Law Society of Saskatchewan Legal News (Legal Sourcery)
Legal News (Legal Sourcery)
Legal Sourcery is the award winning, top legal news source in Saskatchewan. Find the latest Law Society updates and information from the Saskatchewan legal community.
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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March 9, 2015
Chronology: Women and the Legal Profession in Saskatchewan
By Alan Kilpatrick In honour of International Women’s Day we have reproduced a chronology of women and the legal profession in Saskatchewan. This chronology was compiled for a 1988 survey of female graduates from the University of Saskatchewan’s College Of Law. [caption id="attachment_2512" align="alignleft" width="102"] Mary Cathcart[/caption] [caption id="attachment_2511" align="alignleft" width="95"] Elsie Hall[/caption] [caption id="attachment_2510" align="alignleft" width="100"] Dorothy Greensmith[/caption] [caption...
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March 5, 2015
One Woman Makes a Difference – Justice Bertha Wilson (Throwback Thursday)
The spring of 1982 was marked by two landmark events in Canadian legal history: Bertha Wilson was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada as the first female Justice of the Supreme Court on March 4, and The Charter of Rights and Freedoms was proclaimed into force on April 17. Born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, Bertha Wilson received a Master of...
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January 27, 2015
Gender Bias
By Kelly Laycock With recent events in the news, from the Dalhousie dentistry Facebook scandal to the charges laid against former CBC talk show host Jian Ghomeshi, the topic of gender equality (among other things!) has come to the forefront of our social consciousness. But it isn’t just in Canada; it is a concern on a global level. For those...
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