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Canada Industrial Relations Board

Website for the Canada Industrial Relations Board, formed in 1999, and replacing the former Canada Labour Relations Board. The CIRB is an independent quasi-judicial tribunal responsible for the interpretation and administration of Part I (Industrial Relations) and certain provisions of Part II (Occupational Safety and Health) of the Canada Labour Code. The site is available in English and French, and includes a database of decisions as well as annual reports, circulars and details of relevant legislation.

Supreme Court of Prince Edward Island

Official website for the Supreme Court of Prince Edward Island included on the website of the Government of Prince Edward Island in Canada. The Supreme Court consists of two divisions, the Appeal Division and the Trial Division. The site contains a database containing the written reasons for the justices' decisions or judgments, or the case headnotes only, as from 1997 onwards. The database can be searched by date, subject, and keyword.

Provincial Court of British Columbia

Official website for the Provincial Court of British Columbia. The Court is responsible for criminal law, family law, some civil small claims cases and all Provincial offences. Related legislation is included in full text. A database is provided for judgments from 1999 onwards in HTML format, with access through a free text search engine. Information is also given on the organisation and administration of the Court, including notes on the judiciary and the judicial officers with contact details, and the rules of court for all the divisions. A page of related web links is also provided.

British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal

The British Columbia (BC) Human Rights Tribunal is an independent quasi-judicial body established by the BC Human Rights Code. It deals with complaints referred to it by the British Columbia Human Rights Commission. The site gives details of the Tribunal's mandate and its relationship with the Commission. The full text of the Tribunal's preliminary, interim and final decisions is provided, from 1997 onwards. They can be browsed by year from the Decisions page; to search by party name or key word, use the Advanced Search facility on the Search page (which searches the whole site).

Human Rights Tribunal - Quebec

Website for the Human Rights Tribunal of Quebec. The Tribunal was created in December 1990, comes under the judiciary system of Quebec, and has jurisdiction to hear and rule on complaints concerning discrimination, harassment and exploitation. The site is available in English and French versions, and contains a description of the Tribunal and how it works, together with links to a database of decisions from 1991 onwards in full-text HTML format on CanLII. The decisions are mostly in French, although there is a section in English in a separate file.

Canadian Human Rights Tribunal

Website for the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal available in English and French. The Tribunal applies the rights of equality, equal opportunity, fair treatment, and non-discrimination to cases referred to it by the Canadian Human Rights Commission. The site provides a database of decisions from 1979 onwards in full-text HTML format. The decisions can be searched by year or by complainant's name, and a free-text search engine is available which searches the content of the whole site.

Guide to Ontario Courts

Website for the Court of Appeal for Ontario, Superior Court of Justice (including the Small Claims Court) and Ontario Court of Justice, created and maintained by the Judges' Library and available in English or French. The site gives details of judges, notices, practice directions, rules and opening court speeches for all the courts. A searchable database of Court of Appeal judgments and endorsements from 1998 onwards is provided; for the judgments of the Superior Court of Justice and Ontario Court of Justice there are links to the CANLII website.

Courts of British Columbia

Official website for the British Columbia (BC) courts. The site contains a database of BC Supreme Court and Court of Appeal judgments from 1990 onwards, together with links to the BC Provincial Court's judgments on that court's own website. Instructions for obtaining copies of official original versions of judgments are provided. The judgments can be searched by court, date, party name and/or key word; they can also be browsed by year. The site provides descriptions of the courts, notices, practice directions, forms, hearing schedules, rules of court, annual reports and other information.

Alberta Courts

Official website for the Alberta Court of Appeal, Court of Queen's Bench and Provincial Court. The site provides a database of judgments of the Court of Appeal and Provincial Court from 1998 onwards, and most judgments are available within 48 hours of issue. Judgments can be viewed in full-text in PDF format online. A free-text search engine is included. The site also gives court descriptions, notices, hearing lists, court calendars, practice directions and publications. Subscription services are available to provide RSS feeds of new material added.

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