Doing Your Own Legal Research: CanLII Skills for the Public. Alan Kilpatrick, Reference Librarian Law Society of Saskatchewan Library (Regina)
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1 Doing Your Own Legal Research: CanLII Skills for the Public Alan Kilpatrick, Reference Librarian Law Society of Saskatchewan Library (Regina)
2 Overview Who Are We? What Is CanLII? What Is the Law? Court Hierarchy Precedent Basics Legal Citations Navigating CanLII
3 Who Are We? The Law Society of Saskatchewan: A regulatory body within the Federation of Law Societies of Canada delegated with the responsibility of governing lawyers in the province lawsociety.sk.ca Governed by a board of lawyers and non-lawyers, the Law Society sets and enforces standards for admissions, professional conduct, and quality of service Not funded by or affiliated with the government
4 Who Are We? The Law Society of Saskatchewan Library: Members of the public are welcome to use the library We provide the public with basic research and assistance in person, on the phone, or by We can help you learn to use the most popular and effective resources
5 The Library Is Here to Help! The Law Society of Saskatchewan Library: Phone: Website: In person: Law Society Library Queen s Bench Court House, 2nd Floor 2425 Victoria Avenue Regina
6 One Piece of the Puzzle Legal research is only one piece of the puzzle: Journey to Justice: A Practical Guide to Effectively Representing Yourself in Court Settlement Smarts for SRLs: How To Use Settlement Processes Knowledgeably and Effectively Coping With the Courtroom: Essential Information and Tips for SRLs
7 What is CanLII? The Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII): CanLII is a non-profit funded by lawyers Provides free access to Canadian law at canlii.org Easily accessible, fully searchable, and online The best place to find the law
8 What is CanLII? The Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII): CanLII provides access to more than one million court cases and thousands of statutes CanLII provides complete coverage of all Canadian court cases from 2000 to date CanLII features a nearly complete coverage of Saskatchewan court cases from 1909 to date
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10 What Is the Law? Case law Legislation
11 Legislation: What Is the Law? Statutes (acts) are written laws passed by the legislature that deal with a specific subject Regulations are subordinate legislation that provide additional details about a particular act Bills are proposed statutes that have not yet passed through the legislative process qp.gov.sk.ca Case law: Written decisions from judges in the courts across Canada. It is also knowns as judge-made law and common law
12 What Is the Law?
13 Court Hierarchy
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15 Court Hierarchy Saskatchewan Court of Appeal (SKCA): Hears appeals on all civil and criminal matters Saskatchewan Court of Queen s Bench (SKQB): Serious criminal offences, most family law matters (including divorce) sasklawcourts.ca and civil matters greater than $30,000 Saskatchewan Provincial Court (SKPC): Most criminal matters, youth matters, small claims, traffic tickets, bylaws, and some family matters
16 Supreme Court of Canada Saskatchewan Court of Appeal Saskatchewan Court of Queen s Bench Administrative Tribunals Saskatchewan Provincial Court
17 Precedent Basics
18 Precedent Basics The CanLII Primer, National Self-Represented Litigants Project: A system in which a court must decide all subsequent cases in line with previous cases, that deal with the same legal issue, that have been decided by the courts of the same level, or higher. Binding or persuasive Cases decided at the highest court in your own jurisdiction will be the most influential
19 Binding Precedents Supreme Court of Canada: Binding on every Court in Canada including itself. Saskatchewan Court of Appeal: Binding on itself, the Saskatchewan Court of Queen s Bench, and the Saskatchewan Provincial Court Saskatchewan Court of Queen s Bench: Binding on itself and the Saskatchewan Provincial Court
20 Persuasive Precedents A decision from the British Columbia Court of Appeal is not binding on the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal A decision from the Ontario Court of Justice is not binding on the Saskatchewan Court of Queen s Bench A decision from the Alberta Court of Appeal is not binding on the Saskatchewan Provincial Court
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22 Legal Citations Plaintiff Defendant Neutral Citation Ravdahl v Saskatchewan, 2009 SCC 7 Versus Year Court Decision #
23 Legal Citations R v Lewko, 2002 SKCA 121 Reiter v Powell, 2016 SKQB 100 R v Piapot, 2016 SKPC 38
24 Legal Citations The Family Property Act, SS 1997, c F-6.3 The Business Name Registrations Act, RSS 1978, c B-11 Criminal Code, RSC 1985, c C-46 National Flag of Canada Act, SC 2012, c 12
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27 Navigating CanLII Searching for case law: The easiest way to find a particular case is to search by neutral citation Let s locate Hoffmann v Monsanto, 2007 SKCA 47
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32 Navigating CanLII Searching for case law by judge: You are looking Queen s Bench judgments by Justice Megaw, made sometime in the past three years Great opportunity to sort and filter search results
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36 Navigating CanLII Searching for legislation: Legislation can be located with the legislative title Legislation can be browsed by province Let s locate The Saskatchewan Farm Security Act, SS , c S-17.1
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41 Navigating CanLII Searching for administrative tribunal decisions: CanLII provides access to a decisions from twenty Saskatchewan tribunals For example, the Office of Residential Tenancies, the Information and Privacy Commissioner, the Human Rights Tribunal, etc.
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45 Navigating CanLII Keyword searching: Search results produced by CanLII are only as good as the keywords entered by the user Create search keywords representing the legal concepts in your case to search for relevant case law and legislation Conduct background research, familiarise yourself with common legal terms and phrases, and read case law and legislation
46 Researching the Law Law Society of Saskatchewan Library Thousands of current legal textbooks, encyclopedias, and dictionaries, as well as print legislation and case law reports Members of the public are welcome to use these resources Public Legal Education Association (PLEA) Available at plea.org Articles, in plain language, about every area of the law in Saskatchewan
47 Am I entitled to child support for a child over the age of 18 currently attending full time university and living at home? "child support" "adult child" "age of majority"
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52 We re Here to Help! Phone: Website: In person: Law Society Library Court House, 2 nd Floor 2425 Victoria Avenue Regina
53 Works Cited Barrie, Denise, Journey to Justice: A Practical Guide to Effectively Representing Yourself in Court (Nanaimo: Waymark Law, 2015) Canadian Legal Information Institute. About CanLII, online: < McCormack, Nancy, John Papadopoulous & Catherine Cotter, The Practical Guide to Canadian Legal Research, 4th ed (Toronto: Carswell, 2015) Justice Canada, Canada s Court System, online: < Saskatchewan Law Courts, Courts of Saskatchewan, online: < Saskatchewan Queen s Printer, online: < Thomas, Tamara, The CanLll Primer: Legal Research Principles and CanLII Navigation for Self-Represented Litigants, The National Self-Represented Litigant Project, online: <
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