The 29th annual DCAO / CCLA Criminal Law Conference kicks off Saturday at Montebello. With that in mind, here’s a little look at the conference program from 10 years ago!
Recently Published Ottawa Decisions
Find below recently published Ottawa decisions, available for free through CanLII.org.
Family Matters
Geisler v. Georgeoff (2017 ONSC 5746)
child — access — relationship — best — stepmother
Justice R. Beaudoin
CAS Ottawa v. C.W. (2017 ONSC 5761)
father — care — child — supervision — temporary
Justice C. MacLeod
Kirvan v. Kirvan (2017 ONSC 5661)
spousal support — offer — equalization — successful — life insurance
Justice M. Shelston
Guertin v. Dumas (2017 CanLII 64970)
bad faith — costs — offer — child s school — motion
Justice M. Shelston
Bouchard v. Poulin (2017 CanLII 64969)
docketed — motion — bill of costs — legal fees — offer to settle
Justice M. Shelston
Obam Dallaire v. Dallaire (2017 ONSC 5608)
motion — support — costs — jurisdiction — bonus
Justice R. Beaudoin
Civil Matters
Bouchard c. CECCE & Dupuis (2017 ONSC 5595)
expert — animation culturelle — écoles — impartialité — témoignage
Juge S. Gomery
Winmar v Steak & Sushi (2017 ONSC 5930)
equitable set-off — restoration — work — genuine issue requiring — contract
Justice R. Beaudoin
Abdollahpour v. Abdollahpour (2017 ONSC 5921)
costs — offer — motion — indemnity — inclusive of disbursements
Justice J. Parfett
McPeake v. Cadesky & Associates (2017 ONSC 5705)
firm — trust deed — retainer — shareholders — genuine issue requiring
Justice R. Ryan Bell
Treats v. Burloak (2017 ONSC 5692)
entire agreement clause — lease — email — building — occupancy
Justice H. Williams
Ridley Estate v. Eagan, Desjardins Financial Security et al. (2017 ONSC 5663)
funds — misappropriated — estates — served with the motion record — monies
Justice S. Corthorn
Maxrelco Immeubles Inc. v Jim Pattison Industries Ltd. (2017 ONSC 5836)
answers to undertakings — insurance policy — expert — discovery — produce
Justice M. O’Bonsawin
Dunn et al. v. TD Waterhouse and Eagan (2017 ONSC 5805)
funds — estates — misappropriated — individuals — search
Justice S. Corthorn
Criminal Matters
R. v. A.(E.G.) (2017 ONSC 5315)
evidence — acts of intercourse — father — sexual contact — events
Justice S. Corthorn
R. v. K.C. (2017 ONSC 5803)
pedophilia — sexual — dangerous offender — recidivism — predicate
Justice K. Phillips
R v. Arifi (2017 ONSC 5687)
defense — confession — voluntariness — motion for non-suit — evidence
Justice S. Gomery
R. v. Jacko (2017 ONSC 5584)
aboriginal — probation — sentence — community — knife
Justice C. MacLeod
R. v. M. (2017 ONSC 5537)
text message — reasonable doubt — cocaine — evidence — clinging
Justice P. Roger
Divisional Court Decisions from Ottawa Judges
Norma Wexler v. Carleton Condominium Corporation No. 28 (2017 ONSC 5697)
costs — penalize — principle — standard of review — amount
Justice M. O’Bonsawin
Newly Received Materials from LSUC CPD
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.
Indigenous Law Issues 2016 (November 14, 2016)
- Indigenous legal and justice issues : lessons learned from inside and outside the courtroom / Stephen O’Neill
- Contracting out of the Indian Act : traditional protections v. 21st : century commercial forces / Murray Teitel
- Supreme Court of Canada discussions about Indigenous peoples : a primer list for 2016 / Signa A. Daum Shanks
Class Actions for Civil Litigators (November 15, 2016)
- Bringing and defending class actions : 10 things plaintiffs’ and defense counsel need to know / Neil Campbell, Laura Cooper, Eliot Kolers, Linda Visser
- From a speed bump to a stop sign : recent developments in securities class actions / James D.G. Douglas, Alessandra Nosko
- The continuing evolution of privacy class actions in Canada / Nicole Henderson, Catherine Beagan Flood
Harassment in the Workplace: Understanding the New Obligations (March 28, 2017)
- Protecting Ontario workers from harassment : changes to the Occupational Health and Safety Act under Bill 132 / Cassandra Ma, Mihad Fahmy, Julie McAlpine-Jeffries
- Bill 132 & mandatory workplace harassment programs : taking the Ministry of Labour’s program from paper to practice / Samantha Lamb
- When managers harass : dealing with the aftermath / Nadine S. Zacks
The Six-Minute Estates Lawyer 2017 (May 8, 2017)
- Client retainer conflict issues / Susan Easterbrook
- Joint assets and planning considerations / Debra L. Stephens
- Drafting tips for primary and secondary wills / Kathleen Robichaud
