Newly Received Materials from LSUC CPD

Posted on by Emily Shearer

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.

Real Estate Practice Basics 2016 (December 9, 2016)

  • The agreement of purchase and sale / Lorne Shuman
  • Title searching: a checklist / Joel Kadish
  • Introduction to title insurance / Lori M. Swartz
  • Residential mortgage financing / Karen Yolevski

Plaintiff’s Personal Injury Law: Practice Basics 2016 (September 19, 2016)

  • Assessing the case : the importance of file selection / Salvatore Shaw
  • Developing and funding a plaintiffs personal injury practice / Michelle Jorge
  • The ABCs of Motor Vehicle Law and the Statutory Accident Benefits Schedule / Tripta Sood

17th Annual Employment Law Summit (October 18, 2016)

  • Mental Health First Aid: the everyday kind of first aid / Christina Fuda
  • Legalizing marijuana: impact on the workplace? / Shelley Brown
  • Deconstructing constructive dismissal / Mary Lou Brady
  • Summaries of recent key cases / A. Jane Milburn & Devin M. Jarcaig

21st Annual Intellectual Property Law: The Year in Review (January 19 & 20, 2017)

  • Trademarks update / Georgina Starkman Danzing
  • Copyright developments – 2016 / Kevin Sartorio & Margot Patterson
  • Litigation funding roundtable: the Canadian perspective / Naomi Leowith
  • Intellectual property case update / Michael Manson

Recently Published Ottawa Decisions

Posted on by Jennifer Walker

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

Family Matters

Bloom v Bloom (2017 ONSC 1568)
children — father — status quo — will — matrimonial home
Justice A. Doyle

Aden v Mohamud (2017 ONSC 1629)
spousal support — agencies — marriage — income — trips
Justice T. Engelking

Dieng c Seck (2017 ONCS 1479)
séparation — aliments — divorce — contrat familial — entente
Juge P. Roger

Gill v Dhillon (2017 ONSC 1565)
child support — income — spousal support — daycare — pay
Justice T. Engelking

Dallaire c Brunet (2017 ONSC 1564)
motion — aliments — dépens intégrals à compter — offre — reflète
Juge P. Roger

Mccafferty v St.Jean (2017 ONSC 1431)
litigation — offers to settle — financial disclosure — costs — speedy
Justice M. Linhares de Sousa

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CCH Content Now on Lexis Advance Quicklaw

Posted on by Brenda Lauritzen

We’re happy to report that former CCH looseleafs have been added to our Quicklaw Subscription. You can now access the following resources in electronic format on our library computers:

  • Canadian Insurance Law Reporter
  • Ontario Real Estate Law Guide
  • Ontario Corporations Law Guide
  • Canadian Commercial Law Guide
  • Canada Corporations Law Reports
  • Canadian Estate Administration Guide
  • Canadian Family Law Guide
  • Canadian Employment Benefits & Pension Guide
  • Canadian Labour Law Reporter

The easiest way to get to these is to click on “Browse” in the top toolbar, and then click on Sources. From there you can browse or search for whatever you would like! There are now also a wealth of newsletters available that you can subscribe to, including Ontario Real Estate Developments, Canadian Family Law Matters, Accident Benefits Cases Summaries, Labour Notes, and many more.

Still feeling a little iffy about the new Quicklaw Advance inferface? Come join us for a free training session on March 22! All are welcome; please RSVP here.

Ottawa Blog Roll: February 2017

Posted on by Brenda Lauritzen

Please find below links to blog posts or articles authored by the Ottawa legal community in February.

Civil Litigation

So You Want to Appeal… (Part 3): Appealing a decision from Small Claims Court
– Megan E. Fife, Maclaren Corlett

What is Vision Zero and How Can It Prevent Traffic Injuries and Fatalities?
– Frank Van Dyke, Van Dyke Injury Law Blog

Driverless Cars: Just as Safe for Pedestrians?
– Frank Van Dyke, Van Dyke Injury Law Blog

Suing a Landlord for Negligence: Limitation Periods
– Najma Rashid, Ontario Trial Lawyers Association Blog

Dog Walkers Beware! Important Dog Bite Decision from the Ontario Court of Appeal
– Andrea Girones, Girones Lawyers

Condominium Law

More Regulatory Proposals for the Condo Industry
– Rodrigue Escayola, Condo Adviser

New Disclosure Obligations for Condo Directors
– Rodrigue Escayola, Condo Adviser

