice Issues
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The continued development of CanLII into a comprehensive source for primary legal information has created an environment where, over time, the incremental cost of primary legal information in Canada will deviate toward zero. This has important implications for both commercial and non-profit (...) -- Legal Information: Publishing
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Each Wednesday we tell you which three English-language cases and which French-language case have been the most viewed on CanLII and we give you a small sense of what the cases are about. For the week of March 26 – April 2: R. v. TELUS Communications Co. 2013 SCC 16 [1] For many (...) -- Wednesday: What's Hot on CanLII
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There is little doubt that privacy is a hot topic these days in Canada. Recent news stories include the loss of student loan recipient personal information by Human Resources and Skills Development Canada in January of 2013 and the loss of a data stick containing the personal information of (...) -- Practice of Law
2 avril
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As FaceBook executive Sheryl Sandburg observes in Lean In, “If someone has to ask the question, the answer is probably no. When someone finds the right mentor, it is obvious.” While Sandburg joins the growing ranks who praise the benefits of mentoring, she also recognises that (...) -- Education & Training: CLE/PD, Reading
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The literary bug has bitten our courts again, this time infecting the writing hand of Fergus O'Donnell of the Ontario Court of Justice. I came across his judgment in R v. Duncan (2013.03.26), since featured in the Toronto Star, in an ethics email list I belong to, where it came in for a (...) -- Practice of Law, Reading, Substantive Law: Judicial Decisions
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1er avril
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Lateral hiring of partners or associates occurs at firms of every size, and is becoming far more common. In addition to reviewing the transferring lawyer's credentials and suitability, the transferring lawyer and firm will need to identify and deal with potential conflicts of interest that may (...) -- Reading: Recommended
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Most American lawyers became aware of British Professor Richard Susskind after he wrote The End of Lawyers? in 2008. The book generated a lot of controversy among lawyers with some proclaiming that he had indeed “seen” the future of law and others protesting that the practice of law (...) -- Legal Technology
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31 mars
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19:52
Nobody said starting a new law school would be easy. Lakehead University plans on opening the first new law school in Ontario in over 40 years in September 2013. The school stylizes itself as the law school "in the North for the North," and will focus on pressing issues in rural (...) -- Education & Training: Law Schools
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13:00
Summaries of selected recent cases are provided each week to Slaw by Maritime Law Book. Every Sunday we present a precis of the latest summaries, a fuller version of which can be found on MLB-Slaw Selected Case Summaries at cases.slaw.ca. This week's summaries concern: Disability insurance / (...) -- Summaries Sunday
29 mars
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12:00
As we said last year on Good Friday, there are five nationwide holidays in this country: Canada Day (July 1), Labour Day (1st Monday in September), Christmas Day (December 25), New Year's Day (January 1)—and Good Friday, today (which is two days prior to Easter, which in turn falls, (...) -- Administration of Slaw
28 mars
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23:43
If you haven't read about the LAC's new Code of Conduct, the National Post has the issues well covered. The following section in particular is the portion of the Code (available online) that has most Librarians up in arms: 4.4.2 Teaching, speaking at conferences, and other personal (...) -- Justice Issues
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The Law Commissions of Scotland, England and Wales have proposed a clarification of British law about unfair terms in consumer contracts, to ensure that that law applies to end-user licence agreements for software and online services (EULAs). Canadian jurisdictions do not (so far as I know) (...) -- Substantive Law: Legislation, Technology: Internet, ulc_ecomm_list
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14:00
Across Canada, there is a trend in human rights law to increase protections for transgendered individuals. On March 20, 2013, Bill C-279 to protect the right of the transgendered and make it illegal to discriminate against transgender Canadians under the Canadian Human Rights Act passed third (...) -- Substantive Law, Substantive Law: Legislation, Bill C-279 to protect the right of the transgendered, Canadian Human Rights Act, Criminal Code, Discrimination, gender expression, gender identity, human rights law, prohibited ground, The Transgendered, transgendered persons
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When did sentencing policies shift from merely being questionable, misguided or ill-advised to becoming downright absurd? For many years now, the blunt hammer of mandatory minimum sentencing has been gaining traction in repeated Criminal Code amendments. Long a feature of only the most heinous (...) -- Justice Issues
27 mars
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Each Wednesday we tell you which three English-language cases and which French-language case have been the most viewed on CanLII and we give you a small sense of what the cases are about. For the week of March 19 – 26: Meads v. Meads 2012 ABQB 571 [1] This Court has developed a new (...) -- Wednesday: What's Hot on CanLII
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12:00
As many colleagues involved in serving Canadian government's online projects along the years, I too did my fair part of fence-sitting about web accessibility requirements. Those requirements were perceived as a set of obligations to take into account dying browsers, obsolete computers, extra (...) -- Legal Publishing
26 mars
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Many marketing professionals have been in a situation where they are packed up and leaving the office when a partner comes by and says they need a promotional package for a perspective client they are meeting first thing in the morning. Generally what will happen is the marketing person will (...) -- Legal Marketing
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16:57
I accidentally sent an email to the wrong person yesterday. No privacy violation problem with the email content, but very embarrasing of course. I am sure that every Slaw reader has misdirected an email at least one time. We have all probably dialed a wrong number on the telephone also. We may (...) -- Technology: Internet
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“People like progress, but they hate change.” There are a couple of misconceptions in that statement: Progress is the tangible result of change, you never find one without the other. But more importantly, people regularly confuse dislike with fear. While both are instinctive reflex (...) -- Legal Information
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25 mars
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18:55
