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By By Melanie Hodges Neufeld From the The National Self-Represented Litigants Project: Law Libraries Accept the SRL Challenge.
Read More +By Alan Kilpatrick Three recent articles from the StarPhoenix debated Aboriginal sentencing principles in Saskatchewan courts. A StarPhoenix editorial from September 27, 2014 commented that Cunliff Barnett, a retired British Columbia judge, had recently criticized Saskatchewan courts for failing to take cultural factors into account or use Gladue reports when sentencing Aboriginal people. WJ Vancise, a retired Saskatchewan Court of...
Read More +By Melanie Hodges Neufeld The ever popular The Builders’ Lien Act: A Practitioners’ Manual is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Providing section by section analysis of the Act, the Manual was authored by W. Brent Gough, Q.C. of Hnatyshyn Gough in Saskatoon. Mr. Gough is also a former Bencher and President of the Law Society of Saskatchewan. This fall/winter, an...
Read More +By Barbra Bailey Amendments to The Legal Profession Act, 1990 will come into force on July 1, 2014. There are three primary categories of amendments: the hearing and investigation process; Bencher elections; and the mandate of the Law Society of Saskatchewan. Those concepts are discussed further in the summary paper previously posted on the Law Society website on August 29, 2013. The Legal Profession Amendment Act, 2014,...
Read More +By Melanie Hodges Neufeld “In case I die in this mess I leave all to the wife.” Cecil Geo. Harris Any law student who has toiled in the College of Law Library since 1997 will be familiar with the tractor fender and pocket knife encased under glass amongst the stacks. The story of the Saskatchewan farmer who scratched his will...
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