In his 2012 article "Law Faculty Blogs and Disruptive Innovation", US law professor J. Robert Brown charts the rise of the law blog as a source of legitimate legal commentary and analysis. By creeping degrees, and as evidenced by the slow absorption of blogs as authorities in jurisprudence, blogs are ...

The practice of consanguineous marriages between first cousins differs in acceptance throughout the world. According to A.H. Bittles, author of A Background Summary of Consanguineous Marriage, marriage between cousins varies ...

One of the things we get asked on a regular basis about a piece of legislation, a regulation or a court rule is, "When did this change?" and "what did it look like before/after it changed?"

To find the legislative history of an act, we regularly turn to the Table ...

Under the regime just past, the overlapping concepts of custody under the Divorce Act and custody and guardianship under the Family Relations Act allowed us to think of custody as a somewhat empty concept, largely valued by our clients for the perception of power and control it implied, and guardianship as ...

If you’re looking for The Big Book of Judges, sadly, there is no such actual resource but here at Courthouse Libraries BC, we’ve attempted to compile a close substitute to help you find the information you need. 

HOW CAN I FIND INFORMATION ABOUT A PARTICULAR JUDGE?
With the Lawyers’ ...

The April 2013 edition of BarTalk included our inaugural Courthouse Libraries tips feature, where we told you about three unexpected ways to use CanLII. To fill these out a little more, we offer here an expanded version of our CanLII tips.

Before we begin, I need to make a confession: ...

The Family Law Act prescribes a number of specific tests for the variation of orders and the setting aside of agreements which vary depending on the subject matter of the order or agreement sought to be set aside. Where no specific test applies to vary an order, the act provides ...

The last general revision of the BC statutes was in 1996. In the Preface to the RSBC 1996, the last paragraph states, "This may be the last full revision because our Statute Revision Act contemplates that individual Acts or portions of Acts may be revised as the need arises. This ...

The Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act was enacted by section 2 of the Safe Streets and Communities Act, SC 2012, c. 1 (bill C-10).

WHAT DOES THIS NEW ACT DO?

The Act allows victims of terrorism to sue terrorists and those that support them, including listed foreign states, ...