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DocLaw Web

DocLaw is a gateway to US Federal government resources and other governmental materials on the internet, provided by the School of Law at Washburn University in Kansas. Documents and links are arranged on the site primarily by subject, federal agency or government department. Additional pages of links are available via the "Choose Destination" drop-down menu: legislative materials, primary law, reference sites and research guides.

New England Law Library Consortium

Website for the New England Law Library Consortium, a co-operative association of law schools, and law libraries. The site gives a history of NELLCO, outlining the Consortium's aims, administration and programme of co-operative initiatives in the field of information sharing, networking and innovation in information technology. A list of participating members of the Consortium with links to their individual libraries is available. The NELLCO Legal Scholarship Repository provides free access to working papers, reports, lecture series and workshop presentations of NELLCO members.

Law Society of Saskatchewan

The Law Society of Saskatchewan's website provides several free resources relating to the law of the Province and the regulation of its legal profession. There is a database of full-text judgments from the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal, Court of Queen's Bench and Provincial Court (1994 - ) and a database of article titles and abstracts from recent Canadian journals.

Canadian Legal Information Institute

The Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII) provides free access to a comprehensive range of Canadian primary and secondary legal materials, including federal and provincial laws as amended and as passed, case law, books, articles and reports. The service was created jointly by the Federation of Law Societies of Canada and LexUM, the computer law research team at the University of Montreal. The site is available in both English and French, the official languages of Canada.

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.

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.

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.

World Law: Yemen

Yemeni section of WorldLII's World Law service. Browse and search features are offered by the site. Browse sections contain links to governmental, legislation and commentary sites. Additional subject areas include banking, finance, elections, foreign investment and human rights. A stored search will automatically search for materials relating to Yemen on all of World Law. This section of WorldLII was developed from work initiated by the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII).

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