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August 14, 2020

COVID-19 Legal News Roundup: August 13th Edition

By Alan Kilpatrick, Reference Librarian The COVID-19 pandemic, and its impact on the practice of law, is changing rapidly. We want to help you stay up to date with the latest news. Each week we aggregate the leading legal headlines on COVID-19 on the topics that matter to you: Access to Justice Equal access to justice the big worry as...

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August 12, 2020

PATHS training on Dynamics of Domestic Violence for Family Law Practitioners

PATHS will be offering our Understanding the Dynamics of Domestic Violence for Family Law Practitioners training online September 28 - October 1. The training will take place over 4 mornings (8:30 am- 12 pm), Monday, September 28 - Thursday, October 1. The training content is the same as is offered during the two-day in-person training. This training will provide an...

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August 11, 2020

Online Parenting Coordination Training from ADR Institute of SK

On July 16, 2019, changes to the Children’s Law Act to regulate the practice of parenting coordination came into effect. Regulations setting out the training and experience required in order to be recognized by the Minister as a Parenting Coordinator also came into effect on July 16, 2019. The Act and Regulations are available here: https://publications.saskatchewan.ca/#/products/462 ADR SK will be...

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August 10, 2020

McCall MacBain Scholarships and McGill Faculty of Law Information Session

August 19, 2020 at 12 PM EDT – via Zoom Interested in continuing your legal education? Motivated to make a positive impact? Register for an information session about the McCall MacBain Scholarship, a full scholarship for your future LLM studies at McGill's Faculty of Law. Find out more about the McCall MacBain Scholarship eligibility criteria and RSVP here: https://www.mcgill.ca/law/mccall-macbain-law.

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August 7, 2020

Remote Executing of Certain Documents and Remote Witnessing of Wills by Electronic Means Legislation Now Permanent

We are happy to announce that today, the Government of Saskatchewan repealed the temporary emergency regulations related to remote execution of certain documents and wills and replaced those regulations with permanent regulations allowing for remote execution of documents via electronic means (i.e. video calls) to continue long-term beyond the end of the public emergency period. This is a significant development in terms of...

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August 7, 2020

COVID-19 Legal News Roundup: August 7th Edition

By Alan Kilpatrick, Reference Librarian The COVID-19 pandemic, and its impact on the practice of law, is changing rapidly. We want to help you stay up to date with the latest news. Each week I aggregate the leading legal headlines on COVID-19 on the topics that matter to you: Access to Justice After COVID-19 we can never go back |...

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