Preface to the fourth edition

• Author: Ted Tjaden
• Pages: 21-22

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PR EFACE

to the Fourth Edition

There have been many changes in t he past f‌ive years within the legal

research and legal publishi ng community in Canad a (and around the

world). This new fourth edition updates t he law in a number of areas.

More particularly, some of the new content in this edition includes

• updates on resources for teaching legal re search and wr iting and

inform ation literacy

• more recent case law on the diff‌iculty in recovering the cost of on-

line legal research due to court s regarding such expen ses as off‌ice

overhead

• discussion of the new eighth edition of the McGill Guide on legal

citation

• changes withi n the legal publishing industr y (including the acquisi-

tion by LexisNexis C anada of CCH titles) and the ongoing increase

in law-related e-books

• updates to new developments for some of the major legal publishers

and their products, including WestlawNext Can ada, LexisNexis

Quicklaw, and Irwin Law

• completion of Halsbury’s Laws of Canada and JurisClasseur Q uébec

• discussion of the increase in digit ized archival legi slation

• expanded coverage of free legal resources, including CanLII

• extensive updates to resources in Chapter 8, Legal Res earch by

Topic, including the addition of hundreds of new or updated legal

treatises, prov iding the most extensive li sting of law-related books

by topic in the industry