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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
