Not exact matches
They must litigate without the power to cross examine witnesses giving evidence against them, who may
remain anonymous and absent from the court, without publicly funded
legal representation, without any restriction as to the
material placed before the fact - finding court, and can be found responsible for conduct on a mere balance of probabilities.»
To do this we would need to compare DNA from present populations with genetic
material from ancient human
remains — a political hot potato in some regions, including the US (see «The
legal fight over prehistory»).
What they have that others do not are significant databases of secondary
legal - research
materials such as treatises, specialized
legal - research
materials in particular areas of concentration, and ever - growing collections of public - records data, court and deposition transcripts, docket information, and all sorts of other information that
remains largely unavailable or inaccessible elsewhere online.
Until some
material progress is made, however, access to justice will properly
remain a top
legal ethics story in Canada.
All of these issues - and many more — show that the basic law of the world's super-power democracy often
remains interpreted through the historical
legal materials that law librarians wisely conserve.
Given that text documents are still very much the core
material produced by
legal professionals, and that references to text documents will
remain the basis for grounded and verifiable
legal reasoning regardless of the actors and technologies employed, current generation standards in the
legal domain are providing a layered organization of their offerings: presentation - oriented XML is being replaced with structured XML with ample room for metadata and annotations; naming mechanisms based on URIs and IRIs provide linkable anchors both to entire documents and to smaller fragments; and document - oriented ontologies provide the necessary glue between abstract
legal reasoning and the textual pieces of supporting evidence.
Of course, full - text online
legal reference
materials remains the best way I can think of to share and collaborate on a large amounts of
materials with multiple users.
The substantive challenges
remain constant — ensuring
material is timely, varied, interesting and enlightening AND articulating in a blog format that is readable and (dare I say this of
legal material) enjoyable and entertaining!
Although technology in
legal research has been revolutionary, and although the commerical databases with case law and legislation and speciality databases such as Hein Online have opened up opportunities not available in print, there still
remains a wealth of
material that will not likely every be available online, including textbooks.
In brief, the new procedure will require that the defendant serves on the prosecution and court a document containing the following: (i) the reasons why it would be unjust for the guilty plea to
remain unchanged; (ii) what, if any, evidence the defendant wishes to call; (iii) identity of any proposed witness; and (iv) whether
legal professional privilege is waived, specifying any
material name and date.
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From not covering the right
materials, to not covering the right people, to not notifying the right third - party service providers, to not rolling the hold out properly — or at all, it's clear that
legal holds
remain a minefield for litigants.