Month: January 2018

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Hon. Tommy Banks and the Statutes Repeal Act

Hon. Tommy Banks, Liberal Senator from 2000 to 2011, Alberta,  was responsible for the Statutes Repeal Act, SC 2008 c. 20 .  The act stipulates that the Minister of Justice will table in Parliament, annually, a  listing of Acts and provisions of Acts that have not been brought into force within at least nine years of their enactment. These reports have been tabled since 2011 and are available on the Justice Laws Website

Over the course of seven years and five sittings of Parliament,  Banks   introduced and re-introduced the legislation that would finally pass in 2008. The bills  were reviewed by the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs. The history of the final and earlier bills can be found on LegisInfo.

Hon. Tommy Banks, jazz musician and piano player, died in Edmonton on January 24, 2018.

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Research from Professor Kathryn Chan Mentioned in SCC Hearing

UVic Law Professor Kathryn Chan‘s work was mentioned several times during the oral argument on the Law Society of British Columbia v. Trinity Western University, et al. delivered at the Supreme Court of Canada last month. Listen to the webcast of the hearing at the 2 hour and 2 minutes mark where her article “Identifying the Institutional Religious Freedom Claimant” was mentioned.

Her article is openly available on UVicSpace and can be accessed here: https://dspace.library.uvic.ca//handle/1828/8841.

See our previous post for links to the SCC case summary, factums, and archived webcast: https://onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/hearsay/2017/11/30/trinity-western-university-et-al-v-law-society-of-upper-canada-webcast/

Check out some of Kathryn Chan’s other publications available through the UVic Libraries Collection:

Books, Chapters, Monographs

Journal Articles

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Carswell Looseleafs now Available Online

Over 75 of the Carswell looseleaf titles available in print at the UVic Law Library are now available online through Carswell’s eBook platform ProView. Below are just a few of the titles that UVic Faculty and Students can now access online:

  • Peter Hogg, Constitutional Law of Canada, 5th ed
  • Robert G Owen, British Columbia Corporation Manual, 2nd ed
  • Kent W. Roach, Constitutional Remedies in Canada, 2nd ed
  • Roger E. Salhany, Canadian Criminal Procedure, 6th ed
  • Jack Woodward, Native Law

You can access this fully searchable database through the Library Refined Databases list under Books and Articles > eReference on Proview or directly here: eReference on ProView. 

With ProView you can:

  • Link to full-text cases in WestlawNext Canada
  • Create a PDF that you can save, print, and share
  • Search by more that one term, within the Table of Contents, or jump to specific sections of the title directly from the Table of Contents
  • Customize your display with choice of fonts, text sizes, colour scheme, and line spacing

More loose-leaf titles will be added to this database over time, so make sure to check back again!

For questions on how to use this resource please contact us at lawref@uvic.ca or visit us at the Research Help Desk.

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Legal Research and Citation Refreshers – Jan 15th and 22nd

Welcome back everyone!

Voyager, CED, Abridgment, Halsbury’s—sound vaguely familiar but could be Dr. Who characters as easily as Canadian legal research tools?

Then try to make it to one of our noon hour legal research refreshers, presented by the law librarians in the Law Library computer lab. During the second session we will covering legal citation. No preregistration required.

  • Monday, January 15,  12:00 – 1:00 (emphasis research strategies and materials with Kim Nayyer and Alisa Lazear)
  • Monday, January 22, 12:00 – 1:00 (emphasis on legal citation with Caron Rollins)

The law library also has legal research and writing guide: https://libguides.uvic.ca/lrw that you may find helpful as you are working on your open memo assignment. There you can find a research strategy overview, links to sample research plans and journals, and primary and secondary legal research starting points.

If you have any questions … remember, we’re here to help you. Ask us!

Regards,

Kim Nayyer, Caron Rollins , Alex Burdett & Alisa Lazear

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We’re Hiring Law Students!

The Law Library is hiring students for the spring semester! Our Law Library Information Assistant position is open to all law students who are eligible for Student Awards and Financial Aid (SAFA) work study positions. Check your eligibility.

This is great opportunity to earn extra $ on campus, with flexible hours. As an extra bonus you can learn a little more about our resources and activities, working on projects with the law librarians.

And take a moment to read from a past co-op student about what it’s like to work in the law library.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

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Professor Val Napoleon on Activism, Indigenous Law & Disrupting Things

UVic Law professor, grandmother, painter, and activist, Val Napoleon was featured in the Globe and Mail earlier this week. The article,  “Indigenous scholar Val Napoleon embraces disruption” goes into her life experience and involvement in Indigenous legal issues.

Napoleon has made numerous contributions to the development of Indigenous law in Canada such as establishing the Indigenous Law Research Unit and supporting Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en in their indigenous land claim that resulted in the  landmark Supreme Court of Canada case Delgamuukw v British Columbia, [1997] 3 SCR 1010. Just last September, she was named to the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.

Check out the full Globe and Mail article here for more!

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on the Verge Student Writing Contest

 

UVic’s on the VERGE Student Writing Contest is officially underway. A  joint initiative of the UVic Libraries and Equity and Human Rights, on the VERGE is a reformulation of the 10-year running Diversity Writing Awards exploring an annual theme under the broad rubric of equity, diversity and human rights.

on the VERGE Student Writing Contest: UVic students may submit their written work relating to this years theme ‘home‘ in one of three categories:

  • Poetry (150 lines maximum)
  • Fiction (1,500 words maximum)
  • Non-Fiction (1,500 words maximum)
  • Spoken Word (3 minute maximum)

In addition to cash prizes for first and second place (in each category), winners also receive an invitation to a writer’s workshop with this year’s celebrity author and judge Adèle Barclay and public recognition of their award-winning entries at IdeaFest on March 8, 2018.

Submissions are open until February 1, 2018.

For more information about the contest and past winning entries, including winning entries from UVic law students, visit on the Verge Writing Contest.