If you know the name of the case
Check first in electronic legal databases. Use the “Find by name” option if available.
If the case is too recent, check on the court’s website.
No luck online? Try checking the Consolidated Table of Cases in the Canadian Abridgment. Cases are listed by party name and you can find a citation to the case in print.
If you have a citation to a case
Check first in electronic legal databases. Use the “Find by citation” option if available.
If the case is too recent, check on the court’s website.
Finding summaries of cases
See Canadian Current Law. Case Digests. FTX General KE 173 .C3212 [latest copy at FTX Reserve]
Finding cases on a subject/legal issue
Consult secondary sources like:
Canadian Abridgment: provides topically organized case digests, or summaries, of issues decided by Canadian courts and administrative tribunals (use the Key & Research Guide OR the General Index)
Textbooks (see especially their Table of cases)
Encyclopedias (e.g. Canadian Encyclopedic Digest)
Annotated codes (e.g. Modern First Nations legislation annotated)
Tracing the judicial history of a case
Electronically: Use the QuickCITE feature in Quicklaw or the Keycite feature in WestlaweCarswell
In print: Use the Canadian Case Citations: contain the citations, history, and judicial treatment of cases by Canadian courts and tribunals
Finding cases that consider a statute, regulation or rule of practice
Electronically: Use the “Keycite a Document” option in WestlaweCarswell to find the citing references; From the “Find a Document” option, select “Note up a case or statute” from the drop-down menu in Quicklaw
In print: Canadian Statute Citations: include judicial considerations of statutes and rules of practice
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