The Library will be closed March 30th and April 2nd for Good Friday and Easter Monday, respectively.
We will re-open on Tuesday, April 3nd at 8:30 am.
New book display: New & Featured Books for March 2018
We’ve recently received quite a few new books for the Library, and we wanted to put them on display!
They are:
- The Law of Libel in Canada, 4th ed. by Peter Downard (2017, LexisNexis)
- Bullen & Leake & Jacob’s Canadian Precedents of Pleadings, 3rd ed. (2017, Carswell) – all 3 vols.
- Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation, 8th ed. (2014, Carswell)
- Practical Guide to Canadian Legal Research, 4th ed. by Nancy McCormack, et al. (2015, Carswell)
If you’d like to check out any of these materials, please let us know.
Twitter bots for good?
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.
Manitoba eLaw – New Edition – Business Law Update
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
Manitoba eLaw – New Edition – Litigation
There’s been a lot of new developments on the litigation front since the last update in December. Highlights from Issue No. 84, February 2018:
- Modified Test for Mandatory Interlocutory Injunction: SCC
- Public Interest Standing and Supplementing Reasons: SCC
- No Realistic Chance of Success: MBCA/MBQB
- Careless Smoking Negligent: MBQB
- Recent Flood Claims
- Further Amendments to Court of Queen’s Bench Rules
- Court of Queen’s Bench Practice Direction
- Facilitating the Management of Multi-jurisdictional Class Actions: CBA
- Recommended Reading