Making Good Choices: Canadian Electronic Research

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Best Guide to Canadian Legal Research
Copyright © 1995-2008 Catherine P. Best
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bulletIntroduction
bulletSearch Interface
bulletPrimary Sources
bulletCase Law
bulletStatutes and Regulations
bulletSecondary Sources
bulletTexts and Encyclopedias
bulletCase Digests
bulletWords and Phrases
bulletCase Citators
bulletStatutes Citators
bullet Journal Articles and Periodicals Indices
bulletCurrent Awareness
bulletConclusions
bulletReferences

 

Introduction

The criteria for selecting an appropriate electronic research tool are similar to those for evaluating print sources:

bullet comprehensiveness
bulletaccuracy
bulletcurrency
bulletquality of content
bulletease of use
bulletcost.

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.

 

Search interface

bulletLawSource, Quicklaw and CanLII all permit users to find documents by name or citation, as well as to conduct keyword searches in the full text.
bulletLawSource, 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.
bulletSearch methods
bulletThe 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.
bulletQuicklaw only offers Boolean searching for creating keyword search queries.
bulletCanLII uses a template that allows full Boolean searching but also supports some natural language features such as word stemming and phrase identification.
bulletSee the comparison chart of search syntax for WestlaweCARSWELL, Quicklaw and CanLII.
bulletLawSource, Quicklaw and CanLII allow users to easily refine or narrow their searches.
bulletQuicklaw 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.

 

Primary sources

Case law

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 documentThe 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

bulletAustralasian Legal Information Institute (AUSTLII) for Australian and New Zealand law
bulletBritish and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII) for English, Irish and Scottish law
bulletLegal Information Institute (LII) for US law
bullet LexisOne (most recent 5 years of US appellate case law)
bulletPublic Library of Law for US law

Lexis and Westlaw are excellent commercial services for US, UK and European law, but are very expensive.

 

Statutes and regulations

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.

bulletQuicklaw 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.
bulletLawSource 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.
bulletIf your objective is to research all statutes (not regulations) across Canada, this can be done by section on either LawSource or Quicklaw.
bulletQuicklaw 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.
bulletLaw Source legislative history information is only for the current revision.
bulletLawSource 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.
bulletLawSource 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.
bulletQuicklaw 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.
bulletThe 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.

bulletMost of the provincial legislation databases are updated monthly.
bullet The federal legislation is updated concurrently with the Department of Justice website.
bulletFederal 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.
bulletUsers 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.
bulletLegislative collections include a reference to the previous revision.
bulletCanLII 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.

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

bulletAccess to bills and legislation from across Canada is conveniently listed in Internet Sources of Canadian Legislation and Parliamentary Material at the Bora Laskin Law Library, University of Toronto Faculty of Law.
bulletAn excellent source for federal bills is Legisinfo.
bulletIn addition to CanLII, free federal legislation is available through the Department of Justice.
bulletThe British Columbia Queen's Printer website provides free access to the BC statutes and regulations, but is usually between 6 and 15 months out of date.

 

Secondary sources

Texts and Encyclopedias

LawSource

LawSource contains the full text of the Canadian Encyclopedic Digest, both the Western and Ontario editions.

bulletThe CED can be accessed through the LawSource table of contents or through a keyword search.
bulletReferences to the CED also appear in the KeyCite results for cases that have been cited in the CED.
bulletCurrency 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.

bulletThese texts are not integrated into QuickCite, but case references in the texts are linked into the Quicklaw case collection.
bulletIndividual texts can be searched in full text or accessed through a table of contents.
bulletCurrency 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.

bulletFor example, if you are interested in the law relating to timber rights the CED would be a better choice.
bulletHowever, 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.

 

Case Digests

LawSource

LawSource includes the Canadian Abridgment case digests.

bulletThe digests can be accessed through a hierarchical table of contents using the Abridgment classification scheme, or by searching the digests using keywords.
bulletYou can select certain classifications from the table of contents and restrict your search to digests within those classifications.
bulletWhen 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

bulletQuicklaw 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.
bulletQuicklaw 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.

 

Words and Phrases

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.

 

Case Citators

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
bulletMore historical depth and covers foreign cases cited by Canadian courts
bulletFocus on whether case is good law
bulletOrganized by treatment, with options to filter list
bulletBetter treatment of direct history
bulletIncludes secondary sources referring to case and some foreign citing cases
bulletStatus flags on citing cases as well as cited case
bulletCan refine citator results by keyword search
bulletMore treatment codes, such as a code for citing case in a dissenting judgment
bulletIncludes cases even if only referred to
bulletOrganized by jurisdiction and court, with flexibility to re-sort and filter
bulletLocus page references
bulletStatus 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.

 

Statute Citators

LawSource contains an electronic version of Canadian Statutes Citations, called KeyCite.

bulletJudicial 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.
bulletThe report is organized by subsection, first listing cases considering the section as a whole, and then listing judicial consideration by subsection.
bulletKeyCite includes judicial consideration for older statute revisions, not just for the revision currently published on LawSource.
bulletBy June 2008, KeyCite will also cover judicial consideration of rules of court and regulations.
bulletTesting 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.

 

Journal articles and periodicals indices

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.

bulletThis 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.
bulletA 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.
bulletLawSource 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

bulleta collection of Canadian full-text journal articles
bulletthe Index to Canadian Legal Literature
bulletthe Canadian Law Symposia Index
bulletfull 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.

bulletQuicklaw has a more comprehensive Canadian journals collection, and includes the international collection within the core subscription
bulletcoverage for journals included in both services tends to start earlier in Quicklaw
bulleta determination of which service is more appropriate will also depend on the topic being researched.

Other sources

bulletThere 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.
bulletHein 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.
bulletThe 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.
bulletSome 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.
bulletCLE seminar papers from the BC Continuing Legal Education Society are available with a subscription through CLE Online.

 

Current awareness

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.

 

Conclusions

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.

bulletLawSource 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.
bulletThe 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.
bulletThe 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.
bulletQuicklaw 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.
bulletNotional 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.

bulletBecause 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.
bulletCanLII is designed for ease of use, with a simple interface and a search engine that accommodates both sophisticated Boolean searches and more natural searching.
bulletIn 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.

 

References

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