It is easy to understand why a corporate client might ask her lawyer to sit on the board of directors. The lawyer may have worked closely with the corporation's founders to create the company, and will have a solid understanding of the corporation's objectives, its relationships with industry (...) -- Reading: Recommended
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24 mars
22 mars
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Paper, that stuff our money used to be made out of, that intermediate medium between vellum and pixels — the afterlife for some 150,000,000 forty-foot trees each year in Canada alone. It's so clearly doomed in many people's minds that we're able to look at it as something (...) -- The Friday Fillip
21 mars
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23:43
Simon touched on Google's latest offering Keep in a post yesterday, and how this product comes on the heels of Reader being abandoned. I've slowly come to grips with my Feeddemon and Google Reader partnership drawing to a close, but there's something more frustrating at play (...) -- Technology: Internet
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Because law belongs to the people, the governments and courts that issue law must make it available to the people. This is a simple and widely accepted fact. In practice, as governments and courts carry out their responsibilities to make law available, they do so in a wide variety of ways. For (...) -- Justice Issues
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-- Practice of Law, Practice of Law: Practice Management, Substantive Law, Substantive Law: Legislation, Barreau du Quebec, Commission Charbonneau, Disciplinary Justice, discipline of the profession it oversees, Professional Code, professional disciplinary boards, professional regulatory bodies, Quebec Bar Association, syndics
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Each Thursday we present a significant excerpt, usually from a recently published book or journal article. In every case the proper permissions have been obtained. If you are a publisher who would like to participate in this feature, please let us know via the site's contact form. (...) -- Thursday Thinkpiece
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"Would you pick up a half bottle of beer left on the pavement and drink it?" This question was put by Rob Cotton, CEO of NCC Group , to a BBC Radio4 presenter when he was discussing the risks of using free wifi hotspots in cafes, etc. Perhaps the image was a bit extreme, but it (...) -- Legal Information
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20 mars
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22:04
Google giveth and Google taketh away. The most recent taking was, of course, the wildly popular Google Reader. And the new gift today is Google Keep, a kind of reprise of the older (and discontinued) Google Notebook. Keep was announced today on the Official Blog. If you've got an Android (...) -- Announcements, Miscellaneous, Technology: Internet
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21:04
Last week we authored a post about rape culture, using the recent incident between Sarah Thomson and Rob Ford as an illustration of commonly held myths about sexual assault. We received a variety of comments, some of which deserve further discussion. One commentator admonished us, as (...) -- Justice Issues
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Each Wednesday we tell you which three English-language cases and which French-language case have been the most viewed on CanLII and we give you a small sense of what the cases are about. For the week of March 12 to 19: R. v. Pham 2013 SCC 15 [1] The central issue in this appeal is whether a (...) -- Wednesday: What's Hot on CanLII
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Have you had a good look at what's been coming into your browser lately? I was moved to do so recently when Michael Geist posted (March 7, 2013), on his blog (michaelgeist.ca), "Forget Fair Dealing: National Post Seeks $150 To License Short Excerpts". The title pretty much tells (...) -- Legal Technology
19 mars
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21:40
The European Union is adopting regulations on alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and online dispute resolution (ODR), according to a press release and associated documents, including a draft ODR regulation. This is aimed at consumer e-commerce in particular. I have not yet found in the (...) -- Practice of Law, Substantive Law: Foreign Law, ulc_ecomm_list
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Among the top ten cases (decided in ANY year) accessed on CanLII in 2012 was an Alberta Queen's Bench decision granting a routine motion to appoint a case management justice in a family proceeding. The written reasons in Meads v. Meads (2012 ABQB 571 (CanLII)), however, took 736 paragraphs, and (...) -- Reading: Recommended
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There's been something of a fuss in the media in the last couple of days concerning a relatively new, or newly explicit, Code of Conduct at Library and Archives Canada that's said to create the possibility of "muzzling" librarians or of their being snitched on if too (...) -- Justice Issues, Miscellaneous
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15:47
By now everyone who uses Google Reader has seen the news – this tool has been given its crash papers. TechCrunch's headline Good Riddance, Google Reader broke my heart, and judging by the comments, the hearts of others as well. Perhaps I have a secret aversion to change – wait (...) -- Technology: Internet
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14:01
Over the last week, several colleagues had outlined how they had felt disconnected from their law firms at various times. One lawyer described her difficulty in getting someone to explain billing practices at a new firm. In a nutshell, she didn't feel she could ask someone to explain billing (...) -- Miscellaneous, Reading
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18 mars
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We're proud to announce that Sandra Petersson is joining Slaw as a regular blogger. Sandra is research manager at the Alberta Law Reform Institute, a writer and a former Supreme Court of Canada clerk. She travelled to New Zealand as a Commonwealth Scholar to earn a Masters Degree in (...) -- Administration of Slaw, Announcements
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The recent news of PLC being acquired by Thomson Reuters is a most significant indicator of change and direction, certainly inasmuch as it affects the state of play competitively in the UK. Finally Thomson Reuters, in its Sweet and Maxwell and Westlaw UK guises, has woken up to a world that (...) -- Legal Publishing
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17 mars
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17:29
Almost a year ago I remarked here that the Ontario Reports, long a staple — and privilege — of membership in the Law Society of Upper Canada, were freely available online. (The reaction at the time was one of mild interest: CanLII provides all the free access we're likely to (...) -- Legal Information: Libraries & Research, Legal Information: Publishing
15 mars
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15:58
A criminal case was recently decided in which, I'm sure, many people reading this saw in the national media. It created a brief stir and the news cycle went on. What it left behind is a disturbing glimpse into our national obsession. In this case a minor hockey coach intentionally tripped (...) -- Substantive Law: Judicial Decisions
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15:30
