It's online, it's Canadian and it's free. What's not to like about Irwin Law's new Canadian Online Legal Dictionary? It has a clean, intuitive, easy-to-use interface. It can be browsed alphabetically or by topic, or you can search the full text by keyword. It provides links to related terms. It provides sources for all definitions […]
The press this week has been full of reports and stories on the the proposed Canadian Securities Act, introduced in the House of Commons on May 26 by the federal Finance minister. The legislation creates a national Canadian Securities Regulatory Authority (CSRA) and an independent Canadian Securities Tribunal to replace the current hodge-podge of provincial […]
Our own Prof. Carys Craig has recently published the article "Digital Locks and the Fate of Fair Dealing in Canada: In Pursuit of 'Prescriptive Parallelism'" in the Journal of World Intellectual Property (2010). A pre-peer reviewed version of the article is available on SSRN. Here's the abstract of the article: "The enactment of anti-circumvention laws […]
With the Febrary 2010 content release, the following titles - all published by LexisNexis Canada - have been added to the Quicklaw databases. As of February 7, they will also be available on the LexisNexis Academic service. As you can see from the list, a broad selection of classic titles is included, from texts (McGuiness […]
Among the most important pieces of legislation that came into force on January 1 is a Quebec statute, an Act respecting the Compilation of Quebec Laws and Regulations, SQ 2009, c. 40 (version française: LQ 2009, c. 40). Pursuant to this Act, all consolidated statutes published by the Quebec Official Publisher (Editeur officiel du Québec) have official […]
This item is from Dominic Jaar's post on today's Slaw: Concluding twelve years of efforts from the members of the Judicial Technology Advisory Committee of the Canadian Judicial Council (JTAC), Justice Fran Kiteley, from the Ontario Superior Court and a former JTAC member, rendered the first judgment using exclusively neutral citation in R. v. Andrew […]
On January 4, York University Libraries (YUL) rolled out its new library catalogue search interface. It might not look too different at first glance, but the change to how and what it searches is profound. The new "discovery layer" interface merges all of YUL's different catalogues and holdings into one seamless interface using an open-source software application called […]
Beginning this semester, the OnePass system for access to WestlawCanada is now in the second phase of implementation. All second and third year students, grad students and all faculty will be required to create or update their Username and Password to fully access WestlawCanada and TWEN (The West Education Network). The WestlawCanada law school site (www.westlawcanada/lawschool) […]
The Hamlyn Lectures, presented annually at the School of Law of the University of Exeter since 1949, have been digitized and are available on the school's website. The page is not perfectly clear: you have to scroll to the bottom to find the the table that lists the lectures chronologically, with links to the PDFs. […]
The new Supreme Court of the United Kingdom came into existence on October 1 and is now highest court in the land. Replacing the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords, the Court’s creation is a landmark moment in constitutional and legal development for the UK. It is the final court of appeal in the […]