Amendments to the Judges Act Proclaimed in Force
Sections of An Act to Amend the Judges Act and Certain Other Acts in Relation to Courts, S.C. 2006, c. 11, have been proclaimed in force.
Please see Recent Canada Proclamations or contact us for details.
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BC Courthouse Library Society News - April 8, 2008
Inadequate Preservation Efforts Necessitate Restoration and Production of Email from Backup Tapes, and Forensic Search of CEO's Laptop
Treppel v. Biovail Corp., 2008 WL 866594 (S.D.N.Y. Apr. 2, 2008)In this case, plaintiff alleged that Biovail Corp., its CEO, general counsel and others engaged in a "smear campaign" that destroyed plaintiff's career as a securities analyst. He asserted claims of defamation, tortious interference with prospective economic advantage and civil conspiracy. In February 2006, as previously summarized here, Magistrate Judge James C. Francis, IV declined to enter a preservation order and ordered defendants to answer a “document retention questionnaire” and produce documents in native...
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Electronic Discovery Law - April 8, 2008 Tags: Case Summaries
2005/2006 WI Legislative Drafting Records Now Available from UW Law Library
I'm pleased to report that the 2005/2006 Wisconsin Legislative Drafting Records are now available on the UW Law Library Web site. Records from previous sessions back to 1999/2000 are also available.
The 2005/2006 records have actually been up for a few weeks, but Google has only just indexed them, thus enabling our search engine.
You may know that drafting records from the 1999-2005 sessions are also available from the Wisconsin Legislature. In doing some comparative searching, however, I found some significant differences. Terms which produced results in our search engine did not produce results in the Legislature'...
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WisBlawg - From the UW Law Library - April 8, 2008 Tags: Legislation & Regs
University of Ottawa Concludes Online Privacy Research Project
The Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa has concluded a four year project regarding online privacy titled On The Identity Trail. The project?s research includes presentations, publications and works-in-progress.
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BC Courthouse Library Society News - April 8, 2008
Q + A with Steve Ward of the Oxford Internet Institute
Today's Berkman Luncheon Series guest, Steve Ward of the Oxford
Internet Institute, sat down with Berkman Center intern Yvette Wohn for
a Q+A where they discussed the virtual identities of politicians,
technology's role in politics, and blogging civil servants.
Q. Are there any unique ways the Internet is used in a political context (methods that are not apparent in other countries)?read more
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Berkman Blog - April 8, 2008 Author: ashar
Avvo hits the Florida legal market
The growing, free lawyer ratings and referral service called AVVO
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novalawcity - April 8, 2008 Author: Robert Hudson
OMB Progress Report on E-Government Act Implementation
From the White House: "This is OMB’s fifth annual progress report on implementation of the E-Government Act of 2002 (Pub. L. No. 107-347; Dec. 17, 2002) (the “E-Government Act”) as required by 44 USC 3606. This report describes activities completed...
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Law Librarian Blog - April 8, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Gov Docs
International Law Video Library Relaunched
The International Law Video Library has moved to a permanent location, been revamped and includes some new material. Bookmark the new URL! A Queen's University of Belfast project, ILVL was developed so as to be accessible to all and find...
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Law Librarian Blog - April 8, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: International Law
Thaler & Sunstein's Manifesto for Something Called Libertarian Paternalism
In this utterly brilliant book, Thaler and Sunstein teach us how to steer people toward better health, sounder investments, and cleaner environments without depriving them of their inalienable right to make a mess of things if they want to. --...
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Law Librarian Blog - April 8, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: New Publications
New Life for Good Old LC Subject Headings
Roy Tennant reports that LC's Ed Summers has launched http://lcsh.info/ to demonstrate what can be done with Library of Congress Subject Headings. Summers has taken the LCSH dataset harvested by Simon Spero (instead of official LC data) and parsed it...
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Law Librarian Blog - April 8, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Tech Services
DOJ's Immigration Court Practice Manual
The DOJ Office of the Chief Immigration Judge has released of the Immigration Court Practice Manual (pdf), which sets forth uniform procedures, recommendations, and requirements for practice before the Immigration Courts. The Practice Manual's requirements are binding on the parties...
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Law Librarian Blog - April 8, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Gov Docs
Law Library Extended Hours - April 2008
Photo by UBC Library Graphics The UBC Law Library will be open late (8:00 am – 10:00 pm) on • Friday, April 18, 2008 • Friday, April 25, 2008...
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Law Library Blog - April 8, 2008 Author: Elim Tags: General Announcements
