Subject Guides: Legal Research: Home

Legal Research Subject Guide

This guide is intended to assist legal researchers locate Canadian and International sources, databases, cases, legislation and definitions.

Library Tutorials - Law

Tutorials: LAW

Legal Abbreviations

Use the Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations to search for the meaning of legal abbreviations.

Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations

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Popular Legal Databases

WestlawNextCanada provides access to legal materials from Canada. It contains Canadian primary law, legislation, and court decisions as well as secondary materials, the Canadian Encyclopedic Digest and case summaries from the Canadian Abridgment.
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Lexis Advance Quicklaw
- contains up-to-date case decisions and legislation from every province and territory of Canada, including unreported cases, as well as expert commentary, legal journal articles, current legal news services, and case history information. It also covers content from the US, UK, and Australia.
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CanLII provides free access to authoritative versions of Canadian case law and statutes, and includes some commentary. CanLII publishes cases, statutes, and regulations from all Canadian jurisdictions and also publishes rulings of some tribunals.

HeinOnLine includes legal journals, government documents, foreign and international law materials, legal classics, world trials and other legal research collections.
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