First Peoples Law, a BC law firm that's just over a year old now, has launched a new blog that essentially forms the main page of their website. According to the firm's principal, Bruce McIvor, they're aiming to inform First Nations readers directly, and not just other lawyers. (...) -- Announcements, Reading
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14 mars
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There's an unmistakable trend in software and it's going to change how firms and users handle technology in the future. The trend is for far more frequent upgrades – often as part of a Cloud or subscription package — and the result is going to be a higher tempo of IT testing and (...) -- Legal Technology
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After a visit to the Mayo Clinic, the dean of the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University decided that there was a need for a “teaching hospital” for law school graduates to gain experience and learn their trade while being assisted by experienced lawyers. (...) -- Education & Training, Education & Training: Law Schools, Practice of Law, Practice of Law: Future of Practice, access to justice, accessible and low-cost legal services, law firm, law firm to place graduates, law school, Law School Graduates, Teaching Hospital, work experience to new lawyers
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There is an obvious inherent tension between competition principles and intellectual property (“IP”), including patents. A recent Competition Bureau inquiry into alleged market manipulation by Alcon provides a good illustration of how these principles can intersect. By their very (...) -- Intellectual Property
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13 mars
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21:27
Last week Sarah Thomson took to social media to recount her version of the events of Thursday March 7 when she attended the Canadian Jewish Political Affairs Committee Action Party event. Early Friday morning she posted to Facebook that Mayor Rob Ford grabbed her ass and made suggestive (...) -- Justice Issues
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19:24
Google Glass is a cool concept. The thought of having a real-time augmented reality display brings interesting possibilities. In addition to possible courtroom use, take a look at 10 Compelling Ways People Plan To Use Google Glass, and 11 Kickass Ways Normal People Will Use Google Glass. (...) -- Substantive Law, Technology
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Leslie Klinger has written a good many books about Sherlock Holmes. Currently he and author Laurie R. King are editing a book of stories by genre writers that are inspired by the Holmes canon. Their publisher, Pegasus Books, was contacted by the Conan Doyle Estate which, to quote Klinger, (...) -- Miscellaneous, Substantive Law: Foreign Law
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14:47
Each Wednesday we tell you which three English-language cases and which French-language case have been the most viewed on CanLII and we give you a small sense of what the cases are about. For the week of March 5 to 12: Shakur v. Mitchell Plastics 2012 ONSC 1008 [1] This is an action for (...) -- Wednesday: What's Hot on CanLII
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I closed December's article by writing: Another important thing about managing projects [is] you have to be there. Projects don't manage themselves. As Woody Allen said, “90% of life is just showing up.” But what does “showing up” as a project manager mean? Three (...) -- Practice of Law
12 mars
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17:00
Over the last few years the physical footprint of law firm libraries has been decreasing. Reasons for this include the ever-increasing price of real estate and the availability (both real and perceived) of legal materials online. Some library users rarely or never set foot in the library; this (...) -- Legal Information
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Like most law firm librarians, it is my responsibility to make sure that people in my organization have the information resources they need to do their work. We subscribe to a great number of resources and they are in so many formats and databases that locating specific items can be (...) -- Legal Information
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11 mars
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The Brits have launched a new quarterly magazine, "Legal IT Today." From the editor, Joanna Goodman: Our community is everyone interested and involved in legal IT: CIOs, IT managers and decision makers, vendors who develop IT products and services for the legal sector, strategic and (...) -- Announcements, Reading, Technology
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I was doing some research into social media policy examples for a course, and came across Jaffe PR's Social Media Policy Template for Law Firms and Attorneys. It is available for use and adaptation by lawyers and firms. Last updated in November 2012, this template was first published in (...) -- Practice of Law, Technology: Internet
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12:00
The story of Griffiths Energy's unlawful payments to the Chad ambassador's wife led last month's news. Attention focused on the company's self-disclosure and investigation, and also on the involvement by high profile Canadian lawyers in the original unlawful transaction. Based on the media (...) -- Legal Ethics
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10 mars
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Summaries of selected recent cases are provided each week to Slaw by Maritime Law Book. Every Sunday we present a precis of the latest summaries, a fuller version of which can be found on MLB-Slaw Selected Case Summaries at cases.slaw.ca. This week's summaries concern: Judicial review / (...) -- Summaries Sunday
8 mars
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18:00
Well I felt pretty good about my 2013 New Year's Resolutions: SKI Mount Washington in February; RUN another half marathon in May; and HIKE the next section of the Colorado Rockies in July. The only little problem was this nagging shoulder pain that came out of nowhere and seemed to be getting (...) -- Practice of Law
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Everybody knows that computers are everywhere. This is old news. It used to be that a mechanic could fix an errant brake light in my car for 15 minutes of labour and a 15-cent bulb. Now I need a computer diagnosis and the replacement of a sophisticated multi-function panel. Hmmm – (...) -- Legal Technology
7 mars
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The Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) regulates the sale of alcohol products in Ontario. Fans of wine not available on the shelves of the LCBO's outlets may form wine clubs that order particular wines through the LCBO. Until recently, the LCBO collected the names and addresses of all the (...) -- Miscellaneous, ulc_ecomm_list
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In a special report tabled today in the House of Commons, the Correctional Investigator of Canada Howard Sapers found that the aboriginal prison population has jumped in the last decade and that correctional authorities have not been living up to their obligations. As well, the report, (...) -- Justice Issues
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I say, Doctor, Doctor! The Economist has a Johnson column on lawyers in the U.S. who call themselves "Doctor" because they have a J.D. degree. Apparently some states' ethical rules frown on this practice while others don't. The columnist comes down in favour of "common sense," which reserves (...) -- Miscellaneous, Practice of Law
