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CANADIAN LAW LIBRARY REVIEW REVUE CANADIENNE DES BIBLIOTHÈQUES DE DROIT 2016 CanLIIDocs 228 VOLUME/TOME 41 (2016) No. 2 ICLR ONLINE LAW REPORTS TO BE REMOVED FROM INTERNATIONAL LICENSEES The ICLR – the publisher of the official law reports for England 2016 CanLIIDocs 228 and Wales – has started the process of disaggregating its law reports from the online services operated by LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. If you are renewing an annual subscription with LexisNexis or Thomson Reuters in 2016 that includes access to ICLR content, access to that content will end as of 1 January 2017. Thereafter, the ICLR will provide its case law service directly through its established online platform, ICLR Online. If you wish to continue to be provided with access to The Law Reports, The Weekly Law Reports and other ICLR content, it is essential that you contact ICLR as soon as possible so we can help to ensure a smooth transition of service. Contact us anytime on [email protected] call us on +44 207 242 6471 or sign up for a free trial at iclronline.co.uk ‖‖ CONTENTS / SOMMAIRE 5 From the Editor The Law Emprynted and Englysshed: The 34 De la rédactrice Printing Press as an Agent of Change in Law and Legal Culture 1475 – 1642 8 President’s Message Reviewed by Katherine Laundy Le mot de la présidente The Law of Fraud and the Forensic 34 10 Featured Articles Investigator Articles de fond Reviewed by Susannah Tredwell Edited by John Bolan and Rex Shoyama No Accident: Eliminating Injury and Death on 36 White Judges, Black Hoods: Hanging-as- 10 Canadian Roads Lynching in Three Canadian True-Crime Texts Reviewed by Justice Gilles Renaud By George Elliott Clarke On the Outside: From Lengthy Imprisonment to 38 Time Travelling: Intent Behind Regulations 20 Lasting Freedom By Elizabeth Bruton Reviewed by Tyler Fainstat Moving The Library: A Solo’s Reflection 25 A Thirty Years’ War : The Failed Public/Private 38 By Helen Mok Partnership that Spurred the Creation of the 2016 CanLIIDocs 228 Toronto Transit Commission, 1891 – 1921 30 Reviews Reviewed by Justice Gilles Renaud Recensions To Right Historical Wrongs: Race, Gender, and 39 Edited by Kim Clarke and Nancy McCormack Sentencing in Canada Reviewed by Andrea Black Beyond Magna Carta: A Constitution for the 30 United Kingdom Reviewed by Sandra Geddes 40 Bibliographic Notes Chronique bibliographique Chinese Comfort Women: Testimonies from 31 Imperial Japan's Sex Slaves By Susan Jones Reviewed by Donata Krakowski-White 45 News From Further Afield Employment Equity in Canada: The Legacy of 32 Nouvelles de l’étranger the Abella Report Reviewed by Carol Vandenhoek Notes from the UK 45 Jackie Fishleigh Every Cyclist's Guide to Canadian Law 32 Reviewed by Frances Wong Letter from Australia 46 Margaret Hutchison The Evolution and Equilibrium of Copyright in 33 the Digital Age The U.S. Legal Landscape: News From Across 49 Reviewed by Stephen Spong the Border Julienne Grant International Law: Chiefly as Interpreted and 34 Applied in Canada Reviewed by Sharon Wang CITED AS Can L Libr Rev CITÉ Rev can bibl dr Canadian Law Library Review is published 4 times a year by the Revue canadienne des bibliothéques de droit est publiée 4 fois par Canadian Association of Law Libraries. année par l’Association canadienne des bibliothèques de droit. Subscription price (non-members) $90.00 Abonnement annuel (non-membres) 90.00$ Publications Mail – Registration No. 10282 Envoi de publication enregistrement no. 10282 © Canadian Assocation of Law Libraries / Association canadienne des bibliothèques de droit ISSN 1180-176X 2016 Canadian Law Library Review/Revue canadienne des bibliothèques de droit, Volume/Tome 41, No. 2 3 ‖‖ EDITORIAL BOARD / COMITÉ DE RÉDACTION EDITOR BOOK REVIEW EDITOR RÉDACTRICE EN CHEF RÉDACTRICE DE LA REVUE DE LIVRES SUSAN BARKER KIM CLARKE Digital Services and Reference Librarian Director, Bora Laskin Law Library Bennett Jones Law Library, Faculty of Law University of Toronto University of Calgary E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] ASSOCIATE EDITOR INDEXER RÉDACTRICE ADJOINTE INDEXEURE WENDY HEARDER-MOAN JANET MACDONALD WHM Library Services Macdonald Information Consultants E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] EDITOR EMERITUS FRENCH LANGUAGE EDITOR RÉDACTRICE HONORAIRE RÉDACTRICE AUX TEXTES FRANÇAIS 2016 CanLIIDocs 228 NANCY MCCORMACK NATHALIE LÉONARD Librarian and Associate Professor Head, Reference Services and Law Libraries Lederman Law Library, Faculty of Law Brian Dickson Law Librarian Queen’s University Université d’Ottawa E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] ADVERTISING MANAGER COLUMN EDITOR DIRECTRICE DE LA PUBLICITÉ BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTES EVE LEUNG National Manager, Research and Library Services RESPONSABLE DE LA RUBRIQUE McMillam LLP CHRONIQUE BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE E-mail: [email protected] SUSAN JONES Technical Services Librarian, Gerard V. La Forest Law Library University of New Brunswick E-mail: [email protected] FEATURES EDITOR COLUMN EDITOR RÉDACTEUR DE CHRONIQUES LOCAL AND REGIONAL UPDATE JOHN BOLAN Instructional and Reference Librarian RESPONSABLE DE LA RUBRIQUE MISE À Bora Laskin Law Library JOUR LOCALE ET RÉGIONALE University of Toronto SOOIN KIM E-mail: [email protected] Faculty Services Librarian, Bora Laskin Law Library E-mail: [email protected] FEATURES EDITOR PRODUCTION EDITOR RÉDACTEUR DE CHRONIQUES DIRECTRICE DE LA PRODUCTION REX SHOYAMA ANNIE RATCLIFFE Online Development Manager Creative, Graphic and Web Designer Carswell, a Thomson Reuters business Managing Matters Inc. E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] BOOK REVIEW EDITOR RÉDACTRICE DE LA REVUE DE LIVRES NANCY MCCORMACK Librarian and Associate Professor Lederman Law Library. Faculty of Law Queen’s University E-mail: [email protected] 4 2016 Canadian Law Library Review/Revue canadienne des bibliothèques de droit, Volume/Tome 41, No. 2 2016 CanLIIDocs 228 ‖‖ From the Editor / De la rédactrice Over the years the Canadian Law Library Review has curriculum generally. It was a very interesting read and benefited from the contributions of so many of our members. segues nicely into this issue’s first feature article. George It is a lot of work, toiling over an article. Thinking, researching, Elliot Clark’s White Judges, Black Hoods: Hanging-as- organizing and writing all take time and commitment; and very Lynching in Three Canadian True-Crime Texts uses popular often to what ostensibly seems like very little reward other culture to inform his reflection on the influence of race on than peer recognition and the gratitude of our editors. But justice in the Maritime Provinces in the early twentieth digging deeper there is a lot more to it than that. John Bolan century. It is a compelling read and challenges many or (our features editor) and I teach a course in Legal Literature our assumptions about the idea of justice in Canada. This and Librarianship at the University of Toronto iSchool. Each paper was originally presented to the membership at the year for their final paper our students write an essay on a CALL Conference in Moncton last year and so it is fitting subject of their choice related to law librarianship. I have that it is available just in time for this year’s conference. noticed that the students cite to the Canadian Law Library Review quite frequently in their papers. John and I counted We have two more features in this issue as well. Elizabeth fifteen articles from the CLLR (retrieved using HeinOnline) Bruton, in Time Travelling: Intent Behind Regulations being cited in the papers we received this year, covering looks back on her experience answering one of the a wide variety of subjects including digital preservation, trickiest reference questions: how to locate the legislative serving pro-se litigants, statutory interpretation and more. intent behind an Ontario regulation. These are the kind of The CLLR is the only source for expert advice and reflection questions that challenge even the most experienced law on law librarianship in Canada. And the reward, for you librarians and put our skills to the test and yet are the most our authors, is knowing that you have an influence on the gratifying to be able to answer. And speaking of challenges, thinking and knowledge of present and future generations of Helen Mok, librarian at Parlee McLaws LLP was recently law librarians. You should be proud! tasked with overseeing her library’s move. She shares with us some lessons learned in her article Moving the Library: Coincidentally, one of the student papers that I read was A Solo’s Reflection. arguing in favour of academic law libraries collecting popular culture material like novels, true crime stories and movies in And in News from Further Afield,there is an election coming order to support courses in law and literature and the legal up in Australia, a Supreme Court Justice to be nominated in 2016 Canadian Law Library Review/Revue canadienne des bibliothèques de droit, Volume/Tome 41, No. 2 5 the United States and the British will be voting on whether to en vue d’appuyer les cours de droit et de littérature et le stay in the EU. Altogether exciting times! programme de droit dans son ensemble. C’est une lecture très intéressante qui s’enchaîne très bien avec le premier Looking forward to seeing you all in Vancouver. article de fond du présent numéro. En effet, George Elliot Clark, l’auteur de White Judges, Black Hoods: Hanging- EDITOR as-Lynching in Three Canadian True-Crime Texts utilise la SUSAN BARKER culture populaire pour éclairer sa réflexion sur l’influence de la race sur la justice dans les Provinces maritimes au début du vingtième siècle. C’est un article passionnant qui remet en cause un grand nombre de nos hypothèses sur l’idée de justice au Canada.