Author Archives: Shaunna Mireau
Open Access Journals
There is good leagal content that doesn’t necessarily come in the neat packages that we usually look in. Though our commercial legal database subscriptions have linked, vetted, edited, and easily …
Seeing New Federal Legislation
Today’s Tip is a simple reminder to view by “latest activity date”.
The Parliament is back in session and those Slaw Tips readers for whom monitoring legislation is a regular …
Dig Deep
Today’s Tip: Dig Deep
By deep, I mean the deep or invisible web. According to Marcus Zillman, there are somewhere in the vicinity of 1 trillion plus pages of …
Orphan Results
Susan Van Dyke wrote at Slaw on How to Avoid Resource-Draining One-Off Marketing Activities. She inspired this post with one of her ideas:
- Review your current orphans and if
Look Far as Well as Near
Today’s Tip”: Look far afield.
When looking for articles from a medical journal I was reminded about the excellent service offered by the National Library of Australia. Their coordinates are:…
Phrase Searching for the Quick First Look
Most search engines have the capacity for searching a phrase: internet engines, ebook search tools, services like Westlaw Canada, LexisNexis Quicklaw, Maritime Law Books National Reporter System, CCH Online, and …
Use Your Calendar
Thanks to Simon Chester among others, we know that the Supreme Court of Canada intends to release it’s judgment in the National Securities Regulator Reference on December 22 at 9:45 …
New Laws, Compliance, and Alerts
Sometimes new law requires very broad compliance. It might be easy to dismiss an act like the one proclaimed in force on December 8, 2011 titled “An Act respecting the …
Consideration of a Statute
Following on last week’s theme, Today’s Tip is about judicial consideration of statutes.
CanLII: Navigate to the act that you are interested in and click the Noteup Tab. This …
Consideration of a Case
Today’s Tip idea comes from Corey McDonald, Paralegal with Justice Canada in Edmonton.
Cory mentioned yesterday that it would be helpful to know the different steps for doing the same …
