Today there is an interesting article on Slaw about the need for a greater degree of style in legal writing. Not in the stylistic sense of flair (although that would certainly be nice – there is a reason we still love to read Lord Denning), but rather in the formalistic sense, where the writing is […]
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It’s been an odd few weeks in the realm of ancient traditions, what with the discovery of Richard III and now the first papal resignation in six hundred years (and the first voluntary one since the thirteenth century, when Celestine V stepped down in 1294). As of 8pm (2pm EST) on Thursday, the Pope will […]
We’ve been weeding the collection of reference materials now integrated into the Library’s Core Collection. (Don’t worry, we’re not throwing anything out; we’re just moving many of the older or no-longer-topical materials to the stacks or into storage.) In the process, we’ve found some pretty arcane and interesting things. This is one of them. In […]
Wrong. Another simple question at the Reference Desk last week. But we all know English law was received into Canada at some point, don’t we? We may think we know that, but I didn’t have any idea just how complicated the answer to the question of what law was received and when until I went […]
The complete Revised Statutes of Canada (RSC), from the first revision in 1896 to the last in 1985 — are now available in HeinOnline. This project was completed with assistance from the Osgoode Library, which provided copies of all the revisions to Hein for digitization.This is the first time that the RSC are available online […]
Although I am currently in the midst of introducing first-year Legal Process students to the wonders of Zotero, for those of you who want a bit more information (or know nothing about it), York Libraries is offering free webinars for Zotero tomorrow (January 31st) and Monday (February 4th). The info about the webinars (and Zotero […]
Big news for those who love trawling through and reading government documents (you know who you are!), as an interesting new initiative was announced this week. From the press release: The Association of Parliamentary Libraries in Canada (APLIC) is proud to announce the release of its unique pan-Canadian bilingual government and legislative publications portal known […]
Your friendly neighbourhood library is happy to announce additional Westlaw Litigator training next week. Think you know Litigator? Come and brush up. Don’t know litigator? Come to have your mind blown. Details below: The Library is pleased to offer an additional Westlaw Litigator training session. Westlaw Litigator is a unique collection of more than 100,000 […]
The Supreme Court of Canada and Lexum are proud to announce that the Court’s judgments website now contains all decisions back to 1907. Moreover, all the PDF versions of decisions up to 2010 are identical to the official version available in the Supreme Court Reports. This major content addition has been made possible thanks to […]