Just curious:
What is the oldest case law (year) you have successfully cited in a motion or brief (or other court document)?
Thanks!
G'day Law Reddit, I was wondering if you can tell me about the NSW Caselaw website. I'm looking for a particular case but can't find it listed on the site. I can easily find cases similar to the one I'm looking for but not the specific one I'm after. Are only select cases listed on the site? I have done the advanced searches with the info i have but no luck. Is it likely that the case I'm looking for isn't listed on the site? Many thanks. X
Note For context, I currently work in a CallCenter and have worked in many call centres throughout my life.
The Expectation in all of them was that you would be ready to take a call when you start your shift, which is to say that you’ll be logged into all your systems.
Often, this necessitates starting work 15 or 20 minutes early to log into all the necessary systems to be ready to take a call at the specified time.
What legal precedent or relevant caselaw exists to suggest that employees should be compensated for time that it takes for them to login to their employers IT systems?
I'm not sure how to phrase this because I'm not a lawyer, but it would seem to me that the answer would be "No" or "Only in certain circumstances."
Lawyers? I'm genuinely curious and can't find the answer online, probably because I'm not asking the question correctly.
Canadian law student here. As the title says, I built a python script that takes case law text and extracts the most important paragraphs (generally 100 or so sentences). I coded this for myself last semester to use for my law school readings and shared it with some close friends who use it, but I though that it could potentially be useful for other law students or maybe even practitioners/researchers 🤷♂️.
Right now the script takes pasted case law text and returns the parties involved, the legal concepts/tests, a McGill Guide Citation and a summary of the case (a couple of paragraphs). You can also read the case facts in the case skeleton format and read the original text as well. It works by comparing the case text with a list of important terms and then ranks the sentences based on that.
The code is currently more suited for Canadian case law (ex. the paste the CanLII url - which is Canada's database of legal cases). However, I'm hoping it may be helpful for case law from other countries as well.
Here's a screenshot of an example output: https://i.imgur.com/VOB0Hv1.png It's entirely free and I'm looking for some feedback on how I can improve it to be even better. Would you find this helpful? The beta can be found here: https://www.legaledison.tech
edit: typo
Just a bit of idle curiosity, here.
Someone I know is the defendant in a foreclosure case. According to this person's records, they have paid everything in full.
The bank alleges that this person owes $XXXX.XX. Their evidence submitted to the court is just a letter that states this fact.
The bank hasn't shown their records of money owed/payments received, etc - just a letter that says "we say that you owe $XXXX.XX."
The person I'm helping actually stumbled on a case that says the bank must show some sort of proof (transaction records, etc), but now they can't find that case. Does anyone know what cases say this, or any statutes or anything else that might apply?
Thanks!
Do you want to have access to three hundred and sixty years of United States caselaw?
You're in luck! "Case Law" is here to help you. Just say, "Ask case law for a fact" and Alexa will tell you about a random case law happened from 1658 to 2018 in the United States (specifically in Arkansas or Illinois).
This skill will answer you with a random case taken from all official, book-published United States case law.
All data are taken from CAP (Caselaw Access Project), a public project of Harvard University.
I can't go into detail as to what the specific order is, but the essence is that in the midst of a case about one thing, a judge overreached and made an order reaching into in another legal area that contradicts the automatic effect of a statute in case of a future event.
The order was not appealed because the person it was made against didn't know any better.
This is not the subject matter, but a comparable situation might be that a) there is a statute that says "upon death of a joint tenant, the share of the joint tenant is vested equally among the other joint tenants" with no clause for discretion of the court, and b) in the midst of a civil matter while both parties are alive, the court makes a declaration that "the property is owned jointly by plaintiff and defendant" and an order that was never sought in pleadings that "upon the death of the defendant, his interest shall not vest in the plaintiff".
I don't believe I will find a case on point to the specific statute in my case (which is federal, while this was a proceeding under a provincial statute, for what it's worth a difference), so I'm trying to find a case that generally deals with an order that purports to overrule a statutory effect.
The main problem is that most of cases are in the context of an appeal because that's usually what you do when there's an order that contravenes the law. I'm trying to find caselaw on whether the order is nevertheless of no force or effect because the act of law supersedes it.
I didn't post this on legal advice Canada because it's not exactly a personal 'advice' situation and I wasn't sure if this would not fit the sub. Thanks in advance if anyone is aware.
As the title says, I built a python script that takes a CanLII url or the case law text and extracts the most important paragraphs (generally 100 or so sentences). I coded this for myself last semester to use for my law school readings and shared it with some close friends who use it, but I though that it could potentially be useful for other law students or maybe even practitioners/researchers 🤷♂️.
Right now the script takes the CanLII url or case law text and returns the parties involved, the legal concepts/tests, a McGill Guide Citation and a summary of the case (a couple of paragraphs). You can also read the case facts in the case skeleton format and read the original text as well. It works by comparing the case text with a list of important terms and the ranks the sentences based on that.
Here's a screenshot of an example output: https://i.imgur.com/VOB0Hv1.png
It's entirely free and I'm looking for some feedback on how I can improve it to be even better. Would you find this helpful? The beta can be found here: https://www.legaledison.tech
Canadian law student here. As the title says, I built a python script that takes case law text and extracts the most important paragraphs (generally 100 or so sentences). I coded this for myself last semester to use for my law school readings and shared it with some close friends who use it, but I though that it could potentially be useful for other law students or maybe even practitioners/researchers 🤷♂️.
