Legal Research Subject Guide
This guide is intended to assist legal researchers locate Canadian and International sources, databases, cases, legislation and definitions.
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Legal Abbreviations
Use the Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations to search for the meaning of legal abbreviations.
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Popular Legal Databases
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WestlawNextCanada provides access to legal materials from Canada, the US and the UK. 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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LexisNexis 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.
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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.
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HeinOnLine includes legal journals, government documents, foreign and international law materials, legal classics, world trials and other legal research collections.
