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Selling It… With Standards

If you’re ever at a loss for a hit of quasi-judicial material that’s easy on the brain and fun to read, try the adjudications of Britain’s ASA (no, as Michael lines would say, not that ASA, or that, or that or…), the Advertising Standards Authority. The association’s...

Vagueness and the scope of caselaw databases

Caselaw databases are frequently described as being “comprehensive” collections of cases with the meaning of the word “comprehensive” left undefined. The exceptions, of course, are databases based on print series of law reports which are by definition...

Last week, Rosalie Fox, director of the Library of the Supreme Court of Canada, presented a paper at the European Legal e-Access Conference in Paris that used citation analysis to, among other things, look at the use of foreign sources in the Court’s decisions for 2006 and 2007. (The...

Also From Hein - Don’t Overlook the Classics

Wealth of comparative and historical material in Hein Online’s Classics. I just stumbled over a book I never knew existed: 1884 W. T. S. Daniel, The History and Origin of the Law Reports, Together with a Compilation of Various Documents Shewing the Progress and Result of Proceedings Taken for...

Australian court serves documents via Facebook

So says Nick Abrahams in his similarly titled post of last week: Today in what appears to be a first in Australia and perhaps the world, Master Harper of the ACT Supreme Court ordered that a default judgement could be served on defendants by notification on Facebook. I wonder how long before this...