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Upcoming Legal Research Webinars

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As both Thomson Reuters (the publisher of WestlawNext Canada and ProView) and Lexis Nexis (of Lexis Advance Quicklaw) have both extended offers to Ontario legal practitioners for at-home access during the COVID-19 emergency, we at the CCLA have set up some online training on all of these products for you to brush up on your skills!

Lexis Advance Quicklaw Webinar – Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Brush up on your research skills! Join us on Tuesday, May 12, 2020 at noon for an hour-long virtual training session on Lexis Advance Quicklaw. If you use this database but could use some fresh instruction on how to use it more effectively, this is the session for you.

This program has been LSO accredited for 1.0 CPD hour toward the annual Professionalism Requirement.

There is no cost for this program. Please click here for more information and to register!

 

WestlawNext Canada Webinar – Tuesday, May 19, 2020 & Thomson Reuters ProView Webinar – Tuesday, May 25, 2020

Brush up on your research skills! Join us online for our free upcoming training on WestlawNext and ProView (e-books and e-looseleafs). Please register at the links below:

These programs has been LSO accredited for 1.0 CPD hour each toward the annual Professionalism Requirement.

 

Personalized Virtual Training Sessions for WestlawNext and ProView – Anytime!

These times don’t work for you? Want something a little different? We’re also pleased to share that you can now schedule your own personalized virtual training session on WestlawNext or ProView with our wonderful trainer, Josée Provost. To schedule a session, please click here!

 

Recently Published Ottawa Decisions

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Find below recently published Ottawa decisions, available for free through CanLII.org.

Family Matters

Potvin v. Boros (2020 ONSC 2398)
motion — notice-to-the-profession-the-public-and-the-media-regarding-civil-and-family-proceedings-update — divorce — email
Justice P. MacEachern

Tessier v. Rick (2020 ONSC 2391)
father — child — access — household — partner
Justice P. MacEachern

Jumale v. Mahamed (2020 ONSC 2316)
urgency — child support — costs — request — deficiencies
Justice J. Mackinnon

Mwadi c. Mihalache (2020 ONSC 2280)
dépens — pension alimentaire — arriéré — autoreprésentée — dossier
Juge M. Labrosse

Stewart v Reid (2020 ONSC 2262)
father — children — timesharing — homeschooling — motion
Justice P. MacEachern Continue reading →

Recently Published Ottawa Decisions

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Find below recently published Ottawa decisions, available for free through CanLII.org.

Family Matters

Hamad v. Al-Rewashdy (2020 ONSC 2093)
matrimonial home — equalization — former — spouse — urgent
Justice J. Mackinnon

Abesteh v. Eagle (2020 ONSC 2086)
urgent — motion — everts — home — child
Justice J. Mackinnon

J.D. v. N.D. (2020 ONSC 2089)
motion — father — children — urgent — recording
Justice J. Mackinnon

Guerin v Guerin (2020 ONSC 2016)
matrimonial home — father — pandemic — children — protocol
Justice A. Doyle

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Recently Published Ottawa Decisions

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Find below recently published Ottawa decisions, available for free through CanLII.org.

Family Matters

Lapp v. Dunn (2020 ONSC 1720)
income — imputed — child support — arrears — payor
Justice S. Gomery

Cohen v. Cohen (2020 ONSC 1717)
motion — offer — settle — costs on a full recovery — testify
Justice S. Corthorn

DeGiorgio v. DeGiorgio (2020 ONSC 1674)
recording — father — child — admissible — electronic record
Justice J. Mackinnon

Civil Matters

Cowley v. Skyjack Inc. et al. (2020 ONSC 1718)
subrogation — benefits — double recovery — private insurance exception — motion
Justice S. Corthorn

Baker v. Maloney (2020 ONSC 1929)
covid — https — ontariocourts — can purchase a new draft — reattended
Justice S. Kershman

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Linking to Conference Materials on CanLII

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With our announcement that the CCLA Conference Papers Database has moved to CanLII, we are sure some of you are wondering how you can link to your work (for example, if you wanted to link from your firm website to a paper you gave). This is very easy to do on CanLII, so here are the step by step instructions! 

1. Find Your Paper

You can find your paper by browsing through the contents for each conference, or you can use the search box on the Conference Proceedings page to look for your paper title or your name.

2. When you’ve found your paper, look at the boxed heading at the top of the page


3. Copy the permanent link, and use that link for your website (or wherever!)

 

If you’re curious, that same tidy permanent link is available on all documents on CanLII. If you’re using CanLII at all – and you probably are or should be! – check that out for a nice, stable link in your documents.

In decisions:

 

 

In legislation:

Recently Published Ottawa Decisions

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Find below recently published Ottawa decisions, available for free through CanLII.org.

Family Matters

Proulx v. Guy (2020 ONSC 1285)
spousal support — offer to settle — retroactive child support — life insurance — amount
Justice A. Doyle

Bloom v. Bloom (2020 ONSC 1397)
father — spousal support — children — genuine issue requiring — variation
Justice J. Audet

Civil Matters

Perodeau v. TD Canada Trust et al. (2020 ONSC 1542)
fiduciary duty — renewal — borrower — insurance — res judicata
Justice S. Corthorn

Eureka 93 Inc. et. al. (Re) (2020 ONSC 1482)
noteholders — creditors — proposal — interim financing — cannabis
Justice C. MacLeod

Byeongheon Lee v. 2321324 Ontario Inc. (2020 ONSC 1473)
landlord — lease — dry-cleaning business — equipment — premises
Justice C. Hackland

The Economical Insurance Group v. Desjardins Insurance (2020 ONSC 1363)
arbitrator — claimants — principally dependent — injured — insurer
Justice C. MacLeod

Romain et al v. Reid et al (2020 ONSC 1405)
production — discovery — motion — children — probative
Justice S. Gomery

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CCLA Conference Papers: Now on CanLII!

