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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.

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.

Privy Council Decisions

Full text judgments in cases heard by the UK Privy Council, made freely available on BAILII, the British and Irish Legal Information Institute website. The Privy Council is the court of final appeal for those Commonwealth countries which have retained the appeal to Her Majesty in Council, or, in the case of Republics, to the Judicial Committee. It is also the final court of appeal for the Channel Islands, Isle of Man, and UK overseas territories, and has the function of being the court of final appeal for determining "devolution issues" in the UK.

Cases of the CISG

Database of more than 2000 cases and arbitration decisions brought under the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods 1980 (CISG). The information is provided by Pace Institute of International Commercial Law at Pace University in the US. The database can be browsed by jurisdiction and there is also a search facility. A large amount of complementary information is also available, including the legislative history of the Convention; case law yearbooks; and scholarly commentary.

Alaska Court System : Recent Supreme Court Decisions

Recent opinions for the Supreme Court in the US State of Alaska are provided on the State Government website, and on the Alaska Legal Resource Center site. Decisions are listed in date order on the State site, commencing with the most recent judgments. The list gives case number and name linking to full text in PDF format. Zipped and compressed file formats are also available. Decisions are removed from the site once they appear in print in the Pacific Reporter 2nd series.

Opinions of the Arkansas Supreme Court and Arkansas Court of Appeals

State website publishing opinions from the Arkansas Supreme Court and Arkansas Court of Appeals. Opinions are arranged by date and can be viewed back to 1996 on the site. The full text opinions are provided in HTML and WordPerfect 5.1 formats. The service is maintained by the Librarians of the Arkansas Supreme Court in cooperation with the Reporter of Decisions.

International Labour Organization Administrative Tribunal Judgements

Website of Triblex a databse providing access to judgements of the International Labour Organization Administrative Tribunal. The ILO Administrative Tribunal considers complaints from officials of the International Labour Office or one of the other international organizations that recognise its jurisdiction. The case law database, Triblex, carries selected judgments of the Tribunal in both official languages (English and French). Its purpose is to guide users to salient points in the Tribunal's reasoning.

Florida Supreme Court Briefs and Opinions

A web database of opinions from the Supreme Court in the US State of Florida, made freely available on the Internet by the Florida State University Research Center. The site contains opinions and briefs from the Court since 1986 in HTML format. A small number of earlier opinions are also included. Briefs and opinions are listed by docket number. The site includes links to the University's main website, the Florida Supreme Court official site and text of the Court Rules. A search box is offered for the site.

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