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Impressive Quebec and Canadian corpus
Search within a collection of over 2 million decisions rendered by the courts of Canada, Quebec and other provinces and territories using CAIJ’s UNIK search engine. As a member, you also have access to case law from the:
- Administrative tribunals of Quebec, particularly decisions by the Régie du logement
- French Regime, i.e. the beginning of French colonization
- International organizations and tribunals, as well as
- Other countries, such as France, UK and USA.
For the cost of $5 per document, receive by e-mail documents or portions of a book in accordance with the terms of the Copyright Act. Contact us!
Online and remote access to case law
Refined searches using tribunal filters
Use the filters of CAIJ’s UNIK search engine to rapidly reduce your results. You will then be able to focus your legal research on jurisdictions and tribunals slected from the in-depth case law coverage offered by CAIJ.
Example : Tribunal filter = Supreme Court
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La référence
This database gives you access to full texts of Quebec and federal decisions. To simplify your research process, you can also access:
- History of previous decisions
- Judicial treatment (follow-up, distinguished, etc.)
- Links to other decisions and secondary sources citing the consulted decision
- Summary and indexing for the most interesting decisions
If you are a member of one of the following regional bars: Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Arthabaska, Bas-Saint-Laurent–Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Bedford, Côte-Nord, Laurentides-Lanaudière, Mauricie, Richelieu, Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean or Saint-François, you benefit from free of charge exclusive remote access from CAIJ’s website.
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HeinOnline
Remote access to full-text versions of certain decisions from Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, including:
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Lexbase
Free of charge remote access to full-text decisions from France, the European Union and other countries, as well as legal news journals.
Case law in co-working libraries
Databases accessible from co-working libraries’ workstations
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AliForm
You will find abstracts, full texts and annotations regarding child support.
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Decisia
Arbitration awards in the education sector, including executives. Includes interpretation and classification awards, Pension Plan Decisions (CARRA), as well as appeal decisions from the courts.
Available in Montreal, Quebec, Gatineau, Laval, Longueuil, Sherbrooke and St-Jérôme.
If you need information regarding this database and you cannot easily access it, contact us!
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Lexis Advance
Consult many case law collections from Quebec, Canada, other provinces as well as from many other countries such as France, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.
To simplify your searches, you can also access:
- History of previous decisions
- Judicial treatment (follow-up, distinguished, etc.)
- Links to other decisions and secondary sources citing the consulted decision
- Summary and indexing for many decisions
- The Canada Digest
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Recherche juridique
Quebec decisions, some summarized, from Quebec and federal courts, as well as decisions from other provincial and territorial courts of appeal.
To simplify your searches, you can also access:
- History of previous decisions
- Judicial treatment (follow-up, distinguished, etc.)
- Links to other decisions and secondary sources citing the consulted decision
- Summary and indexing for the most interesting decisions
You can also consult l’Express, a legal newsletter covering the areas of civil, administrative, criminal, labour and employment law.
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SAG Plus
Summaries of decisions on grievance arbitration, selection of arbitral awards made between 1986 and 1993 and all arbitration awards made since 1994 in the private and municipal sectors, except the education and social affairs sectors.
Available in Montreal only.
If you need information regarding this database and you cannot easily access it, contact us!
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Sentar
Summaries and texts of arbitration awards in the health sector, for employees and executives. Includes interpretation guides for collective agreements.
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Case law resources in print in our co-working libraries
Historical resources can sometimes be difficult to find. Feel free to contact the CAIJ team to make use of the document retrieval service.
Canada and Quebec :
- Judicial Committee of the Privy Council – Canadian Affairs (1833-1949)
- Supreme Court of Canada (since 1875)
- Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal (1875-2013 including the Exchequer Court)
- Tax Court of Canada (since 1920, including previous tribunals)
- Martial Courts of Canada (Since 1972)
- Military Courts
- Court of Appeal of Québec (1974-2013)
- King’s or Queen’s Bench (1852-1973)
- Superior Court (1849-2013)
- Court of Quebec (1988-2012)
- Court of the Sessions of the Peace (1979-1988)
- Provincial Court (1962-1988; integrated into CQ; 1869-1962 Magistrates Court)
- All of Quebec, including Lower Canada and the French Regime
- Other countries
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International law and law of other countries in co-working libraries
CAIJ has an extensive collection of case law in French and British law as well as from other Commonwealth countries.
Frequently requested works
Unik searches as a starting point
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LexisNexis Quicklaw
Case law from the United Kingdom, France, Australia and other countries.
