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The criteria for
selecting an appropriate electronic research tool are similar to those for
evaluating print sources:
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comprehensiveness |
 | accuracy |
 | currency |
 | quality of
content |
 | ease of use |
 | cost. |
However, this task
is more complex in the electronic research world because of the large range of
research functions the major sources offer; the complexity of their pricing; and
the differing results depending on the search engine, the content, the
interface, and the expertise of the user.
This paper
explores the comparative strengths and weaknesses of
Quicklaw and
LawSource. It
also considers what CanLII can offer as an alternative to the commercial
services. The paper is organized based on common research tasks.
 | LawSource, Quicklaw and CanLII all permit
users to find documents by name or citation, as well as to conduct
keyword searches in the full text. |
|
 | LawSource, Quicklaw and CanLII assume that
most users will want to search the entire case collection. However, users are given the option to refine by
jurisdiction, court, date and various other filters in the search template. |
|
 | Search methods
 | The default searching method on LawSource is
by template, but users can also search using Boolean search syntax
or an excellent natural language search engine. Users therefore don't need to understand the
Boolean syntax to use many features of the product. |
 | Quicklaw only
offers Boolean searching for creating keyword search queries. |
 | CanLII uses a template
that allows full Boolean searching but also supports some natural
language features such as word stemming and phrase identification. |
 | See the comparison chart of search syntax
for WestlaweCARSWELL, Quicklaw and CanLII. |
|
|
 | LawSource, Quicklaw and CanLII allow users to
easily refine or narrow their searches. |
|
 | Quicklaw offers tremendous flexibility in
sorting and grouping search results. LawSource is more restrictive
in this regard. In particular, on LawSource search results cannot be
re-sorted after the search is run. Instead, user preferences must be
changed before the search is run. CanLII allows users to sort search
results by date, relevance and citation frequency. This last
option is not available on Quicklaw or LawSource. |
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LawSource and Quicklaw
The following
table compares the features of LawSource and Quicklaw relevant to searching case
law.
| Feature |
LawSource |
Quicklaw |
| Full text searching options |
Keyword searching by template, Boolean or natural language,
with field searching by template. |
Keyword searching by Boolean query, with field searching by template
and ability to narrow search using a drill-down topical classification. |
| Find a case |
By citation or by name, at a notional cost of
$3.50 per case. Also applies to any documents linked to from within a
case or KeyCite report. |
By citation or by name, at a notional cost of
$3.00 per case. Also applies to any documents linked to from within a
case, results list, or QuickCite report. |
| Default ranking for template and Boolean searches |
By court level and within that by date, with option to change preference to relevancy BEFORE
search is conducted |
Relevancy, with ability to re-sort search results
by date, jurisdiction or court and to group results by topic and
jurisdiction |
| Refining searches |
Locate feature (no notional charge). |
Narrow search (time-based notional hourly rate
applies). |
| Notional cost of keyword search |
$15 notional charge per search, with Edit Search
triggering another notional search charge. No additional cost for
viewing cases retrieved in search list. No time-based charges. |
Notional charge of $235 per hour while composing
and running searches or printing/downloading results. Time stops
running while linking to individual cases in results list at notional
charge of $3 per case. |
| Range of coverage for Canadian case law |
Excellent historical coverage using Carswell case
reporters; comprehensive coverage of all reported cases from 1977 and
all cases from 1986; collection of pre-1977 decisions from key courts
and law report series. |
Comprehensive coverage of all cases from 1986;
goal to publish all reported court decisions from 1970 and all pre-1970
decisions cited by cases decided from 1970; excellent historical coverage in SCC, Federal
Court, BC and Ontario
databases. |
| Administrative tribunals |
Includes some, particularly labour tribunals.
