Legal Research

Canadian Legal Information

Official

• Federal Government
• Ontario
• Supreme Court of Canada:
  • Judgements Lex at the University of Montreal
  • Other Court documents and links to video of hearings SCC
• Ontario Courts

Unofficial

• CanLii
• And unofficial but excellent secondary sources: CanLii Connects

Miscellaneous

• Catherine Best’s “Best Guide to Legal Research”. It’s also worth checking out her articles on legal research, where, among other things, she keeps up-to-date tabs on how the various research tools compare.
• Canadian Online Legal Dictionary from Irwin Law
• Class Notes 1: Mining Social Media for Legal Research
• Class Notes 2: Strategic Legal Research of Blogs
• Duhaime legal dictionary, if you find an abbreviation in a citation that you don’t understand, Duhaime also has a Citation Guide that’s quite useful.
• Dalhousie Law Library — recommended resources on various topics.