Legal Research

New BC Legislation Portal

By Steven Matthews

I’d like to invite Slaw readers to come check out Quickscribe’s new BC Legislation Portal. Launched yesterday, this site provides daily updates (every 4 hours actually) for changes in BC Law.

To relay a bit about what’s going on under the hood, this site is actually extending the value of Quickscribe’s RSS feeds. I posted on the VLLB a while back about the detailed nature of these feeds, but as I got to use them more, wondered if there might be some value to aggregating them as a collection. The BC Legislation Portal does just that. As amendments come down on Quickscribe’s online service, this site will:

1. record that an Act or Regulation was updated;
2. the date on which the amendment comes into force;
3. whether each section was added, amended, substituted, or deleted; and
4. offer a searchable collection of BC Legislative changes (a feature which should improve with age)

Rather than watch those great RSS updates come & go, they’ll now be republished, and can be used as a current awareness tool!

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on February 22, 2008 (boomark / email).