New Titles – January & February 2012

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Jennifer Walker

The Library did not acquire too many new text books in the first two months of the year. Legal publishing tends to ramp up in the late Winter / early Spring (so right about now!), so we’ll be putting in some new orders starting today. If you’ve seen something advertised that you think looks interesting, let us know! We always welcome suggestions for purchase.

We did, however, acquire a goodly amount of CPD materials. We received papers from our friends at the Middlesex and Hamilton Law Associations, in addition to those papers from the Law Society. The full list is below, where there is sure to be something of interest to everyone.

Texts

Expert Evidence in Criminal Law: The Scientific Approach, 2nd Edition – Replacement Copy (Irwin Law)

Law Firm Recruitment: Job Search Advice for Law Students and Associates , 2nd Edition (Irwin Law)

Witnesses and the Law (Canada Law Book)

Continuing Professional Development

6th Annual Wills, Estates, and Trusts Conference (Middlesex Law Association / Ontario Bar Association)

7th Annual Business Breakfast: New Developments in Corporate Law (Middlesex Law Association)

9th Annual Emerging Issues in Employment Law (Hamilton Law Association)

10th Annual Estates and Trusts Seminar (Hamilton Law Association)

16th Annual Intellectual Property Law: The Year in Review (LSUC)

19th Annual Immigration Law Summit (LSUC)

25th Annual Joint Insurance Seminar (Hamilton Law Association / Ontario Insurance Adjustors’ Association, Hamilton Chapter)

The 2012 Oatley-McLeish Guide to Motor Vehicle Litigation (LSUC)

Civil Appeals: The Year in Review (LSUC)

Corporate Commercial Law Seminar: Corporate Law Fundamentals (Hamilton Law Association)

Family Law Practice Essentials 2012 (LSUC)

Impaired and “Over 80” 2011 (LSUC)

New Developments in Personal Injury Law 2011 (Middlesex Law Association)

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

Practice Gems: Construction Lien Essentials 2012

Practice Gems: Title and Off-Title Searching 2012

The New Accessibility Standards for Customer Service Regulation under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act 2005: Legal and Practical Compliance Strategies (LSUC)

The Six-Minute Criminal Court Judge 2012 (LSUC)

The Six-Minute Family Law Lawyer 2011 (LSUC)

The Six-Minute Real Estate Lawyer 2011 (LSUC)

Upcoming Training: Westlaw and Quicklaw

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Brenda Lauritzen

Brush up on your research skills at the library in March by attending our next two training sessions: March 1 (Westlaw) and March 28 (Quicklaw), each running from 12:00 – 1:00pm. Stop by the CCLA Library for one or both of the sessions, and count it towards your CPD hours! Best of all, it’s free!

As always, the sessions are held in the CCLA Library, located in Room 2004 on the main floor of the Ottawa Courthouse, 161 Elgin Street. If you would like to attend either of the following, or if you have any questions at all, drop me a quick email at blauritzen@ccla-abcc.ca. Walk-ins are also welcome. Bring your lunch with you!

Westlaw: Case Studies; Thursday, March 1st, 12:00 to 1:00 PM, CCLA Library
Skip the keyword search. Learn how to use Westlaw resources efficiently and effectively by walking through specific case study examples. Use the Canadian Encyclopedic Digest, Canadian Abridgment, and KeyCite features to very quickly narrow and find the most relevant case law, legislation, and commentary that you need. Westlaw basics will also be reviewed. Bring your own research questions!

What’s New on Quicklaw; Wednesday, March 28th, 12:00 to 1:00 PM, CCLA Library
Let them narrow the search results for you. Learn how to use Quicklaw’s Canada Digest, Canada Quantums, and Quickcite features to search within the most relevant case law, legislation, and commentary, instead of starting from scratch. Quicklaw basics will also be reviewed.

For experienced members, these programs count for 1 Substantive Hour toward the annual LSUC CPD requirement. These CPD hours are not accredited for the new member requirement.

