Graduate Research in Law

This website provides access to official federal Acts and regulations in both official languages, both language versions being equally authoritative. The consolidations are generally updated every two weeks. Links to the key sections are below:

• Consolidated Statutes: Statutes with any changes or amendments included) arranged alphabetically.
• Consolidated Regulations: Regulations created pursuant to a statute with any changes included) arranged alphabetically.
• Annual Statutes: Statutes as passed arranged by Year (2001 to present) of publication and then alphabetically.
• Table of Public Statutes: An alphabetical listing of all statutes and any changes.
• Consolidated Index of Statutory Instruments: A listing of all regulations and orders arranged alphabetically or by empowering statute.

LEGISinfo is your primary source of information regarding legislation before Parliament. Stay up to date with recently introduced bills in the Senate or House of Commons. Access a wide range of information, such as:

• The full text of the most recent version of a bill and any previous versions of the bill.
• The bill's life cycle, from the day it is introduced for first reading until it receives royal assent.
• Links to the relevant content in official parliamentary publications associated with the passage of a bill.

Browse all bills from previous sessions going back to the 37th Parliament in 2001. (Note: Essential data, such as bill numbers, titles and the text of most bills considered by Parliament between 1994 and 2000 – the 35th and 36th Parliaments – are also available.)

The Sir James Dunn Law Library staff have curated a collection of links to Provincial sources of statutes, regulations, and related legislative materials. You can access the Legislation LibGuide here.

Legal cases

The CanLII.org website provides access to court judgments from all Canadian courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada, federal courts, and the courts in all Canada’s provinces and territories. CanLII.org also contains decisions from many tribunals nationally. CanLII started by publishing current cases, which courts and tribunals sent us as they were written starting in the early 2000s.

Legislation

CanLII.org contains the consolidated statutes and regulations of every jurisdiction in Canada. In the last few years, we have added annual statutes Federally and for the provinces of New Brunswick, Saskatchewan, and Quebec.