More than Just Primary Law

Whether you’re looking for primary law, legal analysis or litigation materials, Westlaw Canada is the online resource with the most comprehensive coverage. And with the power of KeyCite, Canada’s authoritative case citator and only comprehensive legislation citator, you’ll note up cases quickly and confidently.

• Litigator – More than 90,000 actual Court Documents
• KeyCite – Statute, Case and Regulation Citator
• Proprietary Case Law database
• Annotated Legislation
• Treatises and Authored Commentary
• Pending Legislation
• Concordances
• Fillable Statutory Forms for Rules and Regulations
• Statutes, Rules and Regulations
• Quantum Digests in more practice areas than any other service
• Leaves to Appeal
  

 

Tools that Work for You

Westlaw Canada gives you finding tools that work as smart as you do. Decades of editorially-created classifications combined with powerful technology ensure that you’ll never miss a case on point. No matter which search option you choose, you’ll always find exactly what you need – using fewer steps to get better results.

• The Canadian Abridgment – the master taxonomy of Canadian law
• The Canadian Encyclopedic Digest – the most efficient way to find the law on any issue
• Index to Canadian Legal Literature – Canada’s only legal bibliography
• Treatises
• Expert Directories
• Words and Phrases
• Results Plus
• Natural Language searches
• Custom search templates

 

Keeping Your Research Moving Forward

All Westlaw Canada content is seamlessly linked so you never have to back track to find related information. You’ll find everything you need in one place and we’ll point out and provide links to relevant related material along the way. This logical linking ensures that you always move forward in your research, giving you the fastest route to better results.

• The Canadian Encyclopedic Digest links to the relevant classifications in The Canadian Abridgment
  for a logical start to efficient research
  
  • Start your research with a case, a section of legislation, a topic in a treatise, or anywhere else and you will be presented with links that show you related information your argument depends on.
  • This structure allows you to browse and link to related information, rather than do a series of Boolean searches. It's a more natural – and reliable – way of understanding a legal issue.
• Home page is designed for single password access to information across all practice areas
• Continual linking to related information such as Commentary, Court Documents, Quantums, Words and Phrases, and Abridgment Digests
• KeyCite Case and Legislation Citator, which link you not only to related cases, but also to court filings and commentary
• Document Assembly Tools that enable you to draft documents more efficiently with expert help at your fingertips.