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Case law

Note: Some of the courthouse websites on the courts page have links to decision databases.
 
Canadian case law
General
All provinces and courts (CANLII)
 
Maritime Law Book database (free access to cases dating back to the 1970s)
 
Federal Court
 
Tax Court of Canada
 
British Columbia
British Columbia Reports (contains full text of cases reported between 1867 and 1948)
 
British Columbia unreported decisions index
 
An article on finding unreported British Columbia decisions: http://www.legaltree.ca/node/489
 
Quebec 
 
Saskatchewan
 
Foreign case law (General)
CommonLII (Commonwealth)
 
WorldLII
 
Supreme Court and court of appeal decisions from around the world
 
Foreign case law (By country, in alphabetical order)
Asia
Asian Legal Information Institute
 
Australia
AustLII (Australisia)
 
Law and Justice Foundation of New South Wales
 
Decisions of the Superior Courts of New South Wales, 1788-1899
 
England
English Reports from 1220-1873
 
BAILII (United Kingdom)
 
House of Lords
 
English courts
 
Famous English cases
 
(Note: the English Reports for the years 1220-1867 are available on HeinOnline, http://www.heinonline.org/, which can be accessed for free at British Columbia courthouse libraries).
 
France
 
Germany
German Constitutional Court (in English)
 
German High Court
 
German Law Archive (in English)
 
Hong Kong
HKLII
 
India
Supreme Court of India
 
Supreme Court of India and other courts in India
 
India legal information institute
 
Ireland
IRLII
 
Italy
Corte Suprema di Cassazione
 
Japan
Supreme Court (in english)
 
Kenya
Kenyalaw
 
Mexico
Supreme Court
 
New Zealand
NZLII
 
Pacific Islands
PacLII
 
Slovenia
Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia
 
South Africa
SAFLII
 
Constitutional Court
 
United States
Reporters
United States Reports (1754-2005): http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/US/
Federal Reporter 2d (vols. 178-999): http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F2/
Federal Reporter 3d (vols. 1-491): http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F3/
 
Case law portals
USALII (United States)
 
AltLaw - Supreme Court decisions since 1759, Courts of Appeals decisions since 1971  
 
Cases from the U.S. Supreme Court and Courts of Appeals and all 50 states back to 1997
 
U.S. Courts of Appeals opinions
 
United States Supreme Court decisions
 
Lexisone (free access to last five years of case law – required to sign up for free account)
 
Zambia
ZamLII