If you have not read Ruth Bird «s post at
the Slaw Blog (Aggravation due to (dis) aggregation), you should do so.
This very varied evidentiary legislation situation, will produce a very inconsistent caselaw, one jurisdiction to the next, once judges and lawyers realize the consequences in law required by the fundamental difference between an electronic record and a pre-electronic paper record — in particular, the «system integrity concept» that is expressly stated in the electronic records provisions; e.g.: s. 34.1 (5), (5.1) of the Ontario Evidence Act; and, s. 31.2 (1) of the Canada Evidence Act (see
my Slaw blog article, «The Dependence of Electronic Discovery and Admissibility upon Electronic Records Management,» published Nov. 22, 2013).
And therefore, the solution to the currently massively damaging «access to justice» problem of unaffordable legal services, is to make CanLII as good a national support - service as LAO LAW is for Ontario's legal aid lawyers — see: (1)
my Slaw blog of Oct. 24th; (2) my Comment to Monica Goyal's Slaw post of Nov. 25th: «Access to Justice: Courts and Technology: A Twitterchat»; and, (3) my Comment to Monica Goyal's Slaw post of Nov. 4th: «Innovation and the Legal Profession: A Twitter Chat.»
In a previous
Slaw blog post, we discussed the Ontario government's establishment of the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan (ORPP) by January 1, 2017 with enrollment starting in 2016.
As with
the SLAW blog site, we accept donations.
Back to work legislation for Air Canada was also considered back in 2011 (see
a Slaw blog posting by Shaunna Mireau here).
[Link to
Slaw blog post.]
See
my Slaw blog article, «CanLII as the Solution to the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem» (October 24, 2013).
In a recent
Slaw blog, Malcolm Mercer thoughtfully explores how information asymmetry between legal service providers and consumers may impact access to justice.
Also published on the Access to Justice in Canada blog: Part 1, August 12, 2014; and Part 2, August 14, 2014; and pp. 1 - 3 excerpted on
the Slaw blog, Sept. 11, 2014: «Thursday Thinkpiece: Chasse on Law Societies and Unaffordable Legal Services.»
Thank you, Simon, for growing such a wonderful legal information resource that is
the Slaw blog!
See: Ken Chasse, Access to Justice - Canada's Unaffordable Legal Services - CanLII as the Necessary Support Service; and a much shorter
Slaw blog version, CanLII as the Solution to the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem, Oct. 24, 2013.
Ted Tjaden has a 2011
Slaw blog post on «Finding Translations of French Language Court Decisions in Canada» and SOQUIJ has a «Translated Decisions» page with unofficial English translations of selected cases.
In a post today on
the Slaw blog, Dan Pinnington ran with Pribetic's taxonomy, and added a few of his own, such as:
We provided a commentary on the case in a previous
Slaw blog post here, so I will not go into details.
Previous
Slaw blog entries have outlined the multitude of distance - related obstacles that prevent many rural and small - town Canadians from finding quick and affordable resolutions to their legal problems.
The law librarians of Ontario would be ecstatic if the Superior Court would issue a practice direction welcoming (or merely allowing) the use of online forms of judgments for books of authorities where the online version is reliable, has paragraph numbering, etc. (see my earlier
SLAW blog post here from January 2008 on this topic).
The SLAW blog looks ahead to the future and celebrates its 5th anniversary at the offices of Heenan Blaikie LLP in Toronto.
Studies suggest that these feelings of anxiety will rise and fall during the various stages of the information search process (see
my SLAW blog post here from almost 5 years ago discussing the research of Professor Carol Kuhlthau on this topic).
On
the Slaw blog, Simon Fodden alerts us to an interesting referendum that was approved yesterday by voters in Switzerland.
To follow up on a previous
Slaw blog post on proposed Quebec regulations to better control who may provide provincial immigration services to immigrants.
Via
the Slaw blog I learned of a very interesting business model for lawyers that is emerging in the U.K..
The Slaw blog wrote on Friday that in the recent case of Bezanson v. Hayter, the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia had no trouble concluding that the Happy Gilmore shot was, as Carl Spackler similarly said about gophers in «Caddyshack,» a menace to the golfing industry.
A post today on
the Slaw blog notes that tattoo law jurisprudence continued to build slowly last month when the Small Claims Court of Nova Scotia had occasion to rule in Ullock v. Slaunwhite.
On
the Slaw blog, Steven Matthews observes in this post that the cross-Atlantic merger between U.S. law firm Sonnenschein and U.K. - based Denton Wilde Sapte was announced and rolled out by the firms through an interesting technique: the use of a dedicated «microsite» (http://www.snrdentoncombination.com).
