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There has been a lot of talk about AI programs in the news lately, and it may surprise some law society members to know that they have access to one of these powerful tools with vLex and the ‘Vincent’ AI.
The library will be hosting three online training sessions for vLex with instruction on how to use the platform and its features . These webinars will also cover vLex’s AI ‘Vincent’, explaining how this powerful tool assists with legal research, analyzes documents and automatically generates headnotes from decisions.
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Session 3 vLex Platform Walkthrough Webinar (Vincent AI, Navigating the Platform, Irwin Law): Tuesday June 27th at 1 pm CT Register in advance for this webinar
What is Vincent?
By combining human search behaviour with machine speed, Vincent enables you to go beyond traditional research methods. With its easy-to-use technology, this cross-jurisdictional assistant helps you to:
Quickly interact with global legal information
Save valuable research time
Extract key legal issues from cases
Access automatically generated headnotes on
millions of cases
Improve the quality of your work by ensuring no
important documents are missed due to human error.
Importantly, Vincent recognizes legal documents from over 30 countries, in both English and Spanish. As well as finding all in-text references, Vincent also finds documents that are semantically similar, on the same points of law, and also in other jurisdictions, to help lawyers build better arguments using on-point cases and persuasive authorities.
Vincent AI Case Analysis
vLex has enhanced Vincent AI’s capabilities to include a new feature called Case Analysis. Vincent, using large-scale language models, can now read cases, extract key information, and automatically produce summarized headnotes – helping legal professionals understand the important issues addressed in a judgment at a glance.
Irwin Law E-Library
The Irwin Law e-book collection brings an innovative approach to legal publishing that does more than outline the current state of the law. Containing over 300 e-books, this collection analyses the complex issues of the day in a succinct and readable style, and in a manner that is probing and thoughtful. With a focus on Canadian law as well as some international topics, the Irwin law collection covers a wide range of practice areas.
The newest issues of popular legal journals, as well as new journal titles, are now out and available. Law Society Members can access HeinOnline journals through the Member’s Portal or request pdf copies of our other digital journals by contacting the library. See below for more details.
New Journals Added to HeinOnline (click to expand)
Not only does HeinOnline have a large collection of legal journals, but we are also subscribed to the Canadian Core package of HeinOnline which includes Federal and Provincial Annual and Revised Statutes going back to 1868 and 1871 respectively, as well as English Reports, Legal Classics, Legal Dictionaries, and more. Take a look at HeinOnline if you haven’t before to explore what else this resource has to offer.
Other Digital Journals
We are also able to provide pdf copies of journal articles found on Westlaw and Quicklaw for Law Society Members. Email us at library@lawsociety.mb.ca for a copy of any of the following articles or, if you are looking for information on a specific issue, let us know and we can look for relevant articles and commentary. Click on the journal title for the current issue’s content.
Canadian Family Law Quarterly
Parenting Coordination as a Judicial Tool: Achieving Access to Justice for Children 41 C.F.L.Q. 391 Joanna Radbord; Rachel Birnbaum
Rich Parents, Poor Kids — Unwrapping Parental Gifts: A Review of the Case Law Regarding Gifts/Loans and their Impact on Property and Support 41 C.F.L.Q. 261 Stephen Codas; Sarah Strathopolous; Scot D.E. Menzies; Jessica A. MacDonald
Child Support for Adult Children 41 C.F.L.Q. 315 Maxine M. Kerr
Canadian Journal of Administrative Law and Practice
The Tribunal Design Issue–An Overview or How to Fix My A2J Problem 36 Can. J. Admin. L. & Prac. 1 Paul Aterman
Five Steps to User-Centred Tribunal Design 36 Can. J. Admin. L. & Prac. 5 Emily Farrimond, Paul Aterman
Active-Sensemaking: How Do I Find Out What Users and Stakeholders Really Think about My Tribunal’s Services? 36 Can. J. Admin. L. & Prac. 19 Emily C. Drown
