We’ve received an interesting mix of titles these past two months – some annual renewals for legislative titles alongside some new editions of old favourites.  One book of particular interest is the newest edition of Canadian Tort Law by Linden and Feldthusen.  Texts on the law of torts are quite popular in the library, and we hope you’ll find this new edition useful.  In the next month or so, we’ll also be receiving the newest edition of the ever-popular The Law of Torts in Canada by Fridman.  Both will be available in our Reserve collection, so certainly take a look at those.  For those of you practicing employment law, we have a few new titles for you that might be of interest.  Specifically, For Better or for Worse: A Practical Guide to Canadian Employment Law has been released as a new edition – the last edition of this book was in 2003.  Finally – as a sneak peak – we have some great new titles coming in the next month or two in both our criminal and family law areas.  These include some library user requests and brand new publications, so stay tuned for those titles.

We also received a lot of new Continuing Professional Development materials, from our friends at the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Hamilton Law Association, and the Middlesex Law Association.  Amanda, our Library Technician, has been incredibly hard at work getting these titles ready and out onto the shelves, so please give them a look!  We’d like to make a special mention to those in our community who do not use the library in-person (or at all!).  Don’t let having your own library collection or not having to come to the courthouse stop you from giving us a call or email – we’re here to help everyone!  Our CPD materials are a great resource with an astounding amount of variety in content, and are incredibly easy to search and from which to request materials.  Simply search for the title you’re interested in on the Law Society of Upper Canada’s AdvoCat catalogue, open the individual record, and select the “Table of Contents” tab atop the title.  We’d be happy to scan and send an article of interest.

Texts

Stikeman Income Tax Act 2011, 49th edition (Carswell)
Legal Handbook for Educators, 6th edition (Carswell)
Martin’s Related Criminal Statutes 2011-2012 (Canada Law Book)
Ontario Planning Legislation 2011 (Canada Law Book)
Law for Canadian Health Care Administrators, 2nd edition (Lexis Nexis)
Ontario Municipal Legislation 2011 (Canada Law Book)
Federal Labour and Employment Legislation 2011 (Canada Law Book)
For Better or for Worse: A Practical Guide to Canadian Employment Law, 3rd edition (Canada Law Book)
Portable Tax Court Practice, Act and Rules 2011 (Carswell)
Real Estate Practice in Ontario, 7th edition (Lexis Nexis)
Ontario Employment Law Handbook, 10th edition (Lexis Nexis)
Canadian Tort Law, 9th edition (Lexis Nexis)
The Conduct of Public Inquiries: Law, Policy and Practice (Irwin Law)

Continuing Professional Development

8th Annual Real Estate Law Summit (LSUC)
15th Annual Intellectual Property Law: The Year in Review (LSUC)
25th Anniversary of the Family Law Act (LSUC)
The Annotated Alter Ego Trust and Discretionary Trust 2011 (LSUC)
The Annotated Employment Agreement 2011 (LSUC) 
The Annotated Power of Attorney for Personal Care 2011 (LSUC) 
Case Conferences and Motions in Family Law (LSUC)
Commercial Priorities for Real Estate and Business Lawyers 2011 (LSUC) 
The Complete Guide to Wiretaps (LSUC)
Emerging Issues in Directors’ and Officers’ Liability 2011 (LSUC)
Emerging Issues in Health Law (LSUC)
Entertainment & Media Law Symposium 2011: Convergence 3.0 : It’s Here and It’s Happening (LSUC)
How to Succeed in the New Era of Discoveries (LSUC)
Impaired and “Over 80” 2010 (LSUC)
Mastering the Art of Complex Civil Motions (LSUC)
New Lawyer Practice Series: Family Law 2011 (LSUC)
New Lawyer Practice Series: Real Estate Law 2011 (LSUC)
New Lawyer Practice Series: Wills and Estates Law 2011 (LSUC) 
Personal Injury for Law Clerks: Recent Changes that You Need to Know About (LSUC)
Practice Gems: Construction Lien Essentials 2011 (LSUC)
Practice Gems: The Essentials of Creditors’ Remedies (LSUC)
Securities Law Update 2010 (LSUC) 
The Six-Minute Administrative Lawyer 2011 (LSUC) 
The Six-Minute Commercial Leasing Lawyer 2011 (LSUC) 
The Six-Minute Criminal Defence Lawyer 2011 (LSUC) 
The Six-Minute Estates Lawyer 2011 (LSUC) 
The Six-Minute Family Law Lawyer 2010 (LSUC) 
The 6th Annual Straight From the Bench: Litigation Conference (Middlesex Law Association) 
The 5th Annual Wills, Estates & Trusts Conference (Middlesex Law Association / Ontario Bar Association) 
New Developments in Personal Injury Law 2010 (Middlesex Law Association) 
2nd Annual Real Estate Seminar (Middlesex Law Association)

