Available via LexisNexis Academic – Shepard’s® Citations, a product of Shepard’s Company, a partnership, provides the ability to check citations, find parallel citations, and view subsequent history of the cite case or statute, and the treatment accorded it by subsequent cases.

To shepardize is to look up (a case citation) in Shepard’s Citations esp. in order to check the status of the case, parallel citations, or the use of the case in other jurisdictions. (It is equivalent to what Canadians call “noting up a case”).

Revised November 22, 2007

The Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) is Canada’s largest independent administrative tribunal. Every year, the Board renders more than 40,000 decisions on refugee protection and immigration matters. More

Summaries, as well as the full-text, of a selection of these decisions are available in RefLex.

A selection of IRB full-text decisions is also available in CanLII.

RPD (Refugee Protection Division) decisions of the IRB are held in private. You may request a translation/copy of the decision but it has to be sanitized by the Access to Information and Privacy (ATIP) branch and translated before being made available.

You can obtain the translation of these reasons for decision in the other official language by writing to the Editing and Translation Services Directorate of the IRB at the following address: 344 Slater Street, 14th Floor, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0K1, by e-mail to translation@irb.gc.ca or by facsimile at (613) 947-3213.

The National Class Action Database is designed to give lawyers and the public easy access to court documents submitted with regard to class action lawsuits currently underway across the country.

Old English cases reported in a law report series with a person’s name — or abbreviated name] in the series title indicate a “nominate” law reporter.
“Nominate” law reporters bear the names of the individuals who made their living reporting and publishing court decisions.

In the early 1900s, nominate reporter series were reprinted as the English Reports [E.R.]. They include decisions of the English courts from 1220 to 1866
when the official Law Reports commenced. The English Reports are widely available in law libraries, while the nominate law reports are not.

Examples of nominate citations with their parallel English Reports citations:
- Berd v. Lovelace (1577) Cary 61, 21 E.R. 33.
- Bret v. Johnson (1657) Lane 1, 145 E.R. 249.
- Rawson v. Haigh (1824) 2 Bing 99, 130 E.R. 242.
- Rees v. Walters (1838) 3 M&W 527, 150 E.R. 1254.

There are several ways to convert “nominate” citations into their parallel English Reports citations:

1) Use HeinOnline’s English Reports

2) Use the Index of Cases [last 2 volumes of the English Reports ]:
– look up the case name to find the E.R. volume & page number.

3) Use the Index Chart issued for the English Reports [book] or the Table of English Reports [wallchart]:
– look up the nominate reporter title or abbreviated title to find E.R. volume(s) reprinting that nominate series’ cases

4) Use The Digest’s Consolidated Table of Cases:
- Look up the case name in the Consolidated Table of Cases to find the volume of The Digest summarizing that case.
- Find the specific volume number of The Digest and turn to its “Table of Cases” located at the front of the volume.
- Look up the case name again in the volume’s “Table of Cases” to find the number for the specific case digest.
- Look up the numbered case digest within the volume. Note that parallel case citations are usually listed at the end of a case digest.

Revised October 6, 2011

Labour Spectrum
Labour Spectrum is a complete electronic collection of dozens of volumes of labour law decisions and commentary covering decades of court decisions. Includes Canadian Labour Arbitration Summaries (CLAS). Access to more than 10,000 LAC decisions and 42,000 CLAS decisions.

To search for labour law cases in LexisNexis Quicklaw, click on the “Source Directory” and select topic “Labour and Employment Law”

The Quebec Court of Appeal has launched a project under which all of its judgments that are deemed significant from an out of province perspective will be translated. If you go on the Court’s site through CanLII, you will see that the topic[s] of the judgment[s] so translated is made explicit so as to facilitate research (see: www.jugements.qc.ca click “English Translation).”

Revised November 22, 2007

Administrative Body and Tribunal Decisions
http://www.library.ubc.ca/law/tribunals.html#Canada

Case Reporting, Selectivity of – See criteria (circa p. 54) in:
Shirley A. Lounder, edited by Lorna K. Rees-Potter, Case Law Reporting in Canada
LAW LIBRARY (level 4): KE269 .L68 1982 (LC)

Finding Case Law on the Internet
http://faculty.law.ubc.ca/rochette/pdf/12-Finding%20Case%20law%20on%20the%20inte.pdf

Law Reports/Topical Reporters
http://faculty.law.ubc.ca/rochette/pdf/11-Law%20Reports.pdf

Noting Up Cases
http://faculty.law.ubc.ca/rochette/pdf/13-Noting%20Up%20Cases.pdf
See rule 3.2.12 of McGill Citation Guide/Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation, 7th ed
LAW LIBRARY learning commons (level 2) & reference room (level 2): KE259 .C35 2010

Q: It is possible to search for BCLRB decisions by case number?

A: BCLRB decisions prior to 2000 are in Quicklaw’s BCLB
Note: You cannot use “Find by citation” because labour decisions – except the LACs cannot be retrieved by cite. Instead, search the BCLB database for an exact phrase, in quotation marks

e.g.: “B.C.L.R.B. No. B70/76″

LRB decisions from 2000 onwards are available via BCLRB website. New LRB decisions are posted every Tuesday; Quicklaw gets cases a week later. So, for very recent LRB decisions see the LRB website: http://www.lrb.bc.ca/decisions/.

British Columbia Labour Relations Board decision index
Variant Title: B.C.L.R.B. Dec.
Holdings: 1993 – 1997
Call Number: LAW LIBRARY (level 4): KEB404.3.A53 B75 (LC)
http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?dbcn=AEW-1020

British Columbia Labour Relations Board decisions
Variant Title: B.C.L.R.B. Dec.
Holdings: 1974 – 1987
Call Number: LAW LIBRARY (level 4): KEB404.3.A52 B752 (LC)
http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?dbcn=AEV-9926

Industrial relations law reports
Holdings: 1972/73 – 1992
Call Number: LAW LIBRARY (level 4): KD3005.A2 I53 (LC)
http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?dbcn=AER-5300

Industrial Relations Council decisions
Variant Title: British Columbia Industrial Relations Council decisions
Holdings: 1988 – 1992
Call Number: LAW LIBRARY (level 4): KEB404.3.A52 B75 (LC)
http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?dbcn=AEV-1112

British Columbia Labour Relations Board decisions
Variant Title: B.C.L.R.B. Dec.
Holdings: 1993 -
Call Number: LAW LIBRARY (level 4): KEB404.3.A52 B752 (LC)
http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?dbcn=AEV-9926