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CANLII - Canadian Legal Information Institute
Law library and legal research blogs and forums have seen
a lot of discussion about CanLII’s latest upgrades. As stated on its
homepage, CanLII is a non-profit
organization managed by the Federation of Law Societies of Canada. Its goal
is to make Canadian law accessible for free on the Internet. The new
version of CanLII came online on March 20, 2007, and was not without some
initial problems. Many of these have been solved now, and reviews of this new
version are generally favourable. The new CanLII interface is more
intuitive and cleaner looking. It now offers an advanced search
function for searching across databases, and highlights search terms within
the retrieved documents. Among other improvements, all decisions are
now provided in both html and pdf format and all documents are clearly
identified using neutral citations. Best of all for researchers wanting
to stay on top of the latest cases, CanLII now includes RSS feeds which allow
the user to be notified when new decisions are added.
Click on
http://www.canlii.org/.
TRIBUNALS
Conservation Review Board (CRB)
The Conservation
Review Board page is nicely concise and practical.
It briefly details the legislative authority for the establishment of
the Board under the Ontario Heritage Act, and offers three quick points about
the Board’s nature, composition and mandate.
The site holds the collection of Conservation Review Board Reports
dating back to 1990, although it would appear that you can only browse by
year going back to 2003. However, there is a search box that will allow
you to bring up earlier decisions. You can also browse alphabetically
by municipality.
http://www.crb.gov.on.ca/english/home.html
Employment Insurance Jurisprudence Library
This Government of Canada site provides a very
searchable electronic library of all employment insurance jurisprudence,
including CUB’s, Federal Court and Supreme Court decisions, as well as an
increasing number of related Provincial Court and Human Rights Tribunal
decisions. It is easy to use with both a simplified and extended search
engine, searchable by Court or tribunal, keywords, decision number, or name.
Far easier than trying to find CUB-27102 the old fashioned way in a
three-ring binder with no indexes.
http://www.ei-ae.gc.ca/en/library/search.shtml
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