Renovations: Milestones

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Jennifer Walker

It has been some time since we’ve written about the renovations on the Library Blog. While nothing has visibly changed here at the CCLA, that does not mean that our Renovations Committee hasn’t been hard at work, making the project possible. There are a good number of steps to a renovation project of this scale, and we’d like to share with you some of our key milestones so far.

In early 2011, the CCLA developed a Renovations Management Committee. This Committee is chaired by 2011 CCLA Past President Clive Savage, and has done a tremendous amount of work in moving this project along. As previously mentioned, the CCLA engaged Ottawa firm [in]Tempo to create design concepts for our Lounge and Library. After touring the CCLA’s space, and consulting extensively with CCLA board members and staff to identify spatial requirements and thoughts on how the space could be made better, a design was finalized early last year. This design was approved by the Board shortly thereafter. In April 2011, we held our first large stakeholders meeting to present [in]Tempo’s design. Invited to this meeting (from outside of the CCLA) were members of the Judiciary, courthouse administration, representatives from Infrastructure Ontario (the organization that manages government buildings on behalf of the province), and Martha Foote, the general manager of LibraryCo. The design was very well received by those in attendance, and in June 2011, the Ministry of the Attorney General (“MAG”) approved our renovations project.

Once approval for the design was granted from MAG, a fundraising committee was struck here at the CCLA during the summer of 2011, with 2011 CCLA President Mary Jane Binks, Q.C., serving as chair. This committee is made up of senior leaders from the Ottawa legal community and the Executive Committee, and will be reaching out in their fundraising campaign in the coming months.

Also during the summer, the CCLA Board met again to fine-tune our project proposal in anticipation of further talks with MAG. In the fall, we met with MAG’s Facilities Management Branch to develop the project charter for the renovation – a project charter essentially being the contract between the CCLA and the MAG, specifying the parameters of the project, the time line, and the financial obligations. As the CCLA is considered to be a tenant in the Courthouse, we are obliged to follow their processes for a renovations project of this scope. As such, these meetings also involved Infrastructure Ontario in their capacity as facilities manager, and the engineering firm SNC-Lavalin, who will serve as the construction project manager.

Our most recent milestone has been in setting the cost estimates for the project. As our initial estimate varied greatly from that provided by MAG, our Renovations Committee has been at work in moving the cost estimate back down towards our projections. In late 2011, MAG agreed to an estimate much closer to the that initially obtained by the CCLA.

This brings us to the present. We are currently creating a page on our website dedicated to the renovation. This page will include all of the concept drawings we have from [in]Tempo design, as well as the draft floor plan, which I’m sure many of you will be excited to see. We’ll be letting you know as soon as the page is ready, as well as providing more regular updates on the project. If you are planning on attending our AGM next week, we will have some of the images on hand for you to check out there – please do, and let us know what you think!

New Titles – December 2011

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Jennifer Walker

Happy new year, library users! The end of the year is always accompanied by many a shipment of new books. We have a big list here, many of them updates to annual publications. If you come looking for a book in the library and can’t find it, please ask at the Reference Desk. With all of the new material, it might take a little bit longer than usual to get the books onto the shelves.

The 2012 Annotated Canada Labour Code, 20th Edition (Carswell)

The 2012 Annotated Customs Act (Carswell)

The 2012 Annotated Immigration and Refugee Protection Act of Canada (Carswell)

The 2012 Annotated Indian Act and Aboriginal Constitutional Provisions (Carswell)

The 2012 Annotated Ontario Construction Lien Act (Carswell)

The 2012 Annotated Ontario Human Rights Code (Carswell)

The 2012 Annotated Ontario Labour Relations Act (Carswell)

The 2012 Annotated Ontario Landlord and Tenant Statutes (Carswell)

The 2012 Annotated Ontario Rules of Criminal Practice (Carswell)

Annotated Canada Pension Plan and Old Age Security Act, 11th Edition (CCH)

Bennett on Receiverships, Third Edition (Carswell)

Canadian Immigration & Refugee Law Practice, 2012 Edition (LexisNexis)

