by Karen Sawatzky | Jul 30, 2018 | Commentary, Immigration, Refugee
Here’s a helpful resource from the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada:
Interpretation of the Convention Refugee Definition in the Case Law
Contents include:
- Ch. 1 – Introduction
- Ch. 2 – Country of Persecution
- Ch. 3 – Persecution
- Ch. 4 – Grounds of Persecution – Nexus
- Ch. 5 – Well-founded Fear
- Ch. 6 – State Protection
- Ch. 7 – Change of Circumstances, Compelling Reasons, and Sur Place Claims
- Ch. 8 – Internal Flight Alternative (IFA)
- Ch. 9 – Particular Situations
- Ch. 10 – Exclusion Clauses – Article 1E
- Ch. 11 – Article 1F
- Keypoints
Additional Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada Legal Resources are also available.
h/t @LAManitoba (Legal Aid Manitoba)
by Karen Sawatzky | Jul 30, 2018 | Caselaw, Current Awareness, Legal Research, Legislation, U.K., U.K.
Occasionally, members request decisions and legislation from the United Kingdom. In order to fill that need, we subscribe to ICLR, The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales. Each week we receive the Weekly Case Law Update. We plan to make this a regular Monday feature for readers of Great LEXpectations.
If, after reading the digest, you would like a copy of any of the decisions, please contact us and we will be happy to provide it to members of the Law Society of Manitoba.
Here’s the Weekly Case Law Update for July 30, 2018.
by Karen Sawatzky | Jul 27, 2018 | Legal Research, Legislation
If you’ve ever tried to search Hansard, the federal government’s written record of every parliamentary debate, you know that even though it’s been digital for a long time, historical records were notoriously difficult to review. That’s because when Canadiana digitized it, it was as pictures and not text. A University of Toronto team of political scientists, computer scientists and historians decided to do something about it.
In 2013, [Christopher] Cochrane teamed up with two postdoctoral researchers, two PhD students and Graeme Hirst, professor of computer science at U of T Scarborough, to create LiPaD: The Linked Parliamentary Data Project.
LiPaD has digitized and made searchable Canada’s parliamentary debates dating back to 1901. It also created and designed a website to make the documents more accessible to the public, a project headed by PhD student Tanya Whyte.
A huge thank you and congratulations to this team for making this part of Canada’s legislative record available to everyone.
Full article available here.
h/t KnowItAALL, AALL’s daily newsletter
by Karen Sawatzky | Jul 26, 2018 | Law Society Publications, Property Law, Real Estate Law, Wills and Estates
Update 91 – July 2018 has just been published. Contents include:
Case Law Updates:
- Mental Incompetence Not a Prerequisite to an Accounting: MBCA
- Mortgagor’s Equitable Right to Redeem Protected From Mischief
- Sisters Prevail in Family Farm Dispute: MBCA
- Right to Veto Homestead Disposition Dies With Non-Owning Spouse: MBQB
- Section 25.2 Applies to Both Specific and Residuary Gifts: MBQB
Practice Notices:
- Property Registry Updates
Commentary:
- Manitoba Law Reform Commission Reports
- Recommended Reading
Professional Development:
by Karen Sawatzky | Jul 13, 2018 | Caselaw, Instruction, Legal Research
As information professionals, we are specialists in finding answers. But we also love to share our methods with everyone. One way to do this is by creating guides and tutorials on how to do what to us, are simple tasks, but to others, may be a challenge. The first guide we’ve created is on how to know when there are new Manitoba decisions on CanLII.
Manitoba’s courts have been distributing their decisions for free on CanLII since the turn of the century. Currently, we distribute the decisions to the legal publishers the day we receive them. CanLII usually has them available online within 24 hours.
Our guide, created by Allyssa McFadyen, demonstrates how to set up an alert in your calendar program to remind you to check CanLII for new results, or how to set up an RSS feed to be notified when new content has been published. Once these systems are set up, it is a simple matter to stay on top of new caselaw.
We plan to publish additional guides in the future, on such topics as how to search Hansard (Manitoba edition), and how to use our catalogue. If you have suggestions for research methods you would like explained, please let us know. Check our page, Legal Ease, for new content. It happens to be RSS-ready.
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