Justice Laws will allow you to follow the progress of a federal bill through both the House of Commons and the Senate.

Law by Geoffrey

PART ONE: TRUE OR FALSE? (Each question is worth 1 mark – 15 mks.)

  1. _______ CanLII may include both reported and unreported decisions.
  2. _______ Legal research databases will automatically search for alternate spellings of a search term.
  3. _______ Regulations are always made under the authority of a statute.
  4. _______ Justice Laws will allow you to follow the progress of a federal bill through both the House of Commons and the Senate.
  5. _______ Boolean logic was invented by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett for the purposes of internet searching.
  6. ________ All older case citations are now being converted to the neutral citation format.
  7. ________ The NSR case reporter is an official reporter.
  8. ________ The DLR case reporter is an official reporter.
  9. _______ You have two copies of the same SCC case. One is from the SCR’s and the other is from the SCJ’s. The SCJ version is the official version for research.
  10. ________ A summary of an Ontario bill may be obtained from the CanLII website.
  11. ________ If you want to see what a specific section of the Family Law Act looked like 15 years ago, you should look at the historical or PIT version in e-Laws.
  12. ________ E-Laws won’t give you the text of any repealed Regulations.
  13. ________ Lawyers in Ontario receive the DLR’s as part of the licensing fees they pay to the Law Society every year.
  14. ________ Headnotes are summaries written by judges.
  15. ________ The Criminal Code has been amended numerous times. The subject matter of an original section could end up in another section of the Code with a different number after legislative amendments.