Recent additions to our collection include books covering a range of topics, from smart contracts and blockchain law to the Colten Boushie trial.
New Canadian titles:
Canadian
Construction Contracts Guidebook by Smith.
KF 902 S65 2019 / Practice Collection, 2nd Floor.
- Meant to act as a guide for lawyers, owners, contractors, consultants
or any person involved in a construction project in Canada, The Canadian
Construction Contracts Guidebook tackles the many issues and challenges
associated with the negotiation of a construction contract. This item provides
an overview of all the major sections encountered in a typical construction and
also applies to different type of contracts such as: fixed price,
cost-reimbursable, design-build and construction management. Where applicable,
it also includes precedent language which can be used when drafting the
construction contract. This item also covers such topics as pricing models,
forms and agreements, performance of the work, payment of the work, completion
of the work and liability.
Making
Parenting Plans in Canada’s Family Justice System: Challenges, Controversies
and the Role of Mental Health Professionals
by Birnbaum & Bala. KF 547 B58 2019 / Practice Collection, 2nd
Floor.
- Focused on the major challenges in the field of parenting
assessment, Making Parenting Plans in Canada’s Family Justice System:
Challenges, Controversies and the Role of Mental Health Professionals acts as a
guide for mental health professionals and any party that works with high-conflict
separating and/or divorcing parents. This item focuses on relocation, domestic
violence, special needs children and children’s participation in family law
disputes, four substantive topics which legal and mental health practitioners
encounter most often when conducting parenting assessments. With other chapters
which speak to domestic violence, family court and the law of expert evidence,
Making Parenting Plans in Canada’s Family Justice System works to guide the
legal or mental health practitioner in conducting informed, comprehensive and
competent parenting assessments.
A
Practical Guide to Smart Contracts and Blockchain Law by Grinhaus. KF 1030 .E4 G75 2019 / Practice Collection, 2nd
Floor.
- A Practical Guide to Smart Contracts and Blockchain Law works to
provide a comprehensive overview of how such financial technologies as
Blockchain, smart contracts and distributed ledger technology fit into new and
existing legal frameworks. While exploring the trends and developments of
financial technologies, this item sheds some light on how their associated
legal issues will affect and influence such topics as: securities issues, tax considerations,
business structuring, proceeds of crime and anti-money laundering, smart
contracts, fundraising and social causes, security issues for cryptographic
assets wallets, insolvency law and risk management for lawyers. With other
chapters highlighting intellectual property, Canadian insolvency Law and the
risks lawyers face when practising in the Blockchain Space, this item works to
provide a deeper understanding of the legal landscape any legal professional
should expect to face when working with financial technologies.
A
Practical Guide to the Charter: Section 11(b) by Gold et al. KF 9223.4 G65 2019 / Practice Collection, 2nd
Floor.
- This slim but practical guide focuses on how the Supreme Court of
Canada’s 2016 decision in R v Jordan changed
the way the Charter’s section 11(b) guarantee of trial within a reasonable time
is interpreted and applied. The book alerts counsel to key post-Jordan case law
and issues, such as defence delay, over and under ceiling cases and use of Jordan at the sentencing stage. It also
includes useful appendices of rules, precedent court documents and case charts.
Public-Private
Partnerships in Canada: Law, Policy and Value for Money by Murphy. KF 849 M87 2019 / Practice Collection, 2nd
Floor.
- This text begins by surveying the history and current context for
public-private partnerships (P3s) in all Canadian jurisdictions. It then moves
on to cover the all relevant aspects of P3s, including procurement, risk
allocation financing, dispute resolution and Indigenous P3 projects.
Variations
on the Theme of Contract by Fridman. KF 801
F75 2019 / Practice Collection, 2nd Floor.
- Professor Fridman’s final work is not your standard contract law text,
but rather an engaging collection of essays structured around a musical theme.
Its “prelude” and “variations” examine key and complex aspects of contract law,
including freedom of contract, consideration, privity, estoppel,
misrepresentation, mistake, interpretation, contractual terms, performance,
frustration and unjust enrichment. Completed posthumously by Professor Rick
Bigwood.
Updated Canadian editions:
The
Annotated Real Estate and Business Brokers Act, 2002 and Regulations by Taylor. KF 2042 .R4 T39 2019/2020 / Practice Collection, 2nd
Floor.
Dispositions
Without Trial, 3rd ed., by van
Kessel and Upenieks. KF 8999 V36 2019 / Practice Collection, 2nd
Floor.
The
Law of Fraud and the Forensic Investigator,
6th ed., by Debenham. KF 9365 D43 2019 / Practice Collection, 2nd
Floor.
Oosterhoff
on Trusts, 9th ed. KF 730 O57
2019 / Practice Collection, 2nd Floor.
New U.K. and U.S. titles:
Estate
Planning for the Muslim Client by Ali &
Shaikh. (U.S.) KF 750 A45 2019 / 1st Floor.
Regulation,
Compliance and Ethics in Law Firms by
Calvert. (U.K.) KF 300 C35 2018 / 1st Floor.
The
Right to be Forgotten: Interpretation and Practice by Lambert. (U.K.) KF 1263.C6 L36 2019 / 1st Floor
Circulating books:
Canadian
Justice, Indigenous Injustice: The Gerald Stanley and Colten Boushie Case by Roach. HV 6535 .C22 S27 2019 / Circulating Collection, 2nd
Floor.
Two
Firsts: Bertha Wilson and Claire L’Heureux-Dubé at the Supreme Court of Canada by Backhouse. KF 345 .Z9 A1 B34 2019 / Circulating Collection, 2nd
Floor.
