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Constitutional Law
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John & Dotsa Bitove Family Law LibraryJohn & Dotsa Bitove Family Law Library519-661-2111 x83171
Articles
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This newsletter allows you to familiarize yourself quickly with the most important recent Charter developments handed down by the various courts from across Canada. It contains guidelines for the interpretation of individual Charter provisions and signals new judicial trends in the application of the Charter. Decisions with significant value as precedents are thoroughly analyzed to bring you right up to date on Charter issues and trends.
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The National Journal of Constitutional Law is Canada’s forum for the discussion and analysis of constitutional law issues that affect practitioners. Each issue includes insightful analysis and discussion of human rights issues, Charter issues and division of power issues.
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Contains more than 1,000 law and law-related periodicals. Coverage is from the first issue published for all periodicals and goes through the most currently published issues allowed based on contracts with publishers. Searching can be done by title or author name, as well as full-text searching of the collection or select periodicals.
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The Index to Canadian Legal Literature is a bibliographic index to Canadian law journals and public legal education materials, books reviews, and cases cited in journal articles.
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LegalTrac provides indexing and selective full-text for major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals, and international legal journals.
Case Law
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This 55-volume, 40,000-page encyclopedia is a complete statement of the law of Ontario - provincial, federal and common law - as derived from statute and case law. It provides a practical day-to-day reference to the law and is an excellent starting point from which to conduct in-depth legal research. Prepared by an expert team of contributing authors, the set is updated by supplements on a regular basis to ensure accuracy and currency.
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The Canadian Abridgment is a digest of reported decisions of all courts of the common law provinces of Canada including appeals to the Privy Council and decisions in federal matters from the courts of Quebec.
The Canadian Abridgment is also found in Westlaw Canada (Please note: you must be a Western law student or faculty member to access Westlaw Canada).
KE173.C5842
Databases
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All Law students receive their own personal password for the LexisNexis Quicklaw service for use during the three years of law school. As part of first-year orientation, library staff arrange for lab sessions to take students through the steps of getting a LexisNexis Quicklaw password. Training is also provided as part of LRWA. If you do not have a password, please speak to a lab supervisor or Elizabeth Bruton (219-F).
URL: http://www.lexisnexis.com/ca/legal
ACCESS: Your personal password will give you access from home as well.
Group source:Constitutional Law Commentary, Group Source of Journals, Articles, Papers, and Newspapers – CNPA (1982-).
Constitutional Acts of Canada, including Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms:
- English – CAC (1763-);
- French – LCC (1763-).
Constitutional Documents of Canada:
- English – CDC (1987-);
- French – DCC (1987-).
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All Law students receive their own personal password for the Westlaw Carswell service for use during the three years of law school. As part of first-year orientation, library staff arrange for lab sessions to take students through the steps of getting a Westlaw Carswell password. Training is also provided as part of LRWA. If you do not have a password, please speak to a lab supervisor or Elizabeth Bruton (219-F).
URL: http://www.westlawecarswell.com/lawschool/
ACCESS: Your personal password will give you access from home as well.Canadian Constitutional Case Law – CANCONST-CS.
Statutory Law
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The Canadian Human Rights Act is the central federal legislation that protects the right of individuals to freely participate without unlawful discrimination in all key aspects of society including employment.
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The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is a bill of rights entrenched in the Constitution of Canada. It forms the first part of the Constitution Act, 1982. The Charter guarantees certain political rights to Canadian citizens and civil rights of everyone in Canada from the policies and actions of all levels of government. It is designed to unify Canadians around a set of principles that embody those rights.
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This portable guide provides instant access to the Ontario Human Rights Code and digests of court decisions not only from Ontario and the Supreme Court of Canada, but also from the British Columbia and federal jurisdictions. Moreover, the digested Ontario tribunal decisions include the Ontario Arbitration Board and the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario.
Texts and Treatises
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The law library has an extensive collection of Constitutional law texts and treatises which are generally found in the KF 4483 section of the law library. The more heavily utilized resources are found in the law reserves collection, a listing of which can be found here.
Web Sites
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CanLII is a non-profit organization managed by the Federation of Law Societies of Canada. CanLII's goal is to make Canadian law accessible for free on the Internet.
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The object of the Centre's program of research activities has been to stimulate thinking about subjects of constitutional concern from a variety of perspectives and disciplines. Centre research projects have ranged from studies of Canadian constitutional reform to the powers of the police; from Charter rights and social rights to aboriginal self-government.
The Centre's active publication program is interdisciplinary in scope and covers a wide range of constitutional subjects. Centre projects and conferences have culminated in a series of books, such as those on freedom of expression, language rights, and Aboriginal rights, which have been published in association with legal publishers and university presses. The Centre also regularly publishes two periodicals, Constitutional Forum constitutionnel and the Review of Constitutional Studies / Revue d'études constitutionnelles. These periodicals include timely commentaries and scholarly essays on constitutional subjects with contributions from both established and newly emerging scholars.