New Mandatory Training for Condo Directors
– Rodrigue Escayola, Condo Adviser

Licensing of Condominium Managers-What does it mean to have an address for service in Ontario? (Blog No. 7 in a Series)
– James Davidson, Davidson Houle Allen LLP

Licensing of Condominium Managers – What information (about licensees) will be available to the public? (Blog No. 8 in a series)
– James Davidson, Davidson Houle Allen LLP

Proposed Regulatory Changes: Condominium Authority of Ontario (CAO), Condominium Management Regulatory Authority of Ontario (CMRAO) and the Condominium Authority Tribunal
– Kristen Bailey, Davidson Houle Allen LLP

Summary of Draft Regulations under the Condominium Act – Director Training
– James Davidson, Davidson Houle Allen LLP

Corporate Commercial Law

Conflict of Interest: An Often Misunderstood Concept
– Michael A. Chambers, Maclaren Corlett

Is Your Promissory Note a Security?
– Paul Franco, Mann Lawyers

Anticipating Increased Interest in Canada as a Place to do Business
– Dirk Bouwer, Perley-Robertson, Hill & McDougall LLP

SECURITIES ALERT – Regulators Review Rights Offerings
– Perley-Robertson, Hill & McDougall LLP

Criminal Law

Conservatives Are Up to Their Old Disingenuous Tricks
– Michael Spratt, Abergel Goldstein & Partners LLP

February 2017 Criminal Law Round-Up
– Anne-Marie McElroy, McElroy Law

Avoiding An Otiose And Absurd Result
– Dallas Mack, Mack’s Criminal Law

Cataloging The Basis For An Inventory Search
– Dallas Mack, Mack’s Criminal Law

Intentionally Present
– Sarah Sullivan, Mack’s Criminal Law

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Upcoming CPD: Social Media Social

Posted on by Jennifer Walker

To our out-of-town readers (and people already registered – thank you!), please forgive this small bit of promotion! There’s a really neat CPD program coming up in Ottawa next month, and we just had to write about it for the blog.

On April 4, the CCLA will be holding the “Social Media Social” – a gathering of some really excellent bloggers and social media pros from the Ottawa legal community (and also me – how did I get on this invite list?!). What started out as local lawyer Sean Bawden (author of the Clawbie Award-winning “Labour Pains” blog) tweeting “Hey, who wants to get drinks and talk about blogging?” has morphed into a half-day session on topics related to blogging, vlogging, and Twitter. You can take a look at the full agenda here. By my count, there are five Clawbie winners speaking that afternoon, so I think it’s safe to say we’ll know a thing or two about legal blogging! The session has been accredited for 1.25 professionalism hours and 1.75 substantive hours, too, so if you’re already getting to work on your 2017 CPD hours, you can snag a few here.

Registration for the session is available online. Brenda and I will both be there, so we look forward to meeting more of our readers in person!

Recently Published Ottawa Decisions

Posted on by Jennifer Walker

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

Family Matters

Birkett v Love (2017 ONSC 1231)
income — offers to settle — costs — support — motion
Justice A. Doyle

Shouldice v Shouldice (2017 ONSC 1045)
offer — spousal support — parenting — settlement — child support
Justice J. Mackinnon

Pitre v Lalande (2017 ONSC 1043)
post-secondary education — substantial indemnity — motion — dental expenses — offers
Justice S. Corthorn

Civil Matters

Canadian Council of the Blind v Burt (2017 ONSC 1135)
national office — e-mail — governance — defamatory — leave to amend
Justice M. Labrosse

Scarf et al. and Ottawa Athletic Club (2016 ONSC 7968)
proposed — reformulation — negligent misrepresentation — motion — fresh
Justice R. Pelletier

Scharf et al. v. Ottawa Athletic Club Inc. et al. (2016 CanLII 95644)
carrying on business — summary judgment motion — costs — succeeded — presumptively
Justice R. Pelletier

Criminal Matters

R. c. Faucher (2017 ONSC 913)
peine d emprisonnement avec sursis — attentat à la pudeur — victimes — couronne — délinquant
Juge P. Roger

Court of Appeal Decisions of Local Interest

R. v. Cameron (2017 ONCA 150)
dissociative state — defence expert — jury — killed his daughter-in-law — automatism
Justices D/ Doherty, J. Laskin, and L. Roberts

Sennek v. Carleton Condominium Corporation No. 116 (2017 ONCA 154)
interlocutory — perfect — litigation guardian — sanction for non-compliance — extension
Justice G. Pardu

R. v. R.S. (2017 ONCA 141)
pre-sentence custody — sentence — victim — pre-conviction custody — offence
Justices J. MacPherson, P. Rouleau, and D. Brown

R. v. L.F.P. (2017 ONCA 132)
preliminary inquiry — victim — offence — count — published in any document
Justices A. Hoy, D. Doherty, and B. Miller

#ThrowbackThursday: Ottawa-Carleton Practice Guide

Posted on by Jennifer Walker

How many of you remember this item? Better yet, how many still have one kicking around the office?

