Legal Research

Retiring an old friend

By Ted Tjaden

It was with mixed feelings we have ?retired? our All England Law Reports - Canadian Annotations to the Consolidated Tables and Index looseleaf but it just wasn?t being used.

It was a great product that provided a list of U.K. cases reported in the All England Law Reports showing which Canadian court decisions had considered those U.K. decisions. Its strength was quality of entries. However, its time has likely come given the ease by which one can search on the name of the U.K. case (e.g., jarvis /4 swan) in a Canadian full-text judgments database to get a more exhaustive listing of Canadian cases that have considered the U.K. decision.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on October 22, 2008 (boomark / email).