The Lexum collection contains the Supreme Court of Canada judgments since its creation in 1875 and judgments in leave applications since 2006. The collection is updated within minutes of the public release of the judgments by the Court.
In law, intervention is a procedure to allow a nonparty, called intervenor (also spelled intervener) to join ongoing litigation, either as a matter of right or at the discretion of the court, without the permission of the original litigants
A headnote is a brief summary of a particular point of law that is added to the text of a court decision to aid readers in locating discussion of a legal issue in an opinion. As the term implies, headnotes appear at the beginning of the published opinion.
A table of authorities is part of a legal brief that contains a list of the cases, statutes, and secondary sources cited in the brief. The table of authorities has the page number or numbers on which each authority appears.
Precedent is a principle or rule established in a previous legal case that is either binding (you have to follow it) or persuasive (you may follow it) in court
What is Case Law?
Case law is made up of the written decisions of judges in court cases and tribunals.
