If you have been spending a lot of time watching movies and TV these days, you might have noticed a familiar building in the background of some late 90s and early 2000s movies and TV shows. While filming at Osgoode does not happen anymore, back in the day large film productions took over the grounds, halls, and even the library during evenings and weekends.
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While full-text judgments are available today in multiple digital and print sources, this was certainly not the case in the early days of Ontario legal publishing. The number of regularly published law reports was small, and the cases they included were selective and primarily from the appellate courts.
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In our previous blog post Following the Breadcrumbs, we walked you through how to use source notes to trace legislation back to its inception. But what happens when these source notes disappear, and you no longer have a trail of breadcrumbs to follow?
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