Ballad in Plain E

We had our trainer in today to do one of his excellent sessions on how to be most cost-effective when searching WestlaweCarswell. Even though I’ve seen eCarswell presentations a million times, I always learn something new.

Today I learned that:

(a) a search for the word “martian” actually retrieves documents that talk about extraterrestrials

and

(b) when searching for words that might be hyphenated, leave the hyphen in. It will automatically search for your word with and without the hyphen and also with a space. Same goes for acronyms - leave the periods in and it will also search for the acronym sans periods.

Obviously, (b) is the more useful tip.

It’s that time of the year, when scores of copies of BC Annual Practice (the “white book” that contains court rules) become useless as they are replaced by new editions.

In previous years we have donated our superseded copies to high school law classes, but the word on the street is that they’ve got enough already.
Has anyone found another use for them, aside from recycling?