Month: January 2017

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CanLII: New Content and Improvements

Canada’s free case law and legislation database keeps getting better.

CanLII recently announced that it has added 12,000 pre-1980 decisions from the Dominion Law Reports (DLR). This is in addition to the 4,000 pre-1980 DLR decisions that CanLII added back in September bringing the total of pre-1980 DLR decisions on CanLII to 16,000.

These weren’t the only case law additions that CanLII made this year, CanLII also expanded its Quebec case law collection to include:

  • Decisions published between 1983 and 1996 in the Recueils de droit judiciare;
  • Decisions published between 1994 and 2004 in the Répertoire électronique de jurisprudence du Barreau; and
  • Select decisions published between 1869 and 1969 in the Revue légale.

CanLII also made additions to its legislation collection adding Annual Statutes of Canada (2001 – present) and the Quebec Annual Statutes (1996 to present).

CanLII also improved its ‘Find in document’ feature allowing users to change the words in the document that they want highlighted.

You can read more about the new case law additions and technological improvements on the CanLII Blog.

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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.

  • Criminal conspiracies: organized crime in Canada – Margaret E. Beare. Call Number: HV6807 B42 2015
  • Property diversity and its implications – John Page. Call Number: K720 P34 2017
  • Managing Babel: the international legal protection of minorities in the twentieth century – Li-ann Thio. Call Number K3242 T47 2005
  • Indivisible: indigenous human rights – edited by Joyce Green. Call Number: K3247 I556
  • Contesting medical confidentiality: origins of the debate in the United States, Britain, and Germany – Andreas-Holger Maehle. Call Number: K3611 C65M34 2016
  • Leading the way: Canadian women in the law – Julie Soloway. Call Number: KE332 W6S64 2015
  • Fast track: a legal, historical and political analysis – Hal S. Shapiro. Call Number: KF6659 S53 2006
  • Stability and change in the law of the sea: the role of the LOS convention – edited by Alex G. Oude Elferink. Call Number: KZA1120.3 J19 2004
  • Bringing new law to ocean waters – edited by David D. Caron and Harry N. Scheiber. Call Number: KZA1141 B75 2004
  • The purse and the sword: the trials of Israel’s legal revolution – Daniel Friedmann; translated by Haim Watzman. Call Number: KMK2244 F7513 2016
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Reconciliation Syllabus Blog: 2016 Clawbie Runner-up

The Reconciliation Syllabus Blog, established in the summer of 2015 by  UVic Law professor Rebecca Johnson and Associate Dean Gillian Calder, was recently named runner-up for best Canadian law blog in the category of Change and Advocacy.  Writing about the Reconciliation Syllabus blog, the Clawbies noted:

‘We’d be hard-pressed to name a more important and timely conversation in Canadian legal education in 2016 than this one. This collaborative blog is “a Truth & Reconciliation Commision-inspired gathering of materials for teaching law”, where law professors and others reflect on and share concrete examples of how best to respond to TRC Call to Action #28.’

You can read more about the Reconciliation Syllabus blog and the Clawbies on UVic Law’s news and events page.

For more information about the Clawbies and the other 2016 blog winners, check out the Clawbies website.

Congratulations Professors Johnson and Calder!

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100th Anniversary of the Migratory Birds Convention Act, S.C 1994 c. 22

What do chickadees, bob-links, coots, oyster catchers, wrens, sandpipers, and auks  have in common?  These birds, backyard, shoreline, urban and wild are all protected by Canada’s Migratory Birds Convention Act, S.C. 1994 c. M-7, an act celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.  The Act protects migratory birds from killing, capturing, taking*, injuring, or molesting.

The Convention between Canada and the United States  was signed in Washington on the 16 of August 1916. It was subsequently  sanctioned, ratified and confirmed in 1917 by an Act of the Parliament of Canada.  The 1917 act was introduced as Bill 92 on June 21, 1917.  The debates at first and subsequent  readings can be read online at the Canadian Parliamentary Historical Resources website.

The Migratory Birds Convention Act has been continuously in force (with revisions) since 1917.  A pdf version of the original Act can be found in HeinOnline, S.C. 1917  c. 18 (7-8 Geo. V.  c. 18).

The current Act (including text of the original convention) and regulations can be viewed at the Canada Justice Laws website , S.C. 1994 c. M-7

The Convention and amendments can also be viewed online at the Canada Treaty Series website; search the Bilateral section.

For a complete listing of protected birds and reference to provincial legislation, see  the Environment Canada website, Legal Protection for Migratory Birds in Canada.  

Planning Ahead to Reduce the Risk of Detrimental Effects to Migratory Birds, and their nest and Eggs.

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*see Article II, section 1 and 3 of the Convention for exceptions for taking for food.