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February 22, 2021
Estate Litigation Update: Thorne v Thorne, 2020 SKQB 341 (CanLII)
By James Steele, Robertson Stromberg LLP A recent case of the Saskatchewan Court of Queen Bench offers the following lesson: the Court’s power to “fix” clerical mistakes in Wills, may...
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November 30, 2020
Case comment on Leason v Malcolm, 2020 SKQB 102
James Steele, Robertson Stromberg LLP An interesting recent estate litigation decision from Saskatchewan comes in Leason v Malcolm, 2020 SKQB 102. Leason reminds us that once a bequest is vested,...
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September 25, 2019
Over 9,500 decisions from the Manitoba Reports have been added to CanLII!
Reposted with permission from The CanLII Blog CanLII is grateful to have received a grant from the Manitoba Law Foundation to add decisions from the first and second series of the Manitoba Reports to...
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May 31, 2019
Over 8,000 cases from the Western Weekly Reports Have Been Added to CanLII
By Sarah Sutherland; reblogged with permission from the CanLII Blog There is a lot of caselaw out there and we want to make sure you have access to the most...
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December 20, 2018
Top Ten Accessed Cases from 2018
Reposted with permission from the CanLII Blog Surely the winter holiday season wouldn’t be complete without the annual list of the most viewed cases from CanLII in the prior year....
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March 29, 2018
Case Comment: Valard Construction Ltd. v. Bird Construction Co., 2018 SCC 8
By James Steele I enjoy practising in the area of estate litigation, and follow case law developments closely. Interestingly, a recent Supreme Court decision from the construction context, nevertheless has...
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November 15, 2017
Adding Foundational Case Law to CanLII
By Sarah Sutherland Manager, Content and Partnerships Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII) Since CanLII’s founding, we have been working to make sure the law you need is available. As part...
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March 1, 2017
Case Mail
By Melanie Hodges Neufeld Case Mail volume 19, no. 5 (March 1) is now available on the Law Society website. Produced by the Law Society Library, Case Mail is a free semi-monthly electronic...
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February 16, 2017
Rare Fish
By Ken Fox We at the library consider it a certainty that in due time all case law (as well as statutes and out-of-copyright textbooks) will eventually be available for...
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November 3, 2016
A Humble Beginning: 32 Years of Saskatchewan Case Digesting (Throwback Thursday)
[caption id="attachment_1058" align="alignright" width="300"] An acoustic coupler used in the 1983 movie WarGames[/caption] The year was 1982 , and ... Time Magazine's Man of the Year was the computer, Commodore...
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