Author: Amanda Elliott

Newly Received Materials from LSUC CPD

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Below are some of the most recent CPD materials added to the library collection. Each title links to the book record where you can view more details and the full table of contents. All materials are available in print at the library, or if you’re interested in only a couple of articles, feel free to email us a request for a scanned copy.

16th Annual Employment Law Summit (Oct. 29, 2015)

  • Recent developments in the law of workplace accommodation / Neena Gupta, Andrew Pinto & Dina Awad
  • Update on workplace investigations / Jennifer MacKenzie & Monica Jeffrey
  • Court decisions that puzzle us / Muneeza Sheikh & Abdul-Basit Khan
  • Contingency fee arrangements in wrongful dismissal actions: practical considerations and common pitfalls / Kevin Fox

Bankruptcy and Estates Law: Administration of the Insolvent Estate (Oct. 30, 2015)

  • Basics of estate administration / Kathleen Robichaud
  • The interaction between estate law and bankruptcy law / Frank Bennett
  • Administering the insolvent estate under trusts and estates law / Brian Cohen & Jacob Yau

Indigenous Law Issues (Nov. 5, 2015)

  • Reconciliation: redefining the relationship between First Nations and industry / Randall Kahgee
  • Understanding First Nation land tenure: challenges and opportunities / Cherie Brand & Alexandra Schwarz
  • Commercial relations involving First Nations: what First Nations and non-First Nations need to know / Murray Teitel

Representing Children in Personal Injury Actions (Nov. 19, 2015)

  • Ethical and legal challenges in representing children / Thomas Connolly
  • What’s the damage?: considerations in the damages assessment for injured children and their families / Joni Dobson
  • Minor guardianships in non-traditional families / Nimali D. Gamage & Kathryn Balter

The Six-Minute Real Estate Lawyer 2015 (Nov. 24, 2015)

  • HST rebates – and the cases just keep on coming / Alan Silverstein
  • What are your intentions?: drafting and negotiating letters of intent / Candace Cooper
  • Let the seller beware: what to tell your client not to sign, and what to say if they already did? / Jerry Udell; with assistance from Amanda Camlis

CCLA Fiction Library

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Need a break from research?  Have a long wait until court?  Love to read?

If you have answered yes to any of the above questions, then we have just the solution for you.  We are very excited to announce the launch of the CCLA Fiction Library!

Come on by and grab a book!  We have a great variety of authors, especially for fans of mystery and crime.  Books by John Grisham, Ian Rankin, and James Patterson are ready and waiting to be read.  All books have a three week loan period and no library card is required.  Once you’ve found the perfect book, visit the front desk to sign it out.

For a complete list of titles,  click here to view the catalogue.

 

Missing Books

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I am currently halfway done our annual shelf reading of the CCLA’s library collection.  A shelf reading involves taking a printed list of everything that should be on our shelves, and actually checking each title, one by one, to see if it’s there. We do this annually to put the books in their proper order and to determine which books have gone missing during the past year.  While our collection is non-circulating, we still have many books that disappear and never find their way back home.  Many of these books are left around the courthouse or taken to a firm’s office.  It is very costly to replace books that have gone missing, when it cuts into our budget to purchase new books that could help expand our collection.  I have listed below some of our books that have gone missing recently from our collection:

  • The 2010 annotated Ontario Family Law Act (Carswell)
  • The law of contract in Canada (Carswell)
  • Annotated Canada Pension Plan and Old Age Security Act (CCH Canadian)
  • High conflict people in legal disputes (Janis Publications)
  • New lawyer practice series : civil litigation (LSUC)
  • New lawyer practice series : family law : 2008 (LSUC)
  • Economic negligence : the recovery of pure economic loss (Carswell)
  • Best practices for commercial mortgage transactions (LSUC)
  • Special lectures 2002 : real property law : conquering the complexities (LSUC)
  • Probate essentials 2008 (LSUC)
  • Construction Lien Essentials (LSUC)
  • New developments in personal injury law 2009 (Middlesex Law Association)
  • Libel (Butterworths)
  • Corporate transactions for law clerks : the changing environment (LSUC)


If you come about any of these texts, or any other books belonging to the CCLA , we would appreciate it if they were returned to the library.  You can give them directly to a library staff member, or even just leave them on a book cart in the library.  Once I have completed my shelf read I will list a few more books that I have discovered to be missing, in hopes of seeing their return.