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CANLII - Canadian Legal Information Institute
Provides access to court judgments, tribunal decisions, statutes and regulations from all Canadian jurisdictions.
FEDERAL
Canada Gazette
Parts I,II,& III of the Canada Gazette since 1998.
Consolidated Statutes and Regulations
Maintained by the Department of Justice. Includes current and repealed acts, as well as annual statutes 2001-present. 1998-present are available in Canada Gazette part III. Older statutes are available on HeinOnline & Internet Archive.
Orders in Council
You can search in Council from 1990 to present; those
from November 2002 are a full-text available in full-text on the site;
previous ones can be ordered.
Parliament of Canada (House of Commons and Senate Debates Status of Business etc.)
This site is maintained jointly by the House of Commons,
Senate and Library of Parliament and includes the debates of the Senate
and House of Commons, Journals, Papers and Notices, and Progress of
Legislation. For detailed information current bills, including the text
of the bill, press releases, legislative summaries, important speeches
at second reading, votes and coming force information.
Links to court decisions, cases in brief, scheduled hearings, archived webcasts and more.
ONTARIO
Ontario Bills
This site links to the portion of the Ontario
Legislative Assembly site that allows you the status of a bill or locate
the full text. Includes bills from previous sites whether or not they
were passed.
Ontario Gazette
This site links into .pdf versions of the individual issues of the Ontario Gazette.
Ontario Legislation (e-Laws)
Quick, and comprehensive access to the consolidated laws
of Ontario. The goal of this site to be udated within 14 days of a
change in the laws.
Ontario Legislative Assembly
This site allows you to tract the progress of bills, check for proclamations, and search Hansard since 1990.
Also available on CanLII and subscription databases such as Lexis Advance Quicklaw, and WestlawNext Canada.
Ontario Superior Court of Justice & Divisional Court Recent Decisions
A collection of judgments of the Superior Court of Justice, primarily released after October 1, 2002, is posted on CanLII. Judgments are also available on a number of subscription based services such as Lexis Advance Quicklaw and WestlawNext Canada.
Ontario Court of Justice Recent DecisionsA collection of judgments of the Ontario Court of Justice, primarily released after April 1, 2004, is posted on CanLII. Judgments are also available on a number of subscription based services such as Lexis Advance Quicklaw and WestlawNext Canada.
INTERNATIONAL
AustLII - Australasian Legal Information Institute
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primary source materials from the country such as legislation and case
law and selected secondary materials created for public use. AustLII
allows the user to search all materials together or search within
sub-categories, such as New South Wales: Supreme Court Cases. The site
can be accessed at www.austlii.edu.au/
BAILII - British and Irish Legal Information Institute
This site offers free access to primary British and
Irish legal information. It allows for cross-jurisdictional searching of
case law and legislation for England, Scotland and Ireland. Cases
include embedded links to cases and legislation both within the United
Kingdom and internationally. www.bailii.org
WorldLII - World Legal Information Institute
WorldLII provides a single search facility for databases located on the following Legal Information Institutes: AustLII; BAILII; CanLII; HKLII; LII (Cornell); and PacLII. WorldLII also includes as part of this searchable collection its own databases not found on other LIIs. These include databases of decisions of international Courts and Tribunals, databases from a number of Asian countries, and databases from South Africa.
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