Administrative Law Practice Basics 2017 (May 16, 2017)
- How to run an administrative law file from retainer to hearing / Andrew Pinto
- How to run an administrative law file from retainer to hearing / Andrew Pinto
- Ensuring that you know the rules, regulations and right of appeal / Elise J. Hallewick, Kerry MacDonell
Criminal Law Practice Basics 2017 (May 13, 2017)
- The initial meeting and instructions / Paul Calarco
- Judicial criminal pre-trial best practices / Ontario Court of Justice
- Building your practice / Anthony Moustacalis
Entertainment & Media Law Symposium 2017 (April 27-28, 2017)
- Dabble, dabble – toil – and trouble the challenges of practising media and entertainment law / Simon Chester
- The cross-border challenge : navigating American and Canadian talent guilds / Jayme Alter
- Copyright reform is back : looking ahead to parliament’s five-year review : Annotated Copyright Modernization Act amendments / Jay Kerr-Wilson, Laura Konkel
7th Annual Business Law Summit (May 11, 2017)
- Ontario business law reform / Jennifer Babe
- Corporate pro bono : providing pro bono legal services to small businesses, start-ups and entrepreneurs / Victoria Crewe-Nelson
- eSignature tools best practices / Mara Nickerson
Upcoming Webinar: Finding the Perfect Precedent
For years, one of our most popular lunchtime training sessions has been “Finding the Perfect Precedent.” Everyone loves finding a precedent that is exactly what they need for for their client, but sorting through the mountain of materials available can be daunting. To hopefully make this session even easier to attend, we’ve decided to make it a webinar!
On Tuesday, October 31, 2017 at noon, we’ll be running Finding the Perfect Precedent online. This session will cover both online and print resources, including of course the most popular precedents collection in our library (and maybe your library, too), O’Brien’s Encyclopedia of Forms. The cost for the webinar is just $10.00, and you can register online here.
#ThrowbackThursday: CBC Archives “On This Day”
Today’s Throwback doesn’t directly have to do with law, but I just stumbled across this portion of the CBC website and definitely wanted to share it.
In the digital archives of the CBC, they’ve built an “On This Day” feature that allows you to watch a news clip from the top story of a day from some point in CBC’s broadcasting past. They’ve selected topic for each day of the year, with some incredibly varied new stories.
As today is September 28, their news story for the day dates from 2000 – “Pierre Trudeau Dies at 80.”
vLex Canada Tip: MLB Topics
Last time we had a look at the Irwin Law Essentials collection which is now available on vLex, and continuing with our tips for the new database, today we’ll be having a peek at the MLB (Maritime Law Book) Topics and how they can help your research.
If you’ve ever taken any legal research training sessions from us, you’re probably aware that we are very much fans of skipping keyword searching altogether. It’s messy, ugly, and for the most part you get dumped on with a load of garbage.
Ok perhaps I’m exaggerating, but instead of wasting time picking through thousands of cases, we very much advocate for whatever publications or shortcuts you can use to cut down your research time. MLB topics are one of those shortcuts: they group similar cases by topics, so if you find a case that is relevant, you can click on the topic you’re interested in and find similar cases really quickly. You can also browse the topics, as we’ll see below.
From the homepage of vLex, select “Browse” from the sidebar. From there, navigate to “MLB Topics” in top menu. You’ll see a list of alphabetical topics you can now either search or peruse through.
Clicking on any one of these topics will bring up a listing of all the specific topics under that heading. For example, Contracts:
From here you can click through to any topics that interest you to find links to cases that are under that topic.
Similarly, if you are looking at a case on vLex, at the top of the case all the MLB topics will be listed so you can select your issue and find similar cases on that point of law. At the top of each case it will look something like this:
Clicking on any one of those magnifying glass will search that classification and bring up a list of cases on the topic. So skip the keyword case searching and browse through the MLB topics instead!
Recently Published Ottawa Decisions
Find below recently published Ottawa decisions, available for free through CanLII.org.
