Tag Archives: primary sources

eLOIS: nouvelle source de la législation et doctrine québécoise

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eLOIS est un nouveau outil de CAIJ permettant de consulter le texte intégral bilingue des lois annotées suivantes :Charte des droits et libertés de la personne, Code civil du Québec, Code de procédure civile, Code des professions, Code du travail, Loi sur les accidents du travail et les maladies professionnelles, Loi sur le Barreau, Loi sur les normes du travail, Loi sur la santé et la sécurité du travail, Loi sur les sociétés par actions.

Le texte de ces lois correspond à la version diffusée dans le site des Publications du Québec et est reproduit avec l’autorisation de l’Éditeur officiel du Québec.Chaque article de loi est présenté dans sa version française et anglaise et dispose d’un historique législatif et d’un lien au texte officiel. Il est enrichi d’un historique législatif, de liens à la jurisprudence et à la doctrine citant l’article, des commentaires du ministre le cas échéant, des débats parlementaires et positions du Barreau entourant son adoption, de liens vers des rapports et guides rédigés par des ministères et organismes gouvernementaux, de renvois à des dispositions législatives connexes. La Loi sur les normes du travail est aussi enrichie des annotations jurisprudentielles et doctrinales de Charles Caza publiées dans la collection Alter Ego de Wilson & Lafleur.

Vous pouvez accéder eLOIS à partir de notre Law Subject Guide – Canadain legislation and cases.

New resorce for finding Canadian government and legislative publications

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The Association of Parliamentary Libraries in Canada (APLIC) has announced the release of its unique pan-Canadian bilingual government and legislative publications portal GALLOPP (Government and Legislative Libraries Online Publications Portal) / PPGPE (Portail des publications gouvernementales et parlementaires électroniques). This portal is a result of collaboration between provincial and territorial legislative libraries from across Canada and the federal government’s Depository Services Program (DSP). It provides one-stop access to over 320,000 electronic provincial, territorial and federal government publications and legislative materials dating back to 1995 that were collected by Legislative libraries in Canada for their jurisdictions. As of 2013-07-12 the portal provides full-text access to the content from the electronic government documents collections of the following libraries:

  • Alberta Legislature Library
  • Legislative Library of British Columbia
  • Manitoba Legislative Library
  • New Brunswick Legislative Library
  • Newfoundland and Labrador Legislative Library
  • Northwest Territories Legislative Library
  • Nova Scotia Legislative Library
  • Ontario Legislative Library
  • Library of the National Assembly, Québec
  • Saskatchewan Legislative Library
  • Government of Canada-Depository Services Program

The portal can be accessed through our Law Subject Guide, in the Canadian Legislation and Cases section.

Publications of the Senate and the House of Commons

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As of September 2012, all the publications of the Senate of Canada and the House of Commons are available in electronic format only. Therefore, Publishing and Depository Services / Éditions et Services de dépôt  will no longer sell and distribute Parliamentary publications in paper format. PDS are working closely with the Senate of Canada and the House of Commons to make these publications available in PDF format on the Government of Canada Publications web site. Meanwhile, you can find all the latest Reports of the Committees of the Senate of Canada and the House of Commons here.

 

Making of the modern law. Foreign, Comparative and International Law, 1600-1926

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Since this Fall, the Law Library provides access to another database from the Making of the modern law series, Comparative and International Law, 1600-1926. It contains historical resources previously found only at the largest and oldest repositories. FCIL includes pre-1926 treatises and monographs, sourced from the collections of the Yale, George Washington University, and Columbia law libraries, in the following areas: International Law; Comparative Law; Foreign Law; Roman Law; Islamic Law; Jewish Law; and Ancient Law.

You can access the database by clicking on Legislation and cases- foreign jurisdictions
in the Law subject guide.

Post-1907 decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada available on CanLii

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Legal researchers can now access on CanLII a collection of over 9,000 decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada dating back to 1907. These decisions are fully integrated and cross-linked to any subsequent case on CanLII in which they are referenced. The addition of a 1,600 cases ensures that CanLII users will have access to all judgments published in the Supreme Court Reports since 1907.  More comprehensive collection of 1876-1907 cases can be found at the Supreme Court of Canada website.

Making of Modern Law databases

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As of now, McGill Library provides access to three Making of the Modern Law databases:

The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926 
The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926 provides digital images on every page of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926. Full-text searching on more than 10 million pages provides researchers access to critical legal history in ways not previously possible.

The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources 
We use the term primary sources not in the historian’s sense of a manuscript, letter, or diary, but rather in the legal sense of a case, statute, or regulation. Designed to complement The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, this archive offers online access to state and municipal codes, documents relating to constitutional conventions, and other resources in American legal history.

The Making of Modern Law: Trials 1600-1926 
Based on holdings of the law libraries of Harvard and Yale, and the Library of the Bar of the City of New York, the product offers online access to these important collections.

You can access the databases by clicking on Legislation and cases- foreign jurisdictions
in the Law subject guide

 

Canada Supreme Court Reports in Hein Online

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Another new addition to the Hein online is the collection of Canada Supreme Court Reports, official bilingual series published under authority of the Supreme Court Act. This collection includes more than 9,400 cases which include background information, statutes and regulations, authors cited, analysis and the decision. At the moment, we cannot make a direct link to this collection in our subject guide, so to access Canada Supreme Court, click on the Hein Online link in the Law subject guide http://www.mcgill.ca/library/library-findinfo/subjects/law/ under the heading Quick Links.