Xavier Beauchamp-Tremblay
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LinkedIn is Not Facebook
You’ll see it every few weeks on LinkedIn. Somebody somewhere is complaining that LinkedIn is not Facebook.
Friday Jobs Roundup
June 4 th 2021 Posted in: Each Friday, we share the latest job listings from Slaw Jobs, which features employment opportunities from across the country. Find out more about these positions by following the links below, or learn how you can use Slaw Jobs to gain valuable exposure for your job ads, while supporting the great Canadian legal commentary at Slaw.ca.
Wednesday: What’s Hot on CanLII
Each Wednesday we tell you which three English-language cases and which French-language case have been the most viewed* on CanLII and we give you a small sense of what the cases are about. For this last week: 1. Lu v Shen, 2020 BCSC 490 (CanLII) [42] It is the role of pleadings to serve as the frame for an action.
Measuring Progress on Access to Justice Within Sustainable Development Goal SDG 16.3
In 2015 world leaders, acting through the United Nations, agreed to adopt 17 global objectives known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The overarching objective was, and remains, to make measurable progress toward creating a better world by the year 2030 by reducing poverty, fighting inequality and by addressing the emergency of climate change. Among the Sustainable Development Goals is SDG 16, focusing on peace, justice and strong institutions.
CanLII Wins the 2021 Hugh Lawford Award for Excellence in Legal Publishing
The Canadian Association of Law Libraries / Association canadienne des bibliotheques de droit (CALL/ACBD) is pleased to announce thatThe CanLII Manual to British Columbia Civil Litigation, by Brent Anderson et al, John Fiddick and Cameron Wardell (eds.) is the winner of the 2021 Hugh Lawford Award for Excellence in Legal Publishing! This resource is a volunteer-written, open access publication that supports legal professionals and self-represented litigants with their civil justice research.
How Far Can We Go Before the Constitutional Bargain is Undermined?
The Quebec Government’s An Act respecting French, the official and common language of Québec (Bill 96), has generated considerable controversy over whether a province is able to make significant constitutional changes to its status and the use of the French and English languages unilaterally.
Tips Tuesday - Slaw
Here are excerpts from the most recent tips on SlawTips, the site that each week offers up useful advice, short and to the point, on practice, research, writing and technology. Research & Writing Finding Canadian Court Records and Docket Information Susannah Tredwell The availability of Canadian court information varies greatly from province to province, as do the ways in which researchers can access it. …
The Cure For Access to Justice is a Just Society
Tuning in to a discussion about access to justice, we might think, mistakenly, that the big problem is how much the legal system costs. The cost of litigating a dispute is too high, it goes, and so lawyers should flatten fees, cap fees, and unbundle fees, fleeing fees like so many fleas.
Monday’s Mix - Slaw
Each Monday we present brief excerpts of recent posts from five of Canada’s award-winning legal blogs chosen at random* from more than 80 recent Clawbie winners. In this way we hope to promote their work, with their permission, to as wide an audience as possible. This week the randomly selected blogs are 1. Risk Management & Crisis Response 2. Legal Writers Collective 3. Timely Disclosure 4. Jumping off the Ivory Tower Podcast 5.
How Open is an Open Court Online?
In 2015, Shauna Hall-Coates wrote in the Dalhousie Journal of Legal Studies, Walk into any courtroom today, critics venture, and it will look stunningly similar to those of the past; the judge will be sitting behind the bench, the jury in its box, and the witness on the stand.1 As everyone settles into his or her place selected by centuries of ritual and status quo, the courtroom may even appear as a sanctuary from the trappings of digital technology, so doggedly pursued outside its walls.
Friday Jobs Roundup
Each Friday, we share the latest job listings from Slaw Jobs, which features employment opportunities from across the country. Find out more about these positions by following the links below, or learn how you can use Slaw Jobs to gain valuable exposure for your job ads, while supporting the great Canadian legal commentary at Slaw.ca.
Comments on the New CJC Guidelines on Bulk Access to Court Information
This post is a joint submission to Slaw, contributed by the following authors: Xavier Beauchamp-Tremblay, Pierre-Paul Lemyre, Sarah Sutherland, Ivan Mokanov The Canadian Judicial Council (CJC) recently released a report titled “Guidelines For Canadian Courts – Management of Requests for Bulk Access to Court Information by Commercial Entities”.
