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Launch of InfoLocate, a New Search and Discovery Tool
The Great Library is very pleased to announce the launch of a new search and discovery tool, InfoLocate. You can now access the Great Library’s website content, its print and electronic materials, and the Law Society’s CPD articles from a single search point. This user-centred discovery platform will enable us to add more services in the future. Please enjoy using InfoLocate, and let us know what you like and how we can make it even better.
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Notice to catalogue users: AdvoCAT Library Catalogue is temporarily unavailable. Please use InfoLocate to access up-to-date information about library holdings.HeinOnline Now Free for Law Society Members
Login information for this free member service provided by the Great Library has changed as of November 1, 2011. Please e-mail us to get your new user-name and password.
Free desktop access to a core collection of HeinOnline's electronic content is now available to all Law Society members. This valuable research resource includes a broad collection of law journals, as well as U.S. legislative materials, treaties and selected historic legal texts.
Contact the Great Library by e-mail to receive your user name and password. Please note that user names and passwords will expire approximately every 3 months. You will then need to e-mail the Great Library for updated access information.
To access this service, go to the HeinOnline website and log in.
The Law Society of Upper Canada Member Subscription content includes:
- Law Journal Library
- Federal Register
- Code of Federal Regulations
- US Supreme Court Library
- US Attorney General Opinions
- Treaties and Agreements Library
- US Statutes at Large
- US Federal Legislative History Library
- US Presidential Library
- English Reports, Full Reprint (1220-1865)
- European Center for Minority Issues
- Legal Classics Library
- U.S. Code
- American Association of Law Libraries
- Association of American Law Schools
Justice Laws Web Site Consolidated Acts and Regulations Now Official
The following notice is now on the Justice Laws Web Site:
"As of June 1, 2009, all consolidated Acts and regulations are 'official', meaning that they can be used for evidentiary purposes. This is the result of the coming into force on that date of amendments made to the Statute Revision Act, which has been renamed the Legislation Revision and Consolidation Act. See the relevant provisions of that Act, click here."
Law Society of Upper Canada CLE program articles are now at your fingertips! We're pleased to announce that the Law Society of Upper Canada's AccessCLE full-text database is live!
Ever needed a CLE article in a hurry? Use AccessCLE to search across hundreds of CLE articles produced by the Law Society from 2004 to date and purchase just the article you need, 24 hours a day. Each article is indexed so that you can browse by practice area and date. All articles are full-text searchable and an advanced search enables you to search by author, words in the CLE program title, and the program date. Unlike the print article, recent digital articles are enhanced with direct links to CanLII cases cited in the materials, making it easier to follow up on a legal topic.
Once you've found an article, you can preview the first few pages and purchase it online. The articles are available in PDF and will remain on your digital bookshelf, although you can download and print them like any other PDF.
AccessCLE is a collaboration between the Law Society's program delivery group and the Great Library, where library staff created the database and added metadata and links to enhance the already rich CLE materials. We hope you'll find this a valuable resource.
e-Laws an Official Source of Law
As of November 30, 2008, the e-Laws legislation website is recognized as an official source of law in the province of Ontario. For more information see the Ministry of the Attorney General's news release dated December 1, 2008.
Wrongful Dismissal Database
The Wrongful Dismissal Database by Barry Fisher and Patrick Benaroche is now accessible on Great Library workstations. This subscription database from Thomson/Carswell allows researchers to determine "reasonable notice" periods by matching factors such as age, occupation and years of services and to generate a report of the results.