Tribunals are searched together with cases. |
Includes a broad range of tribunals. Tribunals
are searched separately from cases. |
| Value-added |
Headnotes for almost all cases; parallel
citations shown; list of
authorities; Abridgment classification and digests for case, with link
to all digests under relevant classifications; KeyCite; links to cited cases;
paragraph numbering in all cases; outside of subscription links to court
documents and international material. |
Headnotes for many cases; parallel citations
shown; topical classification; QuickCite; links to
cited cases; paragraph numbering in many cases; outside of subscription
links to some international material. |
| Information in results list |
Results list contains case name, court, date, parallel citations,
docket number, detailed subject classifications, search terms in context,
judicial treatment symbols. |
Can sort results by topic, court,
jurisdiction. Results list contains case name, court, date, Quicklaw citation, number of
pages, search terms in context, judicial treatment symbols. |
| Duplicate documents |
Can eliminate from list using Preference
settings. |
Cannot eliminate from list. However, selecting
LexisNexis Canadian Judgments as source will avoid duplicates. |
| Print/download options |
Can tag documents and print or download. No
notional charge for Canadian cases. |
Can tag documents and print or download, but lose
tags if sort order or result grouping is changed. Notional charge of $3
per document for print/download. |
| Research trail |
Available for each search for up to 14 days, with ability to return
to results on the same day without additional cost. Can set preferences
to automatically email research trail. |
Ability to place documents in folder for
retrieval within 24 hours. Recent documents can be viewed (48 hours) and
recent searches retrieved (7 days). |
| Clipping service |
Available to update searches at specified
intervals. Can also use KeyCite Alert to update note-up results. |
Available to update searches at specified
intervals. |
| Adding automated links to user documents |
CiteLink Canada creates links from
citations in user documents to the full text documents in WeC and can
create a table of authorities for the user document |
QuickFind subscribers can use Auto Link to create
links from case law citations in user documents to the full text
decisions in Quicklaw |
CanLII
CanLII contains
case law and tribunal decisions from across Canada. Collection development
objectives include building a comprehensive case law collection for all Canadian
superior courts from the beginning of 2000. This has been accomplished for
most jurisdictions and the coverage for
many goes further back.
Several administrative tribunals
contribute their decisions for publication on CanLII. Current collection
development priorities for administrative tribunals are human rights, labour
law, and professional discipline, and privacy decisions.
To see a full description of the
current scope of coverage, click on the
Scope of
Coverage link on the CanLII home page.
CanLII permits
searching in full text and by citation or title, with
refinement by date range and type of document. The Advanced Search
page permits customization by
jurisdiction, court level and type of tribunal. Users can search the whole
collection or select a jurisdiction from the home page
menu. Users can refine their search results using the
query box at the beginning of each results list.
Search results
can be sorted by relevance, date or citation frequency. The citation frequency
ranking method enables the user to quickly identify leading cases in the results
list.
Other sources
Other free sources of case law include
 | Australasian Legal Information Institute (AUSTLII)
for Australian and New Zealand law |
 | British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII)
for English, Irish and Scottish law |
 | Legal Information Institute (LII)
for US law |
 |
LexisOne (most recent 5 years of US appellate case law) |
 | Public
Library of Law for US law |
Lexis and Westlaw are excellent commercial services for
US, UK and European law, but are very expensive.
Effective
legislative research requires the reader to study and consider a legislative
provision in the context of the whole Act, rather than looking at an isolated
section. Regulations should be considered as well as the statute. The
legislation you review must be current. Effective judicial
consideration research often requires that you find out about previous revisions
of the legislation. These factors should be considered when choosing your
source for legislation.
LawSource and Quicklaw Comparison
Analysis of a detailed comparison of the legislation available on LawSource and
Quicklaw as of
January 31, 2008 leads to the following generalizations regarding the legislative research tools available on these two services.
 | Quicklaw is very current for federal, Alberta, British
Columbia and Ontario legislation and should therefore be used in preference
to LawSource if you are researching legislation in one of those
jurisdictions. For jurisdictions that are only updated semi-annually or
quarterly on
Quicklaw,
LawSource will often be more current. |
|
 | LawSource does not contain complete regulations for
any jurisdiction, so either Quicklaw or CanLII will be preferable sources for
regulations unless the particular regulation you are researching is within
the limited selection available on LawSource. |
|
 | If your objective is to research all
statutes (not regulations) across Canada, this can be done by
section on
either LawSource or Quicklaw. |
|
 | Quicklaw contains much better legislative
history information, including a reference to the previous
revision. It permits point in time research for federal,
Alberta, BC and Ontario statutes. This allows the researcher to
view all versions of a section from the commencement of point in
time coverage, or to request the version in force on a
particular date. |
|
 | Law Source legislative history
information is only for the current revision. |
|
 | LawSource permits the user to travel to sequential
sections of the legislation using the Next and Previous links. On Quicklaw this is done by searching for the Act by name
or citation and then opening up each section in turn from the
results list. |
|
 | LawSource includes KeyCite, which lists judicial
consideration of statutes and will soon be adding rules of court and
regulations to its coverage. KeyCite has full historical
coverage spanning earlier legislative revisions. |
|
 | Quicklaw has recently expanded QuickCite
to include statutes
judicially considered, but only for the most recent legislative revision. It includes cases from January 1992 (from 2005 for Quebec)
and is not as comprehensive as KeyCite. |
|
 | The Rules of Court can be searched on either Quicklaw or LawSource. However,
LawSource has the additional feature of a Rules Concordance, and
will soon be adding Rules Judicially
Considered to KeyCite. |
|
CanLII
CanLII publishes statutes and regulations from all
Canadian jurisdictions except British Columbia. Its legislative coverage for
some provincial jurisdictions is stronger than that offered by the commercial
services.
