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Square or Round?
There can be plenty of brackets and parentheses in legal citations. Yet, a case citation is incomplete unless it also includes the year of the decision. If a decision has a neutral citation, the year is already part of the citation and there are no brackets or parentheses to worry about, e.g., 2011 ONCA 55. That’s the easy part. Continue reading “Square or Round?”
Preparing for Family Court – Reliable Web Resources for Self-Represented Litigants
According to Justice Bonkalo’s Family Legal Services Review Report (December 2016), over 57% of Ontarians did not have legal representation in family court in 2014/15. The Final Report of the National Self-Represented Litigants Project (pdf) also estimates that 60% of all litigants appearing in family courts in North America are representing themselves. Continue reading “Preparing for Family Court – Reliable Web Resources for Self-Represented Litigants”
Know How, the blog of the Great Library 