Halsbury's Laws of Canada
An impressive new legal research resource is now available to Canadian lawyers with the publication of Halsbury's Laws of Canada. The encyclopedia, published by LexisNexis, covers federal and provincial law. Volumes released so far are:
- Access to Information and Privacy
- Administrative Law
- Agriculture / Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Athletics / Aviation and Space
- Business Corporations I
- Business Corporations II
- Cemeteries and Interment / Charities, Associations and Not-for-Profit Organizations
- Civil Procedure I
- Civil Procedure II
- Commercial law I
- Commercial law II
- Communications
- Condominiums / Constitutional Law: Division of Powers
- Conflict of Laws
- Construction
- Contracts
- Criminal Offences and Defences
- Criminal Procedure
- Debtor and Creditor
- Defamation
- Discrimination and Human Rights
- Employment
- Environment
- Family
- Firearms, Weapons and Explosives / Fires
- Food / Gifts
- Guarantee and Indemnity
- Holidays / Hospitality / Hunting and Fishing
- Immigration and Citizenship
- Income Tax (Corporate)
- Income Tax (General)
- Income Tax (International)
- Infants and Children
- Inquests, Coroners and Medical Examiners / Interim Preservation of Property Rights
- Insurance
- Judges and Courts
- Legal Profession
- Legislatures / Misrepresentation and Fraud / Missing Persons and Absentees
- Media and Postal Communications / Medicine and Health
- Negligence
- Occupations and Trades / Pensions
- Oil and Gas / Partnerships
- Patents, Trade Secrets and Industrial Designs
- Penitentiaries, Jails and Prisoners
- Personal Property and Secured Transactions
- Planning and Zoning
- Police, Security and Emergencies
- Religious Institutions / Roads, Highways and Bridges
- Securities
- Social Assistance
- Taxation (Goods and Services)
- Torts
- Trade-marks, Passing Off and Unfair Competition
- Vital Statistics / Wildlife, Livestock and Pets
- Wills and Estates
- Workplace Health and Safety / Youth Justice
The set will eventually comprise 57 volumes. Halsbury's Laws is shelved in the Digests Room, off the Main Reading Room in the Great Library.
The Ontario Civil Litigation Resource Centre: Organized Legal Information for Ontario Civil Litigators
This online service is now available on Great Library workstations. Many samples of pleadings are included as well as sections such as costs, advocacy, civil procedure and wrongful dismissal. There is also an expert witness directory and personal injury damages tables.
Postjudgment and Prejudgment Interest Rates
Postjudgment and prejudgment interest rates as published on the Ministry of the Attorney General's website on December 2, 2011 pursuant to O. Reg. 339/07 (includes rates up to and including 1st quarter of 2012) are set out below.
Please note that previous versions of this table published after October 1, 2007 are archived on the Ministry site. Prior to October 1, 2007, postjudgment and prejudgment interest rates were published in the Ontario Gazette. The Ontario Gazette is available online from ServiceOntario Publications.
- Postjudgment interest rates (and prejudgment interest rates for causes of action arising on or before October 23, 1989) are as follows:
| Year | 1st Quarter | 2nd Quarter | 3rd Quarter | 4th Quarter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 12% | 13% | 11% | 11% |
| 1986 | 11% | 13% | 10% | 10% |
| 1987 | 10% | 9% | 10% | 11% |
| 1988 | 10% | 10% | 11% | 12% |
| 1989 | 13% | 13% | 14% | 14% |
| 1990 | 14% | 15% | 15% | 14% |
| 1991 | 14% | 11% | 11% | 10% |
| 1992 | 9% | 9% | 8% | 7% |
| 1993 | 10% | 8% | 7% | 6% |
| 1994 | 6% | 6% | 8% | 7% |
