Legal Research

CLB announces BestCase

By Simon Chester

As Slaw readers know, effective April 1, 2008, Canada Law Book is pulling its law reports and case summaries from Quicklaw Lexis Nexis¹

CLB today announced a new online research service called BestCase. All its law reports², summary services plus unreported decisions since 1976 and a note-up citator feature will be in BestCase, available by April 2008.

1. Dominion Law Reports (since 1912)
   Canadian Criminal Cases (since 1898)
   Labour Arbitration Cases (since 1948)
   Canadian Patent Reporter (since 1941)
   All-Canada Weekly Summaries
   Weekly Criminal Bulletin
   Canadian Law List
   Alberta Civil and Criminal Cases
   Federal Court of Appeal Decisions
   BC Civil Cases
   BC Criminal Cases
   BC Labour Arbitrations
   BC Labour Relations Board Decisions
   Canadian Labour Arbitration Summaries
   Saskatchewan Civil and Criminal Cases
   Supreme Court of Canada Decisions
   Manitoba Civil and Criminal Cases
2. except Canadian Patent Reporter which will not be included in BestCase
3. CLB has also applied for the mark BESTCASE SPECTRUM and CASE SPECTRUM, BEST

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on February 26, 2008 (boomark / email).