Preface to the fourth edition

• Author: Ted Tjaden
• Pages: 21-22

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PREFACE

to the Fourth Edition

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

research and legal publishing community in Canada (and around the

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

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

• updates on resources for teaching legal research and writing and

information literacy

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

line legal research due to courts regarding such expenses as off‌ice

overhead

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

citation

• changes within the legal publishing industry (including the acquisi-

tion by LexisNexis Canada 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 Canada, LexisNexis

Quicklaw, and Irwin Law

• completion of Halsbury’s Laws of Canada and JurisClasseur Québec

• discussion of the increase in digitized archival legislation

• expanded coverage of free legal resources, including CanLII

• extensive updates to resources in Chapter 8, Legal Research by

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

treatises, providing the most extensive listing of law-related books

by topic in the industry