Using Online Databases to Locate Judicial Decisions

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Locate and access judicial decisions using online databases like CanLii and Quicklaw. Explore cases, search by field, find specific cases, and delve into legal issues such as discrimination and cultural customs influencing damages for personal injury.

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Using Online Databases to Locate Judicial Decisions by Annette Demers BA LLB MLIS Judicial Decisions

Content Use CanLii to find this source: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Refugee Appeal Division Judicial Decisions

Content Now use Quicklaw to find it: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Refugee Appeal Division Judicial Decisions

Content Quicklaw Canada Immigration and Refugee Board, Refugee Appeal Division Decisions COVERAGE: From December 15, 2012 through current Judicial Decisions

Content CanLII Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada Continuous coverage from 2004 forward. Judicial Decisions

Searching As a student in a firm, you ll get two main questions: 1. Bring me a copy of this case. 2. Find cases on this topic. Judicial Decisions

Field Searching Use CanLii to find: [1993] 1 SCR 462 Judicial Decisions

Field Searching Use Quicklaw to find: [1993] 1 SCR 462 Judicial Decisions

Field Searching Use Quicklaw to find a copy of the Ruffolo case. It was heard before the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal in 2009. Judicial Decisions

Unique Terms Are there any cases where the Chinese cultural custom of filial piety was considered in an award for damages for personal injury? Judicial Decisions

Key Legal Issues The client has complained that she was denied a job due to racism. Judicial Decisions

Key Legal Issues The client has complained of discrimination on the basis of race in an application for employment. Judicial Decisions

Synonyms accomplice accessory co-conspirator abettor Judicial Decisions

Truncation conspire conspired conspir! conspiring conspiracy Judicial Decisions

Algorithm QL Judicial Decisions

Try it! Is the exception to the hearsay rule, known as the co-conspirators' exception, also known as the Carter rule , still good law? Locate the Supreme Court case which answers this question. Judicial Decisions

Try it! co-conspirators' exception or Carter rule Judicial Decisions

Precedent Literally to stand by things decided, stare decisis is a rule that requires judges to follow or obey the rulings of other judges higher in the judicial hierarchy and is similar to the concept of a binding judicial precedent. When the facts in Case A are similar to Case B, the judge in Case B must follow the ruling in Case A if the judge in Case A is from a higher court in the same jurisdiction. Tjaden, Legal Research and Writing, (3rd ed) (Irwin Law, 2010). Judicial Decisions

Note Up In order to understand whether the outcome of a particular case is still good law, we must understand: 1. History of the case. Was the decision upheld on appeal? 2. Cases that have cited the case. Was the decision upheld in later decisions by higher levels of court, or was the decision overturned or modified in some way? Judicial Decisions

Note Up Our Online databases provide electronic tools which help users to see: 1. History of case 2. Cases that have cited other cases (judicial consideration). Judicial Decisions

Algorithm I need you to find any cases that deal with the constitutionality of detaining foreign nationals under a security certificate. I would like to see in particular the case that came down in 2006. Judicial Decisions