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March 27, 2020
Friday Tip – Need an Online Textbook? Try the CED!
By Ken Fox, Research Librarian In essence, the Canadian Encyclopedia Digest Online is a comprehensive legal textbook. I can’t guarantee that it has the same scope as that classic work in a given practice area that you know and rely on. But if you are needing an online legal text, and don’t have access to an ebook edition, then in...
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March 20, 2020
Legal Resources Has Your Back
By Alan Kilpatrick, Reference Librarian Due to the ongoing situation with coronavirus, the Law Society’s Library locations in Regina and Saskatoon have been closed to members and the public. Despite the closure, our top-notch legal librarians and skilled information professionals are working remotely and still here to support you. We’ll continue to add value to your legal work during...
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March 12, 2020
New Content Alert! County of Carleton Law Association Conference Papers
Photo by Onlineprinters on Unsplash We’re pleased to announce that a new source of material is now available on CanLII. Thanks to the County of Carleton Law Association (CCLA), we have started offering access to conference proceedings in addition to law reviews, books, articles, newsletters, and reports. This is a wonderful addition to our commentary offerings because continuing professional development (CPD) content is an...
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March 6, 2020
Friday Tip: Case Law Searching in WestlawNext – Have Your Cake and Eat it Too!
Photo by Will Echols on Unsplash By Ken Fox, Research Librarian The great thing about searching case law digests, as opposed to full-text judgments, is that your search terms are applied only to a brief summary of the decision, not a full account of the case details. You get fewer results, and they are of higher quality. Since the cases have been digested,...
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March 4, 2020
New Journal Issues – February 2020
By Sara Stanley The Criminal Law QuarterlyVolume 67, Number 4 (January 2020) Editorial: Gladue Sentencing and Wrongful Convictions“Shedding Light” on Gladue and Section 718.2(e) / Judge Harradence and Catriona Kaiser-DerrickPlan B for Implementing Gladue: The Need to Apply Background Factors to the Punitive Sentencing Purposes / Kent RoachNegative Retributivism: A Response to R. v. Ipeelee’s Innovative Call / Noah S....
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February 20, 2020
The Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues Transitions to Open Access
By Canlii Left to right: Alisa Lazear, Xavier Beauchamp-Tremblay and Sarah Sutherland from CanLII; Rebecca Flynn, Cristina Fulop, Adrin Shojaie and Ali Tejani from the WRLSI The Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues (WRLSI) is an interdisciplinary law journal run by law students at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law, which has been publishing since 1989. Recently, they...
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