Tag Archives: Canadian law

Supreme Court of Canada judgments freely available

The Supreme Court of Canada and LexUM announced just before Christmas that the Court’s Decisions website now contains all decisions since 1907, and judgments in leave applications since 2006. The collection is updated within minutes of the public release of the judgments by the Court. “All published judgments since 1876 from cases which were appealed… Read More »

Canadian cases online

60 years ago Canada took the path of complete judicial independence from the UK.  In 1931 the Statute of Westminster formally acknowledged the equality of the Canadian legislatures with that of Westminster. Two years later Canada amended the Supreme Court Act ending appeal to the Privy Council in criminal matters. In 1949, the Canadian Supreme… Read More »