 | Most of the provincial legislation databases are
updated monthly. |
|
 |
The federal legislation is updated
concurrently with the Department of Justice website. |
|
 | Federal legislation is available on CanLII in section
by section version and entire Act version. Provincial legislation is
available only in entire Act version at present, but a project to add access
by section is underway. |
|
 | Users can search the entire legislation collection or
specify which jurisdiction or statute they want to search in. Legislation
can also be accessed by browsing alphabetically. Regulations enacted
pursuant to a statute are listed beside the statute and can be searched
together with the statute. |
|
 | Legislative collections include a
reference to the previous revision. |
|
 | CanLII is building links from statute references in
its case collection to the full text of the legislation. In the federal
collection, these links are the basis for a noteup feature that
lists cases referring to a legislative section. The links are
dependent on proper citation format being used in the case, and
are not comprehensive. It is not possible for
CanLII to ensure that the version of the legislation being linked to is the
same as the version referred to in the case. |
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Other sources
QP LegalEze
QP LegalEze is a web-based legislative research tool for
British Columbia legislation published by the Queen's Printer. There is an
annual subscription fee.
This product is current, and if used regularly is less
expensive than using Quicklaw or LawSource for legislative research.
However, it does not permit section by section research and larger Acts are only
available in Parts. There is no ability beyond the Print Selection feature of
your web browser to print out individual sections of legislation.
Legislative history information is included in separate
tables for each Act, rather than recorded under each section.
Quickscribe
Quickscribe is a private publisher that publishes British
Columbia legislation through its service
Quickscribe
Online, and also publishes legislation in print. Although access to those
services is by paid subscription only, QuickScribe offers two value-added
features to the general public. QuickScribe publishes the
BC Legislation Portal,
which lists daily updates to British Columbia legislation. From that site,
persons can subscribe without charge to RSS feeds for particular Acts, and will
be notified when the specified legislation is amended.
Free sites
LawSource
LawSource contains the full text of the
Canadian
Encyclopedic Digest, both the Western and Ontario editions.
 | The CED can be accessed through the LawSource table
of contents or through a keyword search. |
 | References to the CED also appear in the KeyCite
results for cases that have been cited in the CED. |
 | Currency information for each title is included in
the table of contents for that title, and currency varies considerably from
one title to the next. |
Other than the full text articles, no other narrative
secondary sources are included in LawSource. However, there are several topical
products in the WestlaweCARSWELL family that contain leading secondary
sources pertinent to particular areas of law.
Quicklaw
Quicklaw contains a broad range of text books, primarily from
the Irwin Law collection.
 | These texts are not integrated into QuickCite, but
case references in the texts are linked into the Quicklaw case collection. |
 | Individual texts can be searched in full text or
accessed through a table of contents. |
 | Currency varies from one title to the next, depending
on when the text was published. |
Quicklaw offers several additional secondary sources
published by Butterworths through additional subscriptions rather than as part
of the basic Quicklaw service.
Comparison
There are more subjects covered in the CED than in the
Irwin law texts in Quicklaw.
 | For example, if you are interested in the law
relating to timber rights the CED would be a better choice. |
 | However, the Irwin law texts go beyond traditional
legal topics and include titles dealing with newer legal issues such as
computer law, environmental law, class actions and media law. |
The analysis and commentary in the Irwin law texts tends
to be better than in the CED, which is primarily useful for obtaining references
to cases on a point of law or finding a brief "black letter" summary of a legal
principle. However, the CED tends to contain more case references than the
Irwin law texts. Also, the CED Western is useful to British Columbia
practitioners because of its emphasis on law from the Western provinces.
