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December 22, 2020
Top Ten Accessed Cases on CanLII from 2020
Reaching December means that it’s time to look at the year in review and share what most interested you in the preceding twelve months through the lens of what court decisions you were all reading. 2020 feels like it’s been a year like no other, but there are things that have been constant and Canadians accessing case law via CanLII...
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November 27, 2020
Your Saskatchewan Legal Databases, Relaunched
By Alan Kilpatrick, Librarian The Law Society’s searchable legal databases (Bills, Cases, Conduct Review, Ethics Ruling, and Sentencing Digests) were officially relaunched on a modern, mobile-friendly, and cloud-based database platform on Friday, November 20th, concluding a year-long Legal Resources project. Congratulations to the @LawSocietySask for 40 years of providing access to legal info tools Saskatchewanians need, and for the launch...
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October 16, 2020
The Canadian Journal of Family Law is Now on CanLII
The CanLII team is pleased to announce that the Canadian Journal of Family Law is the latest addition to our commentary section! Published biannually since 1978, the Canadian Journal of Family Law is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal containing academic articles in both English and French that cover a broad range of family law issues. Originally published by York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School, the...
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October 14, 2020
Saskatchewan statutes on CanLII now go back to 1906
We are happy to be able to announce that we have completed a project to add the annual and revised statutes for the Province of Saskatchewan to CanLII with coverage going back to 1906. This project was made possible by a grant from the Law Foundation of Saskatchewan, and we are grateful to the board and staff of the foundation for supporting...
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August 17, 2020
On Legal Ethics and Artificial Intelligence
“There continues to be extensive discussion about artificial intelligence and law, and concerns are regularly raised about the ethical and moral issues this presents,” writes CanLII’s Director of Programs and Partnerships, Sarah Sutherland in her latest Slaw column. “AI is a difficult topic because there are simultaneously strong ethical reasons to push forward and to pull back. First the push:...
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July 29, 2020
4,800 Reports of Family Law decisions from 1968 to present added to CanLII
Thanks to a grant from the Law Foundation of Ontario, CanLII has added access to approximately 4,800 decisions from Reports of Family Law to CanLII.org published between 1968 and the present. This project to expand access to this important body of case law includes 3,800 PDF decisions that were scanned and added to CanLII and are now available to researchers on CanLII.org....
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