I am well versed in legal research and as such am able to offer legal research assistance ranging from
summaries of case law to opinion letters.
To do this, it encourages lawyers, scholars and others who are competent in legal analysis to contribute commentary on cases or to
post summaries of cases.
Earlier in March, this newsletter provided a very good
summary of the case of Hathaway v. Hathaway (2014 BCCA 310).
The page includes a plain -
English summary of the case, the questions presented, and links to blog commentary, the lower - court opinions, the oral argument transcript, all briefs, the decision when issued, counsel for each party, and outside resources.
For this blog's
summary of that case see the post: The Duty to Mitigate: Employees Not Required to Accept a «Bird in the Hand»
In addition to our federal products we currently offer state law - based products including a three - component chart / webinar / database combination that provides
summaries of cases related to specific points in the chart.
Also published during this period was the Digest of British Columbia Case Law, a three - volume series of
summaries of cases from the Reports, as well as from publications of the Supreme Court of Canada and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the United Kingdom.
According to a one -
page summary of the cases that was jointly prepared for the Cuban government by the State Department's bureaus of Medical Services and Western Hemisphere affairs, «Some voiced feeling shocked or shaken by the exposure, or awoken (sic) from sleep, and others described a more gradual onset of symptoms that continued for days to weeks afterwards.»
For a
comprehensive summary of the case law on SLC, see Peter Armitage, «The evolution of the substantial lessening of competition test — a review of case law» (2016) 44 Australian Business Law Review 74.
Useful for Year 10 - 12 This resource is a
visual summary of cases (nominative, accusative, dative, genitive) and adjective endings including an exam...
The concept of «taking for public use» is another one that's hard to pin down at the margins, but there's a good
summary of the cases available in the section on When Property is Taken in the Constitution Annotated:
«You're probably right that I should have expanded my three -
sentence summary of the case at Overlawyered to delve further into these matters, since they afford valuable insight into how lawyers can manage the p.r. aspects of their cases.»
As is customary in our Year in Review edition of LawPRO Magazine, we share our
annual summary of cases that in some way informed our program and helped clarify expectations and responsibilities of lawyers.
For a more fulsome, and interesting,
summary of this case please read volume 10, no 1 of the Canadian Parliamentary Review by John Holtby.
The BC Court of Appeal website provides their own
tidy summary of the case which we have edited for you to make things clear:
The Daily Business Review reports that the new rules would have barred online testimonials,
summaries of case results and «deceptive, misleading, manipulative» or confusing audio or visual content.
Justice Charbonneau writes a concise
summary of the case issues and their severity, provides some insight into the conduct of the defendant and his supporters in court, and serves as a good tutorial on the guiding principles on costs, the nature of submissions vs. pleadings, and the principle of indemnity in Ontario civil proceedings.
Can't top you on decision, but Time's archive has a quintessentially
Lucean summary of the case from the issue of the week of the judgment:
In addition, according to the
court summary of the case, the damages were levied as a result of Lee's failure to act on discovery orders, something Lee says was the result of poor legal representation, not an unwillingness to cooperate.
This unreported judgment of the Ottawa small claims court contains an
excellent summary of the case law relating to the standard of care required of litigation counsel.
Summaries of cases of EAS for psychiatric conditions were made available online by Dutch regional euthanasia review committees.
This page includes a plain -
English summary of the case, the questions presented, and links to blog commentary, the lower - court opinions, the oral argument transcript, all briefs, the decision when issued, counsel for each party, and outside resources.
Both sides can present the evaluator with
written summaries of their case, as well as the pleadings and witness statements if appropriate, which the evaluator can consider and then issue an evaluation.
See an excellent
summary of the case law regarding the Parenting Plan Coordinator by Mara Berke, Law Offices of Marshall S. Zolla, «Planned Parenthood,» Los Angeles Lawyer, March 2009.