This guide suplements the list of electronic legal sources available to Kwantlen Faculty, students and staff. For a more extensive list of print resources, see our guideposts for Case Law | Statute Law | Canadian Constitution | Canadian Encyclopedic Digest. For further help using the library's resources, check out these legal research guides or ask a librarian.

• Federal Statutes
• Provincial Statutes
• Case Law

• Citation and Style Guides

Other KUC Library Subject Guides that may be of interest to students in Law classes:
Criminology | Government | Law - Electronic Sources

Federal Statutes

Federal Statutes by Topic

• Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985 (R.S.C. 1985) -
  REF KE 89 C361, L/R/S
  Annual Updates: Statutes of Canada (S.C. 200_) -
  REF KE 89 C36, S (Official title is: Acts of the Parliament of Canada.)
• Canada Gazette, Part II (R.S.C. 1985) -
  REF KE 123, S (has cumulative index.)
• Canada Legislative Index -
  REF KE 107 C35, L/R/S
• Canada Statute Citator -
  REF KE 106 C352, L/R/S

• Canadian Charter of Rights: Annotated -
  REF KE 4381 A6 C362, L/R/S
• Martin's Annual Criminal Code -
  REF KE 8804.9 M35, L/R/S
• Income Tax Act, Annotated -
  REF HJ 4661 A3214, L/R/S

Provincial Statutes

Case Law

• Revised Statutes and Consolidated Regulations of British Columbia -
  REF KEB 41 B742 (looseleaf binder), L,R,S
  also available online via QPLegalEze
• British Columbia Legislative Digest -
  REF KEB 58 B34, L/R/S
  tracks progress of bills in the BC Legislative Assembly
• British Columbia Statute Citator -
  REF KEB 60 B76, L/R/S

• British Columbia Law Reports (B.C.L.R.) -
  REF KE 8805.8 C754, S/R/L [to 1995 only]
• Canadian Criminal Cases (C.C.C.) -
  REF KE 8805.8 C33, S/R/L
• Criminal Reports (C.R.) -
  REF KE 8805.8 C754, S/R/L
• Dominion Law Reports (D.L.R.) -
  REF KE 8805.8 C754 L/R/S
  Online access only on-campus access at Surrey and Richmond campus computers.
• Federal Court Reports (F.C.R.)-
  REF KE 142 C362, Surrey
• Supreme Court Reports (S.C.R.) -
  REF KE 140 C28, Surrey
• Western Weekly Reports (W.W.R.) -
  REF KE 156 W4, R/S

Citation Styles

Case citations are used to locate legal cases. They indicate where judges' decisions have been reported or published. The citations provide you with the name of the case (called the style of cause), the year of the decision, the volume number, reporter abbreviation, series number (if applicable), page number and court level. A typical case citation looks like this:

R.v. Morgentaler (1988), 37 C.C.C. (3d) 449 (S.C.C.)

Many case reports and other legal documents are now reproduced on the internet. Citing these electronic documents correctly is very important. For a good explanation and examples of how to cite both print and electronic versions of cases, statutes and other legal documents, please see the book called Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation (also called "the McGill Guide"), REF KE 259 C35 2006 located at L,R,S.

Kwantlen Library has prepared a brief (4-page) summary of the McGill Guide to help you get started.

You can also consult these other brief online guides.

• Guide to Legal Research: Citation (University of Toronto)
• Legal Research Materials: Legal Citation (Queen's University - covers cases found in print and on the web)

For information on other citation styles such as the APA and MLA, please see our Citation Styles webpage.