Book Spotlight - Skillful Witness Examinations in Civil and Arbitration Cases: Discoveries, Directs and Cross-Examinations
Posted by Peel Law Association
on 5 January 2024
Information provided on Thomson Reuters' website:
The authors' approach to conveying effective examination techniques is built upon a richly developed illustrative commercial dispute, which will ensure that these techniques are concretely demonstrated through references to a meaningful set of facts. Some twenty-four carefully drawn transcript excerpts are interspersed throughout the text to illustrate the practical application of effective examination techniques, all based on the case example.
A few selections from the detailed table of contents indicate the range and uniqueness of this work:
- A “Golden Rule” - Be Ready to Question off the Last Answer
- “Time Bombs”
- The Feckless Word “Recall”
- The Improper Leading Question Is Asked and the Damage Is Done - Now What?
- Three Foundational Concepts - Credibility, Control, and Confrontation
- Climbing the Rungs to an Admission or an Incredible Denial
- Tools of the Trade
- You Are Cross-Examining the Affiant, not the Affidavit
- The Basis of Control: Cementing the Expert In
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2024 PLA Membership Registrations
Posted by Peel Law Association
on 2 January 2024
The PLA Library is open for the New Year!
We hope you all had a wonderful winter holiday!
Now that staff are back in the library, we are ready to begin processing PLA memberships again
Register for your 2024 PLA Membership today!
Were you a member of the PLA in 2023?
Renew your membership before January 31, 2024, to avoid any disruptions to your membership benefits!
New or rejoining the PLA?
Register for your 2024 PLA Membership now to take advantage of the wonderful benefits offered to members of the PLA!
Click here for more information on the value of a PLA membership
Click here to complete the 2024 PLA Membership form
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Holiday closure beginning at noon on December 22, 2023
Posted by Peel Law Association
on 18 December 2023
Are you looking for some holiday reading?
PLA Members can stop by the library during the week of December 18 - December 22, 2023, and sign out some books. Any books signed out during this week will not be due back until Monday, January 8, 2024. This means you can keep the books for an extended borrowing period of up to three weeks! As a friendly reminder, PLA Members can sign out up to three books at a time.
Have a safe and happy holiday and see you in 2024!
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Book Spotlight - Cases in Clinical Forensic Psychology
Posted by Peel Law Association
on 15 December 2023
Information provided on the University of Toronto Press' website:
Clinical forensic psychology is defined by the application of clinical psychology - assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and consultation - in legal contexts. The term captures the integration of clinical psychology as an applied professional discipline and forensic psychology as an experimental discipline.
Cases in Clinical Forensic Psychology offers a series of case studies that allow readers to take an up-close and personal look at the criminal justice system in Canada. Clinical forensic psychologist Margo C. Watt examines the particulars of each case, including the biological, psychological, social, cultural, and legal factors. The book takes an evidence-based approach and highlights how the science of clinical forensic psychology informs all aspects of criminal cases: police investigative techniques, eyewitness testimony, pretrial publicity, jury selection and decision-making, forensic evaluations, psychological autopsies, mental health in corrections, and more.
Examining incidents ranging from false confessions to wrongful convictions to deaths in custody and the criminals who got away, Cases in Clinical Forensic Psychology questions how and why these events happened and considers what we can learn from them.
For more information about this resource, click here.
This item is available to PLA Members in good standing for sign-out. PLA Members can sign-out up to three items for overnight use for a seven day period. Overdue charges may be applicable to items that are not returned by their due date.
Not a member, but looking to become one? Please follow the link for the Membership Form and Fees. You may also contact the PLA Library Staff by email, and they will be happy to assist you. It only takes moments to join, and the PLA Library Staff can process memberships on the spot. Once payment is received, you can take advantage of all your PLA Membership Benefits, including discounts on CPD programs and social events.
As a friendly reminder, the Peel Law Association Library, Lawyers' Lounge and related services are open to all lawyers who are in good standing with the LSO, articling students, and LPP candidates.
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TODAY! Holiday Cheer Open House from 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Posted by Peel Law Association
on 13 December 2023
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