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6 mars
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18:00
We all want our marketing efforts to go the distance. We want our work to be valued and valuable. I don't know any legal marketing professional who doesn't want their efforts to count. For these reasons, I believe, the Legal Marketing Association, Vancouver Chapter, asked me recently to present (...) -- Legal Marketing
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Social media is often touted as an important influencer on public opinion and political causes. The Pew Research Centre just released an interesting survey called Twitter Reaction to Events Often at Odds with Overall Public Opinion. From the report: At times the Twitter conversation is more (...) -- Technology
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13:00
Each Wednesday we tell you which three English-language cases and which French-language case have been the most viewed on CanLII and we give you a small sense of what the cases are about. For the week of February 27 to March 5: Saskatchewan (Human Rights Commission) v. Whatcott 2013 SCC 11 (...) -- Wednesday: What's Hot on CanLII
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13:00
I have always remembered the words of a First Nations woman, a tireless advocate for action to keep Indigenous women in Canada safe – long before the issue was attracting any media or political attention. We were sharing the podium for a press conference on Parliament Hill back in 2004. (...) -- Justice Issues
5 mars
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23:36
It is settled law across Canada that employers are required to accommodate disabled employees to the point of undue hardship. While the legal meaning and extent of the terms "handicapped" and "undue hardship" are constantly being tested before tribunals at all levels, the (...) -- Substantive Law, Substantive Law: Judicial Decisions
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23:12
My colleague Alex Yiu and I recently presented at an Edmonton Social Media Breakfast. It was great fun, a neat venue, and a very engaged audience. SMBYEG as it is known on Twitter is held in this beautiful venue (Startup Edmonton HQ at the Mercer Warehouse): The TEDx sign in the corner while (...) -- Legal Information
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13:00
Now that I am retired and no longer have access to comprehensive fee-based law databases, I have been using a variety of free open access sites. You may be aware of these already, but I want to share what I have learned about some of these very useful sources. . . . (...) -- Legal Information
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4 mars
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18:09
The Canadian Bar Association's Access to Justice (A2J) Committee is currently working on its Envisioning Equal Justice project. There are 5 "building blocks for change" they are working on. Currently under Building Block #5: "Alternatives for increasing access to justice for (...) -- Justice Issues, A2J, access to justice
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17:31
Debate about lawyers' incivility – whether it's on the increase, whether it's worthy of concern, how it should be handled – caught the attention of many of us in 2012. The subject continues to be discussed, and we can expect to hear more about it in the coming months and years. But (...) -- Reading: Recommended
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16:50
I receive between 100 and 1,000 business-related e-mails per day. Out of necessity, over the last few years I've developed a numbers of systems that help me manage my inbox effectively. This is the third in a series of posts describing the systems I utilize to stay on top of my inbox. (...) -- Technology, Technology: Internet, Technology: Office Technology
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13:00
My Slaw colleague Ian Mackenzie suggested that we each explore the topic of med-arb – I would take the perspective of mediation and Ian the perspective of arbitration. I thought that would be a great way to spur more discussion about this “hot” topic. When I taught (...) -- Dispute Resolution
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3 mars
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20:35
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Summaries of selected recent cases are provided each week to Slaw by Maritime Law Book. Every Sunday we present a precis of the latest summaries, a fuller version of which can be found on MLB-Slaw Selected Case Summaries at cases.slaw.ca. This week's summaries concern: Mens rea / Criminal law (...) -- Summaries Sunday
2 mars
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18:06
All Evernote users should immediately change their passwords. The following text appeared in a post on the Evernote blog this morning (March 2, 1013) and is also being sent to all Evernote users as an email communication: Evernote's Operations & Security team has discovered and blocked (...) -- Announcements, Technology
1er mars
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18:00
I maintain several personalities on social media. I am a different person on Facebook than I am on Twitter than I am on Google+ than I am on LinkedIn, and I like to keep it that way. And even within particular media, I maintain multiple personas with different names and different passwords. I (...) -- Legal Information
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13:00
Human beings are sensitive to scale. Makes sense, I guess: more is better — to a degree; big is dangerous — much of the time. And when impressive size is combined with intensity, a scale of its own, the result can be awe-inspiring. Let me give you a couple of visual examples. The (...) -- The Friday Fillip
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13:00
Cicero (106-43 BC) the great Roman politician/philosopher considered gratitude the greatest of virtues. Modern psychology argues that there is a correlation between gratitude and wellbeing. That is, a grateful attitude can lead to increased wellbeing. Gratitude is not the same as being (...) -- Legal Publishing
28 février
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22:47
The 2013 Law Via the Internet conference will take place in late September 2013 on Jersey, one of the Channel Islands (I admit, I had to look it up on a map). The conference brings together people from the Legal Information Institutes (LIIs) from different countries and continents that (...) -- Legal Information, Technology: Internet
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We leave a trail of footprints across the Web that can seem ephemeral. Content on law firm Web sites changes, status updates to LinkedIn or Twitter fade, with new content taking the place of the old. In some cases, it's out-of-sight-out-of-mind but it continues to live on. Twitter resells (...) -- Legal Technology
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I mentioned the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos in my previous column. Did I spot any law of the future trends there? For one thing, I rarely if ever heard the words ‘rule of law'. There was a lot of interesting interaction about Big Challenges – economic (...) -- Practice of Law
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27 février
