CriminalSource contains criminal law cases from Carswell’s Law Report collection, including Criminal Reports, Motor Vehicle Reports and Immigration Law Reports, plus virtually every Criminal case in non-Carswell reports back to 1960 and unreported cases received from the courts since 1986.

Westlaw Canada and CriminalSource connect all related information to a section of legislation in one place; to quickly find information and know that you are not missing a thing. Criminal practitioners often begin legal research from legislation.

From the legislation you can retrieve annotations classified by issue, with links to cases and commentary – everything you need to understand your case and build a strategy in minutes.

CriminalSource contains a comprehensive series of annotations linked directly from the section of key criminal legislation. Sources of annotations include:

Tremeear’s Annotated Criminal Code
Tremeear’s Related Criminal Statutes
Cournoyer & Ouimet’s Code criminel annoté
Crankshaw’s Criminal Code of Canada
Nadin-Davis’ Canadian Sentencing Digest

Quantums of Sentencing Digests – Nadin-Davis’ Canadian Sentencing Digests cover all sentencing decisions since 1970.

More than 550,000 Criminal Law Digests organized by topic so you don’t have to sift through hundreds of cases to find one on point. Leave nothing to chance – conduct your research with CriminalSource. 

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• Go beyond case law and legislation to get the insight you need
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• Access criminal cases classified by issue directly from the homepage