Westlaw Canada Sources – Alberta Law Libraries (2024)

CriminalSource is considered Canada’s largest collection of case law, annotations, and commentary from criminal law experts. It allows linking from a section of the Criminal Code and other related legislation, directly to case annotations dealing with the issues arising under that section

• Annual Review of Criminal Law
• Canadian Criminal Code Offences
• Canadian Criminal Procedure, 6th Edition
• Canadian Sentencing Digests
• Cournoyer, Code criminel annoté
• Crankshaw’s Criminal Code of Canada
• Criminal Law: Evidence, Practice and Procedure
• Criminal Pleadings and Practice in Canada, 3rd Edition
• Disclosure and Production in Criminal Cases
• Drug Offences in Canada, 4th Edition
• For the Defence – The Criminal Lawyers’ Association Newsletter
• Martin’s Annual Criminal Code
• Martin’s Related Criminal Statutes
• McWilliams’ Canadian Criminal Evidence, 5th Edition
• Sentencing: The Practitioner’s Guide
• Tremeear’s Annotations
• Watt’s Manual of Criminal Evidence
• Youth Criminal Justice Act Manual

EmploymentSource combines expert commentary, case law, legislation and dismissal notice periods, with functionality that is practical and easy to use. You have online access to leading authored works, covering everything from wrongful dismissal to occupational health and safety, all integrated with case law and legislation.

• Canadian Employment Law (Ball)
• Canadian Health and Safety Law (Keith)
• Employee Obligations in Canada (D’Andrea)
• Illness and Disability in the Workplace (D’Andrea)
• The Law of Dismissal in Canada, Third Edition (Levitt)

EstatesTrustsSource gives you access to regularly updated related Estates, Trusts & Wills case law and statutes, complete with the exclusive KeyCite citation service, as well as authoritative commentary. It has been designed to meet both the research and workflow needs of all three types of estates practitioners: planners, administrators, and litigators.

• Alberta – Estate Administration
• Atlantic Canada – Estate Administration
• British Columbia – Estate Administration
• Canadian Bar Association Concordances
• Estate Litigation, 2nd Edition
• Estate Planning Handbook
• Estate Planning Precedents
• Manitoba – Estate Administration
• Ontario – Estate Administration
• Saskatchewan – Estate Administration
• Waters’ Law of Trusts in Canada, 5th Edition
• Widdifield on Executors and Trustees, 6th Edition

See also:Estates TTA

FamilySource allows you to efficiently handle any family matter, be it a separation agreement, divorce, child custody, spousal support, procedural or matrimonial property matters. It provides family-related law, including case law and legislation in Canada, plus comprehensive secondary legal materials, such as the case comments from law reports and case summaries from the Canadian Abridgment.

• Annual Review of Family Law
• Canadian Divorce Law and Practice, 2nd Edition
• Child Protection Law in Canada, 2nd Edition
• Child Support Guidelines: Law and Practice, 2nd Edition
• Domestic Contracts, 2nd Edition
• Enforcement of Family Law Orders and Agreements
• Law and Practice Under the Family Law Act of Ontario, Revised Edition
• Family Property Law and Practice in Canada (formerly Matrimonial Property Law in Canada)
• Parenting Law and Practice in Canada

InsolvencySource contains analysis from leading insolvency, restructuring and commercial law experts. It provides quick and easy access to all of the exclusive research material available on the service, no matter how complex the issue. The weekly Houlden & Morawetz newsletter keeps practitioners up to date on all aspects of debtor- creditor law, not just insolvency law.

• Annual Review of Insolvency Law
• Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law of Canada, 4th Edition
• Faillite et insolvabilité
• Houlden and Morawetz Insolvency Newsletter
• Secured Transactions in Personal Property in Canada, 3rd Edition

See also: Insolvency/Debtor and Creditor TTA

IPSource includes a comprehensive collection of primary law and provides access to expert analysis through an authoritative collection of commentary essential to the practice area of intellectual property.

• Annotated Patent Act
• Fox on Canadian Law of Copyright and Industrial Designs, 4th Edition
• Fox on Canadian Law of Trade-marks and Unfair Competition, 4th Edition
• Intellectual Property Disputes
• Life Sciences Law in Canada
• Odutola on Canadian Trademark Practice
• ROBIC Canadian Copyright Act Annotated (Carrière)
• ROBIC Canadian Trademarks Act Annotated (Carrière)
• Sookman: Computer, Internet, and Electronic Commerce Law
• Technology Contracting: Law, Precedents and Commentary

See also: Intellectual Property TTA

LabourSource includes an extensive collection of authored treaties by Canada’s foremost labour law experts.

• Adams: Canadian Labour Law, Second Edition
• Brown and Beatty: Canadian Labour Arbitration, 5th Edition
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LawSource is the principal authority for core legal information and houses an extensive collection of case law, legislation and leading editorial tools for the best legal research.

• The Canadian Abridgement – A comprehensive collection of over a million digests of Canadian case law organized by legal issue according to a single taxonomy (The Canadian Abridgment Key Classification System).
• Canadian Encyclopedic Digest – Provides an overview of a legal topic and gives you context to cases and legislation relevant to your issue. Over 225 subjects are listed alphabetically, with sub-topics to pinpoint the area of law you may be interested in.
• Index to Canadian Legal Literature (ICLL) – Comprehensive legal bibliography, containing books, articles, government publications, audio-visual materials, continuing legal education materials, case comments and annotations.
• LawSource Concordances:
  • Family Law Legislation Concordance
  • Personal Property Security Acts Concordance
  • Rules of Civil Procedure Concordance
  • Securities Acts Concordance
• Sanagan’s Encyclopedia of Words and Phrases, Legal Maxims, 5th Edition
• Words and Phrases – Words and Phrases gives you access to over 60,000 judicial interpretations of statutory and common law terms and how they have been interpreted by the courts.