Court Cases - EDPS 410 - Ethics and Law in Teaching - Subject Guides at University of Alberta Libraries

Online Legal Dictionaries, Abbreviations, etc.

Irwin Law’s Canadian Online Legal Dictionary
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Databases

Canadian Legal Information Institute This link opens in a new window
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CanLii is a non-profit organization managed by the Federation of Law Societies of Canada.
This website provides access to court judgments, tribunal decisions, statutes and regulations from all Canadian jurisdictions.
It is accessible for free on the Internet.
Lexis+ Academic Premium This link opens in a new window
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When accessing Quicklaw, you will be taken to a Lexis Nexis screen. Point to "Product Sign On" in the upper right, and select "Quicklaw". Choose Register Later.
1. You can search for cases from the home page or go to Court Cases tab, which gives more searching choices, including international cases.
2. To browse by topic, go to commentary tab, choose source Halsbury's Laws of Canada and click on browse on the left.
- provides an overview of the subject as well as the key laws and cases on any given topic
- you can drill down to your subject (e.g. Education, then Conduct & Discipline)
Westlaw Canada This link opens in a new window
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1. Searching for Court Cases
- when you click on the 'Cases and Decisions' link, you can either enter a query into the search box at the top, or click on 'advanced' beside the orange search button to access a template
2. CED
- provides an overview of the subject as well as the key laws and cases on any given topic
- some topics, like Education, have you choose either Western or Ontario
3.Canadian Abridgment Digests
- will give you case summaries broken down by topic, and the summaries will generally include links to the full text of the case

Selected Court Cases

Chamberlain v. Surrey School District No. 36, [2002] 4 SCR 710, 2002 SCC 86 (CanLII)
Eaton v Brant County Board of Education 1995 CanLII 980 (ON CA)
Moore v. British Columbia (Education), 2012 SCC 61, [2012] 3 SCR 360
R. v. Audet, [1996] 2 S.C.R. 171
Vriend v. Alberta, [1998] 1 S.C.R. 493
Dickinson, G. M. (2002). Arbitrator finds duty to object in Kingsville strip search case OSSTF, district 9 v greater Essex county district school board]. Education Law Journal, 11(3), 383-390.
In the search box at the top of the page in the WestlawNextCanada database, search for 11 Educ. & L.J. 383

Citing a Court Case in APA format:

Samples of Citations of Court Cases Page created by Camosun College.

The bluebook : a uniform system of citation
Call Number: KF 245 H332 20th ed. 2015

APA form for legal citations is based on The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation.
The examples in the APA Manual are all US cases. However, when you go to The Bluebook, you find that the format for Canadian cases is slightly different. See pages 298-303 of The Bluebook.
The examples in the Bluebook all have (Can) as the jurisdiction at the end of the case. It is not wrong to add, but not needed - as you are in Canada citing Canadian Cases.

The APA Publication Manual says: "References to legal materials...which include court decisions, statutes and other legislative materials, and various secondary sources, will be more useful to the reader if they provide the information in the conventional format of legal citations."( p. 216, para.1)