Law and Society: Finding Cases and Legislation

This page contains links to resources specifically for finding case law and legislation. It also contains links to tutorials for these resources, and links to free-to-use equivalents (where available).

Through Laurier Library

Lexis Advance Quicklaw - Canadian court decisions and legal commentary.

Nexis Uni - Full-text documents for international news, business, legal research, and key people in the news.

Help Using Lexis Nexis Products

Lexis Advance Quicklaw - Quick Tips Sheet

Lexis Advance Quicklaw Help Page (video tutorials & documents)

Nexis Uni - Complete an Advanced Search - Advanced Searching in Nexis Uni

Available Free Online

CanLII

is a non-profit organization that has been engaged by the law societies of Canada that are members of the Federation of Law Societies of Canada to establish, operate, maintain and provide to the law societies a website dedicated to providing continuous access to a virtual library of Canadian legal information.

Help Using CanLII

Search CanLII Help

How to Limit Search Results in CanLII Using Filters

How to Browse Legislation in CanLII

How to Browse Commentary in CanLII

CanLII Connects (a database of case commentary and case summaries by the legal community)

Also Available Free Online

LEGISinfo

is a tool for finding information on legislation before parliament (as it moves from a bill to law)

Canada Gazette

is the official newspaper of the Government of Canada and contains new statutes, new and proposed legislation, board decisions, and public notices.

Justice Laws

is an online source of the consolidated Acts and regulations of Canada

Canadiana.org

has early legislation (pre 1920)

WorldLII.org

is a non-profit organization that maintains a website that contains international law cases (it is not comprehensive)

See the Law & Society Websites page for a full list of online resources.