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December 11, 2018
2018 Canadian Law Blog Award (Clawbie) Nominations
By Alan Kilpatrick It’s time to nominate your favorite Canadian legal blogs for a Canadian Law Blog Award (Clawbie)! The Clawbies were established in 2006 to showcase the high-quality legal blogs being published in Canada. You can tweet your nominations with the #clawbies2018 Twitter hashtag. The deadline for nominations is December 21st, 2018. Here are the Law Society of Saskatchewan...
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December 11, 2018
Update on Recent Policy Work
By Xavier Beauchamp-Tremblay; reposted with permission from the CanLII blog As you may have noticed, CanLII has been quite active this year announcing new content and other improvements, but we would also like to let you know about the policy work we have been involved in this fall. Copyright Review First, we submitted a brief to the Standing Committee on...
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December 6, 2018
Saskatchewan’s New Revenge Porn Law
By Alan Kilpatrick Saskatchewan’s Privacy Act, RSS 1987, c P-24 was recently amended to introduce new avenues for victims of revenge porn to seek damages and justice. Revenge porn includes the non-consensual distribution and sharing of intimate photographs, films, or videos. Justice Minister Don Morgan explained that The Privacy Amendment Act, SS 2018, c 28, which came into force on...
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December 5, 2018
An Update to CanLII’s Search Engine, Solex
By Xavier Beauchamp-Tremblay As some of you may have noticed, an improved search was deployed on CanLII last week. Here’s a summary of what it does: 1. The search engine can tell if you're looking for a specific document or if you're doing legal research. Searching for a specific document is a very different behaviour than doing legal research without...
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December 5, 2018
CREATE Justice Bulletin – November 2018
The Third Annual Saskatchewan Access to Justice Week was held October 20 to 26. Thank you to the week's contributors and participants. View highlights and announcements from the week below. Justice and health stakeholders gather for Medical-Legal Partnerships Conference (October 17, a pre-week event). College of Law Small Urban and Rural Committee organizes Rural Firm Tour (October 19, a pre-week...
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November 30, 2018
Tech Tip: Convert to Text!
By Ken Fox You know what really grinds my gears? When I open a PDF file containing what appears to be digitally-formatted text and find that it is non-copyable and non-searchable. The ability to search, copy and paste text are essential functions of digital communications – so the idea that a text is born digitally and therefore ASCII (American Standard...
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