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The Canadian Abridgment

·    NEW Abridgment eDigests

·    Case Digests

·    KeyCite Canada, Westlaw Canada online citator based on The Canadian Abridgment’s suite of authoritative citator services: Canadian Case Citations, Canadian Statute Citations and Rules Judicially Considered

·    NEW Index to Canadian Legal Literature

○   Comprehensive legal bibliography

○   Indexes books, articles, government publications, audio-visual materials, continuing legal education materials, case comments and annotations in English and French

○   Links from ICLL references to full text of articles and cases, where available on Westlaw Canada

 

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The Canadian Encyclopedic Digest

·    Succinct statements of law supported by statute and case law authority for more than 200 subject titles

 

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Carswell Law Reports

·    Coverage of all important judgments on an issue in 20 topical law reports, plus three regional/jurisdictional law reports and 18 historical law reports

·    Contains articles, case comments and annotations

 

Full Text Case Law

·    Decisions published in Carswell Law Reports

·    Reported court decisions from 1977

·    Reported tribunal decisions from 1997

·    Unreported court decisions from 1986

·    Supreme Court of Canada and Privy Council decisions from 1876

·    Federal Court decisions reported in the Federal Court Reports from 1971, Exchequer Court decisions through 1970, and Federal Trial Reports from 1977

·    Québec decisions of national importance as well as Québec Court of Appeal decisions from 1986

Law Reviews and Journals

·    Law reviews and journals from commercial sources and Canadian universities

Legislation

·    Full text of the following:

·    Complete, current consolidations of statutes from the Federal jurisdiction (both English and French), and all the common law provinces and territories

·    Québec Civil Code

·    Regulations in the areas of Criminal, Family, Insolvency and Securities law

·    The rules of practice of Canadian courts and a concordance to the rules