Incidental detention from police encounters

slaw.ca blog today published a post, SCC decision in R. v. Grant: Do the ends justify the means?, commenting on a new judgment from the Supreme Court of Canada dealing with human rights, police questioning, search and seizure, and exclusion or reception of evidence.R v Grant, 2009 SCC 32 dealt with a common occurrence in …

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Legal citations available at La Trobe

A useful shortcut for your desktop is the On-line Case Law page of the La Trobe University Law Library. It's quick, up-to-date and free.The page is available to anyone. It lists most common abbreviations used in reported and unreported legal citations. (The link above will take you to a table of the main ones; a …

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Let me google that for you

Something I came across today: lmgtfy.comLet me google that for you.Type in a search phrase, and then send it to the recipient who will see a google search window, with the very search they could have done entering it, and then returning the results.Yes, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.But, sometimes, it is also …

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