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December 9, 2020
Access to Legal Services, Limited Licences to Practice Law, and the Protection of the Public: A Discussion of Law Society of Saskatchewan v. Zielke and Recent Amendments to The Legal Profession Act, 1990
NOTICE: The following article discusses the case of Law Society of Saskatchewan v. Zielke 2019 SKQB 166. The article was written and published at a time prior to the determination of an appeal of that case. On appeal, the decision discussed in the article was overturned. The decision of the Court of Appeal is available here: Zielke v. Law Society...
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December 2, 2020
New Journal Issues- November 2020
By Sara Stanley UBC Law Review Volume 53, Number 1 (February 2020) Imperfect Evidence and Uncertain Justice: An Exploratory Study of Access to Justice Issues in Canada’s Asylum System / Jennifer Bond and David Wiseman Thinly Construing the Nature of the Act Legally Consented to: The Corrosive Impact of R v Hutchison on the Law of Consent / Lise Gotell...
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December 2, 2020
Feng v. Saskatchewan (Economy): Denying a remedy for a breach of procedural fairness in the Saskatchewan Immigrant Nominee Program context
By Kali Stahl* On January 9, 2020, the Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan released its decision in Feng v. Saskatchewan (Economy). This comment discusses the Court’s decision to deny a remedy despite finding a breach of procedural fairness and, more importantly, addresses the Ministry of the Economy’s concerning arguments. I. THE CASE In its recent decision in Feng v....
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November 27, 2020
Your Saskatchewan Legal Databases, Relaunched
By Alan Kilpatrick, Librarian The Law Society’s searchable legal databases (Bills, Cases, Conduct Review, Ethics Ruling, and Sentencing Digests) were officially relaunched on a modern, mobile-friendly, and cloud-based database platform on Friday, November 20th, concluding a year-long Legal Resources project. Congratulations to the @LawSocietySask for 40 years of providing access to legal info tools Saskatchewanians need, and for the launch...
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November 26, 2020
Is CALL/ACBD Changing Its Name?
by Ken Fox, Librarian On November 24 of this year, the Canadian Association of Law Libraries / Association Canadienne des Bibliothèques de Droit (CALL/ACBD) held a “Town Hall” meeting via Zoom, and discussed, amongst other matters, an organizational name change. Principally, they want to remove the word “library” from their name. And I couldn’t agree more. In fact, in 2016,...
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November 25, 2020
The Constitutionality of Section 33.1: A Never-ending Story?
By Fraser Duncan* This comment explores recent Charter challenges to s. 33.1 of the Criminal Code, which precludes the defence of self-induced intoxication for general intent, bodily integrity offences. The disparate outcomes in cases from Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Ontario highlight the need for further appellate intervention to clarify the state of the law. I. INTRODUCTION In recent decades, the defence...
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