Family Matters
Burns v. Burns (2017 ONSC 5615)
equalization of net family property — genuine issue requiring — spousal support — agreement — marriage
Justice J. Blishen
Ross v. Lussier (2017 ONSC 5569)
costs — offer to settle — motion — indemnity — articling student
Justice M. Shelston
Kirvan v. Kirvan (2017 ONSC 5560)
spousal support — amount of life insurance — death benefit — indexation — estate
Justice M. Shelston
Bloom v. Bloom (2017 ONSC 5538)
offer to settle — spousal support — motion — income — imputed
Justice A. Doyle
Elkout v. Elkout (2017 ONSC 5475)
child support — pro rata — retroactive credit — school — expenses
Justice M. Linhares de Sousa
Bisumbule c. Conway (2017 ONSC 5450)
sommaire — prescription des actions — res judicata — offres — question litigieuse nécessitant la tenue
Juge M. O’Bonsawin
Bernard v. Fuhgeh (2017 ONSC 5432)
net proceeds — urgent — costs — amended notice of motion — affidavit
Justice J. Audet
C.A.S. v. M.G. (2017 ONSC 5420)
child — care — motion — grandmother — extended family
Justice M.Linares de Sousa
Rivest-Marier v. Emond (2017 ONSC 5410)
offers to settle — bad faith — costs — child support — settlement conference
Justice M. Shelston
Civil Matters
The Corporation of the United Counties of Prescott & Russell v. David S. Laflamme Construction Inc. and Waterproof Concrete (Canada) Ltd. (2017 ONSC 5437)
bridge — limitation period — admixture — concrete — discoverability
Justice M. O’Bonsawin
Ottawa Humane Society v. Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (2017 ONSC 5409)
non-suit clause — affiliate — directors — animal welfare — enforcement
Justice R. Beaudoin
Mississippi Valley Conservation Authority v. Bucci (2017 ONSC 5407)
fence — title — lands — centerline — boundary
Justice L. Sheard
Ling v. Bemac Auto Body Ltd. (2017 ONSC 5321)
cross-examinations of the affiants — affidavit — served — motion for summary — costs
Justice R. Beaudoin
Criminal Matters
R. v. Carson (2017 ONSC 5371)
lobbying — organization — funding — public office holders — activities
Justice C. MacLeod
Divisional Court Decisions from Ottawa Judges
Joyce Corinne Farrell v. Bell Canada (2017 ONSC 5436)
poles — easement — awry — settlement — stay
Justice K. Phillips
Court of Appeal Decisions of Local Interest
Nylene Canada Inc. v. Arnprior (Town) (2017 ONCA 726)
municipality — wastewater processing services — immune — motion — water
Justices A. Hoy, J. MacFarland, and G. Huscroft
El-Khodr v. Lackie (2017 ONCA 716)
no-fault benefits — future — jury — matching — assistive devices
Justices D. Doherty, J. MacFarland, and P. Rouleau
New on HeinOnline: Canadian Bar Review
HeinOnline has recently announced that the Canadian Bar Review, the journal of the CBA, has now been added to their database. Available issues date all the way back to volume 1 from 1923. As LSUC members, you have free access to HeinOnline, right from your desk. The password changes regularly, so get in touch with us here at the library if you need the most up-to-date version.
Since it is Thursday, here’s a Throwback to the intro to the first article in the first volume. The title is “Law as a Link of Empire” and it’s authored by The Right Honourable Lord Shaw of Dunferline.
New Titles – September 2017
The following list of titles can now be found in the library:
A Practical Guide to Canadian Citizenship and Inadmissibility – Refugee Law Edition (Carswell)
An Advocacy Primer, 4th Edition (Carswell)
Chartes des droits de la personne, 30e édition, 2017, Législation – Jurisprudence – Doctrine (Wilson & Lafleur)
Cybercrime in Canadian Criminal Law, 2nd Edition (Carswell)
Defending Drug Cases, 4th Edition (Carswell)
Government Procurement, 4th Edition (LexisNexis)
Law of Criminal Attempt, Third Edition (Carswell)
Mareva and Anton Piller Preservation Orders in Canada: A Practical Guide (Irwin Law)
Misfeasance in a Public Office (Carswell)
Ontario Superior Court Practice, 2018 Edition (LexisNexis)
Repair and Storage Liens Act: A Practical Guide (Canada Law Book)
Settling Family Law Cases: Practical Techniques for Advocates and Neutrals (Carswell)
Sports and Recreation Liability Law in Canada (Canada Law Book)
The 2018 Annotated Tremeear’s Criminal Code (Carswell)
The Law of Fraud and the Forensic Investigator, Fifth Edition (Carswell)
The Law of Government Ethics: Federal, Ontario and British Columbia, Second Edition (Carswell)
The Supreme Court on Trial, Revised edition (Irwin Law)
Victim Law: The Law of Victims of Crime in Canada (Carswell)
Watson & McGowan’s Ontario Civil Practice 2018 (Carswell)
Widdifield on Executors and Trustees, 6th Edition (Carswell)
Sites Unseen: Robichaud’s Criminal Law Precedents
Precedents are easily the most common type of research material we are asked for here at the CCLA library. Earlier this year, we were very excited to hear that Sean Robichaud, Criminal lawyer in Toronto, was starting an ambitious project to upload and allow access to his firm’s Criminal Law Precedents Database (you can read more about their reasoning behind their decision here). As librarians, we love everything about this; from access to justice, to the power of open information, to the simple recognition of where a lawyer’s real value lies (also, extra points for the excellent use of the word ‘bastioned’).
As of writing there are currently 329 precedents available, representing only 3% of their internal database, with more gradually being added. You can browse the precedents by folder, or search by filename by clicking the magnifying glass in the upper right corner.
They also have a Twitter account that you can follow, which updates when new precedents are added to the database.
This is really a great initiative, and here’s hoping that it’s just the start of more of these types of projects cropping up!