Category: Featured Resource

Posts about featured legal resources, mainly as catalogued in the library collection, including our databases.

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Featured resource: CLE Online

CLE online logos
Law students – have you tried out CLE Online yet? If not, you are missing out on a highly practical and BC focused resource for your future lawyering!

The Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia’s online platform provides access to:

    • Online practice manuals covering practical topics specific to BC laws and practice
    • Courses on demand, conference papers, and associated materials on timely and current topics
    • Case digests for short summaries of notable BC cases organized by practice area
    • Advocacy toolkit offering short videos and materials on how to do examinations, submissions and other oral advocacy topics

This handy platform allows you to browse by material type or use advanced search operators across the entire platform.

Contact us at lawref@uvic.ca for access or additional information.

See available practice manuals here:

CLE Online Practice manuals

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New – Annotated legislation on Quicklaw

Annotated acts provide section by section commentary and are a great way to get a feel for the intent of a legislative provision, and to see how it has been considered by the courts.

Lexis Advance Quicklaw has launched a new annotated legislation feature. This is organized by jurisdiction and includes expert commentary, annotations, and explanatory notes for selected acts.

annotated legislation on Quicklaw

You may find other annotated acts in our collection through the library catalogue and our key legal treatises and textbooks guide. For legislation without an annotated act you may achieve similar results by noting up a section of legislation in Quicklaw, Westlaw, or CanLII.

For assistance contact us at lawref@uvic.ca.

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Stay up to date with the Lawyer’s Daily

Ever feel like you’re missing out on key Canadian legal news? Well, the UVic Law Library has a subscription to Lawyer’s Daily, which provides legal news, analysis and current awareness.

The lawyer's daily

You may already be familiar with Lawyer’s Daily, as a limited number of articles (limited to the current day’s articles) are available on Lexis Avance Quicklaw.

In addition to accessing all Lawyer’s Daily articles, faculty and students can also subscribe to practice area  newsletters and receive a daily update on relevant legal news.

This resource is restricted to Faculty of Law students and faculty only. To set up an account, please email lawref@uvic.ca

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New Manual to British Columbia Civil Litigation available on CanLII

Front cover of Manual to BC Civil Litigation, white text on red background, image of a forest
The CanLII Manual to British Columbia Civil Litigation is now available on CanLII.  It is a free and open resource on civil litigation in BC.  This is an excellent resource for law students, lawyers, legal professionals, and self-represented litigants.  The fact that it is openly accessible is a wonderful promotion of access to justice.
The Manual is comprised of three main parts:  the “Areas of Law Pathfinders”, which provides collections of resources on different areas of law; the “Guide to Civil Procedure at the Supreme Court of British Columbia” by the Courts Law Centre; and “Annotated BC Supreme Court Civil Rules and Court of Appeal Rules”.
See this post for a more detailed description of the Manual, and for a full list of the editors, authors, and contributors to the Manual: https://blog.canlii.org/2020/12/03/announcing-the-canlii-manual-to-british-columbia-civil-litigation-%f0%9f%8f%94%ef%b8%8f/
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New updates to CanLII

CanLII logoCanLII is an excellent resource for freely accessible legislation and case law in Canada, as well as for secondary sources such as ebooks, law journal articles, and case comments.  CanLII has recently updated and added new features to enhance the user experience.
The key updates include:
·      Noting up has been improved! In addition to “blue jalapeños” symbols (which show which cases have the most discussion on the noted-up case), unfavourable mentions are now marked with a yellow jalapeño.
Screenshot of CanLII search of Delgamuukw case, showing yellow jalopeno unfavourable mentions.
·      Improvements in case history, where related cases, meaning those with “affirmed”, “reversed” or “varied” in the headnotes or footnotes are now added to the History tab.
·      There is now also more accurate hyperlinking to legislation mentioned in judgments.
·      Heatmaps are available for case law and now for legislation.  In the sidebar of a case or legislation, various shades of blue will show the sections that are most frequently cited.  The darkest blue corresponds to the most cited sections. Hovering over the colours in the sidebar will show a preview of the section, and the number of times it has been cited.
Screenshot of Delgamuukw case showing heatmap on sidebar
You can read the detailed blog post from CanLII on these newest updates and improvements: https://blog.canlii.org/2020/11/17/a-new-wave-of-improvements-on-canlii-%f0%9f%8c%8a/
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Access more in Quicklaw!

Missing some of your favorite titles while you’re working/studying from home?

Red lexisnexis logoThe law library is pleased to share that we now have access to over 150 full-text textbooks and loose-leaf through Lexis Advance Quicklaw Academic Plus.

In addition to a number of key Canadian legal treatises, you will also find new forms and precedents, Canada Quantums, Halsbury’s Law of England, and other international primary law materials.

Access content through your account in LexisAdvance Quicklaw – either by searching for the title or by browsing by Practice Area or Content Type > Commentary & Textbooks.

Researchers can browse by chapter or section using detailed table of contents or keyword searches can be conducted. Case law references are linked to the full text of the decisions.

Screenshot of Quicklaw homepage and where to find Commentary and textbooks

Links to key Canadian legal treatises are also available through our Key Legal Treatise and Textbook Guide.

New! – Non-law students and faculty may now access this content with their netlink ID in LexisAdvance Quicklaw Plus.

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New Open Access Resource: Caselaw Access Project

 

A new open access resource is available.  The Caselaw Access Project (CAP) is an initiative of Harvard Law Library to make US case law freely available online.

CAP has digitized all official book-published United States case law.  This includes state courts, federal courts, and territorial courts for American Samoa, Dakota Territory, Guam, Native American Courts, Navajo Nation and the Northern Mariana Islands.  Coverage runs from 1658-2018.

Bulk data downloads and API is available for accessing metadata, full-text search, and individual cases.

CAP can be accessed by going to the ‘Refined Database List’ on the Law Library homepage, selecting ‘United States Law’, and then clicking on ‘Caselaw Access Project’.

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New Resource: Lawyer’s Daily now available to law students and faculty

The UVic Law Library now has a subscription to Lawyer’s Daily, which provides legal news, analysis and current awareness.   You may be familiar with Lawyer’s Daily, as a limited number of articles (limited to the current day’s articles) are available on Lexis Avance Quicklaw.

In addition to accessing all Lawyer’s Daily articles, Faculty and students can also subscribe to practice area  newsletters and receive a daily update on relevant legal news.

This resource is restricted to Faculty of Law students and faculty only. To set up an account, please email lawref@uvic.ca

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New Resource: ElgarOnline

Over 1,000 Edward Elgar publications are now available to UVic students and faculty on the ElgarOnline platform.  ElgarOnline includes  journals, ebooks, and research guides from a variety of subject areas including  law, business, politics and public policy, and economics.  Below is a small selection of the available ebooks:

All ebooks are discoverable in the Libraries’ catalogue and Summon.  You can also browse the full collection here : ElgarOnline

Additional ebooks will be added over the next year , so make sure to check back again!