The Ottawa-Carleton Practice Guide was first published in 1993, and was a place to keep the CCLA by-laws, local practice directions, and back copies of the CCLA Bulletin. It was available only to members in good standing, and to be honest, this is a really nice quality binder, so I can see why! As tempting as it is to revive this publication (librarians: we’re all obsessed with stationery products), you could say our website performs this same function today. Bylaws! Practice directions! Newsletters!

Thomson Reuters ProView: Part Two

Posted on by Jennifer Walker

Yesterday I wrote about the Thomson Reuters ProView eReference collection – what it contains, and how you can get access to it at our library. Today, I’m going to focus on a few quick primers for using the platform, and also provide some links to even better training materials. Click on any of the images below to see them a bit bigger.

Basic Navigation Tips

When you enter into the ProView platform at the CCLA Library, you will have a huge screen containing images of all of the titles we have available in our subscription. To find a title, you can scroll through the whole page (it’s organized by subject), or you can also use the box right above the images:

Here I’ve searched for “remedies” in the title field.

 

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Thomson Reuters ProView: Part One

Posted on by Jennifer Walker

We’ve been meaning to do a post on the Thomson Reuters ProView eReference platform for a long time; as it turns out, we’re going to do two posts! In this first post, I’ll talk about what that big long title (“Thomson Reuters ProView eReference”) means, what’s included in it, and how you find it here at our library. Tomorrow, I’ll post more about how to use the platform, and some great links to online tutorials.

 

Thomson Reuters ProView eReference Collection – What’s That?

This is the proper name for the online versions of some of the looseleafs published by Thomson Reuters. Some of their looseleafs are only available in Westlaw, and some are only available on the ProView platform. If that seems a little complicated to keep straight, it’s because it is! To help keep it all straight, we’ve put a sticker on all of the looseleaf binders here at the library that have online versions available. You can see a picture of that here.

What’s Included?

Currently, the CCLA library has 80 titles available in our ProView subscription. For the time being, all of these titles are also available in print in the library, but that is likely to change over the course of this year. Some of the titles include:

  • Canadian Employment Law
  • The Law of Costs
  • Construction, Builders’ and Mechanics’ Liens in Canada
  • Compensation and Duties of Estate Trustees, Guardians and Attorney
  • Evidence in Family Law
  • Insurance Law in Canada
  • Remedies in Tort
  • Law of Real Property
  • And many, many more.

How Do I Access This?

The first question everyone has: can I use this from my office if it’s online? And the answer, regretfully, is no. You’ll still have to visit the library to access these online titles. On each of our public computers, you can access ProView through the CCLA Library Toolkit icon. There should be no additional steps to accessing this platform from there.

While you still have to venture into the library, many people will find the ability to search the book using keywords to be an excellent additional value. You may also appreciate the ease with which you can email excerpts of the books to yourself, or save them to a memory stick. Also, since we also have a Westlaw subscription at the library, you can easily link to case law from the book you are reading.

Tomorrow, we’ll look at how to use the ProView platform. This program is unlike Westlaw, and also unlike more traditional e-books (like those you might borrow from the library, or purchase for your Kindle or Kobo), so you’ll want to check out how to best use this service.

 

#ThrowbackThursday: “Online Searching – What can it do for YOU???”

Posted on by Jennifer Walker

As previously discussed on this blog, we love references to old technology, old terminology, and old librarianship topics. I was flipping through the old CCLA Bulletins, and found this delightful piece on online searching.

 

This was written almost exactly 24 years ago, and obviously in that time online searching has become the first (and for many people, last) stop in their research. I don’t think I’d have to work this hard to convince many people nowadays to try searching online! I found the tidbit about Quicklaw having “peak hours” for researching to be particularly interesting – that is certainly from before my time as a law librarian (and those prices – ouch!).