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Westlaw Canada This link opens in a new window
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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 Abridgement
Lexis Advance Quicklaw This link opens in a new window
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Contains 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 includes Halsbury's Laws of Canada and also covers international content from the US, UK, and Australia.

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 This link opens in a new window
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Includes legal journal articles, government documents, foreign and international law materials, legal classics, world trials and other legal research collections.
HeinOnLine includes modules for legal journals, government documents, foreign and international law materials, legal classics, world trials and other legal research collections.

Legal Research: An Introduction
UA Library Law Tutorials consisting of self-paced slides with voice over. To read the transcript click on any slide and look for the Notes tab.

Tutorials for: Secondary Sources (9 slides, 5'40"), Creating Legislation (9 slides, 11'42"), Legislative Research & Noting up (10 slides, 9'50"), Case Law Part 1 (7 slides, 5'43"), Case Law Part 2 (8 slides, 7'3")

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

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