While we’re expecting a few deliveries of new stand alone titles sometime in the next couple of weeks, we have some great new CPD acquisitions to share with you now.  As always, we receive the seminar materials from the Law Society of Upper Canada’s CPD events for the library within a month or two of the session.  We also receive conference and seminar materials from the Hamilton Law Association and Middlesex Law Association, so if you see something of interest in their programing schedule, check back with us – we’ll have the printed materials for our own collection, too.

Continuing Professional Development

Corporate Commercial Law Seminar (Hamilton Law Association)

Practical Tips for the Courtroom: For Articling Students and New Lawyers (Hamilton Law Association)

Family Law Seminar: Process & Legislation Update for Support Staff (Hamilton Law Association)

Opening Your Law Practice 2010 (Law Society of Upper Canada)

10th Annual Civil Litigation for Law Clerks (Law Society of Upper Canada)

11th Annual Employment Law Summit (Law Society of Upper Canada)

The 2011 Oatley-McLeish Guide to Motor Vehicle Litigation (Law Society of Upper Canada)

Evidentiary Challenges for Criminal Lawyers 2011 (Law Society of Upper Canada)

In-house Counsel Summit: Dismantling Obstacles and Adding Value (Law Society of Upper Canada)

New Lawyers Practice Series: Refugee Law 2010 (Law Society of Upper Canada)

Practice Gems: Title and Off-Title Searching 2011 (Law Society of Upper Canada)

The beginning of 2011 started out a bit slow here at the library for new collections, but in the past two months combined, we’ve had some excellent new materials come into the library, some of which are listed below.   In particular, we’ve seen several new editions of key legal texts that we’re sure you’ll find useful during your research.   We expect that the new 3rd edition of The Law of Subdivision Control by Troister will be a hit, as will the new 8th edition of The Law of Search and Seizure in Canada by Fontana and Keeshan.  Another title we’re excited about – and we hope some of you will use and give us your feedback on – is the brand new Bullen & Leake & Jacob’s Canadian Precedents of Pleadings.  We’ve kept copies of this British series in the library for many years, so it is exciting to have a specifically Canadian edition available.  Our friends at the Hamilton Law Association library say that this title is proving quite popular with Hamilton lawyers, and for more information, check out this review from Ted Tjaden at Slaw.ca.

Texts

Canadian Civil Procedure Law, 2nd Edition (LexisNexis)

Libel, 2nd Edition (LexisNexis)

Witness Preparation: A Practical Guide (Canada Law Book)

The Law of Search and Seizure in Canada, 8th Edition (LexisNexis)

The Doctrine of Res Judicata in Canada, 3rd Edition (LexisNexis)

Capacity to Marry and the Estate Plan (Canada Law Book)

The Law of Subdivision Control in Ontario, 3rd Edition (Canada Law Book)

Bullen & Leake & Jacob’s Canadian Precedents of Pleadings (Carswell)

Continuing Professional Development

Employment Issues Arising on the Purchase and Sale of a Business 2010: What Business Lawyers Need to Know (LSUC)

The Six-Minute Debtor-Creditor and Insolvency Lawyer 2010 (LSUC)

 

 

Happy new year, readers!  While we’ve all moved on to 2011, there’s still the matter of our new books from last month to write about.  Last month, we received a great number of new editions of annual titles, as well as many, many continuing professional development materials.  We’re actually a bit swamped with them right now!  We’ll list them below, but you might not see them on our shelves just yet.  If you just can’t wait to get your hands on a copy, however, please stop by the desk – we might have it available for you to peruse before it’s ready to be on the shelves.