Cause of Action: Occupiers’ Liability (Carswell)

Conduct of a Lien Action 2012 (Carswell)

Cox’s Criminal Evidence Handbook, 2011-2012 Edition (Canada Law Book)

Criminal Procedure in Canada (LexisNexis)

Digital Evidence in Criminal Law (Canada Law Book)

Document Registration Guide, 13th Edition (CCH)

E-Discovery in Canada, 2nd Edition (LexisNexis)

Executive Liability and the Law, Second Edition (Carswell)

Federal Employment and Labour Law & Commentary, 2012 Edition (LexisNexis)

Liability Insurance Law in Canada, 5th Edition (LexisNexis)

Military Justice in Action: Annotated National Defence Legislation (Carswell)

Ontario Estate Administration, 6th Edition (LexisNexis)

Practitioner’s Goods and Services Tax Annotated with Harmonized Sales Tax 2011, 24th Edition (Carswell)

Practitioner’s Ontario Taxes Annotated, 2011 Fall Edition (Carswell)

Products Liability, Fifth Edition (Carswell)

Protection of Privacy in the Canadian Private and Health Sectors 2012 (Carswell)

Pure Economic Loss in Canadian Negligence Law (LexisNexis)

Spousal Support in Canada (Carswell)

Taxation of Trusts and Estates: A Practitioner’s Guide 2012 (Carswell)

The Interpretation of Legislation in Canada, 4th Edition (Éditions Yvon Blais)

New Titles – October & November 2011

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Jennifer Walker

This month’s post could be alternatively titled: The New Family Law Practice! It’s here! Yes, library users, a fresh shipment of the Ontario Family Law Practice, 2012 Edition from LexisNexis has arrived at the library. Amanda has prepared the books for the shelves, and we’re excited to announce that we’ve increased our holdings to five copies. In light of both of our copies of the 2011 edition having gone missing (and thank you, everyone, for using the older versions we had on hand as we waited for the new editions to arrive), we ask that you very carefully print your name and direct phone number on the sign-out cards, and that the book is returned to the front desk at the library (as opposed to on a shelving cart) every time you borrow it for court.

For our non-Family law library users, we have plenty of new materials that might be of interest. In addition to a good number of yearly updates, we have updates to some favourite titles, such as a new edition of Paciocco and Stuesser’s The Law of Evidence, Hogg’s Liability of the Crown, and a new Administrative Law in Canada by Blake. We’ve also acquired a new publication that might be of interest to those of you who are new to small claims practice. Ontario Small Claims Court – A Practical Guide is a new title from LexisNexis that aims to give you the ins and outs of preparing for and appearing in Small Claims court. If you’ve seen this book advertised and are thinking of picking it up for your own collection, feel free to come take a look at ours and see if it’s the right title for you. Finally, just yesterday, a brand new publication that even us non-lawyers are interested in reading was delivered – Animals and the Law by Lesli Bisgould. To my knowledge, there isn’t much else out there on this particular topic, so this title is a great addition to our collection.

Here is our full list for the last two months – you can click on the hyperlinks to see the publisher’s write-up for these titles.

Texts

2011 Annotated Employment Insurance Act (Carswell)

2012 Annotated Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (Carswell)

2012 Annotated Divorce Act (Carswell)

2012 Annotated Ontario Family Law Act (Carswell)

Administrative Law in Canada, 5th Edition (LexisNexis)

Animals and the Law (Irwin Law)

Annual Review of Civil Litigation 2011 (Carswell)

Canadian Environmental Legislation, 2011-2012 Edition (Canada Law Book)

Canadian Family Law, 4th Edition (Irwin Law)

Canadian Telecommunications Law (Irwin Law)

Consolidated Bank Act and Regulations 2011-2012 (Carswell)

Consolidated Ontario Insurance Statutes and Regulations 2011 (Carswell)

Consolidated Ontario Small Claims Court Statutes, Rules, and Regulations 2011-2012 (Carswell)

Federal Access to Information and Privacy Legislation Annotated 2012 (Carswell)

