Law Society of Saskatchewan Legal News (Legal Sourcery)
Legal News (Legal Sourcery)
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January 27, 2015
Incivility Paper
By Melanie Hodges Neufeld Slaw recently highlighted an interesting paper about lawyers’ incivility entitled “Judicial Sanction of Uncivil and Unprofessional Conduct”. As Slaw notes: This paper is a practical guide to lawyer behaviours that Canadian courts have deemed uncivil or unprofessional, and to the kinds of judicial sanction – of lawyers and their clients both – that those behaviours have...
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January 2, 2015
Legal Sourcery Year in Review
By Melanie Hodges Neufeld Happy New Year everyone! Since launching on March 12, 2014, we have posted 333 posts and have had 38,415 views. The Royal Opera House in London, England has 2256 seats. If it were a performance at the Royal Opera House, it would be equivalent to 17 sold-out performances. The top 5 posts: Tips from the...
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January 2, 2015
Legal Sourcery Named Best Canadian Law Library Blog!
By Melanie Hodges Neufeld The 2014 Canadian Law Blog Awards (Clawbies) were announced on December 31 and we were the proud recipient of Best Law Library Blog: As a law library blog newcomer, Legal Sourcery made a serious impression in 2014. The hard-working blogger team (whose members double as the reference team) at the Law Society of Saskatchewan Library jumped into the...
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November 6, 2014
Remembrance (Throwback Thursday)
During the First World War, all Law Society members who enlisted for active service were deemed to have paid their annual fees and continued in good standing until they resumed practice. In 1918, 77 of 496 lawyers on the roll and 158 of 302 students-at-law were enlisted for active military service. A roll of honour was proposed for all Law...
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October 31, 2014
The Self-Represented Litigants Challenge
By By Melanie Hodges Neufeld From the The National Self-Represented Litigants Project: Law Libraries Accept the SRL Challenge.
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October 22, 2014
Aboriginal Sentencing Principles Debated in Saskatchewan
By Alan Kilpatrick Three recent articles from the StarPhoenix debated Aboriginal sentencing principles in Saskatchewan courts. A StarPhoenix editorial from September 27, 2014 commented that Cunliff Barnett, a retired British Columbia judge, had recently criticized Saskatchewan courts for failing to take cultural factors into account or use Gladue reports when sentencing Aboriginal people. WJ Vancise, a retired Saskatchewan Court of...
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