New Notice and Practice Directive – Provincial Court

Covid-19 Suspension and Re-Opening Of Additional Courts

In furtherance of previous notices to re-open courts, the following locations with begin to re-open on a staged and incremental basis.

  • September 9, 2020, court sittings resumed in Bloodvein;
  • September 21, 2020, court sittings will resume in Gimli, Stonewall and Little Grand Rapids;
  • October 1, 2020, we expect to resume court sittings in Moose Lake, Sioux Valley, God’s Lake Narrows, Garden Hill, Boissevain, Brochet, Little Grand Rapids and Cross Lake.

September 21, 2020, the Provincial Court of Manitoba will hear in-custody and out of custody trials and dispositions in the communities of Gimli, Stonewall, and Little Grand Rapids.

October 1, 2020, the Provincial Court of Manitoba will hear in-custody and out of custody trials and dispositions in the communities of: God’s Lake Narrows, Cross Lake, Sioux Valley, Moose Lake, Bloodvein, Garden Hill, Boissevain, and Brochet.

See the full notice for more details as well as information on Child protection, Administrative dockets, and Case management conferences.


For a list of all notices and practice directions related to COVID-19 visit manitobacourts.mb.ca/covid-19/

Manitoba Law Blogs Roundup

A bi-monthly round-up of blog posts from the Manitoba legal community for the months of August and September 2020

Clarke Immigration Law

Robson Crim Legal Blog

Matthew Gould Blog (Criminal Law)

Taylor McCaffrey

TDS law

Journals Update

The library has received a number of new online and print journal issues.

These journals have been added to LexisAdvance Quicklaw. Articles can be requested from the library following proper copyright restrictions. Email library@lawsociety.mb.ca for access.

Criminal Law Quarterly Vol. 68. No. 3

  • Criminal Appeals in the Supreme Court of Canada and Federal Criminal Law Amendments 68 C.L.Q. 240 Kent W. Roach
  • Canada, China and Criminal Justice 68 C.L.Q. 236 Kent W. Roach
  • Privacy, Voyeurism, and Statutory Interpretation 68 C.L.Q. 289 Kent W. Roach
  • Unveiling the Mechanisms Behind Judicial Responses to De Minimis Claims in Trial-Level
    Assault Cases 68 C.L.Q. 249 Kent W. Roach
  • Constitutional and Quasi-Constitutional Privacy Protections: In Defence of a Heightened
    Expectation of Privacy for Young Persons Participating in the Digital World 68 C.L.Q. 362 Kent W. Roach
  • Public Confidence in the Administration of Justice 68 C.L.Q. 309 Kent W. Roach
  • Looks Can Be Deceiving: The Irrelevance of Demeanour in Witness Assessments 68 C.L.Q. 346 Kent W. Roach
  • Evaluating Drug-Impaired Drivers Using the Drug Evaluation and Classification Program
    (DECP) in Canada 68 C.L.Q. 320 Kent W. Roach

National Journal of Constitutional Law Vol 40

  • The Powers of the CSE after C-59: Are Privacy Rights at Risk? 40 Nat’l J. Const. L. 131 Stephanie Williams
  • Clarifying the Matter: Modernizing Peace, Order, and Good Government in the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act Appeals 40 Nat’l J. Const. L. 153 Nathalie J. Chalifour, Peter Oliver, Taylor Wormington
  • Medical Assistance in Dying after Carter: Developing a “Trialogue Theory” Framework 40 Nat’l J. Const. L. 111 Sarah Gupta

The new issue of Canadian Labour & Employment Law Journal is now available in print at the library. PDF scans of articles can also be requested.

Canadian Labour & Employment Law Journal Vol. 22 No. 2, 2020

  • Fixing the Broken Law of Termination Clauses 22 C.L.E.L.J. 143 Stephan J. Moreau
  • Labour Rights Arbitration in Canada: An Empirical Investigation of Efficiency and Delay in a Changed Legal Environment 22 C.L.E.L.J. 231 Kevin Banks, Richard Chayowski & George Slotsve
  • Demystifying the Employee Fiduciary Identify 22 C.L.E.L.J. 281 Jonathan Shepard

HeinOnline has added a number of new journals to its database. To access these and other journals, log-in through the Member’s Portal and click on the Law Journal Library.

  • Admiralty Record Vols. 1-6 (2013-2018)
  • American Journal of Bioethics Full Text: Vols. 1-14 (2001-2014), Indexed: Vols. 1-20#8 (2001-2020)
  • Conveyancing 1999-2019
  • Deviant Behavior Full Text: Vols. 1-35 (1979-2014) Indexed: Vols. 1-41#10 (1979-2020)
  • Direitos Fundamentais & Justica Full Text: Vols. 1-39 (2007-2018) Indexed: Vols. 1-41 (2007-2019)
  • Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice Full Text: Vols. 1-12 (2003-2014) Indexed: Vols. 1-18#3 (2003-2020)
  • Journal of Family Trauma, Child Custody, and Child Development (JFT)—formerly the Journal of Child Custody Title Varies: Vols. 1-16 (2004-2019) as Journal of Child Custody Full Text: Vols. 1-11 (2004-2014) Indexed: Vols. 1-17#2 (2004-2020)
  • Journal of Law & Innovation Vols. 1-3 (2019-2020)
  • Revista de Bioetica y Derecho (Journal of Bioethics and Law) Vols. 1-50 (2004-2020)
  • Wrongful Conviction Law Review Vol. 1#1 (2020)

If you are interested in what other resources have been added to HeinOnline this month check out this blog post.

New Notice – Provincial Court

JJP Administrative Circuit Dockets (Thompson Court Centre) (September 9, 2020)

“Starting on September 14, 2020, the circuit dockets presided over by a Judicial Justice
of the Peace (JJP) will be run in Thompson.

Counsel who have matters appearing on the JJP dockets are asked to attend to address the matter before the Court. The JJPs will be able to endorse stays of proceedings, impose peace bonds, receive updates on the status of applications for counsel, referrals to diversion and set trial dates.

If a matter is ready for disposition, and the circuit court location is open, the matter can be remanded to the next Judge’s docket in the community for disposition.”


For a list of all notices and practice directions related to COVID-19 visit manitobacourts.mb.ca/covid-19/