This Monday, August 6th, the library along with the courthouse will be closed. Members of the Law Society of Manitoba have after hours access from 10 – 5, by signing in at the Kennedy Street entrance.
Enjoy the long weekend – the forecast is for 30 degrees!
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:
Additional Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada Legal Resources are also available.
h/t @LAManitoba (Legal Aid Manitoba)
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.
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
Update 91 – July 2018 has just been published. Contents include:
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