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Authorised Law Reports

A research guide to understand and discover Authorised Law Reports for Australia, it's states and other jurisdictions.

Canada 

Canada only has three authorised (known in Canada as 'official') report series - all are Federal.

Court

Title of Reporting series

Abbreviation of Report Series

Unimelb Online Holdings

Unimelb Print Holdings

Example Citation
(
AGLC4 style)

Supreme Court of Canada

Canada Supreme Court Reports/Recueils des arrêts de la Cour suprême du Canada 1970-

Canada Law Reports: Supreme Court of Canada 1923-1969

Reports of the Supreme Court of Canada 1875-1922

SCR

1875 + Supreme Court of Canada website (open access)

1875 + Hein Online

1970-

R v Sharpe [2001] 1 SCR 45

Gazette Printing Co v Shallow (1909) 41 SCR 339

Federal Court of Canada

Federal Court Reports 1971-2003

Federal Courts Reports 2004 -

FC (1971-2003)

FCR (2004-)

1971+ Lexis+ Australia

1993 + Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs Canada (open access)
Full text volumes in PDF are available from 2007.

1971-2003

2004-2011

AB v Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) (TD) [2003] 1 FC 3

Exchequer Court of Canada

This court was replaced by the Federal Court of Canada in 1971.

Exchequer Court Reports

Ex CR

1877 - 1971 Lexis+ Australia

Not available in hard copy

The Coca-Cola Co of Canada Ltd v The Pepsi-Cola Co of Canada Ltd [1938] Ex CR 263


A semi-official or unofficial provincial report series should only be cited where a decision is not reported in an official report series. For information and holdings of other Canadian law report series and unreported decisions, refer to the: