Legal Resources

Research Tools

♦ CanLII
♦ WorldLII
♦ vLex

Catalogues

♦ InfoLocate – Great Library
♦ CPD Materials formerly AccessCLE

Courts & Tribunals

Federal Courts

♦ Federal Court of Canada
♦ Federal Court of Appeal
♦ Supreme Court of Canada
♦ Supreme Court of Canada Decisions
♦ E-Filing Portal – January 2023
♦ Tax Court of Canada

Ontario Courts

♦ Guide to the Ontario Courts (Links to Court of Appeal, Superior Court & the Ontario Court of Justice)
♦ Ministry of the Attorney General Court Address Information
♦ Ontario Daily Court List
♦ Justices of the Peace (Justices of the Peace Advisory Committee Annual Report 2022-2023, Appointment Process, Reports, Justices of the Peace Appointment Advisory Committee)

Tribunals

♦ Canada Employment Insurance Commission’s Index to Jurisprudence
♦ Canadian Competition Tribunal
♦ Canadian Human Rights Tribunal
♦ Canadian Industrial Relations Board
♦ Canadian International Trade Tribunal
♦ Canadian Radio-Television and Communications Commission
♦ Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
♦ Ontario Land Tribunal
♦ Ontario Securities Commission
♦ Ontario Workplace Tribunals Library
♦ Workplace Safety and Insurance Board
♦ Tribunals Ontario This global site covers: Assessment Review Board, Animal Care Review Board, Child and Family Services Review Board, Custody Review Board, Fire Safety Commission, Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, Landlord and Tenant Board, Licence Appeal Tribunal, Ontario Civilian Police Commission, Ontario Parole Board, Ontario Special Education Tribunal (English), Ontario Special Education Tribunal (French) and Social Benefits Tribunal. 

Directory

♦ Canada Law List – Find a Canadian lawyer or law firm

Forms

♦ Family Responsibility Office Forms
♦ Ontario Court Forms
♦ Rules of Civil Procedure Forms
♦ Ontario Central Forms Repository (CFR)

Legislation

♦ How a Bill Becomes a Law
♦ Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII)
♦ Federal Legislation
♦ Ontario Legislation – E-Laws – quick, easy and comprehensive access to the consolidated laws of Ontario.
♦ Canada Gazette – All three parts of the Gazette are available free of charge, in bilingual PDF format, searchable using Adobe Acrobat or html format.  Published every Saturday, Canada Gazette, Part I contains all formal public notices, official appointments and proposed regulations. Part II is published every second Wednesday, and contains regulations and other statutory instruments. Part III contains the Public Acts of Canada, and its purpose is to publish this new legislation as soon as possible after it receives Royal Assent. Anyone who has ever had to search this material in the good old fashioned print version will appreciate the accessibility of this digital format, with coverage starting from January 1998. However, you can now link into the Library and Archives Canada page for all Canada Gazettes back to 1841.
♦ Department of Justice
♦ Ontario Gazette – This site links into .pdf versions of the individual issues of the Ontario Gazette and the main search template is rudimentary at best.  If you know the particular gazette issue you need to access, then this site will work, but searching is problematic.  A search produces a list of all gazette issues that contain those words but not a direct link to the text itself.  The site carries issues from 2000 forward.
♦ Ontario Legislative Assembly – the place to find information on bills currently before the legislature plus debates and committee reports.  There is also excellent information on how bills become law, including the differences between public and private members bills. You can search bills by session and then by title or bill number.  Each bill will also have links to the .pdf and html versions of the various readings of the bill, including changes made after committee.  Other features of the site include full information on all the current members of the legislative assembly, the various committees, plus links to how to find your MPP and any web sites members may have.  The page put together by the Legislative Library is, of course, excellent and has links to may other sources of information regarding the governmental system in Ontario. 
♦ Parliament of Canada – This site is maintained jointly by the House of Commons, Senate and Library of Parliament and includes the debates of the Senate and House of Commons, Journals, Order Papers and Notices, and Progress of Legislation. The site includes legislative summaries for each bill going through the House.
♦ LEGISinfo – information on legislation currently before Parliament – easy to navigate and provides a good one-stop-shopping source for everything you may need to know about developing legislation

Organizations

♦ FOLA – Federation of Ontario Law Associations
♦ LSO – Law Society of Ontario
♦ LIRN – Legal Information and Resources Network

♦ City of Stratford
♦ RECO – The Real Estate Association of Ontario
♦ LAO – Legal Aid Ontario

Other

♦ LawPro – Provider of Insurance and Services
♦ Slaw – Canada’s Online Legal Magazine
♦ Courthouses.co – website designed to record the basic historical information for county courthouses in North America – created by retired Winnipeg lawyer John E. Deacon
♦ Encyclopedia Britannica

CPD Programs – Continuing Professional Development

♦ CPD Online
♦ Law Society of Ontario CPD Programs
♦ Ontario Bar Association
♦ Supreme Court Advocacy Institute