Legal Research

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Supreme Court Law Review Constitutional Cases Now Online!

The full text of the annual Constitutional Cases Conference component of the Supreme Court Law Review (2001-2011) is now available open-access on York University's YorkSpace institutional repository. Working with the native functionality of the YorkSpace platform, the collection can easily be browsed and articles retrieved by Issue, Author or Title. The entire collection is searchable […]

One Million Judgments Now Available on CanLII!

CanLII -- the Canadian Legal Information Institute -- reached a true milestone today with the publication of the one-millionth judgemnt. Yes, there are now one million Canadian court and tribunal decisions freely available over the internet, courtesy of CanLII. It has taken only 12 years for this comprehensive online legal resource to reach the one […]

ProQuest Congressional Publications

Looking for US Congressional publications? We how have access to ProQuest Congressional, the most comprehensive collection of historic and current US Congressional information available anywhere online. Coverage for many of the included collections begins in 1789 and goes right up to the current Congress. The collection includes the full text of congressional publications, finding aids, […]

Expanded Tribunal Coverage on WestlawCanada

WestlawCanada’s coverage of tribunal decisions continues to expand. A significant recent addition is the collection of decisions of the Discipline Committee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (the “College”), which hears matters of professional misconduct or incompetence. The comprehensive collection covers decisions of the Committee from January 1, 1992 onwards. Decision of […]

Regulations Added to QuickCITE Citator on Quicklaw

Now you can note up regulations from 10 jurisdictions with QuickCITE on Quicklaw. This added functionality is available for British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, Yukon and the Northwest Territories. Federal and Nova Scotia regulations will be added by the end of this month. With the addition of […]