Legal News (Legal Sourcery)

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August 17, 2015

Bencher Election 2015

By Tom Schonhoffer, Q.C. Executive Director, Law Society of Saskatchewan Another 3 years has passed and the next Bencher Election is scheduled for November 2015. This article has two purposes. The first is to encourage lawyers to consider running as Benchers in this election. The second is to reacquaint you with the process for online elections. Lawyers are privileged to...

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April 23, 2015

Book Award Nomination for Builders’ Lien Manual

By Melanie Hodges Neufeld For the second year in a row, the Law Society of Saskatchewan Library has been nominated for the Hugh Lawford Award for Excellence in Legal Publishing. This year, the Saskatchewan Builders’ Lien Manual, 2nd ed., has received the honour. The Hugh Lawford Award is granted annually by the Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL) to a publisher...

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April 17, 2015

Section 15 of Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Turns 30

By Alan Kilpatrick The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms came into force 33 years ago on April 17th, 1982. Did you know that the Section 15 of the charter came into effect 30 years ago today on April 17th, 1985? Section 15 guarantees our equality rights and sets out that everyone in Canada is considered equal before the law...

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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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March 12, 2015

The Female View from the Bench 1968 (Throwback Thursday)

To wrap up our week-long theme in honour of International Women’s Day, for our Throwback today, we found an article in the Ottawa Citizen, December 4, 1968, featuring two female judges from Saskatchewan Tillie Taylor (1922-2011) and Mary Carter (1923-2010). In “The Female View from the Magistrate’s Bench: We’re Still Putting People in Jail Because They’re Poor”, the two judges...

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March 10, 2015

Legal Sourcery is Celebrating its First Anniversary!

By Alan Kilpatrick In March 2014, the Law Society of Saskatchewan Library launched their blog, Legal Sourcery. Legal resources are what the library provides, but legal sourcery is the skill and expertise the library brings to legal research. In an attempt to explore new avenues to promote our research services and publications, library staff decided to create a blog. Our...

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