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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.

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.

West Coast Environmental Law

Website of West Coast Environmental Law (WCEL), an environmental law and advocacy organisation based in British Columbia, Canada. The site provides information on WCEL's issues and programs including details of publications, news, campaign updates and links under these headings: climate change; environmental deregulation; water; forestry; oil, gas and mining; toxics and urban growth and development. The site offers an online library catalogue, newsletters and annual reports. WCEL publications can be downloaded in full.

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