CML 3319 : Advanced Legal Research Winter 2011 Federal legislation
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Cecilia Tellis, Law LibrarianBrian Dickson Law Library
CML 3319 : Advanced Legal ResearchWinter 2011
Federal legislation
Colleen Addison,Law Librarian, Brian Dickson Law Library
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Outline
Legislation– How to find Laws– Looking at the history of your law– Legislative process
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Laws
Divorce Act
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Laws
What are the reasons the law states for getting divorced? Intolerable cruelty? Marriage breakdown? Have they always been the same?
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Legislative research: Step 1
Find secondary sourcesLegislative research entails many steps (finding laws, bills, debates, journals, older laws, amendments, etc.)Secondary sources can cut out some of these steps!
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One more secondary source
Library of Parliament Virtual Library – http://
www2.parl.gc.ca/sites/lop/virtuallibrary/researchpublications-e.asp
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Another secondary source
Ask someone
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Looking up laws
Three official places– Canada Gazette
• http://www.gazette.gc.ca/index-eng.html – Statutes of Canada (books)– Department of Justice website
• http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/index.html
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Divorce Act
8. (1) A court of competent jurisdiction
may, on application by either or both spouses, grant a divorce to the spouse or spouses on the ground that there has been a breakdown of their marriage.
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Updating laws
What is it? – Even online acts are not totally up-to-date– You need to check to see if any changes have
happened in ensuing time frame– Being phased out as online sources become more
and more up-to-date
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Updating laws
Official method-Table of Public Statutes and Responsible Ministers
On Department of Justice Laws websitehttp://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/index.html
Older editions available in print in SLR 4-1
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Updating laws
Some other methods-Check LEGISinfo for sessional bills
introducing recent or proposed amendments
-For a more recent amendment, to see if it is in force, check also the “Table of Proclamations” in the Canada Gazette, Part III
• Also consult individual editions of the Canada Gazette, Part II for most up-to-date proclamations
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Looking at the history of the law Have the reasons always been the
same? Table of Public Statutes and
Responsible Ministers– Department of Justice website
• http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/index.html
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Looking at the history of your law s.11, 1997, c. 1, s. 1(1)
Statutes of Canada, 1997 An Act to Amend the Divorce Act, c.1
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Looking at the history of your law REMEMBER: Amendment acts are
NOT on the Department of Justice website!
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Looking at the history of your law
Divorce Act –R.S.C., 1970, c. D-8
ACT REPEALED 1986, c. 4, s. 32CIF, 1986, c. 4 proclaimed in force 01.06.86 see SI/86-70
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Looking at the history of your law Divorce Act—R.S.C., 1970, c. D-8
RSC vs. SC RSC came out in 1952, 1970, 1985
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Looking at the history of the laws You must look in print! Repealed laws are NOT on the
Department of Justice website! 1970 Grounds for divorce
– Include adultery, sodomy, bestiality, rate, homosexual acts, marriage with someone else, intolerable cruelty
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Looking at the history of your law What if I want to go further back than
that? Other jurisdictions may help Private Acts may also help
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Bills and the Legislative process
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How a bill becomes law (cont.)
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Looking up the legislative process Marleau and Montpetit (House of
Commons Practice and Procedure) Google « marleau and montpetit »
– http://www.parl.gc.ca/compendium/web-content/c_g_parliamentaryprocedure-e.htm
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Other books
The Laws of Government – Craig Forcese & Aaron Freeman
Parliamentary Privilege in Canada – Joseph Maingot
Beauchesne’s Parliamentary Rules & Forms – Fraser, Dawson, Holtby