Supreme Court reports

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law reports, digests, etc--Canada.

Law reports, digests, etc.

Physical Description:

As received from/the court

Place of Publication:

LexisNexis Canada 1876-

Summary:

This source contains headnotes and full text decisions published in the official Canada Supreme Court Reports. Between 1876 and 1922 the Supreme Court Reports were published in English only under the title Reports of the Supreme Court of Canada. A second series was published between 1923 and 1963 under the English title Canada Law Reports: Supreme Court of Canada, and from 1964 to 1969 under the bilingual title Canada Law Reports: Supreme Court of Canada/Rapports judicaires du Canada: Cour suprême du Canada. In the first two series, judgments were published in the language as written by the judge and no translation in the other official language was available. The third series began publication in 1970. Fully bilingual with text in English and French in two columns, it is still published under the title Canada Supreme Court Reports/Recueils des arrêts de la Cour suprême du Canada. The Supreme Court of Canada was created in 1875. In 1949 it became the final court of appeal in Canada for both criminal and civil cases. It decides cases on appeal from the provincial and territorial Courts of Appeal, from the Federal Court of Appeal and from the Court Martial Appeal Court, as well as constitutional references. Prior to 1950, cases could be appealed from Canada to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the United Kingdom.