Tip of the Week
Research Tip Roundup: Research Strategies
Alan Kilpatrick, Reference Librarian
Starting last summer, we have been highlighting Legal Sourcery’s most popular research tips. On that note, here are Legal Sourcery’s most popular research strategy
tips:
- 4 Questions
- The Best Guide to Canadian Legal Research
- Cross-referencing footnotes in Word
- Database Video Tutorials
- Essential Legal Research Guide
- Legal Research and Writing from Ted Tjaden
- Legal Research Video Series from Courthouse Libraries BC
- Legal Sourcery’s Top Three Picks for Legal Research Textbooks
- Looking for Legal Research Assistance? Ask a Librarian!
- Organizing research using tables of contents
- Search Strategy – Cast Your Net Wide
If you have any questions, ask a Law Society Librarian! We are pleased to provide high-quality legal research services to Saskatchewan members in person, on the telephone, or by email.
Email reference@lawsociety.sk.ca
Call 306-569-8020 in Regina
Toll-free 1-877-989-4999
Fax 306-569-0155
Research Tip Roundup: Subscription Online Resources
Alan Kilpatrick, Reference Librarian
Starting last summer, we have been highlighting Legal Sourcery’s most popular research tips. On that note, here are Legal Sourcery’s most popular subscription online resource
tips:
- 300 Legal Dictionaries!
- Criminal Sentencing with Rangefindr
- Ebooks and Online Loose-leafs Available through WestlawNext Canada
- Emond Montgomery Subscription for Members
- FamilySource
- HeinOnline Available to our Members
- Linking to American Case Law through HeinOnline
- Searching for UK case law? Ask Us!
- Start Taking Full Advantage of WestlawNext
- WestlawNext – Searching for Case Law by Case Name, Citation, Judge, or Counsel
- WestlawNext Research Tips
- O’Brien’s Internet
- Rangefindr – You’re Doing it Wrong!
If you have any questions, ask a Law Society Librarian! We are pleased to provide high-quality legal research services to Saskatchewan members in person, on the telephone, or by email.
Email reference@lawsociety.sk.ca
Call 306-569-8020 in Regina
Toll-free 1-877-989-4999
Fax 306-569-0155
Research Tip Roundup: Free Online Resources
Alan Kilpatrick, Reference Librarian
Starting last summer, we have been highlighting Legal Sourcery’s most popular research tips. On that note, here are Legal Sourcery’s most popular Free Online Resources
tips:
- Adoption Law Resources from the Government of Saskatchewan
- Asked & Answered from Courthouse Libraries BC
- Emond Publishing’s Free Legal Glossary
- First Edition of Halsbury’s Laws of England Digitized
- Foreign, Comparative, and International Law Research – Where Do You Start?
- Free LegalTrac Webinar
- How to Access Lots of Great (Non-legal) Databases with your Public Library Card
- Irwin Law’s Canadian Online Legal Dictionary
- Need American Case Law? Try Google Scholar
- Searching Google Efficiently and Effectively
- Slaw Tips – Advice about Technology, Research, and Practice
- Small Claims Court
If you have any questions, ask a Law Society Librarian! We are pleased to provide high-quality legal research services to Saskatchewan members in person, on the telephone, or by email.
Email reference@lawsociety.sk.ca
Call 306-569-8020 in Regina
Toll-free 1-877-989-4999
Fax 306-569-0155
Collection Agents (PLEA) – Tip of the Week
By Ken Fox
If you are a looking to become better acquainted with a new area of Saskatchewan law, there is no better service than the Public Legal Education Association of Saskatchewan (PLEA).
PLEA hosts more than 200 pamphlets aimed at the General Public, but today I have chosen to focus on the nasty business of Collection Agents. The document opens with a compelling scenario:
you lost your job three months ago, and are having trouble paying your bills. You just got your third call in a week from a collection agent about your credit card account. You explained your situation to the collection agent, but she didn’t seem to care. She said that if you didn’t pay the entire amount by the end of this month, they would take you to court and ruin your credit rating. She has already called your spouse at work, and said that they would be talking to your spouse’s employer. You want to do the right thing, but just do not have the money right now. What can you do?
