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Regional wrap-up Famous tractor will still an attraction I t is not every day a figure from Canadian legal history gets rock star treatment. But that is exactly what happened recently to 80-year-old Bob Hannay, the last living eyewitness to the rescue of Cecil George Harris. Harris was the Saskatchewan farmer who, in 1948, badly injured and trapped The classic resource on The rules of The federal courTs New editioN Federal Courts PraCtiCe 2014 Prairies under his tractor, scratched out a will on the fender. Though he was pulled alive from under the tractor's wheels, he died soon after. But thanks to the straightforward simplicity of that will and the work of a smart country lawyer, the highly unusual document was declared valid. As a result, the Harris will — technically known as a holograph or wholly handwritten will — has become famous and Brian J. SaunderS, donald J. rennie and Graham Garton Now available as a thomsoN reuters Proview™ ebook Print + ProView eBook order # 985305Be-65203 $148 hardcover + ProView eBook october 2013 approx. 1525 pages 978-0-7798-5305-2 ProView eBook only order # a08152-14oN-65203 $148 ProView eBook october 2013 Print book only order # 985305-65203 $148 hardcover october 2013 approx. 1525 pages 978-0-7798-5305-2 annual volumes available on standing order subscription Practice Advisor available upon request with standing order subscription Free supplement available with standing order subscription multiple copy discounts available Shipping and handling are extra. Price subject to change without notice and subject to applicable taxes. 10 Jan uary 2014 www.CANADIAN Get insightful interpretation of the latest developments in Federal Court rules, jurisdiction, and practice. and this new 2014 edition of Federal Courts Practice gives you even more. order now and get access to the thomson reuters ProView™ ebook, which you can access on your iPad or web browser, and a free authored update supplement. New iN this editioN • ProView smart eBook that gives you the freedom to work however and whereever you want • Free authored update supplement, in print and on ProView, for subscribers containing legislative updates, case annotations and authored commentary • thumbcuts separating each section for ease of use • the addition of hundreds of new entries on the Federal Courts Act and rules • new and updated commentary on recent developments in Federal Courts practice • new commentary on the amendments to the rules regarding scheduling of motions and new organization and cases on the procedure on status review. available risk-Free For 30 days Call toll-Free: 1-800-387-5164 in toronto: 416-609-3800 email: carswell.proview@thomsonreuters.com L a w ye r m a g . c o m Bob Hannay signing autographs on a copy of the tractor will. a staple of wills and estates textbooks throughout the common law world. During the hearing for the will, the fender on which it was scratched was removed from the tractor and admitted as an exhibit before the old Saskatchewan Surrogate Court. After finding the will valid, the court ordered it be cut from the fender and included in the record along with other papers. In 1997, when the Kerrobert Court House closed, it was arranged that the extraordinary will should be transferred to a display case in the library at the University of Saskatchewan's College of Law in Saskatoon. There it has remained a curiosity and a teaching tool ever since. To mark the will's 65th anniversary, the college invited students, lawyers, and the public along to a celebration featuring Bob Hannay.

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