Law Society of Upper Canada - Great Library page
A fantastic web site for legal research, and also for incidental bits of
practical information. In addition to the previously available union
catalogue of all court house libraries in the system (Advocat), this site now
provides some new legal research tools. One is a current awareness service,
consisting of recent case law digests written by 2 LSUC staff lawyers, and
then archived in a collection. Another new development under the heading of
Legal Research is the feature "Legal Periodicals Online", which gives a list
of what’s available for free online, complete with links. A third new item of
interest is a column called Reference Desk, which details some of the weird
and wonderful queries received by the library staff. But best of all,
see the pre and post-judgment interest rates, right there on the screen - no
clicking anywhere, and no more paging through the Ontario Gazette, the OR’s,
the Rules of Civil Procedure or the other print sources for this bit of
information. And the rates for the last 15 years are only one click away. The
Great Library has now added an e-reference service, so this remains a site to
keep an eye on. http://library.lsuc.on.ca/GL/home.htm
Legal
Scholarship Network
Billing itself as “the premier
scholarly legal network on the Internet,” LSN is part of the Social Sciences
Research Network. Abstracts and
full-text articles can be easily searched for and found and then downloaded
in PDF format.
www.ssrn.com/lsn/index.htm
Megadox
We don’t usually highlight commercial
websites, but this one comes recommended by one of our members as an
efficient and reliable Canadian source of forms and precedents from
Canada, the USA, the United Kingdom,
Australia and New Zealand.
Interestingly, Canadian Legal
Forms have their own category under the general heading of Legal
Forms, right between Boilerplate Agreement Clauses and Commercial Real Estate
Forms. Most forms can be had for about 25.00, and the site also includes a
set of free downloadable boilerplate
clauses in MS Word format, not specific to any country or region.
http://www.megadox.com/
Legal Periodicals Online
--Great Library, LSUC
As described on the site itself, this page provides
annotated lists of law journals and other legal periodicals available on the
Internet. The lists include periodicals that have full text online and those
that only provide abstracts or tables of contents but are available in print
in the Great Library's periodical collection. Especially helpful is the
Alphabetical Listing of All Journals and Periodicals.
You can also search the tables of contents from more than 750 law
reviews and scholarly legal publications. http://library.lsuc.on.ca/GL/research_periodicals.htm
Ontario Civil
Litigation Resource Centre
Designed to be very user-friendly, the Litigation Resource Centre has been
developed and is maintained by our own Middlesex lawyers Ken Peacocke and
Stephanie Gower. There are no arcane search strategies or symbols to
remember, just point and click on the information you want. This service
provides an easily accessible collection of memoranda, facta, tables and
pleading precedents, especially in the area of Ontario civil litigation.
Although there is a moderate annual subscription fee, a great deal of
information is available free of charge, for example directories of legal
agents, experts, mediators and others. You
can also purchase individual memos on a variety of topics.
www.litigationresource.com
PracticePro Limitations
Online Companion
For those of you who are fans of the Butterworths
limitations manuals, LPIC offers a helpful online companion.
The site provides a good review of the new legislation, including an
article by Graeme Mew, as well as a printer friendly version Transition Rules
Chart. There is also a chart of
Notice Periods for Commonly Encountered Actions in Ontario.
www.practicePRO.ca/practice/limitation.asp
