New Books – Spring 2024

Here’s a selection of new and noteworthy additions to our print collection over the last few months:

Skillful witness examinations in civil and arbitration cases : discoveries, directs and cross-examinations / Robert S. Harrison, Richard B. Swan
2nd Floor, Practice Collection; KF 8950 H37 2023

The authors’ approach to conveying effective examination techniques is built upon a richly developed illustrative commercial dispute, which will ensure that these techniques are concretely demonstrated through references to a meaningful set of facts. Some twenty-four carefully drawn transcript excerpts are interspersed throughout the text to illustrate the practical application of effective examination techniques, all based on the case example.

A few selections from the detailed table of contents indicate the range of this work:

• A “Golden Rule” – Be Ready to Question off the Last Answer
• “Time Bombs”
• The Feckless Word “Recall”
• The Improper Leading Question Is Asked and the Damage Is Done – Now What?
• Three Foundational Concepts – Credibility, Control, and Confrontation
• Climbing the Rungs to an Admission or an Incredible Denial
• Tools of the Trade
• You Are Cross-Examining the Affiant, not the Affidavit
• The Basis of Control: Cementing the Expert In

Canadian Insurance Defence / Joshua J.A. Henderson
2^nd Floor, Practice Collection; KF 1164 H46 2024

Canadian Insurance Defence is an everyday resource that helps answer practical questions about the practice of insurance law and personal injury claims. It covers all aspects of insurance defence that a practicing lawyer may come across. The book takes readers through the step-by-step process of defending an insurance matter, starting from the common claims to which an insurance defence practitioner may be asked to respond, through to costs and appeals.

Chapters on determining liability, types of damages, procedural issues to consider, and coverage, along with thousands of cases from across Canada and the United States, and it contains articles written by leading personal injury and insurance defence practitioners.

More than 30 types of claims are covered, with each topic containing a recitation of the leading case laws to provide a broad overview of the law. Some sections include tactical considerations for properly prosecuting or defending an action.

This publication also features helpful appendices relating to personal injury actions. It includes an extensive list of standard undertakings in a personal injury action, as well as a template of examination for discovery, consisting of more than 350 generic questions that may be tailored to suit most personal injury actions.

The digital estate / Leigh Sagar and Jack Burroughs
1st Floor, Stacks; KF 706 S24 2022

New to the 2^nd edition: three new chapters on distributed ledger technology, decentralized digital assets and decentralized finance and new sections analyzing the application of property law to crypto assets, examining the personal tax consequences of cryptocurrency and DeFi transactions, and considering the situs of crypto assets

Coverage of the considerable body of new case law and official reports that have emerged since the first edition. Recent legislative changes are also included such as the General Data Protection Regulation and Data Protection Act 2018; Wills Act 1837 (Electronic Communications) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Order 2020/952 and the Trade Secrets (Enforcement, etc.) Regulations 2018.

A basic guide to Canadian family law : what everybody needs to know about Canadian family law but could never afford to ask / Julien D. Payne and Marilyn A. Payne
2nd Floor, Practice Collection; KF 505 .ZA2 P3932 2023

A Basic Guide to Canadian Family Law will be of special interest to those who are contemplating separation or divorce and are looking for basic information about the legal consequences they will face and about the alternative methods available for resolving domestic disputes. Lawyers, mediators, and other professionals who engage in dispute resolution may find it useful for their clients, as will self-represented litigants.

Contracts for responsible and sustainable supply chains : model contract clauses, legal analysis, and practical perspectives / Susan A. Maslow and David V. Snyder, editors
1st Floor, Stacks; KF 801 C662 2023

This comprehensive US guide contains model contract clauses (MCCs) that companies and their counsel can use to implement corporate policies to protect human rights and the environment. The book is divided into three sections: MCCs, legal analysis, and practical perspectives.

It includes:

• MCCs and explanatory annotations so counsel can make informed decisions
• An overview of the MCCs: their genesis and development, strategies and choices, legal underpinnings and drafting alternatives, current use, and likely future
• Perspectives of authors from large and small law firms, in-house counsel, academia, NGOs, civil society, and labor
• Chapters on legal issues from antitrust, commercial law, and corporate law to US international trade law as well as foreign law that reaches US companies
  
  

*Descriptions taken or summarized from: publisher websites, table of contents and book prefaces.