Following our post from earlier this week about the CCLA Library Catalogue, we’d also like to note that our Conference Papers Database is currently unavailable.
If you would like to receive a copy of a CCLA conference paper, please feel free to email us in the library.
If you would like to review the contents of past conference binders, a PDF and Word document version of the contents for each conference from 2010 to the present are available directly from the conference page on our website.
Big changes are underway at the CCLA Library with regard to our online catalogue. It was in 1990 that the CCLA replaced the old card catalogue with an online system, as announced in the newsletter below. Sorry to everyone who wants the actual old card catalogue for their home – it’s long gone!
From the August 1990 CCLA Bulletin
From our understanding, this was the first courthouse library catalogue in the province. Go us! In time, however, the Law Society’s Great Library catalogue (Advocat) came into being, and more recently, their Infolocate search engine, which looks through library holdings for every courthouse library in Ontario (including the CCLA) *and* the online CPD materials prepared by the Law Society.
Due to required software and hardware upgrades at the CCLA, it was time to decide what to do with our now redundant catalogue. We have made the call to sunset our dear old catalogue in favour of the admittedly far superior Great Library catalogue. We’ve updated the links on our website and in-library computers.
Some much better features of the Great Library catalogue software that CCLA Library users will enjoy:
Fuzzy searching: You don’t have to spell everything exactly right to get results. This was a huge drawback of our old in-house catalogue
Tables of contents: Lots of the entries for texts books or looseleafs will have a table of contents in the item record. You can look at what’s in a resource without leaving your computer.
Law Society of Ontario CPD materials: When searching the catalogue, you’ll also pull up hits for individual PDFs of relevant conference papers from LSO CPD.
Please Note: Selecting the CCLA Library
When you access Infolocate, the default is to search all of the Ontario courthouse libraries.
If you wish to limit this to just Ottawa, select Carleton County in the drop down menu:
Here is a terrific resource for any of you practicing employment law in Ontario: The Employment Standards Act Policy and Interpretation Manual is now available for free, online, from anywhere you can get internet access. This is straight from the Ministry of Labour’s Employment Standards Program, so it’s good stuff.
As you can see, the latest update was just a few days ago. Typically, the manual is updated a couple of times per year. We hope this helps in your research work, and also in your budget for collecting quality legal research materials for your office.
Find below recently published Ottawa decisions, available for free through CanLII.org.
Family Matters
Kopra v. Moreau (2019 ONSC 4528) possession of the matrimonial home — spousal support — children — income — exclusive possession of the matrimonial
Justice P. MacEachern
Baker v. Baker (2019 ONSC 4491) children — interim — birthday — mid-week overnight — school
Justice P. MacEachern
Norris v. Norris (2019 ONSC 4490) charging — equity in the matrimonial home — equalization payment — date of separation — uncontested
Justice M. Labrosse
Director, Family Responsibility Office for the benefit of Kimberly Melissa Stewart, v. Fuhgeh (2019 ONSC 4390) child support — income — motion — stay — arrears
Justice P. MacEachern
Demerse v. Aubry (2019 ONSC 4439) father — child s best interests — risk — motion to change — access
Justice A. Doyle
On August 22, the CCLA welcomes 2019-2020 articling and LPP students to our breakfast and legal research primer!
Following a light breakfast, students will take a crash course in the legal research they’ll be given over the next year, and how to get the work done. They will also have a chance to tour the CCLA library and learn about all of the resources we have available for to use at absolutely no cost.
This event is free with payment of the CCLA articling student membership registration. For $25 + HST, CCLA Articling Student Membership entitles students to 24/7 access to the CCLA Library, an Ottawa Courthouse Security Card (to bypass security in our courthouse), and other CCLA membership perks.
Registration is capped at 60 students, so make sure to register early! A waiting list will be established once we hit capacity.
To register (or to register on behalf of your students), please follow this link! If you are already a CCLA student member, please sign in to the site before proceeding and the registration will be free.