Since we have so many titles this month, I’ll proceed with the list without too much preamble.  As always, please let us know if you have any book recommendations for our collection!  Your recommendations are quite invaluable to us, and we love being able to put new titles on the shelf that we know our clients would like to use.

Texts

Protection of Privacy in the Canadian Private and Health Sectors 2011 (Carswell)

The 2011 Annotated Divorce Act (Carswell)

Canadian Environmental Legislation, 2010-2011 Edition (Canada Law Book)

Federal Access to Information and Privacy Legislation Annotated 2011 (Carswell)

Consolidated Bank Act and Regulations 2010-2011 (Carswell)

The 2011 Annotated Immigration and Refugee Protection Act of Canada (Carswell)

Document Registration Guide, 12th Edition (CCH)

The 2011 Annotated Ontario Labour Relations Act (Carswell)

The 201 Annotated Ontario Family Law Act (Carswell)

The 2011 Annotated Ontario Landlord and Tenant Statutes (Carswell)

The 2011 Annotated Ontario Children’s Law Reform Act (Carswell)

The 2011 Annotated Competition Act (Carswell)

Taxation of Trusts and Estates – A Practitioner’s Guide 2011 (Carswell)

Department of Finance Technical Notes – Income Tax, 22nd Edition (Carswell)

The 2011 Annotated Indian Act and Aboriginal Constitutional Provisions (Carswell)

The 2011 Annotated Ontario Human Rights Code (Carswell)

The Annotated Canada Pension Plan and Old Age Security Act, 10th Edition, 2011 (CCH)

The 2011 Annotated Construction Lien Act (Carswell)

The 2011 Annotated Canada Labour Code (Carswell)

Canadian Immigration and Refugee Law Practice 2011 (LexisNexis)

Continuing Professional Development

Impaired and “Over 80” 2010 (LSUC)

Powerful Pleadings (LSUC)

The Six-Minute Family Law Lawyers 2010 (LSUC)

The Six-Minute Real Estate Lawyer 2010 (LSUC)

Taxation Issues in Real Estate Transactions (LSUC)

Securities Law Update 2010 (LSUC)

Corporate Commercial Law Seminar (Hamilton Law Association)

How to Succeed in the New Era of Discoveries (LSUC)

18th Annual Immigration Law Summit (LSUC)

New Lawyer Practice Series – Real Estate 2010 (LSUC)

Emerging Issues in Health Law (LSUC)

13th Annual Estates and Trusts Summit (LSUC)

Emerging Issues in Real Estate (Hamilton Law Association)

The 24th Annual Joint Insurance Seminar (Ontario Insurance Adjusters Association / Hamilton Law Association)

From amongst November’s new titles, there are several we’re excited to highlight in this post. The first is Canada Law Book’s brand new Liquor and Host Liability Law in Canada. The first stand-alone title on this subject (possibly in Canada, and certainly in this library), it’s a great overview of the topic and may likely be of interest to many of you. You’ll find it in our Texts section soon.

Another exciting new addition is an Ontario Bar Association CLE binder on charity and not-for-profit law titled Doing Good, While Avoiding Legal and Liability Problems: A Primer for Lawyers on Advising and Sitting on Non-Profit Boards and Charities. A library client requested this title as an interlibrary loan some time back, and we’ve decided to bring this into our collection permanently. Not only are all of our materials on not-for-profit and charity law quite popular in the library, but as many of you in the community are involved with a wide variety of charities, this might be of personal interest to you if you weren’t able to attend the seminar when it was held in Toronto. It will also be located in the Texts area of our library once it has been fully processed.

