The Project has been highlighted in various
Slaw posts during that period including here and Nate Russell's excellent post here.
The Claude Robinson plagiarism case (you can read previous
Slaw posts on the case here and here) is not yet over!
I've referred in earlier
Slaw posts on Catherine Zeta - Jones and the adulterous soccer player to the extraordinary growth of English judge - made law protecting the privacy of film and media celebrities.
For more in - depth analysis, see: (1) my «access to justice» articles on the SSRN (Social Science Research Network); and, (2) their summaries in my «access to justice»
Slaw posts.
Upon reading one of today's
Slaw posts, How Technology Will Change the Practice of Law, it strikes me that many of the commentators place an extremely high value on technology as a driver of efficiency in legal work.
Following on the heels of Ontario's draconian Road Safety Act (discussed at some length in one of my earlier
Slaw posts) The B.C. Liberal government has introduced legislation that would create a Provincial offence for driving with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) between 0.05 - 0.08 (the Criminal Code legal limit is 0.08).
A Canadian source was mentioned in the earlier
Slaw posts.
As earlier
SLAW posts have noted, we Canadians continue to miss out on new technology.
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I had to laugh when one of the attendees said that I appeared much less stodgy in person than I did in
my SLAW posts!
We have already examined this case and the topic in previous
Slaw posts here, here and here.
The 7th edition of the Guide spurred many
Slaw posts discussing legal citation and plenty of comments as well.
-- «Computer Searching Will Become More Important than Manual Searching» — Ken Chasse (Will
SLAW posts appear to be old - fashioned 20 years from now?)
It takes a body of data (
Slaw posts) and uses metrics to illuminate a context - specific aspect of that data that wouldn't otherwise be obvious.
For more details, see
my Slaw posts in 2013 on: Oct. 24th; August 9th; and Feb. 5th and 12th.
See
my Slaw posts, «LSUC's Worrisome ABS Proposals» (Nov. 25, 2014); and, «Legal Advice Services Can not Be Automated by Alternative Business Structures» (Oct. 9, 2014).
And, because I was thinking more about rare law books broadly and not focusing on case reporters generally, I didn't mention Simon Fodden's, Daniel Poulin's, etc. related
Slaw posts, but y ’ all check them out!
This is a short update to previous
Slaw posts on Arizona's 2010 controversial new anti-immigration measures.
As such, my goal with this post — with the help of any SLAW readers adding additional information or clarifications in the Comments section below — is to update and consolidate postings from the CALL - L Archives and past
SLAW posts to create a fairly definitive answer to the following question: Where can I find English translations of Canadian court decisions written in French?
A lot has changed since I wrote about this research group in one of my first
Slaw posts.
Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services, including a recent post from Adam Smith, Esq. and several
SLAW posts.
I gave it a try, shortening a link to one of
our Slaw posts by plugging in the full URL: http://lawlks.ca/14u
Recent
Slaw posts talk about Blackberry's, the ABA Techshow, social media, online ADR, and online legal resources.
You can read more on the case and topic in previous
Slaw posts here and here.
It's been a hectic year (my excuse for a lack of
SLAW posts).
For more on vulnerability from a lawyer's perspective see
Slaw posts by Karen Dyck and John D.V. Hoyles.
Already the subject of
Slaw posts in the past with regard to different jurisdictions (see here and here), it is now Quebec's turn to recognize service via Facebook after the Court of Quebec authorized this past summer a plaintiff to serve its motion to institute proceedings via this social network ing site.
There does not seem to be many changes from the draft Integrated Accessibility Standards Regulation, which was published in February 2011 for public review and commentary, and which, we discussed in previous
Slaw posts.
In many previous
Slaw posts I have mentioned my keen interest in justice reform — particularly for families.
Despite my best intentions, I was unable to stay on top of
Slaw posts or Supreme Court decisions while at home.
This is the third follow up to previous
Slaw posts (here and here) regarding IQT's closure.
The result is quite shameful:
My Slaw posts to this day contain the name of 36 people or characters, including only 2 women (one of whom is my colleague Sarah Sutherland).
In
their Slaw posts in February and March 2017, Nora Rock and Dan Pinnington referred to the Paradox of Choice (and the difference between «maximizers» and «satisficers») in the context of lawyer wellness and balance.
(See earlier
Slaw posts — for example, here and here.)
This vegan Thanksgiving sandwich is made with crispy grilled tempeh piled with spicy cranberry apple sauce and apple cider tahini slaw!This is the recipe I was alluding to earlier this week in my apple cider tahini
slaw post.
(And in this regard, I'm recalling Dan Pinnington's recent
Slaw post about the Ontario experience of complaints relating to communications breakdowns.)
It is very distracting attempting to compse a coherent
Slaw post when there is a piece of heavy equipment appearing out the window at frequent regular intervals and a shovel waiting to be (wo) maned for the finishing work.
As Ian Hu from LAWPRO reminded us in
his Slaw post last month, communication are the number one source of malpractice claims.
Simon Chesters
Slaw post yesterday about Internet Archive Canada's financial woes.
This is a critical and difficult business subject to deal with so I will explain the issue and its solutions over two
SLAW postings.
I have a Friday admission, I'm going to cheat on
my Slaw post.
Last month, U of Ottawa Law 3L Karolina Fit had a guest
Slaw post entitled The Future of Legal Writing: Online and Short Form in which she touched on the various ways professional and public readers of these insights benefit from law blogging.
I'll be optimistic and type that it is today's first
Slaw post.
See
my SLAW post of Oct. 24, 2013.
As several commenters on
the Slaw post note, killing off the RSS feeds seems unnecessary:
See the «public comment version» of the draft 2nd edition of the Sedona Canada Principles, cited in
my Slaw post, for Feb. 12, 2015: «Electronic Discovery: The Concept and Purpose of the Sedona Canada Principles 2nd Edition» (http://goo.gl/L8cfMA).
For more about the origins of Right to Know Week, see David Fraser's 2009
Slaw post Right to Know Week Wrapup.
This is a follow - up post to a previously published
Slaw post on a case in which two members of the Church of the Universe claim that the Ontario's marijuana prohibition violates the freedom of religion protections in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
For more information on the Indigenous Law Portal please see my earlier
Slaw post LC's «Super Secret Decoder Ring» and the Indigenous Law Portal.
Because this is a fillip, after all, where I try to avoid earnestness most of the time at least, I'll remind you here of the delightfully silly Monty Python sketch where a publisher has produced a mischievous Hungarian - English phrase book (for which he is brought up before the law — for those of you who need at least a minim of legal stuff in
every Slaw post).