Alex Manevich earlier bemoaned here on SLAW the abysmal state of online access to Ontario court dockets.

In a recent request to the Canadian Association of Law Libraries listserv I asked colleagues the current state of online access to Canadian court dockets.

Unfortunately, the situation is not much better two years later.

However, I have added to the Case Law page on my legal research and writing website a chart of links for accessing Canadian court dockets (and for those jurisdictions who do not provide access, I provide a link to contact the court registry).

I will continue to update this chart and improve it, so welcome comments and clarifications. I will also try to add "scope notes" to the commercial services I list but did not have time to do that this morning.

Ted Tjaden has been a lawyer for over 20 years during which time he also obtained his Master of Information and Master of Laws degree from the University of Toronto. He is currently immersed in various Knowledge Management projects.
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  1. Ted Tjaden says:

    A colleague has pointed out that for PEI, NetLegal offers docket services that include Federal Court and PEI – see: http://www.netlegal.ca/netdockets.aspx.

    I will update my website when I get home tonight to add this link.

    I welcome any other comments on docket services that I may have missed.

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