by Allyssa McFadyen | Mar 28, 2018 | Continuing Professional Development, Legal Research
Navigating the world of legal research in the 21st century can be tricky: our technology has become vastly different from the way it was even 10 years ago. As legal publishers have gone increasingly digital, we now have a plethora of databases and resources to choose from. The question isn’t “which is the right database?” but rather “how do I effectively navigate the world of legal research to get me the information I need?”
This presentation will aim to give you a better understanding of the variety of resources available to lawyers, including what they offer and what their limitations are (print and digital), and what staff at the Manitoba Law Library can offer to help supplement your research.
We are currently offering this presentation:
If you would like a personalized presentation, please contact Karen Sawatzky. These presentations count towards your mandatory Continuing Professional Development.
by Allyssa McFadyen | Mar 21, 2018 | Legal Research, New Books
We’ve recently received quite a few new books for the Library, and we wanted to put them on display!
They are:
If you’d like to check out any of these materials, please let us know.
by Karen Sawatzky | Mar 20, 2018 | Caselaw, Civil Litigation, Legal Research, United States
Most of the time when I see the word “bot” I think of Russian trolls influencing the U.S. election. But not this time! USA Today investigative reporter Brad Heath has created an automatic Twitter bot that follows selected U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Courts of Appeal, and Federal District Court cases of note and posts documents from new docket entries to Twitter.
In its documentation, the bot is described as follows:
The bot uses PACER RSS feeds to gather the latest filings from 74 U.S. District Courts and five federal courts of appeals and stores the docket entries in a database. It matches new filings against a preselected list of major cases, scrapes matching documents from PACER, uploads them to a DocumentCloud project and posts the results on Twitter.
You must have a PACER account in order to access the documents – we do! So if you want the latest filing on United States v. AT&T and Time Warner, or any other U.S. court case you’re watching, let us know if we can help. There may be a fee for retrieving documents.
And follow Big Cases on Twitter for up-to-date notification.
h/t to Internet for Lawyers.
by Allyssa McFadyen | Mar 9, 2018 | Commentary, Law Society Publications, Legal Research
The latest edition of Business Law from Manitoba eLaw is now live! Some of the articles in Issue No. 82, March 2018 include:
- “Something More Than Nothing” Required to Discharge Duty: SCC
- BLA Does Not Apply to Contracts or Work Related to Hydro Project: MBQB
- Oppression Remedy Not Suited to Addressing Family Dispute: MBQB
- Legislative Update
- Federal Budget 2018
- Consultation on Modernizing The Builders’ Liens Act: MLRC
- Consultation Paper on Reviewing AML and ATF Regimes: Department of Finance
by Allyssa McFadyen | Feb 26, 2018 | Copyright, Intellectual Property Law, Legal Research
In honour of Fair Use/Fair Dealings week, here are some of the resources available in the Great Library:
Print
- The Annotated Copyright Act by Normand Tamaro (Thomson Reuters, 2017)
- Intellectual Property Litigation : Forms and Precedents by Paul V. Lomic (LexisNexis, 2016)
- Intellectual Property Journal (Vol. 1-28, 1984-2016)
E-Books
*You must be signed in to the Law Society of Manitoba’s Member’s Portal before you are able to view these e-resources. If you are outside of Manitoba, please get in touch with your respective Law Society Library.
Articles & Websites
The following resources are freely available online for anyone to view:
- Fair Dealing Canada – Resource hub for fair dealing in Canada
- Michael Geist‘s website
- Howard Knopf’s website, “Excess Copyright”
- Here Come The Copyright Bots For Hire, With Lawyers In Tow by Steven Mendelez
- “Anyone can now find infringers, send take-down requests, and quickly demand thousands in damages. Can the trolls be far behind?”
- The Saga of Canada’s “Making Available Right” in Three Acts by Cameron Hutchison
- “Enter our protagonist – the “making available right” [MAR] – which effectively identifies the point of upload as the situs of infringement, thus promising to remedy this situation. The uploader is the one who perpetrates infringement and this entity is now deterred from doing this for fear of being sued. […] it matters not whether the work uploaded is ultimately streamed or copied – we have “our man” and we do not need to worry about those downstream parties.”
- Slaw also has an entire category dedicated to Intellectual Property
by Karen Sawatzky | Feb 14, 2018 | Criminal Law, Law Society Publications, Legal Research
The February 2018 edition, Update No. 86, has just been released.
In This Issue
- Indeterminate Sentences Constitutional: SCC
- Ensuring Juries are Properly Instructed: MBCA
- Photo Lineup Identification Evidence: MBCA
- Role of Exceptional Circumstances in Sentencing “Limited and Rare”: MBCA
- 45 Months’ Delay Unreasonable: MBQB
- Recent Sentencing Decisions
- Provincial Court Notice and Form
- Recommended Reading
- Criminal Justice Conference: CBA
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