But not for long, Steve Matthews notes on
the Slaw blog, as Google announced on Friday that it is discontinuing the Maps - Real Estate Search feature on Feb. 11, 2011, due to «low usage.»
Today
the Slaw blog highlighted R. v. McKay, a very interesting Canadian case in which a 19 - year - old defendant claims he was not given a reasonable opportunity to exercise his right to counsel.
As discussed on
the Slaw blog, hot - tubbing is the phrase used to describe «a new method of presenting expert evidence at trial.
The necessary solution is set out in
my Slaw blog dated August 9th; «Government Intervention to Solve the «Access to Justice» Problem is Inevitable.»
See further: (1) «The Dependence of Electronic Discovery and Admissibility upon Electronic Records Management,»
Slaw blog, Nov. 22, 2013; (2) «Electronic Discovery — Sedona Canada is Inadequate on Records Management — Here's Sedona Canada in Amended Form,» (2011), 9 Canadian Journal of Law and Technology 135, by Ken Chasse («Chase»), LSUC & LSBC, in Toronto.
Since then, I have followed him on Twitter and occasionally engaged on
SLAW blogs.
Not exact matches
I LOVE all four items you have included in today's
blog: ham salad, deviled eggs, cole
slaw, and split pea soup.
Yes I do already have
slaw recipes on the blog... My Cabbage, Apple & Pomegranate Salad with Ginger - Almond Dressing and my Asian - style Cabbage S
slaw recipes on the
blog... My Cabbage, Apple & Pomegranate Salad with Ginger - Almond Dressing and my Asian - style Cabbage
SlawSlaw.
Love the Thai / Asian spin on this
slaw and all the colors:D Its been far too long since I've been on your
blog!
Joy London recommends
Slaw, «a uniquely Canadian legal research and IT
blog, featuring an All Star Lineup of Canadian research and tech gurus, and some tagalong named Steve Matthews.»
The most famous example, of course, is
Slaw, recognized worldwide as one of the very best
blogs in the legal sphere.
It's been a while since
Slaw invited a law firm to
blog with us for a week, but we're happy to say that the firm of Harrison Pensa has agreed to help us break that fast.
While you can certainly debate whether ubiquitous internet access is a good or a bad thing, I suspect anyone with a weekly
blog commitment to
SLAW is looking forward to WestJet's and Air Canada's plans to roll out wifi on Canadian flights in the very near future.
I've also started to see bloggers create Twitter feeds for their posts (HYPERLINK «'' ComplexD, for example, and
SLAW, of course)-- this, I love — you can actually get a little bit of information about the post, so you can decide whether or not to go to the
blog.
Many, if not most of its
blog post categories and range of columns are consistent with my extended focus of interest and I hope to be able to look to many
Slaw contributors and readers for articles and advice that will help ensure that Modern Legal Practice (the journal) continues to grow in influence and popularity.
If your law firm website or
blog uses WordPress as its content management system, please take a look at my latest
Slaw column on beefing up security measures around the administration login area.
As a side note, it would seem that
Slaw is one of their trusted sites, because a search for «slaw» turns up some 13,000 results, mostly from our b
Slaw is one of their trusted sites, because a search for «
slaw» turns up some 13,000 results, mostly from our b
slaw» turns up some 13,000 results, mostly from our
blog.
We've renamed our top award — «Best Canadian Law
Blog or Blogger» — in honour of Professor Simon Fodden, one of the founders and the driving force behind
Slaw, which is
The tool is remarkably easy, so I created an (unpublished — more on that later) app to post a tip to our
Slaw Tips
blog.
One such person is David Fraser, lawyer with McInnes Cooper with whom I have been corresponding for a few years now, president of the Canadian Information Technology Law Association, and law blogger (see his posts here on
Slaw and also his stellar Canadian Privacy Law
Blog).
Something that we haven't mentioned here on
Slaw is the new law
blog monitoring website Lexmonitor.
Slaw is unusual in that three of the four non-American chairs of ABA TECHSHOW are contributors to a collective
blog.
With your indulgence, I'd like to ask
Slaw readers to comment (via this
blog or via Twitter @CanLII) on what manner of legal scholarship they want to see and what role if any they see for CanLII.
According to the LOC data, the Library has made 79,057 captures of
Slaw, regularly revisiting 7,707 of the
blog's pages in order, I suppose, to record any changes that might have taken place between captures.
I was very pleased, while checking out the LIIofIndia (announced here at
Slaw), to see that a link to to the Spicy IP
blog by navigating to Intellectual Property through the Subject pages at the Legal Information Institute of India.