The British Invasion: Legal Services Regulation Edition
Bringing British things across the pond is a hot Canadian trend. Prince Harry and Megan Markle are now our most famous immigrants. A Canada-U.K. free trade deal has apparently become a post-Brexit priority. And the Downton Abbey movie has raked in hundreds of millions of dollars from my parents and their friends. While we’re at it, we should copy at least three aspects of legal services regulation as practiced in our erstwhile mother country.
Three New Law School Concepts
It is possible that traditional law schools will reinvent themselves structurally from the ground up and become exemplars of innovative 21st-century lawyer formation. It is also possible that I will play Polonius, the irritating giver of unwanted advice, in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s next production of Hamlet. Both these scenarios would be welcome (especially Act III, scene iv, when the advice-giver behind the curtain finally gets what’s coming to him).
We Have Lost the Self-Regulation Argument: With or Without Us, the Public is Moving On
My inbox fills up each day with messages from members of the public (NSRLP has an active public email, answered by dedicated NSRLP research assistants, but many SRLs write me directly). It is still not well understood that the vast majority of SRLs are still looking for and extremely desirous of legal help. In my 2013 study, this figure was 86%. Similar results are reported by studies in the US, England and Wales, Australia, New Zealand, and Northern Ireland.
The LawBytes Podcast, Episode 12: The Past, Present and Future of Free and Open Access to Law
Books and books by Steven Talunay https://flic.kr/p/c79wdN (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Podcasts May 21, 2019 The free and open access to law movement is devoted to providing free and open online access to legal information. This includes case law, legislation, treaties, law reform proposals and legal scholarship. This week’s Lawbytes podcast highlights perspectives on free and open access to law from Australia and Canada.
Women in LegalTech
At this year’s ILTACON (great conference, as always!), I popped by a hospitality suite to let them know my firm had just sent out a vendor brief for some consulting services. ILTACON was in full swing, and the brief had gone to a generic email address. I thought I’d make a personal visit to ensure they knew about it. The experience was, shall we say, not awesome. Five – five – vendor reps stood in the suite talking amongst themselves. No introductions. No offer of coffee. No chitchat. No handshake.
Right to be Forgotten Referred to Federal Court
The professed right to be forgotten, now placed on the global stage with The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and scrutiny by the Court of Justice on extraterritorial application, may finally get some judicial ruling on the matter in Canada.
Osgoode AI Sets Vision for Canadian Leadership
When the Government of Canada earmarked $125 million for a Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy, it was premised on the assumption that this area will be a future economic growth engine, The 2018 Budget reaffirmed this commitment, with one of the five innovation superclusters focusing on artificial intelligence-powered supply chains that would create jobs and develop research to improve standard of living.
Canadian Law School Libraries: A Legacy - and a Future?
It has been several months now since I was nudged into an early retirement and left my position as Chief Law Librarian of Osgoode Hall Law School after almost 10 years there. This has afforded me some time to look back on my career in law libraries and to consider not only my accomplishments, however they be measured and judged, but also to reflect on the goals I was unable to realize and the projects that were left unfinished.
Compliment or Sexual Harassment: Where do you Draw the Line?
Written wholly by Doug Macleod Employment and labour lawyer at MacLeod Law on First Reference Talks Despite a number of legislative initiatives that are intended to reduce and ultimately eliminate sexual harassment in society, sexual harassment continues to be a problem in Ontario’s workplaces. One of the more nuanced areas of sexual harassment law is what kind of language a male can direct towards a woman in the workplace.
Posts from May 16, 2017 on The CanLII Blog
Following is a communication from the Federation of Law Societies of Canada: CanLII is a not-for-profit corporation created by Canada’s law societies through the Federation of Law Societies of Canada. It is governed by a board of directors selected on the basis of their skill and knowledge. CanLII operates for the legal profession an open website… Read More ?“° CanLII Board Recruitment – Announcement from the Federation of Law Societies of Canada
Legal Competencies for the World We Live in
The debate between law societies and universities about the contours of law degrees has been at the forefront of discussions between law schools and law societies for the past ten years. In order to control entry into the market of new Canadian faculties of law or foreign universities offering Canadian Law degrees, the Federation of Law Societies has sought to define what is a Canadian law degree. It has defined “core” competencies.
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