HYCROFT LECTURE
The Rt. Honourable Madam Chief Justice
Beverley McLachlin, P.C.
“Judging in the 21st Century”

The University Women’s Club of Vancouver presents an esteemed speaker for the 16th Hycroft Lecture on Friday, January 27, 2006. The Rt. Honourable Chief Justice’s illustrious career began in 1968 and included teaching at the UBC Faculty of Law before becoming the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia. She became the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada in 2000. Her lecture is sure to be thought provoking and inspiring. Cost: $25.00 for members or $35.00 for non-members. Reservations, payments, and cancellations by noon Friday, January 20, 2006. VISA accepted.

For more information, please see http://www.uwcvancouver.ca/events/speakers.html.

The British Columbia Courthouse Library and UBC Law Library have worked cooperatively on a project to digitize the British Columbia Reports, with funding provided by the Notary Foundation of B.C.

The British Columbia Reports is a law report series that was first published in 1884 by the Law Society of British Columbia, with judgments dating back to 1867. The series ceased publication in 1948. This collection includes the full text of all decisions published in the series.

This was our first foray into a joint digitization project. The British Columbia Reports will now be freely accessible to anyone world-wide. Researchers will be able to search the judgments by keywords and the electronic version of the Reports will provide a back-up to the paper copies which deteriorate with age. A tutorial is being developed to help researchers make the most of this resource.

The Reports, as a body of work, contains important social and legal history of this province, in addition to charting the development of British Columbia law through the course of its publishing history. The British Columbia Reports is an important resource for legal researchers, historians, genealogists, and British Columbians in general, due to the fact that it provides a collection of unique primary information on society and individuals living in British Columbia in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.

Visit the website: http://stikine.library.ubc.ca/bcreports/index.html. The actual digitization work and the development of the website was spear-headed by Chris Hives and his team in University Archives.

KM520 .J876 2005
Wanda D. McCaslin, ed., Justice as healing : indigenous ways (St. Paul: Living Justice Press, 2005).
More about this: http://toby.library.ubc.ca/utilities/isbn.cfm?isbn=0972188614

KM599.1 .W45 2005
Michael Scott Weiss, Public defenders : pragmatic and political motivations to represent the indigent (New York: LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2005).
More about this: http://toby.library.ubc.ca/utilities/isbn.cfm?isbn=159332068x

KN10 .C343 2004
John D. Calamari & Joseph M. Perillo., Contracts, 4th ed. (St. Paul: Thomson/West, 2004).
More about this: http://toby.library.ubc.ca/utilities/isbn.cfm?isbn=0314151982

KN70 .K87 2005
JoAnn Kurtz & Joan Emmans, Arlene Blatt, Residential real estate transactions, 2nd ed. (Toronto: Emond Montgomery Publications, 2005).
More about this: http://toby.library.ubc.ca/utilities/isbn.cfm?isbn=1552391035

KN111 .I5594 2004
D. Vaver & L. Bently, eds., Intellectual property in the new millennium : essays in honour of William R. Cornish (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
Table of contents: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam051/2004058529.html
Publisher description: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam051/2004058529.html
More about this: http://toby.library.ubc.ca/utilities/isbn.cfm?isbn=0521846439

KN185.3 .D852 2004
James S. Mallet, Enforcing environmental law : a guide to private prosecution, 2nd ed. (Edmonton: Environmental Law Centre, 2004).
More about this: http://toby.library.ubc.ca/utilities/isbn.cfm?isbn=0921503784

KN285.6 .Z33 2005
Frank Zaid, Franchise law (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2005).
More about this: http://toby.library.ubc.ca/utilities/isbn.cfm?isbn=155221012x

KV19.6 .C35 2005
Kitty Calavita, Immigrants at the margins : law, race, and exclusion in Southern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
More about this: http://toby.library.ubc.ca/utilities/isbn.cfm?isbn=0521609127