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What Are Marginal Notes?
Marginal notes (also known as head notes) are “the short notations appearing above or beside each section […] of an Act or Regulation” (Sullivan on the Construction of Statutes, 6th …
Wednesday, January 6th, 2021
A New Resource for Translations of Canadian Case Law
This was based on a post on the CALL listserv; many thanks to Michèle LeBlanc of the Université de Moncton for the information.
The Centre de traduction et de terminologie …
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2020
More Redundancies
Lawyers find it difficult to use one word when they could use two. Here are some further examples.
Forward progress
All progress is forward-looking; that’s why it’s progress.
Null and …
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