Month: February 2016

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New Titles in the Law Library – Criminal Law and Evidence

Watch this space regularly for updates of new print and electronic titles received in or for the law library. We’ll supply the author, title, and call number information, as well as a link to the catalogue record where you can find out more about each title. This update includes titles on criminal law and evidence:

  • 24(2) : exclusion of evidence under the Charter – Nick Kaschuk. KE8440 K38 2014
  • Competencies of trial : fitness to plead in New Zealand – Warren Brookbanks ; with a chapter on unfitness to plead in the United Kingdom by Ronnie Mackay. KUQ3880 B76 2011
  • Corporate criminal liability – Amanda Pinto and Martin Evans. KD7892.5 P56 2013
  • Defending battered women on trial : lessons from the transcripts – Elizabeth A. Sheehy. KE8925.5 S54
  • Impaired driving in Canada : the Charter cases – Joseph F. Kenkel. KE2114 K463 2014
  • Principles of criminal law – Jonathan Burchell. KTL3800 B87 2013
  • Law of evidence in Canada – Sidney N. Lederman, Alan W. Bryant, Michelle K. Fuerst. KE8440 B79 2014
  • Research handbook on the economics of criminal law – edited by Alon Harel, Keith N. Hylton. HV6768 R47 2013
  • Evidence matters : science, proof, and truth in the law – Susan Haack. ELECTRONIC
  • Judicial assessment of expert evidence – Deìirdre Dwyer. ELECTRONIC
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New Titles in the Law Library

Watch this space regularly for updates of new print and electronic titles received in or for the law library. We’ll supply the author, title, and call number information, as well as a link to the catalogue record where you can find out more about each title.

  • Copyright and related rights in the “cloud” environment: proceedings of the ALAI Congress, 16-18 October, 2012 – Editors, ALAI Japan ; translation, Jean-Pierre Toutain, Catherine Ungar, ATTIC Traductions, Nice. Law Library (Circulating) K1401 A6A43 2012
  • Character in the criminal trial – Mike Redmayne. Law Library (Circulating) KD8371 R43 2015
  • Irish stage: a legal history – W.N. Osborough. Law Library (Circulating) KDK1090 O83 2015
  • Thirty years’ war: the failed public/private partnership that spurred the creation of the Toronto Transit Commission, 1891-1921 – C. Ian Kyer. Law Library (Circulating) KE237 T67K94 2015
  • Trade marks and free trade: a global analysis – Lazaros G. Grigoriadis. Law Library (Circulating) K1555 G75 2014 E-book
  • Local government: a British Columbia legal handbook – William A. Buholzer. Law Library (Circulating) KEB478 B82 2013
  • British Columbia civil trial handbook – Editor C.P. Behie. Law Library (Circulating) KEB549 B73 2015
  • Expert evidence in British Columbia civil proceedings – editorial board, Garth McAlister, Brian Samuels, Thomas Woods and Laura Selby. Law Library (Circulating) KEB560 E8E95 2015
  • Law, life, and government at Red River – Dale Gibson. Law Library (Circulating) KEM165 G528 2015
  • “Honorary Protestants”: the Jewish school question in Montreal, 1867-1997 – David Fraser. Law Library (Circulating) KEQ923 F73 2015

 

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Baby Blue – the birth of an open access legal citation standard

Canadian legal researchers disenchanted with the McGill Guide will note with interest the publication of a rival to Harvard’s Bluebook:

Sprigman et anon. al. Baby Blue’s Manual of Legal Citation (Public.Resource.Org, 2016).

For the background, which includes not only the question of whether a citation system can be copyrighted under US law, but also an investigation into the facts of the Bluebook’s origins, see

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Drop-in WestlawNext Canada Training

Today Allan Akizuki, Regional Training Supervisor & Solutions Specialist with Carswell will demonstrate WestlawNext Canada research techniques in the law library computer classroom. He will offer two drop-in sessions:

12:30 – 1:15: International Content on WestlawNext Canada.

  • Finding Case Law from the UK, US and other jurisdictions
  • Using KeyCite for US judgments and noting up in other jurisdictions
  • Overview of Secondary Sources including American Jurisprudence 2nd, Causes of Action and more

1:30 – 2:30: Understanding billing and cost-recovery with WestlawNext Canada in Law Firms.

  • Understanding Included, Excluded & Blocked Content
  • Identifying Transactions and what triggers them
  • Review of Notional Billing Charges
  • “Cost-Effective” research concepts
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New Titles in the Law Library

Watch this space for regular updates of new print and electronic titles received for the library. We’ll supply the author, title, and call number information, as well as a link to the catalogue record where you can find out more about each title. Once again, this week’s list includes a number of titles that arrived over the last several weeks.

  • Ecolawgic: The Logic of Ecosystems and the Rule of Law by Bruce Pardy Law Library (Circulating) K330 P37 2015
  • The Anatomy of Tort Law by Peter Cane Law Library (Circulating) KD1949 C36 1997
  • Introduction to Canadian Insurance Law – Craig Brown, Andrew Mercer Law Library (Circulating) KE1149 B77 2013
  • The Law of Investigative Detention by Alec Fiszauf. Law Library (Circulating) KE9265 F57 2013
  • Authorities: Conflicts, Cooperation, and Transnational Legal Theory by Nicole Roughman. Electronic
  • The Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf: Law and Legitimacy – Dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) at the University of Oslo by Øystein Jensen. Law Library (Circulating) KZA1660 J46 2013