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| Statutes - Federal | Statutes - Provincial & Municipal |
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Annotated Federal Statutes: Print Format
- Canadian Charter of Rights: Annotated
- REF KE 4381 A6 C362, L/R/S
- Income Tax Act, Annotated
- Martin's Annual Criminal Code
- REF KE 8804.9 M35, C/L/R/S
- Tremeear's Criminal Code
- print: REF KE 8804.53 T74 , C/L/R/S
- CD-ROM: may be borrowed, C/L/R/S
Updating Tools: Print Format
- Annual updates to the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985 (RSC 1985) are called:
- Statutes of Canada (SC 20__)
REF KE 89 C36, S
- Canada Gazette, Part II (RSC 1985)
- Canada Legislative Index (ceased July 2010)
- Canada Statute Citator
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Updating Tools: Print Format
- The Revised Statutes of British Columbia, 1996 (RSBC 1996) are updated in a looseleaf binder
- BC Legislative Digest (ceased July 2010)
- BC Statute Citator
Municipal Bylaws
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| Case Law - Canada | Case Law - BC |
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For the curious:
- List of Supreme Court of Canada Cases
- Wikipedia page includes lists of cases by each Chief Justice, by author of the judgment, and by year.
- also links to list of Privy Council cases, notable lower court, and appeal court cases
Print Encyclopedia
- Canadian Encyclopedic Digest, Western (CED)
Print Case Reporters
- Canadian Criminal Cases (CCC)
- REF KE 8805.8 C33, S/R/L
- + Online access via BestCase
- Criminal Reports (CR)
- REF KE 8805.8 C754, S/R/L
- Dominion Law Reports (DLR)
- REF KE 8805.8 C754 L/R
- + Online access via BestCase
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Print Case Reporters
- British Columbia Law Reports (BCLR)
- REF KEB 104 B751, S/R/L [to 1995 only]
- Canadian Criminal Cases (CCC)
- REF KE 8805.8 C33, S/R/L
- + Online access via BestCase
- Criminal Reports (CR)
- REF KE 8805.8 C754, S/R/L
- Dominion Law Reports (DLR)
- REF KE 132.3 D651, R/L
- + Online access via BestCase
- Western Weekly Reports (WWR)
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KUC Library subscribes to a variety of journals both in print and online. If you're not sure if a journal is scholarly (often called "academic" or "peer-reviewed"), look at our checklist .
Law Article Indexes
- BC Legal Literature Index
- Courthouse Libraries BC's searchable index of several local legal magazines and other sources, some dating back to 1943.
- select 'BC Legal Literature Index' checkbox in list of search tools displayed
- bePress Legal Repository
- open-access collection of legal articles, lectures, etc.; searchable by subject or institution (eg. Harvard Law School)
- Current Law Journal Content
- searchable index of over 1200 law reviews, since 2005
- HeinOnline (Kwantlen login required)
- full-text for many U.S. legal journals in the Political Science Journals Plus collection
- Quicklaw (Kwantlen login required)
- includes approx. 20 full-text Canadian law reviews
- also contains the Index to Canadian Legal Literature
Other Useful Article Indexes
(your Kwantlen login is required for all of these databases)
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Other Useful Dictionaries
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Citation Styles ( Link to Kwantlen Library's brief Legal Citation Guide )
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Case citations are used to locate legal cases. They indicate where judges' decisions have been reported or published. The citations provide you with the name of the case (called the 'style of cause'), the year of the decision, the volume number, reporter abbreviation, series number (if applicable), page number and court level.
Here is a citation for the 1988 Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) decision in the criminal case (R = Regina or Queen) involving Henry Morgentaler that was published in volume 37 of the third series (3d) of the Canadian Criminal Cases (CCC) reporter, starting on page 449:
R v Morgentaler (1988), 37 CCC (3d) 449 (SCC).
Many case reports and other legal documents are now reproduced on the internet. Citing these electronic documents correctly is very important. For a good explanation and examples of how to cite both print and electronic versions of cases, statutes and other legal documents, please see this book:
Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation, 7th ed. New (also called "the McGill Guide ")
REF KE 259 C35 2010
The Kwantlen Library has a 4-page Legal Citation Guide . Queen's University's Law Library also publishes an excellent guide on its website which covers both print and web legal materials. For a quick overview of the major changes in the new 7th edition of the McGill Guide, see this list compiled by law librarian Ted Tjaden.
TIP: Not sure what all those abbreviations in the citations mean? Check Duhaime’s list of Legal Citations & Abbreviations .
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