In our family law section, we’re re-introducing an old looseleaf for which we suspended our subscription in 2006.  Based on library user feedback, we’ve updated our holdings for Enforcement of Family Law Orders and Agreements.  We hope to now update this title at least once a year.  As a note to our library users: if you find there is an invaluable looseleaf title in our collection that we have stopped updating, please speak to us!  We love to hear what our clients find useful, which areas we could use more resources for, and other suggestions for purchase.

Coming soon to our Reserve section are two new editions that we’re thrilled to have on our shelves. A very popular text on evidence, The Law of Evidence by David Paciocco and Lee Struesser, has recently been released in a revised 5th edition. While the original 5th edition was only published in 2008, decisions from the Supreme Court necessitated a complete re-write of the ninth chapter. Finally, possibly one of the most exciting additions of all, is the new edition of Trotter’s The Law of Bail in Canada. The 2nd edition of this title, published in 1999, continues to be frequently consulted in the library, so we’re pleased to shelve the 3rd edition – now in looseleaf form – in the Reserve area of the library.

Texts

The 2010 Annotated Employment Insurance Act (Carswell) Reference KF 3675 C36 Ei 2010
Supreme Court of Canada Practice 2011 (Carswell) Reference KF 8816 .ZA2 C72
Annual Review of Civil Litigation 2010 (Carswell) Reserve KF 8840 .ZA2 A557 2010
The 2011 Annotated Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (Carswell) Reference KF 1536 .ZA2 C36 Bi 2011
The 2011 Annotated Ontario Rules of Criminal Practice (Carswell) Reserve and Reference KF 9620 .ZB3 S43 
Ontario Environmental Legislation, 2010 – 2011 Edition (Canada Law Book) Texts KF 3775 .ZB3 O573 E
Liquor and Host Liability Law in Canada (Canada Law Book)  In Processing
Police Services Act of Ontario: An Annotated Guide (Canada Law Book) Reference KF 5399 O587 2009
The 2011 Annotated Copyright Act (Carswell) Reference KF 2994 C36 C 2011
Canadian Environmental Legislation, 2010 – 2011 Edition (Canada Law Book)  Texts KF 3775 .ZA2 C363 E
The Law of Evidence, Revised 5th Edition (Irwin Law) Reserve KF 8935 .ZA2 P32 2008b
The Law of Bail in Canada, 3rd Edition (Carswell) Reserve KF 9632 T76 2010
Enforcement of Family Law Orders and Agreements: Law and Practice (Carswell) Texts KF 537 W54 1989

Continuing Professional Development

Doing Good, While Avoiding Legal and Liability Problems: A Primer for Lawyers on Advising and Sitting on Non-Profit Boards and Charities (OBA)

10th Annual Civil Litigation for Law Clerks (LSUC)

With October mailings came many a delivery of Law Society of Upper Canada “Continuing Professional Development” materials, the new name for what was formerly “Continuing Legal Education” or CLE.  The binders are always full of really interesting papers, so to be getting some new titles at the library is pretty exciting.  I’m personally pretty thrilled about the new binder from their “Annotated Document Series” entitled Annotated Business Agreements 2010.  We are often asked for just such precedents, so it’s nice to have a new resource to offer our clients.  As always, materials from every Law Society CPD session are sent to the CCLA library, usually within a month of the event.  Some of these materials are still being processed, so if the binder you’re looking for is not on the shelf yet, it will be soon!

New editions of annually updated titles are also continuing to arrive.  Certainly of excitement to a great number of our clients will be the new 2011 edition of the Ontario Annual Family Practice.  Our two copies of this title aren’t on the shelf for long each morning – I think they might be tied with the Martin’s Criminal Code for most frequently borrowed items!

