Law Library News

Looking for something new? Here are some of the books we've recently added to our collection.

Yoga For Lawyers
Hallie Neuman Love
(Wellness)

"Written by lawyers, for lawyers, this is a short, user-friendly yoga book focused on effective ways to de-stress every day, throughout the day, in very little time. The featured meditative yoga techniques and safe therapeutic yoga stretches are medically proven to be healthy ways to relieve stress."

Business Ethics and Legal Ethics: The Connections and Disconnections Between the Two Disciplines
Vanisha H. Sukdeo
(Legal Ethics)

"Ethics has different meanings in different settings. This new publication examines the intersection between business ethics and legal ethics and explores how they are interpreted and applied."

Criminal Procedure, 4th Edition
Steve Coughlan
(Criminal Law)

"This book sets out and examines the law governing criminal procedure in Canada. ... This fourth edition updates the law in all areas of criminal procedure. Most notably, it incorporates significant discussion of Bill C-75, which has made changes to a great many areas of the Criminal Code, including powers of arrest, preliminary inquiries, and the jury selection process. In addition, it includes discussion of significant new Supreme Court of Canada cases, such as Le on arbitrary detention and racial profiling; Fleming v Ontario on powers of arrest; Saeed on search incident to arrest; Marakah, Jones, Reeves, and Mills on reasonable expectation of privacy; Antic on bail; and Jordan, Cody, and KJM on trial within a reasonable time."

Guthrie’s Guide to Better Legal Writing
Neil Guthrie
(Legal Writing)

"Lawyers like to think they are good writers. Their non-lawyer readers are more likely to describe their writing as turgid, pedantic, Latin-filled, jargon-ridden, misspelt, ungrammatical, and inelegant. Guthrie's Guide to Better Legal Writing won't solve all your problems, but it will help you make your prose clear, correct, and compelling. The focus is on communicating more effectively in e-mail, letters, memos, blog posts, client updates, and social media, but there are some pointers on contractual drafting and written advocacy as well. A bit of strategy, some grammar and spelling, and a lot of style. The second edition of Guthrie's Guide incorporates significant new material based on reader queries and the author's on-going review of the legal writing that crosses his desk and screen."

Making the Case: 2SLGBTQ+ Rights and Religion in Schools
Donn Short, Bruce MacDougall & Paul Terence Clarke
(Education Law)

"Despite growing acceptance of 2SLGBTQ+ rights, Canadian schools regularly become battlegrounds in clashes between students wishing to express their sexuality or gender and those who perceive this as a threat to their values. Making the Case clearly shows how Canadian law responds to what are known as “competing human rights claims,” when conflict arises between people asserting sexual minority rights and those asserting religious rights, for example, when a principal forbids same-sex prom dates or when parents oppose gay-straight alliance clubs. With a focus on the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the authors call on related court cases to explain the position of Canadian law. They demonstrate that Canadians have rights to religion and rights to gender expression or sexual orientation; and that supporting sexual minority rights does not undermine other people’s rights to religious freedom."

The Annotated Canadian Human Rights Act 2021
Marni Tolensky & T. Stephen Lavender
(Human Rights)

This annual text provides instant access to the practice, procedure, and jurisprudence arising out of the Canadian Human Rights Act. This is a useful reference for human rights, labour and employment law practitioners, and human resources professionals. ... Included in this edition are Covid-19-related case law and documents from the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.

Other new titles:

• Canada's Cannabis Act: Annotation & Commentary by Russell Bennett & Alan Young
• Environmentalism and Global International Society by Robert Falkner
• The Justice Crisis: The Cost and Value of Accessing Law by Trevor C. W. Farrow & Lesley A. Jacobs
• Law and Neurodiversity: Youth with Autism and the Juvenile Justice Systems in Canada and the United States by Dana Lee Baker, Laurie A Drapela & Whitney Littlefield
• Martin’s Pocket Criminal Code 2022