This harrowing narrative is followed with eight paragraphs of perfectly lucid and readable commentary that gives the unfortunate debtor an excellent overview of their legal standing, as well as some notes on strategy going forward, despite not being “intended to form the basis of legal advice of any kind.”
The disclaimer to legal advice may seem odd, given that the information does sound in places very much like very good advice. But the beauty part is that the disclaimer means that this advice is free to share with whomever may need it, and as often as it is needed. So the next time you or a friend or family member gets into any kind of legal trouble, please remember PLEA!
Research Tip Roundup: Miscellaneous
Alan Kilpatrick, Reference Librarian
Over the fall, we will be highlighting Legal Sourcery’s most popular research tips. On that note, here are Legal Sourcery’s most popular miscellaneous tips:
- The Conflict of Laws – What are the Sources?
- Family Law Saskatchewan– Promoting Access to Justice
- Look to Law Reform!
- Public Legal Information
- Uniform Law Conference of Canada
- The Conflict of Laws – What are the Sources?
- Family Law Saskatchewan– Promoting Access to Justice
- Look to Law Reform!
- Public Legal Information
- Uniform Law Conference of Canada
If you have any questions, ask a Law Society Librarian! We are pleased to provide high-quality legal research services to Saskatchewan members in person, on the telephone, or by email.
Email reference@lawsociety.sk.ca
Call 306-569-8020 in Regina
Toll-free 1-877-989-4999
Fax 306-569-0155
Research Tip Roundup: Legislation
Alan Kilpatrick, Reference Librarian
Over the fall, we will be highlighting Legal Sourcery’s most popular research tips. On that note, here are Legal Sourcery’s most popular legislation tips:
- Coming In Force When?
- Digitized Provincial Statutes of Canada
- Driedger on Statutes Did You Say?
- Effective…When?
- Effective…When? Part 2
- Finding Legislative Intent
- How to search Saskatchewan’s Hansard
- Identifying Regulations Enabled Under Older Saskatchewan Statutes
- Leaping Into the Canada Gazette
- Ordinances of the Northwest Territories
- A Primer to Legislative Research Across the Provinces and Territories
- Researching Federal Legislation
- Consolidated Federal Statutes: Current and Previous Versions, part 1
- Finding Federal Regulations, part 2
- Canada Gazette Part II: Consolidated Index, part 3
- Finding Official Federal Regulations, part 4
- Finding Federal Statutes In Part III of the Canada Gazette, part 5
- Updating Federal Statutes Using LEGISinfo, part 6
- Updating Federal Statutes Using LEGISinfo, Part II, part 7
- Researching Saskatchewan Legislation Online
- Saskatchewan Legislative Research Primer
- Tracing a statute’s history
- Using CanLII to Identify Regulations Enabled Under a Saskatchewan Statute
If you have any questions, ask a Law Society Librarian! We are pleased to provide high-quality legal research services to Saskatchewan members in person, on the telephone, or by email.
Email reference@lawsociety.sk.ca
Call 306-569-8020 in Regina
Toll-free 1-877-989-4999
Fax 306-569-0155
Research Tip Roundup: Legal Citation
Alan Kilpatrick, Reference Librarian
Over the fall, we will be highlighting Legal Sourcery’s most popular research tips. On that note, here are Legal Sourcery’s most popular Law Society legal citation tips:
- First Ever Citation Guide for the Courts of Saskatchewan, part 1
- First Ever Citation Guide for the Courts of Saskatchewan, part 2
- First Ever Citation Guide for the Courts of Saskatchewan, part 3
- First Ever Citation Guide for the Courts of Saskatchewan, part 4
- First Ever Citation Guide for the Courts of Saskatchewan, part 5
- First Ever Citation Guide for the Courts of Saskatchewan, part 6
- First Ever Citation Guide for the Courts of Saskatchewan, part 7
If you have any questions, ask a Law Society Librarian! We are pleased to provide high-quality legal research services to Saskatchewan members in person, on the telephone, or by email.
Email reference@lawsociety.sk.ca
Call 306-569-8020 in Regina
Toll-free 1-877-989-4999
Fax 306-569-0155
