Legal News (Legal Sourcery)

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November 5, 2018

College of Law Small Urban and Rural Committee’s Rural Firm Tour Held During Access to Justice Week

By the Students of the Small Urban and Rural Committee On October 19, 2018, the Small Urban and Rural Committee (SURC) hosted its annual Small Urban and Rural Firm Tour, this year choosing to visit Prince Albert. The tour offered an opportunity for students to meet with hosts and hear what opportunities in law are available and what they entail...

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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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November 1, 2018

The Canadian Legal Research and Writing Guide on CanLII

By Sarah Sutherland; This post is re-posted with permission from the CanLII Blog We are happy to announce that the Canadian Legal Research and Writing Guide has been added to CanLII’s Commentary section. The Best Guide to Canadian Legal Research, as it was previously known, has been freely available online since 1998. Catherine Best created the website version of the...

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October 31, 2018

More Cannabis Legislation – Effective October 17

Yes, further to our post of October 2, 2018 when we advised you about all the Saskatchewan legislation related to cannabis legalization and their effective dates, this new regulation, C-2.111 Reg 1 The Cannabis Control (Saskatchewan) Regulations, published in The Saskatchewan Gazette, Part II, Vol. 114 No. 42, October 19, 2018. On the face of it, this would seem to...

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October 31, 2018

Reconciliation, Decolonization, Indigenization discussed during Access to Justice Week

By Cheryl Giesbrecht, CLASSIC Student Manager Pro Bono Students Canada (PBSC) started out Access to Justice Week with a Volunteer Appreciation Event! As one of PBSC’s community partners, the Community Legal Assistance Services for Saskatoon Inner City Inc (CLASSIC) teamed up with them to present a vital question for consideration by volunteers and others at the College as they enjoyed their coffee and candy: What...

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October 30, 2018

Working Towards Inclusion

[caption id="attachment_7852" align="alignright" width="300"] Keynote speaker, author and founder of bhasin consulting inc. Ritu Bhasin, LL.B MBA.[/caption] By Jenneth Hogan The Law Society was delighted to present it’s first full-day session co-hosted by the Canadian Bar Association, The Benefits of Diversity. We hosted the sessions first at the Radisson Hotel in Saskatoon on Tuesday, October 23rd and then in Regina...

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