Below are a few on-line research resources which you may find useful. Where a choice is given, we have linked to the English-language version of such materials.

HOWEVER, PLEASE NOTE that on-line legal materials, even if initially reliable, are often significantly out-of-date due to delays between changes in laws, policies or facts and updating of links referring to such laws/policies/facts. Like other information located on the internet, the accuracy of such material should not be relied upon, and at the very least you must evaluate the recency of the materials in question. Note in particular that Canadian federal and provincial statutory materials posted on the internet do not qualify as the official version of such legislation, and further are commonly more than a year out of date, rendering them potentially deceptive. The links below should therefore be considered only a starting point for any research.

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• Legislation
  • British Columbia Revised Statutes and Consolidated Regulations
  • Detailed list and set of links for Canadian Federal and Provincial statutory and other legal resources; administered by the University of Calgary Law Library. Includes links to materials for all 10 Canadian provinces and 3 territories as well as federal materials. ALSO includes links to a number of legal resources for a number of non-Canadian jurisdictions

• Case Law
  • Canadian Legal Information Institute
    
    

• Courts
  • Supreme Court of Canada
  • British Columbia Supreme Court and Court of Appeal. Includes links to judgment database and Rules of both courts, as well as historical and factual information
  • Parliament and B.C. Legislature
    • Parliament of Canada
    • Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
      
      
  U.S.
  • Legislation
    • U.S. Code, administered by Cornell University
      
      
  • Courts
    • Supreme Court of the United States
    • U.S. Federal Courts
    
    
    
  • House of Representatives
    • U.S. Congress
    • Thomas (U.S. Legislative Library)
  
  
  
  Intellectual Property sites
  • Canada
    • Canadian Intellectual Property Office ("CIPO")
    • Canadian patents database
    • Canadian Trade-marks database
    • Canadian Copyright database
  • United States
    • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
    • U.S. patent database
    • U.S. trademark database
    • U.S. Copyright Office
    
    
    
    
  Domain name research materials
  • www.betterwhois.com for determining availability, ownership and contact information relevant to .com, .net and .org domain names; while this is one of the best sites to determine such information, it is still quite unreliable due to lack of verification of such information