SOQUIJ completes the legal information in Quebec that it makes available to the public on a daily basis. Access is free for citizens, organisations and businesses. The Government of Canada and Publications Québec websites provide free access to the Canada Gazette and the Gazette officielle du Québec. These gazettes are the documents with which the federal and state governments publish their decisions, decrees, bills and legal opinions. You can also consult the Express, a legal bulletin in the fields of civil, administrative, criminal, labour and labour law. Search for English translations of court decisions in French languages in Canada. T. Tjaden. Cabbage. (March 2, 2011).

Excerpt from: www.slaw.ca/2011/03/02/translations-court-decisions/ Legal Research Handbook, 5th edition, by D. MacEllven. Chapter 12: Research on Quebec Law (available in Vancouver libraries and regional courts) Lost in translation? Quebec resources for non-Quebec librarians. C. Mehu. CALL/ACBD Conference 2013. (May 7, 2013) The Practice of Law in Quebec: The Perspective of an English-speaking Quebecer. A. Hilton.

The Law Society of Upper Canada: 3rd Colloquium. SOQUIJ offers comprehensive coverage of Quebec law through the publication of decisions of the courts and administrative tribunals of the province of Quebec. The website states: “While some of the full-text decisions reported in our products are provided in the original in English, the summaries and search tools (indexes, tables, web interface, etc.) are in French.” Although the search page is in French, the judgment database can be searched with English keywords to find judgments originally written in English. This approach also works in the CanLII, Quicklaw and LawSource search models. SOQUIJ also produces about two hundred unofficial English translations per year, mainly on criminal and family subjects. Despite their informal status, these decisions are ordered and reviewed by the courts. There is no search function and decisions are arranged in reverse chronological order. The English translation page is separate from the page that searches for decisions originally rendered in English.

Law firm newsletters sometimes summarize French cases in English. Search their newsletter on a law firm`s website if you`re trying to find a known case, or search law firm search engines like Fee Fie Fo Firm or Lexology with keywords like “Quebec” and “cases” to pull out newsletters about ongoing cases in Quebec. See also Quebec Legislation and Jurisprudence: Open Sources and Demystification. La Société québécoise d`information juridique (SOQUIJ) Summaries of arbitration decisions rendered between 1986 and 1993 and of all arbitral awards rendered since 1994 in the private and municipal sectors, with the exception of the education and social sectors. Quebec decisions, some combined, rendered by Quebec and federal courts, as well as decisions of other provincial and territorial courts of appeal. Quebec court decisions are published in the language of the hearing and/or recorded in databases. Even if a decision is made in English, the lawyer sometimes uses English and French interchangeably, which can lead to difficulties in finding or reading a case. The Honourable Justice Allan Hilton gives an example in his essay The Practice of Law in Quebec: The Perspective of an English-Speaking Quebecer: “Lord, we have been referred to you by the Special Clerk because we cannot agree on a timeline for this matter and we want you to resolve one. I would also like to apply for a safeguard order, which will remain in effect until the hearing on the interlocutory injunction. Translated into correct English, the statement would read: “Sir, the Special Secretary referred us to you because we cannot agree on a timetable for this matter and we would like you to establish one. In addition, I would like to file an application for a protective order, which will remain in effect until the hearing on the interim injunction.

The Société québécoise d`information juridique (SOQUIJ) was founded in 1976 by the Government of Quebec and reports to the Department of Justice. Free remote access to the full text of decisions of the France, the European Union and other countries, as well as legal news magazines. Arbitral awards in the education sector, including executives. Includes interpretive and classification decisions, pension decisions (CARRA) and court appeals. The judgments of the Quebec Court of Appeal since January 1, 1986 are available free of charge on the website of the Société québécoise d`information juridique (SOQUIJ): citoyens.soquij.qc.ca remote access to the complete versions of certain decisions of Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, including: The Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII) and the Centre d`accès à l`information juridique (CAIJ) also offer free access to recent decisions in Quebec. Use the filters of the CAIJ UNIK search engine to quickly reduce your results. You will then be able to focus your legal research on jurisdictions and tribunals chosen from the CAIJ`s in-depth case law. This database gives you access to the full texts of Quebec and federal decisions. To simplify your search process, you can also access: The word “case law” is a legal term for all court decisions in Canada. It can also be used to refer to all court decisions made in a particular area of law, such as “family law jurisprudence”. The Société québécoise d`information juridique (SOQUIJ) publishes the decisions of the Quebec courts.

The website provides free access to recent decisions from Quebec courts, the Quebec Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada. SOQUIJ is under the responsibility of Justice Québec. The Supreme Court of Canada provides free access to its decisions. Some of them date back to the 19th century. Société québécoise d`information juridique 715, rue du Square-Victoria Suite 600 Montréal, Qc, H2Y 2H7 Tel. : 514.842.8741 Fax: 514.842.5357 Historical resources can sometimes be difficult to find. Do not hesitate to contact the CAIJ team to use the document recovery service. City councils issue municipal ordinances.

These laws vary from city to city.4 The National Assembly of Quebec enacts the laws and regulations of Quebec.3 Federal laws are also available on the Parliament of Canada website. The Centre d`accès à l`information juridique (CAIJ) provides free access to federal and state laws, regulations and municipal ordinances.