Texts

• A Practical Guide to the Law of Termination in Ontario, 2nd ed. (Canada Law Book) – Texts > KF 3471 R82 2010
• Chartes des droits de la personne : législation, jurisprudence et doctrine, 23e éd. (Wilson & Lafleur) – Texts > KF 4483 .C5 B78 2010
• Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation, 7th ed. (Carswell) – Reference > KF 245 C36 2010
• The Practical Guide to Evidence in Criminal Cases, 7th ed. (Carswell) – Texts > KF 9660 S24 2010
• Principles of Property Law, 5th ed. (Carswell) – Text > KF 561 Z53 2010
• McLeod’s Ontario Family Law Rules Annotated 2010 (Carswell) – Reserve > KF 505 .ZB3 O58 Fr
• Consolidated Ontario Insurance Statutes and Regulations 2010 (Carswell) – Texts > KF 1164 O58 I 2010
• Key Developments in Estates and Trusts Law in Ontario, 2010 Edition (Canada Law Book) – Texts > KF 753 C76 2010
• Ontario Motor Vehicle Insurance Law and Commentary, 2011 Edition (LexisNexis) – Reference > KF 1218 O586
• Ontario Family Law Practice, 2011 Edition (LexisNexis) – Reserve > KF 505 .ZB3 O585
• Federal Court Practice 2011 (Carswell) Reserve and Reference > KF 8816 .ZA2 F42

Continuing Professional Development

• Plaintiff’s Personal Injury Law 2010 (LSUC) – Text > KF 1257 .A5 L393 2010b
• 9th annual Real Estate Law for Law Clerks (LSUC) – Texts > KF 670 .A2 L393 2010
• Opening Your Law Practice 2010 (LSUC) – Texts > KF 318 .A2 L393 2010
• Annotated Business Agreements 2010 (LSUC) – Texts > KF 889 .A2 L393 2010b
• Practice Gems: Drafting and Administering Power of Attorney for Personal Care and Property (LSUC) – Text > KF 1347 .A75 L393 2010
• Practice Gems: Probate Essentials 2010 (LSUC) – Texts > KF 765 .A75 L393 2010
• The 12-Minute Civil Litigator 2010 (LSUC) – Texts > KF 8840 .ZB3 L393 2010
• Employment Issues Arising on the Purchase and Sale of a Business 2010 (LSUC) – Texts > KF 3320 .ZB3 L393 2010
• Criminal Law and the Charter 2010 (LSUC) Texts > KF 9620 .ZA2 L393 2010b
• The 6-Minute Debtor-Creditor and Insolvency Lawyer 2010 (LSUC) – Texts > KF 1536 .ZB3 S592 2010
• Corporate Law for Law Clerks 2010 (LSUC) – Texts > KF 1415 .ZB3 L393 2010b

By Jennifer Walker

With the summer months comes a slow down in Continuing Legal Education events. As such, we didn’t receive any new CLE binders this month. Where we’re lacking in new CLE, however, we have tonnes of new text books and annuals. For a neat little article on why on earth we’ve just received the 2011 version of the Ontario Practice when it’s only July, check out this entry from Gary P. Rodrigues at Slaw.ca.

• The Law of Dependants’ Relief in Canada, 2nd ed. (Carswell)
• Title Searching and Conveyancing in Ontario, 6th ed. (LexisNexis)
• Introduction to Canadian Insurance Law, 2nd ed. (LexisNexis)
• Construction Law in Canada (LexisNexis)
• The Law of Nuisance in Canada (LexisNexis)
• Director and Officer Liability in Corporate Insolvency: A Comprehensive Guide to Rights and Obligations, 2nd ed. (LexisNexis)
• Ontario Heritage Act and Commentary (LexisNexis)
• The 2010-2011 Annotated Contraventions Act (Carswell)
• Consolidated Native Law Statutes, Regulations and Treaties 2010 (Carswell)
• Consolidated Ontario Employment and Labour Statutes and Regulations 2010 (Carswell)
• The Practitioner’s Goods and Services Tax Annotated, 21st ed. (Carswell)
• GST Memoranda, Bulletins, Policies and Info Sheets, 17th ed. (Carswell)
• Handling Provincial Offence Cases in Ontario 2010 (Carswell)
• Consolidated Ontario Family Law Statutes and Regulations 2010 (Carswell)
• Watt’s Manual of Criminal Evidence 2010 (Carswell)
• Martin’s Ontario Criminal Practice, 2011 ed. (Canada Law Book)
• Ontario Annual Practice, 2010-2011 ed. (Canada Law Book)
• Evidence: Principles and Problems, 9th ed. (Carswell)