Developed by the Center for Computer - Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI), the site describes itself as an «
electronic case reporter» that makes the opinions searchable and also provides them as ebook collections.
Not exact matches
Our tables of
cases still include citations to as many as four print
reporters, and we tend not to include cites to
electronic sources unless nothing else is available.
Specifically, legal
case research, once conducted exclusively through the use of print - based resources (
reporter volumes,
case digests, treatises), is now conducted primarily through searches of
electronic legal databases.
Full - service subscribers to Canada Law Book's law reports (Dominion Law Reports, Canadian Criminal
Cases, Labour Arbitration
Cases, Canadian Patent
Reporter, Ontario Municipal Board Reports, Land Compensation Reports) are eligible to receive «e-Reports», an
electronic version of the weekly or monthly paper parts.
From the library side of legal work, some theoretical MWP examples: extra research to confirm a trusted person's work, legislative research that goes back too far in time, looking for every
case rather than the best
cases that clarify an issue, filing a looseleaf service that hasn't been consulted in several years, pulling and copying print
case reporters when you already have an
electronic copy.
Now that few writers rely on print
reporters, with many actually lacking reasonable access to them, the rule's explicit prohibition on using Westlaw or LEXIS (or presumably any other
electronic source) «as a source for the official
case name» is manifestly an anachronism.