Other sources
There is a vast world of secondary sources available only
in print. These should not be overlooked. Often the research process will be
more informed, efficient and effective if one of these sources is consulted
before electronic research is commenced. See the list of
Suggested Textbooks for a place to start.
LegalTree also contains a
good list of treatises and internet sites organized by subject.
LawSource
LawSource includes the
Canadian Abridgment case
digests.
 | The digests can be accessed through a hierarchical
table of contents using the Abridgment classification scheme, or by
searching the digests using keywords. |
 | You can select certain classifications from the table
of contents and restrict your search to digests within those
classifications. |
 | When viewing a case you can see the Abridgment
classifications for the case and then link to all the digests under that classification
to find similar cases. |
Quicklaw
 | Quicklaw contains a database called Canadian Case Summaries
that you can search by keyword. The database contains summaries prepared by Quicklaw editors that also function as case head-notes. |
 | Quicklaw has created a two level topical
classification scheme that can be used from the case search template to
restrict your research to a particular topic. The headings can
also be used to sort your search results by topic. Cases are classified
under these topics as
they are added to the Quicklaw databases. |
Comparison
The Abridgment digests are a more full-featured and
comprehensive tool than the Canadian Case Summaries on Quicklaw. The Abridgment digests are
organized within a classification hierarchy and are integrated with the case law
collection. The recent completion of the 3rd edition has modernized and improved
the classification scheme.
The Quicklaw topical classification scheme adds similar
functionalities by enabling users to search within the Quicklaw case collection
by topic. However, the Quicklaw topics are broader and therefore less precise
than the Abridgment classifications. The classifications are assigned to the
cases by running pre-designed queries against each case when it is put into the
Quicklaw collection.
Other sources
British Columbia lawyers can subscribe to the Continuing
Legal Education Society's
Case Digest Connection. A subscription to the archives allows searching on
the case digest collection.
Quicklaw has added Canadian Legal Words and Phrases to its
core Canadian content. This source contains excerpts from cases and tribunal
decisions in which words and phrases are judicially defined. Coverage starts
from January 2000. The number of entries at present are small, and this should
be considered only one tool of many for words and phrases research.
LawSource will be adding its own words and phrases
collection in May-June 2008, based on Carswell's Words and Phrases
publication.
KeyCite and QuickCite
QuickCite is the case citator on Quicklaw, and KeyCite is the
case citator on LawSource. KeyCite tends to add citing cases sooner than
QuickCite, but the treatment code is not assigned when the citing case is first
added to KeyCite.
The following table sets out the key differences
between KeyCite and QuickCite. For more detailed coverage of these distinctions, including the
treatment codes used by each citator, see
Make Your Research Current - Case
Citators.
| KeyCite |
QuickCite |
 | More historical depth and covers foreign cases
cited by Canadian courts |
 | Focus on whether case is good law |
 | Organized by treatment, with options to filter
list |
 | Better treatment of direct history |
 | Includes secondary sources referring to case and
some foreign citing cases |
 | Status flags on citing cases as well as cited
case |
 | Can refine citator results by keyword search |
|
 | More treatment codes, such as a code for citing
case in a dissenting judgment |
 | Includes cases even if only referred to |
 | Organized by jurisdiction and court, with
flexibility to re-sort and filter |
 | Locus page references |
 | Status symbols on cited case |
|
CanLII
CanLII builds links between cases using its
Reflex
database. The Reflex database is based on neutral citations, the CanLII
citation, and reporter citations from 1985 for cases published in several
commonly-used case reporters. The Reflex database enables users to search on
CanLII by citation, to note up cases, and to rank cases by frequency of
citation. This citator does not assign treatment codes.
LawSource contains an electronic version of
Canadian Statutes
Citations, called KeyCite.
 | Judicial consideration of a statute section can be
retrieved by typing in the citation for the section on the home page of
LawSource, or by clicking on the Citing References link when viewing the
statute section. |
 | The report is organized by subsection, first listing
cases considering the section as a whole, and then listing judicial
consideration by subsection. |
 | KeyCite includes judicial consideration for older
statute revisions, not just for the revision currently published on
LawSource. |
 | By June 2008, KeyCite will also cover judicial
consideration of rules of court and regulations. |
 | Testing in respect of British Columbia judgments
indicated a time lag of 3-6 weeks before British Columbia cases were
included in KeyCite results for statutes judicially considered. |
Quicklaw has recently introduced its own statute citator.