Future Directions in Standard of Review in Canadian Administrative Law: Substantive Review and Procedural Fairness 36 Can. J. Admin. L. & Prac. 69 Paul Daly
How Do I Implement Proportionate Adjudicative Systems to Manage and Resolve Cases? 36 Can. J. Admin. L. & Prac. 39 Michelle A. Alton
Fostering and Measuring Adjudicative Quality in Tribunals 36 Can. J. Admin. L. & Prac. 57 Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Canadian Journal of Law and Technology
Cryptocurrencies and Climate Change: A Net-Zero Paradox 20 Can. J. L. & Tech. 129 Jason MacLean
Crowdsourcing Justice 20 Can. J. L. & Tech. 153 Matthew Dylag
Regulating Uncertain States: A Risk-Based Policy Agenda for Quantum Technologies 20 Can. J. L. & Tech. 179 Tina Dekker, Florian Martin-Bariteau
Reframing Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence at the Intersections of Law & Society 19 Can. J. L. & Tech. 209 Jane Bailey, Carys Craig, Suzie Dunn, Sonia Lawrence
From Cartier to Codification: Website-Blocking Injunctions and Third-Party Internet Service Provider Respondents 20 Can. J. L. & Tech. 225 Dan Mackwood
Comment: The United Nations and Robot Rights 20 Can. J. L. & Tech. 257 Heather Alexander
Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law
Parliamentary Scrutiny and Judicial Review of Executive Legislation–Is It Working in Canada? 17 J. Parliamentary & Pol. L. 191 John Mark Keyes
The Testing of Democratic Resolve 17 J. Parliamentary & Pol. L. 1 Gregory Tardi, DJur
Including Emerging Litigation Comprenant les Litiges en Voie de Développement17 J. Parliamentary & Pol. L. 233 Gregory Tardi
Disruption and Routine: Choosing a Speaker in the United States Compared to Canada 17 J. Parliamentary & Pol. L. 7 Robert W. Speel , Gregory J. Inwood
Federalism Review in Parliament: Scrutiny Mechanisms Described 17 J. Parliamentary & Pol. L. 139 Charlie Feldman
The Dialogue within: Deference and Self-Assertion in the Supreme Court of Canada in the Charter Era 17 J. Parliamentary & Pol. L. 85 Professor Thomas M.J. Bateman
We Need More Social Accountability Regarding Voting; a Call to Arms for Electoral Participation 17 J. Parliamentary & Pol. L. 187 Gabriel Chemla , Natalia Tovilla-Bátiz
The Kiribati Constitutional Crisis Escalates: Rule of Law and Judicial Independence at Risk 17 J. Parliamentary & Pol. L. 227 Gavin Murphy
The Ever-Expanding House of Commons and the Decennial Debate over Representation by Population 17 J. Parliamentary & Pol. L. 101 J.W.J. Bowden
Upholding Refugee Rights in Times of Crisis: Canada’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Crisis in Afghanistan & the War in Ukraine 17 J. Parliamentary & Pol. L. 11 Arghavan Gerami , Raoul David Wieland
Trudeau’s Eleven: The SNC-Lavalin Affair as a Demonstration of Techniques and Approaches of Behind the Scenes Political Persuasion 17 J. Parliamentary & Pol. L. 41 Professor John Soroski
Service Centres, Doing a Disservice: Bill 40 and the Precarity of English-Language Education Rights in Quebec 17 J. Parliamentary & Pol. L. 157 Anthony Portulese
Book Reviews
Review of: Enemies of the People?: How Judges Shape Society by Joshua Rozenberg (Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2020) 17 J. Parliamentary & Pol. L. 265 Gregory TardiReview of: Constitutional Pariah: Reference Re Senate Reform and the Future of Parliament by Emmett Macfarlane (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2021) 17 J. Parliamentary & Pol. L. 255 Aniz Alani
Review of: Illiberal Constitutionalism in Poland and Hungary the Deterioration of Democracy, Misuse of Human Rights and Abuse of the Rule of Law by Professor Timea Drinoczi and Professor Agnieszka Bien-Kacala (London: Routledge Publishers, 2021) 17 J. Parliamentary & Pol. L. 261 Gavin Murphy
University of Toronto Law Journal
The Reinvention of Canadian Tort Law, 1945-95: Jordan House as Case Study 73 U. Toronto L.J. 133 Rande Kostal, Erika Chamberlain
Rethinking the Division of Tax Room and Revenue in Fiscal Federalism l 73 U. Toronto L.J. 174 Rory Gillis
Frontiers of Legality: Understanding the Public Policy Exception in Choice of Law l 73 U. Toronto L.J. 216 Joanna Langille
Book Reviews
Martin Loughlin, Against Constitutionalism (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022) l 73 U. Toronto L.J. 255 Roberto Gargarella, Senior Researcher, National Research Center (CONICET), Argentina
New articles from the following journals are now available for Law Society members upon request. For a pdf copy of these or other legal journal articles email us at library@lawsociety.mb.ca.
