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March 12, 2015
Happy Birthday Legal Sourcery!
By Melanie Hodges Neufeld Today marks the one year anniversary of Legal Sourcery. What a wonderful year it has been! We have posted 409 posts, surpassed 50,000 hits from 124 countries and won the Canadian Law Blog Award for Best Law Library Blog. Thank you to the Library staff for your contributions and to our loyal readers for making Legal Sourcery such...
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January 2, 2015
Legal Sourcery Year in Review
By Melanie Hodges Neufeld Happy New Year everyone! Since launching on March 12, 2014, we have posted 333 posts and have had 38,415 views. The Royal Opera House in London, England has 2256 seats. If it were a performance at the Royal Opera House, it would be equivalent to 17 sold-out performances. The top 5 posts: Tips from the...
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January 2, 2015
Legal Sourcery Named Best Canadian Law Library Blog!
By Melanie Hodges Neufeld The 2014 Canadian Law Blog Awards (Clawbies) were announced on December 31 and we were the proud recipient of Best Law Library Blog: As a law library blog newcomer, Legal Sourcery made a serious impression in 2014. The hard-working blogger team (whose members double as the reference team) at the Law Society of Saskatchewan Library jumped into the...
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October 22, 2014
Aboriginal Sentencing Principles Debated in Saskatchewan
By Alan Kilpatrick Three recent articles from the StarPhoenix debated Aboriginal sentencing principles in Saskatchewan courts. A StarPhoenix editorial from September 27, 2014 commented that Cunliff Barnett, a retired British Columbia judge, had recently criticized Saskatchewan courts for failing to take cultural factors into account or use Gladue reports when sentencing Aboriginal people. WJ Vancise, a retired Saskatchewan Court of...
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