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Canadian Law

A guide to help you research all aspects of Canadian law.

Official/authorised report series

Canada has two official report series: the Supreme Court Reports (SCR) and the Federal Courts Reports (FCR).

Supreme Court Reports (SCR)

Published under the title Canada Supreme Court Reports/Recueils des arrêts de la Cour suprême du Canada. From 1970 to current, this series is usually bilingual with text in English and French in two columns.

Previously entitled:

  • 1876–1922: Reports of the Supreme Court of Canada (English only)
  • 1923–1963: Canada Law Reports: Supreme Court of Canada (published in French or English as written by the judge and no translation into the other official language available)
  • 1964–1969: Canada Law Reports: Supreme Court of Canada/Rapports judicaires du Canada: Cour suprême du Canada (published in French or English as written by the judge and no translation into the other official language available)

Federal Courts Reports (FCR)

This official report series was formerly entitled the Federal Court Reports (FC), which were published from 1971 to 2003. From 2004 the report series became the Federal Courts Reports (FCR).

Unofficial report series

Online

Print

The Law Library holds a number of unofficial/unauthorised report series in print on Level 4, including: 

Unreported judgments

Finding unreported judgments from multiple courts and tribunals

Use these databases to find unreported judgments from multiple courts and tribunals:

To find out more about these databases, see the Finding Cases on a Topic page in this guide.

Finding judgments from individual courts


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