| 1995 | 8% | 10% | 9% | 8% |
| 1996 | 8% | 7% | 6% | 6% |
| 1997 | 5% | 5% | 5% | 5% |
| 1998 | 5% | 6% | 6% | 7% |
| 1999 | 7% | 7% | 6% | 6% |
| 2000 | 6% | 7% | 7% | 7% |
| 2001 | 7% | 7% | 6% | 6% |
| 2002 | 4% | 4% | 4% | 4% |
| 2003 | 4% | 4% | 5% | 5% |
| 2004 | 4% | 4% | 4% | 4% |
| 2005 | 4% | 4% | 4% | 4% |
| 2006 | 5% | 5% | 6% | 6% |
| 2007 | 6% | 6% | 6% | 6% |
| 2008 | 6% | 6% | 5% | 5% |
| 2009 | 4% | 3% | 2% | 2% |
| 2010 | 2% | 2% | 2% | 2% |
| 2011 | 3% | 3% | 3% | 3% |
| 2012 | 3% |
- Prejudgment interest rates for causes of action arising after October 23, 1989 are as follows:
| Year | 1st Quarter | 2nd Quarter | 3rd Quarter | 4th Quarter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 12.4% | |||
| 1990 | 12.5% | 13.5% | 13.9% | 12.9% |
| 1991 | 12.3% | 10% | 9.1% | 8.8% |
| 1992 | 7.7% | 7.5% | 6.3% | 5.1% |
| 1993 | 8.3% | 6.1% | 5.1% | 5.0% |
| 1994 | 4.3% | 4.1% | 6.6% | 5.6% |
| 1995 | 6.0% | 8.0% | 7.6% | 6.6% |
| 1996 | 6.1% | 5.6% | 5.0% | 4.3% |
| 1997 | 3.3% | 3.3% | 3.3% | 3.5% |
| 1998 | 4.0% | 5.0% | 5.0% | 6.0% |
| 1999 | 5.3% | 5.3% | 4.8% | 4.8% |
| 2000 | 5.0% | 5.3% | 6.0% | 6.0% |
| 2001 | 6% | 5.8% | 4.8% | 4.3% |
| 2002 | 2.5% | 2.3% | 2.5% | 3.0% |
| 2003 | 3.0% | 3.0% | 3.5% | 3.3% |
| 2004 | 3.0% | 2.8% | 2.3% | 2.3% |
| 2005 | 2.8% | 2.8% | 2.8% | 2.8% |
| 2006 | 3.3% | 3.8% | 4.5% | 4.5% |
| 2007 | 4.5% | 4.5% | 4.5% | 4.8% |
| 2008 | 4.8% | 4.3% | 3.3% | 3.3% |
| 2009 | 2.5% | 1.3% | 0.5% | 0.5% |
| 2010 | 0.5% | 0.5% | 0.8% | 1% |
| 2011 | 1.3% | 1.3% | 1.3% | 1.3% |
| 2012 | 1.3% |
Just Received
Getting Costs in the New World of Proportionality
This recent CLE program, held by the Ontario Bar Association on November 7, 2011, was designed for all lawyers practising in civil and commercial litigation and focused on the current costs system and and how it is being impacted by the new proportionality rule. The materials include the following informative papers and presentations:
- Entitlement to Costs
- Advocating Costs: Bills of Costs and Costs Outlines
- How to Obtain Costs on Motions: Interpreting the Courts of Justice Act and the Rules of Civil Procedure [presentation slides]
- Costs in Simplified Procedure
- Costs at Trial or Summary Trial
- Costs in Small Claims Court
- The ABC's of Costs in Family Law
Getting Costs in the New World of Proportionality (Toronto: Ontario Bar Association, Continuing Legal Education, 2011). 1 v. (various pagings). This publication is available in the first floor library stacks (Call no. KF 8995 .A75 O583 2011). Library record
Notable Legal Website
Dalhousie Health Law Institute End of Life Project
The website of the Dalhousie University Health Law Institute End of Life Project serves as an information source for the public, healthcare providers, the media, and policy decision-makers about end of life law and policy in Canada and around the world. There is information about advance directives, palliative interventions, and the withholding and withdrawal of potentially life-sustaining treatment. There are explanations of the law on various aspects of end of life care, answers to frequently asked questions, an online library, reports on research conducted by the project team, a glossary, and links to related sites with other useful information. On an ongoing basis, the Health Law Institute strives to keep the End of Life Project website accurate and up to date.
http://as01.ucis.dal.ca/dhli/cmp_welcome/default.cfm
Review date: November 24, 2011
Related Resources
To view reviews of notable legal websites written by library staff from January 1999 to date organized under Library of Congress subject headings, see Notable Legal Websites.
