Law Society of Saskatchewan Archives for Tip of the Week
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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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February 21, 2020
HeinOnline: More Than Meets the Eye!
By Alan Kilpatrick You likely know that HeinOnline is a popular online legal journal database accessible directly through the Law Society Members’ Resource Section. It provides access to an abundance of legal journals, more than 2000 titles, from Canada, the United States, and the Commonwealth. What you might not know is that there is far more to HeinOnline than meets...
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February 7, 2020
Speech Balloons & Blue Jalapeños
By Ken Fox, Reference Librarian If you have used CanLII recently, you may have noticed a couple of new visual elements. First, pull up a case - Hryniak v. Mauldin, 2014 SCC 7 (CanLII), [2014] 1 SCR 87, http://canlii.ca/t/g2s18, for example. Notice the series of tabs across the top of the header, immediately below the case citation in large type. The fourth tab...
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November 15, 2019
Research Tip: Canadiana Online is Now Free to Access!
By Alan Kilpatrick Earlier this year, Canadiana Online’s unparalleled online collection of historical materials became free to access. The collection, available at no charge at Canadiana.ca, contains more than 60 million digitized pages of books, periodicals, and government publications from early Canadian history. Why should lawyers and legal researchers take note of this thrilling development? Canadiana Online features an outstanding...
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November 30, 2018
Tech Tip: Convert to Text!
By Ken Fox You know what really grinds my gears? When I open a PDF file containing what appears to be digitally-formatted text and find that it is non-copyable and non-searchable. The ability to search, copy and paste text are essential functions of digital communications – so the idea that a text is born digitally and therefore ASCII (American Standard...
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November 2, 2018
Using Abridgment Topics to Refine Citing References in WestlawNext – Tip of the Week
By Ken Fox WestlawNext Canada, which is presently available to all Saskatchewan lawyers through The Law Society’s Member’ Section, includes an excellent Citing References tool. Today’s tip will help you in situations where you are dealing with a long list of citing references for a major case. My example relates to evidence law, but the technique will work with any...
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