Legal Ethics, 2nd Edition (Canada Law Book)

Liability of the Crown, 4th Edition (Carswell)

McLeod’s Ontario Family Law Rules Annotated 2011 (Carswell)

Ontario Environmental Legislation, 2011-2012 Edition (Canada Law Book)

Ontario Family Law Practice, 2012 Edition (LexisNexis)

Ontario Small Claims Court – A Practical Guide (LexisNexis)

Supreme Court of Canada Practice 2012 (Carswell)

The Law of Civil Procedure in Ontario (LexisNexis)

The Law of Evidence, 6th Edition (Irwin Law)

The Laws of Government: The Legal Foundations of Canadian Democracy (Irwin Law)

The Law of Torts, 4th Edition (Irwin Law)

Continuing Professional Development

Commercial Mortgage Transactions: Complex Issues in Documentation and Due Diligence (LSUC)

Domestic Contracts in Family Law (LSUC)

Practice Gems: Probate Essentials 2011 (LSUC)

Practice Gems: The Administration of Estates 2011: Avoiding the Pitfalls (LSUC)

Taxation Issues for General Practitioners (What Everyone Should Know) (LSUC)

The Anatomy of a Labour Law Judicial Review: Practical Lessons (LSUC)

The Ontario e-Discovery Institute: e-Discovery For All Cases and All Lawyers (LSUC)

The Six-Minute Debtor-Creditor and Insolvency Lawyer 2011 (LSUC)

The Six-Minute Environmental Lawyer 2011 (LSUC)

Free Westlaw and Quicklaw Training

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Brenda Lauritzen

Mark your calendars for our last two training sessions of the year: December 6 (Westlaw) and December 8 (Quicklaw), each running from 12:00 – 1:00pm. Stop by the CCLA Library for one or both of the sessions to brush up on your research skills before the end of the year – and count it towards your CPD hours! Best of all, it’s free!

As always, the sessions are held in the CCLA Library, located in Room 2004 on the main floor of the Ottawa Courthouse, at 161 Elgin Street. If you would like to attend either of the following, or if you have any questions at all, drop me a quick email at blauritzen@ccla-abcc.ca. Bring your lunch with you, and light refreshments will be provided. I hope to see you there!

Westlaw Tools, Tuesday, December 6th, 12:00 to 1:00 PM
Skip the keyword search. Learn how to use the Canadian Encyclopedic Digest, Canadian Abridgment, and KeyCite features to very quickly narrow and find the most relevant case law, legislation, and commentary that you need. Westlaw basics will also be reviewed.

Quicklaw Tools, Thursday, December 8th, 12:00 to 1:00 PM
Let them narrow the search results for you. Learn how to use Quicklaw’s Canada Digest, Canada Quantums, and Quickcite features to search within the most relevant case law, legislation, and commentary, instead of starting from scratch. Quicklaw basics will also be reviewed.

For experienced members, these programs count for 1 Substantive Hour toward the annual LSUC CPD requirement. These CPD hours are not accredited for the new member requirement.

Greetings from the West!

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Brenda Lauritzen

As Jen kindly introduced, my name is Brenda and I’m taking over as Reference Librarian here at the CCLA! It’s obvious to me that Katie did an amazing job here and it’s my biggest hope that I can continue on in that tradition.

By way of a brief introduction – I obtained my Masters in Information Studies at the University of Toronto, before doing some work at the Ontario Securities Commission law library. Most recently I have come from working as the Librarian at the Hamilton Law Association, the CCLA’s equivalent in Hamilton. On a more personal note, I’m probably one of the biggest nerds out there – video games, sci-fi/fantasy, board games – you name it! So stop by and say hello sometime, I promise I won’t bite (unless it’s the zombie apocalypse of course, then all bets are off).

Needless to say I’m extremely excited to be here and am really looking forward to working with and getting to know the legal community in Ottawa. And of course if you have any research questions my email (blauritzen@ccla-abcc.ca) and phone line (613-233-7386 ex.222) are always open!

