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By Alisa Lazear, Community Manager at CanLII and Lexum; reposted with permission from the CanLII blog Lexbox is a free tool that has been integrated into CanLII, which is designed to help you keep track of your legal research online. We are sharing this tip on what you can do with your Lexbox folders, to help you use Lexbox to...
Read More +By Alisa Lazear, Community Manager at CanLII and Lexum; reposted with permission from the CanLII Blog An additional filter feature has been added to CanLII to help you find commentary. You can now search CanLII commentary by subject area. To do this: Conduct your search from the CanLII mainpage using your chosen keyword(s), case name, or piece of legislation. Under...
Read More +By Sarah Sutherland; reblogged with permission from the CanLII Blog The CanLII Connects site has now reached over 55,000 summaries and commentaries! That is more than double the number of documents since its launch on April 4th, 2014. These documents relate to over 45,000 cases from jurisdictions across Canada. The contributor of the 55,000th piece was Supreme Advocacy who is one of CanLII...
Read More +By Alan Kilpatrick, Librarian Have you heard about MMS Watch? It’s a free mandatory minimum sentencing resource recently created by the experts behind Rangefindr – the popular criminal sentencing resource accessible in the Law Society Members’ Section. MMS Watch provides a list of every mandatory minimum sentence in force in the Criminal Code and the Controlled Drugs and Sentencing Act. Additional...
Read More +By Melanie Hodges Neufeld The October 7th edition of Lawyers Weekly digital edition is now available via the Members’ Section of the Law Society website. Articles in this issue include: Majority of committee pushes to end Ontario articling alternative Lawyers: SCC should rule on top court post Real Property: Taxing the condo flip Environmental Law: A green call to action Business &...
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