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Back in August, we mentioned that software and hardware upgrades at the CCLA necessitated our taking down the CCLA Conference Papers Database on our website. For almost 10 years we provided free access to our excellent archive of conference materials, and whatever was going to replace the database had to be great. We believe we’ve found the perfect solution. 

As of today, select papers from the CCLA’s four major conferences will be available on CanLII! CanLII’s Commentary collection has been growing steadily in the past few years, bringing more and more free and high–quality legal information to its platform. Freely accessible from anywhere, the collection has been a monumental step forward in access to justice. When CanLII said they would host our conference papers collection, we were thrilled!  

The collection on CanLII currently is just from 2018; it will eventually date back to 2014, and we will continue to add new materials to the collection after each conference. Which materials are included are decided by the editorial team at Lexum (the platform CanLII lives on), so if you want your paper or presentation to be included, be sure to make it awesome. If you have contributed in the past and you’d rather not have your work on CanLII, that’s okay too – just let us know. 

If you want to go check out the collection, here’s a direct link to the “Conference Proceedings” page  on CanLII. Materials will come up in search results too, under the “Commentary” tab. 

As for the materials from previous years and the materials that did not get posted to CanLII, you can always request those from us. On each of the conference pages on the CCLA website, you can find a Table of Contents for each conference. Call, email, or visit us and we’ll set you up with those materials. 

Thank you to CanLII for giving our conference papers collection a new home! 

Recently Published Ottawa Decisions

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Find below recently published Ottawa decisions, available for free through CanLII.org.

Family Matters

Murray v. Choudhary (2020 ONSC 1183)
motion — prong of the test — cost — file — contempt
Justice P. MacEachern

Zelaya v. Zelaya (2020 ONSC 1182)
child support — conference — arrears — motion to change — file her response
Justice P. MacEachern

Zeineldin v. Elshikh (2020 ONSC 1160)
divorce — income — interim disbursement — foreign — children
Justice T. Engelking

CAS v. K.S. (2020 ONSC 1051)
child — genuine issue requiring — access — extended society care — best interests
Justice D. Summers

Scutt v. St. Cyr (2020 ONSC 1159)
children — father — parenting — clinical assessor — custody
Justice J. Audet

Patullo v. Hickey (2020 ONSC 1156)
email — child — access — conference — motion
Justice P. MacEachern

Continue reading →

Recently Published Ottawa Decisions

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Find below recently published Ottawa decisions, available for free through CanLII.org.

Family Matters

CAS v. T.S. and M.O.U. and C.S. (2020 ONSC 879)
maternal grandmother — child — care — custody — charge
Justice D. Summers

Z.S. v. B.P. (2020 ONSC 885)
power imbalance screening — arbitration — domestic violence — mediation session — number of pre-arbitration conferences
Justice P. MacEachern

Vekeman v. Vekeman (2020 ONSC 823)
younger children — access to the two younger — oldest child — allegations — father’s access
Justice P. MacEachern

Armstrong v. Vanneste (2020 ONSC 804)
motion to change — security for costs — child — conference — proposal
Justice P. MacEachern

Crockett v. Crockett (2020 ONSC 714)
temporary spousal support — costs — matrimonial home — divided — cross-motion
Justice J. Mackinnon

Robson v. Pellerin (2020 ONSC 716)
motion — offer to settle — costs — line of credit — unreasonable
Justice J. Mackinnon

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International Materials Round-Up

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It’s been a minute since we covered the wide range of international materials we have here in the library, so let’s do a round-up!

International materials are often fairly expensive to subscribe to. A firm that doesn’t do a lot of work requiring materials from outside Canada will likely not subscribe to any international services. Fortunately, the CCLA has your back! If you need non-Canadian case law, we’re definitely here to help and provide a very cost-effective solution to your research needs.

Note the following:

  • Most of these resources only contain case law and legislation. We don’t have many secondary sources available. International treatises are very expensive to acquire, so if you need something from a text, get in touch and we’ll find another library who does have a copy of the item and can make a scan or lend.
  • Any of the paid resources below are for use in-library only. Unfortunately, legal publishers aren’t keen to provide off-site access to their databases. The exception to this is …
  • For HeinOnline: This resource has some very old English case law in it, a fantastic collection of Canadian legislation, and a lot of legal journals. The Law Society is able to provide remote access to this database for all licensees in Ontario. To get your own password, please contact the Law Society’s library.

United Kingdom

By far, the UK is the most sought-after foreign jurisdiction. We have UK case law available in several services, as well as some old print materials still on the shelf.

  • Lexis Advance Quicklaw
  • JustisOne
  • ICLR.3
  • Hein Online
  • BAILII – Use from Home or Office!

Australia & New Zealand 

Australia and New Zealand have been coming up more and more frequently. Fortunately, we have you covered!

  • Lexis Advance Quicklaw
  • JustisOne
  • AustLII – Use from Home or Office!

United States of America

American case law and legislation can be a bit tricky to figure out, but we’re covered for that, too.

  • Lexis Advance Quicklaw
  • LII – Use from Home or Office!
  • Google Scholar – Use from Home or Office!

Other Free Resources

  • Free Access to the Law member websites – Here is a list of sites that are basically like CanLII, but from other countries. Be warned: CanLII is easily the best of the bunch, so temper your expectations for other countries.
  • GlobaLex – Great guides to the law from a huge number of countries.

Finally, if none of these services have what you need, don’t fear! We work with other libraries who have different subscriptions, and we’re always happy to ask around if you need something.