QuickCite lists cases from 1992 (for Quebec from 2005) that judicially consider
the most recent revision of each jurisdiction's legislation. In order to look
for judicial consideration of statutes on Quicklaw beyond this scope it is necessary to search in
the full text case law for distinctive terms from the name of the statute in conjunction with
the section number. Because of the time lag between when cases are released and
when they are processed for inclusion in the statute citators, it is necessary to conduct
this type of keyword search in either product in order to be completely current.
The most efficient use of the electronic statute citators is in conjunction with a
publication such as
Statutes of British Columbia Judicially Considered, which provides a
summary of the most important citing cases. Another good way to augment your
statute citator research is to consult an annotated version of the legislation you are
researching.
CanLII is rebuilding its statute collection and when
completed it will enable links between individual statute sections and cases
referring to the section. Some links are currently available between legislation and cases citing that legislation. However, these links should not be
considered comprehensive and other sources should be consulted to complete your
research regarding judicial consideration of the legislation.
LawSource
LawSource includes the
Index to
Canadian Legal Literature, as well as a collection of
full-text journal
articles and the case comments from the Carswell
topical reporters.
 | This material has been integrated with KeyCite, so
that a case citator report lists full-text articles on LawSource where
the case is referred to, and also includes references to ICLL entries
where the case is the subject of a case comment. |
|
 | A search of the full text journal collection on
LawSource is more expensive than a search through the case law, at a
notional cost of $40 per search. This search will cover the full text
journals, the topical reporter case comments, and the ICLL. |
|
 | LawSource is adding entries for journal articles from
other jurisdictions to the KeyCite results, although so far this represents
a limited subset of the large collection of full text articles
in the international library. These articles are
outside of the flat-rate subscription, so you will incur an additional fee
to view them and print them. |
|
Quicklaw
The core flat-rate subscription to Quicklaw includes
 | a collection of Canadian full-text journal articles |
 | the Index to Canadian Legal Literature |
 | the Canadian Law Symposia Index |
 | full text access to international journals in the LexisNexis
collection (at premium rate notional pricing). |
This material is not integrated into QuickCite. However,
links to the full text articles on Quicklaw are being incorporated into the ICLL
database and the case law databases.
Netletters and other current awareness publications on
Quicklaw
can also be a useful source of commentary. They are included in the global
commentary database, and are also part of the topical databases in Quicklaw.
Comparison
There are some differences between the selection of
journals available in full text on each of
Quicklaw and LawSource, and the range of
coverage for these journals.
 | Quicklaw has a more comprehensive Canadian journals
collection, and includes the international collection within the core
subscription |
 | coverage for journals included in both services tends
to start earlier in Quicklaw |
 | a determination of which service is more appropriate
will also depend on the topic being researched. |
Other sources
 | There is a wealth of full text journal material
available through Lexis and Westlaw in their full-text journal databases.
Each of these services also carries legal periodical indexes that cover over
750 publications. |
|
 | Hein Online and LegalTrac are available free of
charge to in-library users at the British Columbia Courthouse Library. Hein
Online is a collection of full-text legal articles and LegalTrac is a
periodicals index equivalent to the legal periodicals indices on Lexis and
Westlaw. These services are also available to library users at the UBC law
library. |
|
 | The University of Toronto Law Library publishes a
useful
directory of electronic sources for law journals. If you are unsure
where a journal is published electronically this is likely to be the most
efficient way to find out where you can get it. |
|
 | Some important journals, such as the Canadian Bar
Review and The Advocate, are not available in full text through any of the commercial services.
