Legislation
Official source for federal statutes.
What is JUSTICELAWS?
A place to look for judicial consideration of a term.
What is Sanagan's Words & Phrases OR Words & Phrases?
The email address used for all research requests.
What is Library Request?
A court assigned case reference.
What is a neutral citation?
BLG's intranet.
What is UNO?
The name for a statute that includes all of its amendments.
What is a CONSOLIDATED STATUTE?
You consult this to find equivalent sections of an Act in other jurisdictions.
What is a concordance?
Name two BLG-specific finding tools.
What are
BLG Library catalog;
BLG Bibliographies;
Uno search box?
Noting up cases accomplishes these two things.
What are determines whether your case is still good law (subsequent history) AND provides list of cases citing your case (citing references)?
Federal proclamations and official regulations are published here.
What is Canada Gazette Part II?
Digitized versions of historical provincial and federal statutes dating back to the 1800s can be found here.
What is HeinOnline?
What is Halsbury's Laws of Canada?
BLG's knowledge-management tool, and a good place to look when commencing a research task.
What are the Memos and Precedents Libraries?
Source for freely accessible links to case law (often the version required in Books of Authorities).
What is CanLII?
I can find precedents of corporate /securities filings here.
What is PLC OR DisclosureNet OR Intelligize OR Precedent collection on iManage?
A Statutory Instrument is also known as...
What is a REGULATION?
Name of a resource that provides guidance on damage award amounts.
What is "quantums"?
BLG's e-looseleaf subscription resource.
What is Proview?
Consult these, in addition to the McGill Guide, before submitting documents to Court.
What are court specific practice directions?
A non-billable number that will not generate a rejection notification from Accounting if you use it in WL or Lexis.
What is 022222/200000?
The verbatim account of business, including discussions of Bills.
What is Hansards (or Debates)?
Source of curent, practice-specific legal analysis, written by practitioners for practitioners.
What are CLE (continuing legal education) or seminar/conference papers?
What is .....?
Two things to consult to find case law interpreting a piece of legislation, OTHER THAN RUNNING A FULL TEXT search in a commercial database.
What are: note ups / annotated statutes / CED / Halsbury's Laws of Canada / CLE materials / specialty texts?
The error in the citation: Mavi v Canada (AG), 2009 ONCA 794, 98 OR (3rd) 2.
What is (3rd)?
[Should be: 3d]