Canadian Criminal Law Review
“Scraping In Cyberspace: Police Entrapment In The Virtual World” Mathew Zaia 26 Can. Crim. L. Rev. 203
Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence. vol. 35
“Philosophy of Law as an Integral Part of Philosophy: Essays on the Jurisprudence of Gerald J. Postema, Edited by Thomas Bustamante and Thiago Lopes Decat.” Richard Bronaugh. 35 Can. J.L. & Juris. 559.
“Legal Realism and ‘Working’ Rules.” David Frydrych. 35 Can. J.L. & Juris. 321.
“Exploring the Notion of Necessity in Essentialist Legal Theory.” Ziyu Liu. 35 Can. J.L. & Juris. 427.
“Justice in Transactions, Peter Benson.” Jennifer Nadler. 35 Can. J.L. & Juris. 565.
“Corporate Law and Governance Pluralism.” Leon Anidjar. 35 Can. J.L. & Juris. 283.
“Don’t Feel Threatened by Law.” Lucas Miotto. 35 Can. J.L. & Juris. 487.
“Express Trusts, Private Law Theory, and Legal Concepts.” Duncan Sheehan. 35 Can. J.L. & Juris. 511.
“Unilateral Acquisition and the Requirements of Freedom: A Kantian Account of the Judicial Exceptions to Patent Protection.” Ian McMillan. 35 Can. J.L. & Juris. 459.
“Virtual Spaces, Real Problem: the Conundrum of Privacy in Undercover Communications.” 70 C.L.Q. 365. Jeanette Gevikoglu.
McGill Journal of Law and Health. vol. 14.
“A Reflection on the Duty to Warn after Letourneau v JTI-MacDonald: A Future for Obesity Litigation in Canada?” Jacob J. Shelley. 14 McGill J.L. & Health 89.
Saskatchewan Law Review
“The Judgments of the Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan, 2019 and 2020” Michelle Biddulph , William Lane 85 Sask. L. Rev. 1
“Unresolved Issues after Vavilov” Paul Daly 85 Sask. L. Rev. 89
“Juries Today” Justice Sheilah Martin 85 Sask. L. Rev. 119
Book Reviews
“Law and Neurodiversity: Youth with Autism and the Juvenile Justice Systems in Canada and the United States by Dana Lee Baker, Laurie A. Drapela & Whitney Littlefield. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2020. 246 Pp., $32.95 Pb.” 85 Sask. L. Rev. 143 Barbara Baker
“Human Rights after Corporate Personhood: An Uneasy Merger? Edited by Jody Greene & Sharif Youssef. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. 344 Pp., $84.00 Hc.” 85 Sask. L. Rev. 145 Tim Haggstrom
“Sex Industry Slavery: Protecting Canada’s Youth by Robert Chrismas. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. 296 Pp., $42.95 Pb.” 85 Sask. L. Rev. 148 Drew Ikert
“Is Two-Tier Health Care the Future? Edited by Colleen M. Flood & Bryan Thomas. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2020. 348 Pp., $39.95 Pb.” 85 Sask. L. Rev. 151 Sophia Lagimodiere
“Online Courts and the Future of Justice by Richard Susskind, Revised Ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 400 Pp., $12.95 Pb.” 85 Sask. L. Rev. 153 Liam McDonald
“Debating Rights Inflation in Canada: A Sociology of Human Rights by Dominique Clément. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2018. 174 Pp., $19.99 Pb.” 85 Sask. L. Rev. 156 Megan Ripplinger
“The Death of a Butterfly: Mental Health Court Diaries by Richard D. Schneider. Toronto: Delve Books, 2019. 252 Pp., $29.95 Pb.” 85 Sask. L. Rev. 159 Caroline Seshadri “An Introduction to University Governance by Cheryl Foy. Toronto: Irwin Law, 2021. 236 Pp., $40.00 Pb.” 85 Sask. L. Rev. 161 Éric Turcotte
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Whether it was a five year old pulling out your chair, or a snail in your ginger beer, it’s good to know where the law stands when you’ve been wronged. The library has a thorough collection of texts on Tort law available, including two recently updated titles.