Right now the script takes pasted case law text and returns the parties involved, the legal concepts/tests, a McGill Guide Citation and a summary of the case (a couple of paragraphs). You can also read the case facts in the case skeleton format and read the original text as well. It works by comparing the case text with a list of important terms and then ranks the sentences based on that.
The code is currently more suited for Canadian case law (ex. the paste the CanLII url - which is Canada's database of legal cases). However, I'm hoping it may be helpful for case law from other countries as well.
Here's a screenshot of an example output: https://i.imgur.com/VOB0Hv1.png It's entirely free and I'm looking for some feedback on how I can improve it to be even better.
Would you find this helpful? The beta can be found here: https://www.legaledison.tech
Canadian law student here. As the title says, I built a python script that takes case law text and extracts the most important paragraphs (generally 100 or so sentences). I coded this for myself last semester to use for my law school readings and shared it with some close friends who use it, but I though that it could potentially be useful for other law students or maybe even practitioners/researchers 🤷♂️.
Right now the script takes pasted case law text and returns the parties involved, the legal concepts/tests, a McGill Guide Citation and a summary of the case (a couple of paragraphs). You can also read the case facts in the case skeleton format and read the original text as well. It works by comparing the case text with a list of important terms and the ranks the sentences based on that.
The code is currently more suited for Canadian case law (ex. the paste the CanLII url - which is Canada's database of legal cases). However, I'm hoping it may be helpful for case law from other countries as well.
Here's a screenshot of an example output: https://i.imgur.com/VOB0Hv1.png
It's entirely free and I'm looking for some feedback on how I can improve it to be even better. Would you find this helpful? The beta can be found here: https://www.legaledison.tech
Canadian law student here. As the title says, I built a python script that takes case law text and extracts the most important paragraphs (generally 100 or so sentences). I coded this for myself last semester to use for my law school readings and shared it with some close friends who use it, but I though that it could potentially be useful for other law students or maybe even practitioners/researchers 🤷♂️.
Right now the script takes pasted case law text and returns the parties involved, the legal concepts/tests, a McGill Guide Citation and a summary of the case (a couple of paragraphs). You can also read the case facts in the case skeleton format and read the original text as well. It works by comparing the case text with a list of important terms and then ranks the sentences based on that.
The code is currently more suited for Canadian case law (ex. the paste the CanLII url - which is Canada's database of legal cases). However, I'm hoping it may be helpful for case law from other countries as well.
Here's a screenshot of an example output: https://i.imgur.com/VOB0Hv1.png It's entirely free and I'm looking for some feedback on how I can improve it to be even better. Would you find this helpful? The beta can be found here: https://www.legaledison.tech
Canadian law student here. As the title says, I built a python script that takes case law text and extracts the most important paragraphs (generally 100 or so sentences). I coded this for myself last semester to use for my law school readings and shared it with some close friends who use it, but I though that it could potentially be useful for other law students or maybe even practitioners/researchers 🤷♂️.
Right now the script takes pasted case law text and returns the parties involved, the legal concepts/tests, a McGill Guide Citation and a summary of the case (a couple of paragraphs). You can also read the case facts in the case skeleton format and read the original text as well. It works by comparing the case text with a list of important terms and then ranks the sentences based on that.
The code is currently more suited for Canadian case law (ex. the paste the CanLII url - which is Canada's database of legal cases). However, I'm hoping it may be helpful for case law from other countries as well.
Here's a screenshot of an example output: https://i.imgur.com/VOB0Hv1.png It's entirely free and I'm looking for some feedback on how I can improve it to be even better.
Would you find this helpful? The beta can be found here: https://www.legaledison.tech
Canadian law student here. As the title says, I built a python script that takes case law text and extracts the most important paragraphs (generally 100 or so sentences). I coded this for myself last semester to use for my law school readings and shared it with some close friends who use it, but I though that it could potentially be useful for other law students or maybe even practitioners/researchers 🤷♂️.
Right now the script takes pasted case law text and returns the parties involved, the legal concepts/tests, a McGill Guide Citation and a summary of the case (a couple of paragraphs). You can also read the case facts in the case skeleton format and read the original text as well. It works by comparing the case text with a list of important terms and then ranks the sentences based on that.
The code is currently more suited for Canadian case law (ex. the paste the CanLII url - which is Canada's database of legal cases). However, I'm hoping it may be helpful for case law from other countries as well.
Here's a screenshot of an example output: https://i.imgur.com/VOB0Hv1.png
It's entirely free and I'm looking for some feedback on how I can improve it to be even better. Would you find this helpful?
The beta can be found here: https://www.legaledison.tech
Someone I know is the defendant in a foreclosure case. According to this person's records, they have paid everything in full.
The bank alleges that this person owes $XXXX.XX. Their evidence submitted to the court is just a letter that states this fact.
The bank hasn't shown their records of money owed/payments received, etc - just a letter that says "you owe $XXXX.XX."
The person I'm helping actually stumbled on a case that says the bank must show some sort of proof (transaction records, etc), but now they can't find that case. Anyone aware of such cases, or have any advice?
Thanks!