Articles from the Canadian Bar Review since 1923 are available
to Canadian Bar Association members at
cba.org in the publications
section. There is a rudimentary search engine and they are indexed by
subject. Canadian Bar Review articles are also indexed in the Index to Canadian Legal
Literature and the Canadian Index to Legal Periodicals. An
electronic index to The Advocate is published on
the BC
Courthouse Library website. |
|
 | CLE seminar papers from the BC Continuing
Legal Education Society are available with a subscription
through CLE
Online. |
|
LawSource
LawSource subscribers are entitled, at no extra cost, to
receive digests of recent cases in various areas of law. Current areas are
Aboriginal, Administrative, Bankruptcy and Insolvency, Business Associations,
Commercial, Constitutional, Damages, Employment, Estates and Trusts, Family,
Impaired Driving, Insurance, Labour, Practice, Real Property, Torts, and Young
Offenders. Subscribers can
link from the digest to the full text, but will incur the notional cost of $3.50
for linking to a case.
LawSource also provides free access to recent Supreme
Court of Canada decisions.
Quicklaw
Quicklaw provides an extensive current awareness service in
various practice areas through its family of NetLetters. A NetLetter is a
summary of recent cases in a specific area of the law. Quicklaw also posts recent
Supreme Court of Canada decisions in its Supreme Court of Canada Service, and
makes digests of significant recent decisions available without charge through the LAWNET Legal Update
Service (RSS feed available).
Other sources
CanLII has introduced RSS feeds for superior court
decisions, allowing users to receive all decisions from particular courts
through their RSS reader. Some Queen's Printers and Quickscribe have introduced
RSS feeds for notification of new legislation and amendments.
The BC Superior Courts website permits easy access to
judgments released during the current week, and many lawyers make a habit of
checking the site each week to keep up on the most current cases.
Summaries
of recent Court of
Appeal judgments are available from the court.
The CLE Society of British Columbia publishes case digests
for British Columbia cases weekly in electronic format, available by
subscription. Each digest links to the full
text of the case from the court website. The
CLE home page contains free
current information of interest to lawyers, including some recent CLE papers,
and can be customized by practice area.
Canada Law Book has a
Case Alert
service for subscribers to notify them of recent cases in the following
topical areas: Aboriginal, Bankruptcy & Insolvency, Civil Litigation, Corporate
& Commercial, Criminal, Employment, Family, Immigration, Insurance, Intellectual
Property, Labour, Municipal & Planning, Real Property, and Wills Estates & Trusts.
Users can link to a full text version of the case.
LawSource and Quicklaw
With respect to LawSource and Quicklaw, it is impossible to
conclude that one is vastly superior to the other, or to advise users to
subscribe to one rather than the other. Each service has strengths and
weaknesses, and these should be taken into account in deciding which service to
use for discrete tasks. If you intend to subscribe to only one service, then you
must consider which research tasks are most important to you and evaluate how
well that service does the task and at what cost.
 | LawSource is more full-featured, with better integration
of primary and secondary sources,
more value-added features, and more searching options. Quicklaw is much
stronger in its coverage of administrative tribunals. With some
exceptions, Quicklaw is also stronger for statutory research. Its
journal collection and current awareness collection are superior. |
|
 | The Abridgment case digests and the CED on
LawSource are more comprehensive than the Irwin law texts and global
case digests database on Quicklaw, making them superior finding tools.
However, in particular subject areas the Irwin law texts and
Quicklaw
topical databases will provide better commentary. |
|
 | The case citators on LawSource and Quicklaw are
both good, but each is designed quite differently and users are
likely to develop a preference for one over the other. The LawSource statute citator
has superior coverage. |
|
 | Quicklaw has a words and phrases feature, but
the upcoming introduction of Carswell's Words and Phrases on
LawSource will likely make LawSource preferable for this type of
search. |
|
 | Notional cost is a relevant consideration.
Certain tasks can be performed much less expensively on one service
than the other, particularly by a researcher who knows how to
maximize the features of the product. Some of these cost issues can
be addressed by using CanLII in conjunction with the commercial
services. |
|
CanLII
CanLII is not comprehensive enough to be your sole source
for case law or statute research. However, it is an excellent source for free
access to current legislation and to case law from 2000, with earlier case law
coverage for several courts. It is funded and owned by the Canadian legal
profession.
 | Because there is no charge for using it, lawyers are
likely to try more different search queries and spend more time reading
cases and legislation online. |
|
 | CanLII is designed for ease of use, with
a simple interface and a search engine that accommodates both
sophisticated Boolean searches and more natural searching. |
|
 | In taxation hearings, disbursements for
obtaining cases from commercial services have been disallowed where the
documents were available from free services such as CanLII and
court websites. |
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