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The Canadian Legal Information Institute, CanLII, has just announced that it will be introducing an API (application programming interface) in mid-March. This will allow developers and others to obtain direct access to the CanLII database in order to use the resulting data within their (...) -- Announcements, Legal Information: Publishing
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The tragic loss of Aaron Swartz on January 11, 2013 has given rise to a thoughtful swell across the blogosphere and news media on information rights as well as crime and punishment. His life has been rightly celebrated for his contributions to a more open and free exchange of knowledge, just as (...) -- Legal Publishing
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Each Wednesday we tell you which three English-language cases and which French-language case have been the most viewed on CanLII and we give you a small sense of what the cases are about. For the week of February 19 – 26: R. v. McKay 2013 ABPC 13 [1] The accused is charged under s. (...) -- Wednesday: What's Hot on CanLII
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Over the past year, Google has made a number of significant changes to its delivery of search engine rankings. In light of those changes, law firms that employ various aggressive search marketing tactics need to reconsider them. In this column, I want to highlight some of the major web-spam (...) -- Legal Marketing
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26 février
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17:43
The methods for producing the results of research have been on the top of my to-do list. Perhaps my knowledge management hat is shading my outlook. I believe that an efficient, sustainable and reusable work product is a very important aspect of legal research. My staff and I create memos to (...) -- Technology: Office Technology
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CIRA, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, manages the registration of domain names ending in “ca”. It has created a set of rules and procedures, called the Canadian Dispute Resolution Process (or CDRP), for resolving some of the disputes that arise over domain names, (...) -- Intellectual Property
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Most lawsuits end in one of two ways; the court makes a determination on the merits (whether it be a trial or by way of motion), or the parties reach a settlement. However, there is a provision in our Rules of Civil Procedure that permits a plaintiff to unilaterally discontinue its lawsuit (...) -- Practice of Law
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The US government is sensitive about matters of national security. One of the expressions of this sensitivity is its unwillingness to have certain kinds of work performed by citizens of countries that the US considers likely to be hostile – e.g . Iran, Cuba, Yemen. etc. Thus it is (...) -- Justice Issues, Substantive Law
25 février
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I receive between 100 and 1,000 business-related e-mails per day. Out of necessity, over the last few years I've developed a numbers of systems that help me manage my inbox effectively. This is the second in a series of posts describing the systems I utilize to stay on top of my inbox. (...) -- Technology, Technology: Internet, Technology: Office Technology
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14:55
One of the great strengths of the common law system is its ability to grow through the dialectical process of judicial determination of conflicting positions. This feature is absent in dispute resolution mechanisms such as mediation. A perfect illustration of the growth of the common law will (...) -- Substantive Law: Foreign Law
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Given the constant flow of events in the world of information and the waves of change confronting librarians, I search for a unifying theme. Can I find something that manages to pull it all together for me? As a law professor I talk to my students about that moment of insight when all of the (...) -- Legal Information
24 février
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One Sunday each month OnPoint Legal Research provides Slaw with an extended summary of, and counsel's commentary on, an important case from the British Columbia, Alberta, or Ontario court of appeal. BOSWORTH V. JUROCK, 2013 BCCA 4 1. CASE SUMMARY Areas of Law: Class Actions; Real Estate (...) -- Summaries Sunday
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22 février
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Slaw is proud to announce that we are collaborating with OnPoint Legal Research Law Corporation so that this Sunday, and one Sunday a month hereafter, we can present their elaborate summary of an important case from the British Columbia, Alberta, or Ontario court of appeal. OnPoint Legal (...) -- Administration of Slaw
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13:41
It's safe to say that most Slaw readers are familiar with the concept of Stare Decisis in the common law tradition. From the Latin, “to stand by things decided”, the concept of a legal system in which lower courts are bound by the determination of higher courts concerning questions (...) -- Substantive Law: Judicial Decisions
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A good lawyer, with knowledge of how and when to use the right tools, has a competitive advantage. Those tools might be varied, and are not limited to IT. Jordan Furlong's article “The Law of the Pencil – Innovation and Client Service in the New Millennium”, mentions the (...) -- Legal Technology
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Okay, this one's a little odd. It consists, essentially, of two links to YouTube videos. Together these offer you a seven-hour train ride from Bergen to Oslo, as seen from a camera installed on the front of the locomotive. That's it. Only in Norway, you say. Well, you may be right. (...) -- The Friday Fillip
21 février
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20:32
On February 11, 2013, an adjudicator of the Alberta Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner decided that Alberta's Legal Aid Society is subject to the Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA), with consequences for all non-profit organizations that conduct activities with a (...) -- Case Comment, Substantive Law, Substantive Law: Judicial Decisions, Substantive Law: Legislation, Legal Aid Society, non-profit organization, Personal Information Protection Act, Privacy Law
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David and I both touched on Google Glass in April of last year, the company's new project to push computing technology into our eyewear. A new video, released yesterday, offers some additional insight into what it might be like to wear such a product. [embedded below] These video clips (...) -- Technology, Technology: Office Technology
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As a first post on legal ethics, it seems appropriate to ask “what exactly are we talking about”. The answer isn't as simple as one might think given the number of different perspectives involved. Courts set (or reflect) legal ethics in cases involving lawyers. Law Societies set (...) -- Legal Ethics
20 février
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19:36
First off, we understand that our position on this subject might not be popular with our colleagues in the legal profession, some of whom might have more faith in the institutions we work within. But today we feel the need to voice it nonetheless. Events of the past few weeks have once again (...) -- Justice Issues, Criminal Law
