Legal Research

Jureeka in Canada

By Michael Lines

It seems we have not posted Jureeka to Slaw yet. It is a service that provides linkages between legal information searchers and providers. As part of the effort, it offers a Firefox extension that detects legal citations on the web and displays them as links. The extension is now is functional for citations to Canadian resources, including

• The Constitution Acts (1867 and 1982)
• Supreme Court cases from 1876 to the present (S.C.R. and SCC citations)
• Federal Court cases from 1988 to the present (F.C. citations)
• Consolidated Statutes of Canada
• Consolidated Regulations of Canada

The fact that such extensions mess with, or ‘improve’ the work of the authors of webpages can be a bit of a problem sometimes, though. Especially if you have multiple such extensions attached to your browser. Thanks to Tim Knight for posting this to the CALL list.

UPDATE:

Some users have reported difficulties installing this add-on. Also, it has ‘experimental’ status at Mozilla, meaning it has not been fully tested…

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on September 23, 2008 (boomark / email).