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This guide provides a selection of resources for those in the School of Legal and Public Administration. It includes access to primary and secondary sources for legal research, magazines, newspapers, e-books, videos, organizations, government sources, blogs and more.

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Elyse Hill
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Top three legal resources

LawSource (WestlawNext)
(Thomson Reuters / Carswell) Contains the text of, and noting-up functionality for, Canadian legal decisions and legislation, as well as the Canadian Encyclopedic Digest, law report and journal articles, the Canadian Abridgment Case Digests, and Words & Phrases Judicially Defined.

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Lexis Advance Quicklaw
(LexisNexis) Access to Canadian court and tribunal case decisions, full-text legal journal articles, rules of court, statutes and regulations, and legal dictionaries and glossaries.
Sessions time-out automatically after 60 minutes. To restart your session, you must close your browser window and then come back through Seneca Libraries' pages; do not click the "Sign In" button that appears in the Lexis platform.

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CanLII: The Canadian Legal Information Institute
(Canadian Legal Information Institute) Contains Canadian legal cases and primary legislation (acts and regulations) from all jurisdictions, as well as news commentary on legal issues.

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Legal News

Lawyer's Daily
(LexisNexis) Canadian legal news, analysis and current awareness for lawyers and legal professionals.
Note: In this database there are links to case law in Lexis Advance Quicklaw. You must have that database open in a separate tab or window in order for those links to work. Also, to sign up for Newsletters in The Lawyer's Daily, Seneca users must register, using their Seneca e-mail address, for a separate Lawyer’s Daily account.

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Ontario Reports (3rd)
Published by the Law Society of Ontario through LexisNexis Canada, Ontario Reports, Third Series provides, in full text, leading cases decided at all levels of Ontario courts, as well as an Expert Witness Directory, ADR Directory, Career opportunities and, Classifieds.
Precedent Magazine
Precedent Magazine delivers a lively assortment of legal news.

Citation Tools

Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation (aka The McGill Guide)
A guide to citing Canadian legal materials such as legislation, jurisprudence, government documents, and secondary sources.
APA Manual
Use the APA Citation Guide to support integration of sources in your academic work. The Citation Guide will help you avoid plagiarism, create in-text citations, and citations for your References page, and much more...
MLA Handbook
Use the MLA Citation Guide to support integration of sources in your academic work. The Citation Guide will help you avoid plagiarism, create in-text citations, and citations for your References page, and much more...

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