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Fans of interpretation — especially constitutional construction — will enjoy the extended analysis in "The Recess Appointments Clause (Part 1)" by Neal Goldfarb on his blog LAWnLinguistics (Not about the linguistics of lawns). Much in the D.C. Circuit appellate decision in (...) -- Substantive Law: Foreign Law, Substantive Law: Legislation
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Was I alone ignorant of Echosign before that client dragged me into using it? Recently, a client sent me a document for signing through Adobe's Echosign service. At first I was surprised by this new eccentricity. However, a contract is a contract so I just signed it. I printed the signature (...) --
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Each Wednesday we tell you which three English-language cases and which French-language case have been the most viewed on CanLII and we give you a small sense of what the cases are about. For February 11 – 19: R. v. McKay 2013 ABPC 13 [1] The accused is charged under s. 253(1)(a) and (...) -- Wednesday: What's Hot on CanLII
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19 février
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I appreciate the efforts of Canadian Senators to fix problems with legislation – specifically those which make legislative research more interesting. One example of the Seante fixing legislation, is the Statutes Repeal Act, S.C. 2008, c.20 which in the words of Simon Fodden "sweeps (...) -- Substantive Law: Legislation
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One of the many great things about the United States, from a lawmaker's point of view at least, is that they comprise fifty-one legislatures attempting to tackle the problems that face us (in the West, at least) with a net of words. It's like a greenhouse or nursery for the legal (...) -- Substantive Law: Foreign Law, Technology
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The Internet has transformed society in so many ways. Even the ways we find information and the sources we rely upon have been fundamentally transformed. It appears our legal systems need to adapt to this new reality. In R. v. McKay, 2013 ABPC 13 (CanLII) the Alberta Provincial Court had the (...) -- Intellectual Property
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18 février
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21:24
When was the last time you tweaked or updated your LinkedIn profile? Unfortunately, “never” or “not recently” is the most probable answer for the majority of lawyers. In a day and age where almost every prospective or new client will check you out online, a solid (...) -- Practice of Law: Marketing, Technology: Internet
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17:27
I receive between 100 and 1,000 business-related e-mails per day. Out of necessity, over the last few years I've developed a numbers of systems that help me manage my inbox effectively. This is the first in a series of posts describing the systems I utilize to stay on top of my inbox. (...) -- Technology, Technology: Internet, Technology: Office Technology
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If you engage in any form of meaningful strategic planning you cannot plan effectively without carefully examining the economic conditions that are likely to affect your firm's prosperity over the next few years. And whether you practice in Canada or the United States, the U.S. economy has a (...) -- Practice of Law
17 février
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Summaries of selected recent cases are provided each week to Slaw by Maritime Law Book. Every Sunday we present a precis of the latest summaries, a fuller version of which can be found on MLB-Slaw Selected Case Summaries at cases.slaw.ca. This week's summaries concern: Sovereign immunity (...) -- Summaries Sunday
15 février
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20:46
What follows is the sole responsibility of the author. The opinion(s) do not represent, implicitly or explicitly, the positions, policies, or opinions of Slaw or any other institution that I am in any way remotely attached to…. heck I don't know if the opinions herein reflect that of (...) -- Substantive Law: Legislation
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Dear new grad: Welcome to Libraryland. I enjoyed our conversation at the OLA reception in January – your energy and eagerness were wonderful to see. I also appreciate your concerns about your career, and especially this first step. Landing the first job can be tough, and it takes a lot (...) -- Legal Information: Libraries & Research
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For my first column of this year, I had first thought to compile a “top ten” list of major issues currently confronting law libraries and librarians. As I started work on the list, two things quickly became clear to me: first, the column's space constraints would allow only the most (...) -- Legal Information
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Legal philosopher and public intellectual died yesterday: February 14, 2013. He was 81. It's fitting that leading U.K. – the Guardian – and U.S. – the N.Y. Times – obituaries present different pictures of him, even to the extent of seemingly disagreeing on which of (...) -- Justice Issues, Miscellaneous, Reading
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02:57
Scholarly publisher bepress recently launched The Digital Commons Network that "brings together scholarship from hundreds of universities and colleges, providing open access to peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other (...) -- Legal Information: Publishing
14 février
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We're proud to announce that four new lawyers have joined the roster of columnists, who write for Slaw in particular areas. . . . [more] -- Administration of Slaw
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On February 7, 2013, LegalForce opened up a three-level retail store called BookFlip, in Palo Alto, California, that sells books, holds classes and connects customers with attorneys for legal advice. . . . [more] -- Practice of Law, Practice of Law: Future of Practice, BookFlip, Bookstores, entrepreneurs, law firms, lawyers, Legal Services, LegalForce, Online legal services, Traditional law firms
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We all know that person who constantly sends emails that lack a subject line. Or who sends rambling, lengthy emails that don't seem to have a point. And there are those who send emails with open ended questions that require a game of email ping pong. You would never do any of those things (...) -- Legal Technology
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Each Thursday we present a significant excerpt from a recently published book or journal article. In every case the proper permissions have been obtained. If you are a publisher who would like to participate in this feature, please let us know via the site's contact form. The Future of the (...) -- Thursday Thinkpiece
13 février
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Each Wednesday we tell you which three English-language cases and which French-language case have been the most viewed on CanLII and we give you a small sense of what the cases are about. For the week* of February 6 – 10: Meads v. Meads 2012 ABQB 571 [1] This Court has developed a new (...) -- Wednesday: What's Hot on CanLII
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12 février
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I had the pleasure of attending a lecture by Stephen Abram yesterday. The Edmonton Public Library brought Stephen in to do some work with their organization, and they generously invited members of Edmonton's library community to attend a portion of their event. An interaction with Stephen (...) -- Legal Information: Libraries & Research
