In the wake of this year's spate of wild (and wildly destructive) weather, including July 8th's record-breaking torrential deluge that flooded swathes of the city, crippling transit, leaving thousands without power for days, and which will ultimately cost upwards of $600 million in property damage, there are a number of questions of a legal nature that […]
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Opinions on High: New High Court of Australia Blog
Our friend Carole Hinchcliffe, head of the law library at University of Melbourne Law School, informs us that their new blog Opinions on High went live today. The blog airms to provide a public forum for discussion of the judicial decisions of the High Court of Australia by providing commentary on and analysis of recent High […]
More Good News for Foreign and Comparative Law Buffs
Following on our subscription to the Foreign Law Guide this spring, we have subscribed to the Making of Modern Law's latest database: Foreign Primary Sources 1600 - 1970. This is the first of a proposed two "volumes," and contains statutes, regulations, codes and commentaries of Great Britain, Ireland and countries in northern, central and eastern […]
Punctuation - it DOES matter
The following is an extended passage taken from the wonderfully cranky and pedantic book The King's English by the wonderfully cranky and pedantic Kingsley Amis. Intended as a highly subjective and opinionated "guide to modern usage", the passage below is taken from the entry on "Capitals and full stops". It should be noted that in British […]
The (sort-of) Demise of the Canada Gazette
The Canada Gazette is dead. Long live the Canada Gazette! Although long-expected as part of the 2012 Federal budget, the May 8th publication of a regulation made it official - the Canada Gazette will cease to be published in hard copy starting on April 1st, 2014, saving the government about $300,000 annually. This is not, however, […]
Summer viewing, pt. 2 - The Wire
Last week I started off what I hope will be an ongoing summer series on legal or law-related series that might be worth your attention during the summer months when people typically have a bit more time to divert their attention to less pressing issues (such as learning - and retaining! - substantive law). Although […]
Summer viewing, Part 1 - Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
Now that exams are done and the summer has started (never mind the hail last Sunday), it is an opportunity for a collective exhale and a chance to mentally re-calibrate before starting all over again in September (or before going off to bar ads and articling). Following in the footsteps of Sandra Geddes's blog post from a […]
New Resource: Foreign Law Guide
While the summer has started for the Osgoode community (no doubt assisted by the warm weather serving as an antidote to the long, long winter), for those of you who are working as RAs over the summer or doing other foreign legal research, we have a new resource that is well worth the time to […]
Stylistic Flair - A time and place?
In a post from a few weeks ago, I lamented the lack of flair in legal writing. Although it's certainly not a "need-to-have", it's certainly a "nice-to-have". Throughout legal education and practice, you will likely have to read many, many decisions, and most of them are - to not put too fine of a point […]
Summer Reading
Exams are nearly over and summer is nearly here (notwithstanding spring's rather reluctant arrival), so no doubt everyone's mind is turning to their summer reading. The Guardian newspaper has very thoughtfully compiled a reading list for you, and we have a number of the books in our collection, including a DVD in one case. Your […]