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54 VOL. 72 PART 1 JANUARY 2014 THE ADVOCATE because not only does it describe in detail how you can search past issues (in two different ways) but also, for the first time, it features an electronic version of the most recent issue, which you can access from your computer or tablet or smaller electronic devices. The future, dear readers, is now! I told you this was like time travel. Care for a jelly baby? Also, you will by now have noticed a few stylistic changes to this month’s magazine. First, the cover: our cover artist since September 2012 has been David Goatley. David, who is based on Vancouver Island, remains behind the easel wielding his brushes but in a style somewhat different from that practised by his predecessors. We have moved away from water-colour caricatures and toward oil-on-canvas character studies. David is a leading portrait painter, having painted official portraits of prime ministers, governors general, attorneys general, chancellors, premiers and even the grand old Duke of York himself (if 53 can be considered old these days). We hope you enjoy this new direction. For those paying attention, we have also moved from a gloss to a matte finish on the cover. Inside the magazine there are also a few new touches. First off, you will notice a change in the font. Sometimes a font is as good as a change. That’s not an actual saying, or at least it wasn’t until it was written here. It’s still not a saying. Ignore it. But while doing so, please note that you are now reading fonts from the Futura and Veljovic families. Meanwhile, another island artist, Melissa Mills, of Millipede Design in Victoria, , has provided us with new graphics to illustrate our regular columns. Look for her work as you peruse these pages. Complementing these images are a few single-panel cartoons from Michael Mills, a Vancouver artist and filmmaker, whose illustration work will pop up from time to time to amuse and enlighten you. Now, I could close by launching into some management-speak about what the Advocate will be getting up to “on a go forward basis”. However, I am not going to do that. To be honest, I would rather kill myself than write such rubbish. So, while you ponder the Advocate’s future, past and present, I will leave you with some much better rubbish—the words of the tenth (or eleventh, given recent plot developments) Doctor himself: People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually—from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint—it is more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly timey wimey … stuff. I hope you agree that it is wibbly-wobbly timey wimey for a change. t t t t t
THE ADVOCATE VOL. 72 PART 1 JANUARY 2014 55 NEWS FROM COURTHOUSE LIBRARIES BC By Nathaniel Russell* “With the ever-increasing impact of technology on the practice of law, a lawyer using technology must either have reasonable understanding of the technology used in the lawyer’s practice, or access to someone who has such understanding.” —Federation of Law Societies of Canada “Guidelines on Ethics and the New Technology”, April 2002 GUIDING THE CLIMB TO TECHNOLOGICAL COMPETENCE The above quotation is now 12 years old. Most of this is nothing new. Lawyers who choose to use technology in the course of practice are expected to do so competently, and ethically. But what of the technologies we never chose and just turned up suddenly and invited themselves in: the social web 1 that wheedled itself into our lives, interconnected our private details and became enmeshed within the factual matrix of many litigation files; or the Internet itself, which undergirds nearly all communication— not just e-mail, but modern landlines too—and interconnects nearly every modern apparatus, from phones to cars? Is it even possible to opt out of a “reasonable understanding” of social media, metadata, GPS tracking, phishing scams, etc.? Or has this choice been abrogated? FAMILIARITY WITH TECHNOLOGY AS A CORE CONDITION OF COMPETENCY Technology is engaged by nearly every chapter in the Professional Code of Conduct (“the Code”) and can cause issues under any of the head rubrics of * Nathaniel R. Russell is a liaison lawyer with Courthouse Libraries BC.
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