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[Part 1, last week, questioned the propriety of law societies' exclusive control of their monopoly over the provision of legal services, and their prosecution of offences of “the unauthorized practice of law,” given the many reports documenting the fact that the majority of the (...) -- Justice Issues, Practice of Law
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In 2012, the Pew Internet & American Life Project conducted a survey of over 1,200 arts organizations to “understand how arts organizations are using the internet, social media, and other digital technologies to connect with the public.” The study found that enhanced public (...) -- Justice Issues
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11 février
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23:37
Serving as a director of a charitable or not-for-profit corporation can be a rewarding but potentially risky experience. A director can be held personally liable for his or her own actions or failures to act, as well as jointly and severally liable with the other members of the board of (...) -- Reading: Recommended
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The case of Ashby Donald et al. France, a decision last month of the European Court of Human Rights (Application n o 36769/08), is interesting in that it asserts a legally relevant tension between copyright law and the freedom of expression guaranteed under Article 10 of the European (...) -- Substantive Law: Foreign Law, Substantive Law: Judicial Decisions
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20:49
The EU last week published a draft directive on network security that requires communications operators (including utilities, banks etc) to report threats or attacks on their operations to national security agencies. In the US, President Obama is about to issue an Executive Order on critical (...) -- Technology, ulc_ecomm_list
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20:04
The Toronto Bail Program (TBP) has recently announced that, effective Mar. 29, they will be discontinuing serving the weekend bail court on Sundays and statutory holidays. For those unfamiliar with the important work done by the TBP on behalf of persons who are unable to present friends, (...) -- Justice Issues
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This January Monica decided she was fed up with feeling behind at work. Tired of feeling tired. And done with working in a chaotic mess. She set a powerful goal for herself: By the end of the year she would feel healthy and energetic; her office would be organized and would remain tidy on a (...) -- Practice of Law
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10 février
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Summaries of selected recent cases are provided each week to Slaw by Maritime Law Book. Every Sunday we present a precis of the latest summaries, a fuller version of which can be found on MLB-Slaw Selected Case Summaries at cases.slaw.ca. This week's summaries concern Matrimonial property, (...) -- Summaries Sunday
9 février
8 février
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16:12
A private correspondent has suggested to me that call centres that record incoming calls 'for quality assurance purposes' often store the recordings offshore, including in the US. The correspondent wondered if there was any concern that the information in the calls might therefore be (...) -- Substantive Law, Technology, ulc_ecomm_list
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The Economist reports on pigeons. At least it does when they're unable to find their way back home in upstate New York. Seems homing pigeons, long a marvel to the geolocation folks, have trouble with their animus revertendi, as we ex property profs like to say, when it's animated near (...) -- The Friday Fillip
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7 février
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The Supreme Court of Canada has published its calendar of appeal hearings for February 2013. To find out more about any particular case , the Court's website has a section that allows users to find docket information, case summaries as well as factums from the parties. All you need to do (...) -- Legal Information, Substantive Law: Judicial Decisions
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20:47
Yesterday morning, I was in Dallas, giving a presentation to members of the National Association of Bar Executives (NABE), which brings together the professional staff leaders of both voluntary and mandatory bar associations across the U.S. (and occasionally Canada, although there were no (...) -- Miscellaneous, Practice of Law
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18:00
After nearly two years of vigorous anti-wind litigation in Ontario, anti-wind activists have failed to satisfy any court or tribunal that wind energy development in accordance with government standards will cause serious harm. Many wind projects have been approved, and wind-based electrical (...) -- Justice Issues
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Last week I missed my appointed blog date – but for a good reason. I was honoured to speak at the Law Society of Alberta Plenary Session as part of the CBA winter conference in Edmonton. While few would suggest Edmonton as a preferred January destination, for me it was a hotspot of (...) -- Justice Issues, Practice of Law, Practice of Law: Future of Practice
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13:00
One of the hottest ‘new' tools for marketing and business development is infographics. Infographics are visually appealing, highly shareable and, when done right, can convey a lot of information quickly and easily, or make a mountain of data easy to understand. By combining text and (...) -- Legal Marketing
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6 février
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Each Wednesday we tell you which three English-language cases and which French-language case have been the most viewed on CanLII and we give you a small sense of what the cases are about. For the week of January 30 – February 5: Quebec (Attorney General) v. A 2013 SCC 5 [1] The issue (...) -- Wednesday: What's Hot on CanLII
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I recently heard The Honourable Mr. Justice Marshall Rothstein give a few remarks as he received the Manitoba Bar Association's Distinguished Service Award. In acknowledging the award, Justice Rothstein wisely noted that our career accomplishments don't reflect only our own achievements but (...) -- Miscellaneous, Practice of Law, legal community, men, Mentoring, women in law
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CanLII users will have noticed a couple of interesting recent developments over at our free legal information institute. In January Simon Fodden pointed us to CanLII's announcement of a new partnership with a translation agency "to ensure selected leading Canadian judgments are (...) -- Legal Information
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The 2013 AALS Annual Meeting featured a panel discussion on Understanding Search Engine Algorithms: Can We Effectively Teach Research Without Them? From what I gathered from the tweets, the panel—which featured, among others, Ian Koenig (Chief Architect for Lexisnexis) and Ed Walters (CEO (...) -- Legal Publishing
5 février
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23:10
