Best's Guide to Canadian Legal Research http://www.legalresearch.org/
Catherine Best is a research lawyer with the Vancouver law firm of Boughton Law Corporation. The main page of the site is divided into four parts: Research Essentials, Electronic Research, Statutory Research and Other Jurisdictions. Each of these sections is logically broken down into various sub-headings, each of which can be clicked on for a step by step explanation of the topic. The Research Essentials section offers effective strategies for Canadian legal research, including finding and using secondary sources, finding and analyzing cases and updating your research. This site is a great place to go to learn as much as you want - you can easily look up a specific research question, or browse for more wide-ranging information.

Jurist Canada http://jurist.law.utoronto.ca/
Jurist Canada is the Canadian service of the American-based Jurist, directed from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. The Canadian service is hosted by the Bora Laskin Law Library at the University of Toronto. Jurist Canada provides coverage of the latest developments in legal research, education and teaching as well as news about the law. The site provides a wealth of links and information for every area of practice, including up-to-date Canadian legal news, latest decisions from the Supreme and Federal Courts and the Ontario Court of Appeal, articles from news wires, new scholarship, conference proceedings and a selection of international materials.

Law Society of Upper Canada – Great Library http://library.lsuc.on.ca/GL/home.htm
This is a fantastic web site for legal research and for incidental bits of practical information. In addition to the union catalogue of the Great Library and all court house libraries in Ontario (AdvoCAT), this site provides some very good legal research tools. One is the feature “Legal Periodicals Online”, which provides a list of what’s available for free online, complete with links. There are also links to a large collection of legal research web sites under “Notable Legal Websites”. Pre and post-judgment interest rates, since 1989 and 1985 respectively, can be found on the main page.

Ted Tjaden's Doing Legal Research in Canada http://www.llrx.com/features/ca.htm
Ted Tjaden is a lawyer/law librarian who is Director of Knowledge Management at McMillan Binch Mendelsohn LLP in Toronto. He has published a number of articles on the Internet and legal research and speaks regularly at conferences on these issues. His page is an excellent online guide to doing legal research in Canada. It is divided into six major sections which can each be clicked on or browsed through as a whole.  Alternatively you can click on the detailed Table of Contents to access any one of over 75 specific topics.This page provides a tidy and efficient way to answer many questions about legal research, especially if you are addressing an unfamiliar topic.

LLRX.com http://www.llrx.com
This site, which is updated monthly, was created and is maintained by Sabrina Pacifici, a law librarian in Washington, D.C. and an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland Center for Information Policy and E-Government Center. It is a web journal with articles about legal research, information technology and internet issues. LLRX.com is particularly useful for its guides to legal research in specific countries. These articles can be accessed either by using the search engine or by reviewing the article archives at the top of the page.

Thank you to Cynthia Simpson and Gail Brown, Law LIbrarians at the Middlesex Law Association, for their contributions to this page.