Newest Additions
Canadian Tort Law — 12th ed. by Allen M. Linden, Bruce Feldthusen, Margaret Isabel Hall, Erik S. Knutsen, Hilary A. N. Young
“The twelfth edition of the leading treatise on tort law in Canada continues the standard of excellence achieved by each previous edition and answers questions for all professionals in this field.”
Remedies in Tort. by Lewis Klar, Linda Rainaldi, Earl Cherniak, and Peter Kryworuk [looseleaf]
“Remedies in Tort is the only Canadian publication that summarizes tort law completely and in a readily accessible manner. This five-volume work has a total of 28 chapters that are constantly updated with the most recent guidelines and court decisions.”
“An indispensable resource for practitioners, judges, and students seeking a concise and accessible introduction to the principles of tort law in Canada, as well as the social policies underlying the law and current trends in judicial decision making. The book reviews the foundations, characteristics, and objectives of tort law with specific discussions of negligence, intentional torts, strict liability, vicarious liability, nuisance, and defamation.”
Newsletters and Current Awareness
LexisNexis® Tort Law Netletter(TM) – an electronic current awareness service covering recent judicial developments in tort law, including property torts, torts affecting the person (including defamation), torts by and against the Crown, passing off, and negligence, including professional negligence by medical, legal and other professionals. Email the library (library@lawsociety.mb.ca) to subscribe.
For even more resources visit the Library Resources section of the Member’s Portal and see what HeinOnline has to offer. They offer both recent articles in their Law Journal Library, as well as historical and rare titles in their Legal Classics Database.
The most recent issues of these journals are now available on Lexis Advance Quicklaw. If you are interested in one of these titles, or any other journal articles, email us for a pdf copy.
Canadian Family Law Quarterly
Access and Openness in Ontario: A Legal Analysis of How Children’s Important Relationships can be Maintained 40 C.F.L.Q. 219 Jennifer Gallagher; Elizabeth McCarty; Ian Ross
Separation Date Principles and Assessment Guide 40 C.F.L.Q. 335 David Frenkel; Yunjae Kim
Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law
The Origins of the Caretaker Convention: Governor General Lord Aberdeen’s Dismissal of Prime Minister Tupper in 1896 16 J. Parliamentary & Pol. L. 391 J.W.J. Bowden
Including Emerging Litigation Comprenant les Litiges en Voie de Développement 16 J. Parliamentary & Pol. L. 537 Gregory Tardi
Review of: The Rowell-Sirois Commission and the Remaking of Canadian Federalism by Robert Wardhaugh and Barry Ferguson (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2021) 16 J. Parliamentary & Pol. L. 561 David M. Brock
Moving Toward Gender Balance in Public Life 16 J. Parliamentary & Pol. L. 349 Gregory Tardi
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Lambourne v. Attorney General, [2021] KIHC 8 High Court of Kiribati 16 J. Parliamentary & Pol. L. 531 Gavin Murphy
Speeches of Some of the Candidates for the Position of Speaker of the 44th House of Commons: Improvements Necessary for a Sounder Parliament, Monday, November 22 16 J. Parliamentary & Pol. L. 355
Glover v. Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba: Courts Deferential in Reviewing Internal Party Affairs–Even when They’re “Contracts” 16 J. Parliamentary & Pol. L. 521 Professor Gerard J. Kennedy
Rethinking the Official Languages Act 16 J. Parliamentary & Pol. L. 361 Stephen Thompson
“Guesswork Is a Poor Foundation for Democracy” The Principled Lesson of the Case of Mitchell v. Jackman 16 J. Parliamentary & Pol. L. 513 Allison S. Conway