Here's a question raised on a US legal technology list that seems relevant to Canadian law too. What's the duty of care of mobile devices as pertains to patches/updates provided by the vendor and/or provider? Example: I bought an Android phone in June 2012, which received an (...) -- Substantive Law, Technology: Office Technology, ulc_ecomm_list
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Ken Chasse Law societies in Canada should be preparing to share their monopoly over the provision of legal services, i.e., preparing for government regulation. In the interim, should they be allowed to prosecute the offence of "the unauthorized practice of law," given that such (...) -- Justice Issues
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Grantham, Carson and Jarvis LLP, located in downton New York City, was established in the 20th century and there have been Granthams in the role of managing partner since 1962. The founding partner Grantham attracted corporate clients in the financial services, entertainment, insurance, (...) -- Technology, E-Discovery, predictive coding, TAR
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04:46
Congratulations to Lexis-Nexis Canada and a squadron of Canadian legal authors for achieving what many of us doubted that we would ever see, a contemporary Canadian legal encyclopaedia. Halsbury's Laws of Canada has reached its seventy-seventh volume as a statement of common-law Canadian (...) -- Legal Information: Publishing, Reading: Recommended
4 février
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Effective file management provides the foundation for timely, valuable client service and appropriate management of client matters. Here are some resolutions to help you complete the critical steps in file management: I will complete a conflicts check before opening a file: Conflicts of (...) -- Reading: Recommended
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Each Monday we present brief excerpts of recent posts from five of Canada's award-winning legal blogs chosen at random* from thirty-five 2010 & 2011 CLawBie winners. In this way we hope to promote their work, with their permission, to as wide an audience as possible. This week the randomly (...) -- Monday’s Mix
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Summaries of selected recent cases are provided each week to Slaw by Maritime Law Book. Every Sunday we present a precis of the latest summaries, a fuller version of which can be found on MLB-Slaw Selected Case Summaries at cases.slaw.ca. This week's summaries are in Criminal law and duress / (...) -- Summaries Sunday
1er février
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In a recent post on Slaw, Robert McKay has offered an interesting critique of the legal and professional publishing profession as it exists today (Fun but Dangerous Work: Surviving Professional Publishing), with insights as to new hires and advice to the legal publishing companies on the risks (...) -- Legal Publishing
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In the most keenly awaited commercial decision of recent years, the Supreme Court of Canada this morning held that the Ontario Court of Appeal in Indalex Limited (Re), 2011 ONCA 265 (CanLII) was mistaken in stating that deemed trust provisions to contributions to an underfunded pension scheme (...) -- Substantive Law: Judicial Decisions
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This week I debated with myself as to whether the fillip should be about piece of meaningless fluff (actually a whole dust bunny of pieces of meaningless fluff) that might be NSFW, or about a weighty question raised by a philosopher in the NYTimes (that probably was in its way NSFW i.e. not (...) -- The Friday Fillip
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The Canada Health Act requires your provincial Health Insurance Plan to cover your medical costs in your province of residence only. While some of your provincial coverage may extend to medical emergencies incurred outside Canada, you may only be reimbursed for a fraction of the total cost. (...) -- Practice of Law
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This last of 5 articles on the Anti-Spam Act will set out some of the questions and challenges going forward. This is the last of a series of 5 articles that will introduce the Act, describe what spam is and is not, talk about collateral provisions, what we can do now, and some of the (...) -- Substantive Law: Legislation
31 janvier
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The Association of Parliamentary Libraries in Canada (APLIC) has launched the bilingual Government and Legislative Libraries Online Publications Portal. It provides access to over 340,000 electronic provincial, territorial and federal government publications and legislative materials dating (...) -- Legal Information, Legal Information: Libraries & Research
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On Friday, January 25, 2013, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in a tight majority judgment (five: McLachlin, Deschamps, Abella, Cromwell and Karakatsanis, against four: LeBel, Fish, Rothstein and Moldaver) that the Quebec Civil Code discriminates against common-law spouses because it does not (...) -- Case Comment, Substantive Law, Substantive Law: Judicial Decisions, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, civil union, Common-Law Spouses in Quebec, divorce, marriage, Quebec Civil Code
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Today's' article talks about what we can start doing now to be ready when the Act comes into effect. This is the forth of a series of 5 articles that will introduce the Act, describe what spam is and is not, talk about collateral provisions, what we can do now, and some of the challenges going (...) -- Substantive Law: Legislation
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Another year is in the history books as the creaking structure of the Canadian justice system stumbled along under the weight of crushing new legislation and in the face of chronic underfunding. What does 2013 portend? Read on for some predictions of trends to watch for in the New Year. 1. (...) -- Justice Issues
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Each Thursday we present a significant excerpt from a recently published book or journal article. In every case the proper permissions have been obtained. If you are a publisher who would like to participate in this feature, please let us know via the site's contact form. WHAT PRIVACY IS (...) -- Thursday Thinkpiece
30 janvier
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A US appeals court has reversed an order banning a convicted sex offender from having a Facebook account. Would such an order be made and upheld in Canada? What limits might be possible, and how would they be enforced? For that matter, how could the order itself be enforced? It's not hard to (...) -- Technology: Internet, ulc_ecomm_list
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Here's a quick tech tip I came across yesterday that might come in handy for some people. If you're using a modern browser (and why wouldn't you be?) you can turn it into a text editor by putting what follows into the location bar and then clicking in the window: . . . (...) -- Technology: Office Technology
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Each Wednesday we tell you which three English-language cases and which French-language case have been the most viewed on CanLII and we give you a small sense of what the cases are about. For the week of January 22 – 29: Magder v. Ford 2013 ONSC 263 [1] Robert Ford appeals the decision (...) -- Wednesday: What's Hot on CanLII
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