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If It Wasn’t Required Before, It Is Now: All Family Lawyers Must …
WEBNov 2, 2021 · The recent amendments to the Divorce Act, RSC 1985, c 3 (2 nd Supp) and the Supreme Court of Canada decision, Colucci v Colucci, 2021 SCC 24 suggest that lawyers are required to screen for family violence to be able to competently comply with their statutory obligations. This new legal context also …
When Can You Seek Declaratory Relief? - Slaw
WEBNov 17, 2021 · In Ewert v Canada, 2018 SCC 30, the Supreme Court sets out four requirements for granting a declaration: (1) the court has jurisdiction to hear the issue; (2) the dispute is real and not theoretical; (3) the party raising the issue has a genuine interest in its resolution, and. (4) where the respondent …
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WEBLegal Information Columnists. Canadian Association of Law Libraries. Alexandra Champagne. Judith Gaskell. Melanie Hodges Neufeld. Amelia Landenberger. Alisa Lazear. Marcelo Rodriguez. Hannah Rosborough.
Canada Has a New Open Access Legal Citation Guide - Slaw
WEBJul 22, 2024 · The Canadian Open Access Legal (COAL) Citation Guide/Guide canadien de la référence juridique en accès libre (RJAL) is now available: https://canlii.ca/t/7nc6q. Over the course of two years, law librarians from across Canada worked together to create the COAL-RJAL Guide. The English version of the Guide is now freely available and hosted on CanLII (2024 CanLIIDocs 830), and the French ...
Civil Procedure and Practice in Ontario: A New, Comprehensive ... - Slaw
WEBSep 10, 2021 · Noel Semple, General Editor. The free access to law movement has made impressive strides in 30 years. It is now taken for granted that all primary law and most reasons for decision are freely available online. In Canada, CanLII has been at the forefront of this movement. Funded by Canadian lawyers, CanLII first developed a thorough and free database of statutes, regulations, and decisions.
The Cost of Becoming a Lawyer - Slaw
WEBFeb 26, 2019 · As a rough indication of the cost of law school, the following chart shows the cost of living for three years based on the after-tax LICO and three years of tuition at current rates: This chart shows a range of cost of about $110,000 to $175,000, an average cost of about $130,000 and a median cost of nearly $125,000.
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WEBSlaw is Canadian, co-operative, and about any and all things legal. Since 2005, Slaw.ca has been Canada’s online legal magazine, written by and for the Canadian law community: lawyers, librarians, technologists, marketers, students, educators and everyone in between. With perspectives from academia, law firms, non-profits, regulatory bodies and beyond, Slaw explores how law is practised, […]
What Do We Have the Right to Expect of Lawyers’ Conduct?
WEBDec 14, 2021 · Thus the LSO reserves the right to discipline lawyers “for conduct unbecoming a lawyer”, which is different from “professional misconduct” (Sections 7.8.2-3 and 7.8.2-2, respectively). The Code defines “conduct unbecoming a barrister or solicitor” as “conduct, including conduct in a lawyer’s personal or private capacity, that ...