Democratic Election Alert! Alerte! D’Une Élection Démocratique 16 J. Parliamentary & Pol. L. 318
The Impact of Litigation on Public Policy 16 J. Parliamentary & Pol. L. 445 Hugh Trenchard
The Resignation of Overseas Judges from Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal–Should We Worry? 16 J. Parliamentary & Pol. L. 485 Horace Yeung
The Supreme Court of Nigeria Decision in Re: Abdullahi Re-Echoing Ubi Jus Ibi Remedium: A Shield and a Sword 16 J. Parliamentary & Pol. L. 471 David Tarh-Akong Eyongndi
The Criminal Sanction of Violence Toward Healthcare Workers 16 J. Parliamentary & Pol. L. 497 Dawn McKevitt
Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice
Mapping Racial Geographies of Violence on the Colonial Landscape 38 Windsor Y.B. Access to Just. 1 Ingrid Waldron
The Consequences of Unfreedom: Learning from Story Amidst a Global Climate Crisis38 Windsor Y.B. Access to Just. 30 Meghan Robinson
Incomplete Justice: The Costs of Partial Indemnity 38 Windsor Y.B. Access to Just. 46 Adil Abdulla
Integrating Social Work within Legal Clinics: An Inter-Professional Perspective to Address Social-Legal Needs 38 Windsor Y.B. Access to Just. 10 Alicia Lam, Vanessa Emery, Renee Griffin, Michael Saini
“A So-Called Tenants’ Union”: Defining the Organizational Power of Tenants within and Outside the Law 38 Windsor Y.B. Access to Just. 75 Seema Shafei
Supreme Court Law Review vol. 105 Forgotten Foundations of The Canadian Constitution
Forgotten Foundations of the Canadian Constitution: An Introduction – Brian Bird & Derek Ross (2022) 105 S.C.L.R. (2d) 1 – 11
Special Essay
The Forgotten Roots of Canada’s Living Tree: Constitutional Interpretation and the Rule of Law – The Honourable Marshall Rothstein C.C., Q.C. (2022) 105 S.C.L.R. (2d) 15 – 36
Part I – First Principles: The Supremacy of God and The Rule of Law
God in the Constitution: The Supremacy of God Clause in the Preamble to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms – Dwight Newman, Q.C. (2022) 105 S.C.L.R. (2d) 39 – 56
The First Division of Power: State Authority and the Preamble to the Charter – John Sikkema (2022) 105 S.C.L.R. (2d) 67 – 93
The Rule of Law in Judicial Review Today – Mark Mancini (2022) 105 S.C.L.R. (2d) 95 – 118
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Part II – Limiting and Delimiting Charter Rights and Freedoms
Resetting the Foundations: Renewing Freedom of Expression under Section 2(b) of the Charter – Jamie Cameron (2022) (2022) 105 S.C.L.R. (2d) 121 – 151
Pluralism and Freedom from Assimilation: A Foundation for a “Free and Democratic Society” – Derek Ross (2022) 105 S.C.L.R. (2d) 153 – 188
The Truck and the Brakes: Understanding the Charter’s Limitations and Notwithstanding Clauses Symmetrically – Geoffrey T. Sigalet (2022) 105 S.C.L.R. (2d) 189 – 222
Part III – The Charter’s Underexplored “General” Clauses
Unchartered Rights and the Free and Democratic Society – Brian Bird (2022) 105 S.C.L.R. (2d) 225 – 246
“The Rights Retained By The People”: The Implications of the Ninth Amendment for the Interpretation of Section 26 of the Charter – Matthew P. Harrington (2022) 105 S.C.L.R. (2d) 247 – 283
All the Voices of Religious Freedom – Blair Major (2022) 105 S.C.L.R. (2d) 285 – 321
Section 31 and the Charter’s Unexplored Constraints on State Power – André Schutten and Tabitha Ewert (2022) 105 S.C.L.R. (2d) 322 – 354
Part IV – The Foundational Role of Constitutional History
Applied Legal History and the Principled Way Forward to the Recognition of Implied Fundamental Rights – Ryan Alford (2022) 105 S.C.L.R. (2d) 359 – 393
Bringing About a Reformation? Religious Freedom and Canadian Constitutionalism, 1759-1774 – Kristopher E.G. Kinsinger (2022) 105 S.C.L.R. (2d) 395 – 417
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