Loading Conference Papers Onto Your iPad

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Jennifer Walker

This week, registrants for the Civil Litigation conference will be emailed a link to where they can download conference papers from our online system. If you are wondering how or if these papers can be loaded onto an iPad, the CCLA Library is here to help!

Join us on Wednesday, November 9th at 4:00 PM in the library for a short session to get you ready for the conference.

Please RSVP (or send any questions) to Jennifer Walker at jwalker@ccla-abcc.ca

You’ll need to bring:
1. Your iPad
2. The email address that was used to register you for the conference
3. The registration number you received in an email to that email address once your payment was received
4. Your Apple ID name and password (for downloading the App to read PDFs)

It’s important to have all of these with you for the session – you will not be able to download anything without them.

Outcomes:
1. You’ll have an application that can read and store PDFs installed on your iPad (if you don’t have one already)
2. All your conference papers for the Civil Litigation conference will be saved on your iPad
3. You’ll know how to retrieve the papers later, when you need them at the Montebello

Some other information on apps:
There are many applications that can read PDFs, both paid and free, available from the App Store. Feel free to download whichever app you would like. During the session, we will be going through the process of downloading an app if there isn’t already one on your iPad. I’ll walk you through both the paid and free apps, though you only need to download one. We will be selecting “DocAS Lite” for a free option, and “GoodReader” as a paid option (the current cost is $4.99). If you want to follow along with the session directly, please go ahead and download one of these apps before the session. You can find them by searching for those exact names in the App Store. Alternatively, I’ll show a bit of each program before I download them, so if you’d like to see the program in action, you can wait until we’ve looked at both and then download the program you prefer. As always, if you choose a paid app, you must either have a credit balance on your Apple store account (from an Apple gift card), or have a credit card attached to the account for billing.

Our New Reference Librarian!

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Jennifer Walker

The CCLA is extremely excited to welcome our new reference librarian, Brenda Lauritzen, to the staff ! As you know, our previous reference librarian Katie departed from the CCLA at the end of August. After a search with many, many excellent candidates, we’re thrilled to have Brenda joining us. Most recently, Brenda held the role of Reference Librarian at the Hamilton Law Association (in other words, the CCLA’s equivalent in Hamilton).

Brenda’s first day will be Monday, November 7, 2011 – this coming Monday! We hope you’ll stop by to give her a friendly East Region hello and welcome her to the city.

New Titles – August & September 2011

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Jennifer Walker

This past month, I had a brief moment of understanding what the frenzy must be like at Chapters when a new Harry Potter/Game of Thrones/Book-in-a-Popular-Series is published, as someone remarked, with (moderate) excitement, “Oh! The new Small Claims practices are here!” New books – we have ’em. Here’s your round-up for the months of August and September. You’ll notice a good number of annual updates, including our new Treemear’s Criminal Code, the Ontario Civil Practice, and of course, Ontario Cmall Claims Court Practice. We’ve also acquired a fair number of new editions to popular texts, such as the third edition of Drafting Trusts and Will Trusts in Canada, and the third edition of Kirsh & Alter: A Guide to Construction Liens in Ontario.

Consolidated Native Law Statutes, Regulations, and Treaties 2011 (Carswell)

The 2011 Annotated Ontario Highway Traffic Act (Carswell)

Ontario Small Claims Court Practice 2012 (Carswell)

Code Criminel Annoté 2012 (Éditions Yvon Blais)

Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Act and Commentary, 2012 ed. (Lexis)

Stikeman Income Tax Act Annotated 2011, 50th ed. (Carswell)

The 2012 Annotated Ontario Personal Property Security Act (Carswell)

Législation Canadienne en Propriété Intellectuelle 2012 (Éditions Yvon Blais)

Ontario Provincial Offences 2012 (Carswell)

Législation Canadienne en Faillite et Insolvabilité 2012 (Éditions Yvon Blais)

The 2011 Annotated Ontario Provincial Offences Act (Carswell)

Consolidated Ontario Estate Statutes and Regulations 2012 (Carswell)