LibGuides: Canadian Legal Research Sources: Legal Encyclopedias

Legal Encyclopedias

Legal encyclopedias contain brief articles arranged in alphabetical order by topic.

Make use of the footnotes to locate relevant statutes, cases and commentary.

Sources include:

Canadian Encyclopedic Digest
via Westlaw. "Canadian Encyclopedic Digest provides a comprehensive statement of the law of Ontario and the four western provinces - provincial, federal and common law - as derived from the case law and legislation. Browse Table of Contents below or search."
Halsbury's laws of Canada
also online
Oxford Companion to Law
Oxford Encyclopedia of Human Rights