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March 2023
Today’s Tips Tuesday features a tip regarding one of the most under-rated features in Microsoft Word: Read Aloud. Located under the “Review” tab in the ribbon, Read Aloud does exactly what it sounds like: it will read your document back to you, aloud so that you can hear the grammatical or wording errors you may have...
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Members of Parliament are expected to advocate for their constituents. However, when that MP is a Minister of the Crown (or a Parliamentary Secretary) there are limits on how far that advocacy can go. Interference by a Minister in a particular case before a tribunal has long been considered as an inappropriate interference with tribunal...
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Ever had a moment where you as soon as you hit send on that e-mail, you realized: That you’d forgotten to attach your attachment; You’d attached the wrong attachment; You didn’t want to say what you’d said in that e-mail or wanted to revise it; You were working in off-hours and actually wanted to send...
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While British legislation is now cited in the format Northern Ireland Act 1998 (UK), s 5, pre-1963 legislation (which is more likely to be referred to in Canadian courts than the newer legislation) is slightly more complicated. 1 Older British legislation is cited using a regnal year, e.g. Statute of Frauds, 1677, 29 Cha II,...
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