Legal Research

Straight to the Supreme Court of Canada

By Simon Fodden

I need to go to the Supreme Court website from time to time, and although I’m sure I’ve bookmarked it somewhere, it’s a tad tedious to first find the bookmark and then activate it, or to use Google when the bookmarks on your laptop aren’t the same as those on your desktop machine. What would be right, would be if the court had the URL http://www.supremecourt.ca or some such, but in our peculiar capitalist way, that URL has been snatched by someone and is being camped on, as are all sensible variants. And in our peculiar bureaucratic way, the actual URL is a hateful construct that is policy-correct and, therefore, impossible to remember, for me at least: http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/ (http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/home-accueil/index-eng.asp, if you try to get past the splash page to the English home page; semblable pour les francophones, naturellement.)

So for fun I’ve created two easy-to-remember URLs, one English, one French, that will take me — and you — per saltum right to the SCC home page in the appropriate language:

thesupremes.ca
lessupremes.ca

Feel free to share.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on March 16, 2009 (boomark / email).