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SMALL FIRMS SOLUTIONS PACKAGESOnline legal ReseaRch Made easy

Save time and money with Westlaw® Canada research tools for solo and small law practices. These powerful practice-specific Westlaw Canada products allow you to be efficient with your time as well as your clients’ dollars. Plus, you get online access to the same tools used by large firms, leveling the playing field.

Special pricing is available for law firms with ten lawyers or fewer. Select from our suite of practice-specific products to best meet your firm’s needs. Our small firm bundled pricing is an easy and cost-effective way for you to provide your clients with answers that are as quick or as detailed as you require them to be.

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Tools that have made Carswell’s reputation as provider of Canada’s most respected research products over the past century:

The Canadian Abridgment – Case Digests a comprehensive collection of more than 800,000 digests of Canadian case law that is organized by legal issue according to a single taxonomy exclusive to Carswell. Covers virtually every case reported in Canada since 1803, allowing you to find all relevant Canadian cases by topic.

The Canadian Encyclopedic Digest – the most efficient way to find the law on any issue. The Canadian Encyclopedic Digest links to the relevant classifications in The Canadian Abridgment for a logical start to efficient research. This

structure allows you to browse and link to related information, rather than do a series of Boolean searches – a more natural – and reliable – way of understanding a legal issue.

Index to Canadian Legal Literature – Canada’s only legal bibliography.

Words and Phrases – a critically important research tool that takes the user directly to the heart of the legal implications of words and how they have been interpreted by the courts.

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criminalSource®CASE LAwcomprehensive criminal case law collection with expert selection of important cases via Carswell Law Report Collection including the Criminal Reports (1946 -), Motor Vehicle Reports (1977 -) and Immigration Law Reporter (1987-).

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– Covers virtually every case reported in Canada back to 1803, and every case received from the courts since 1986, whether reported or unreported, with the exception of Québec civil law

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exclusive Quantums of sentencing digests – Nadin-Davis Canadian Sentencing Digests contains virtually all the sentencing cases back to 1970.

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annotated legislation When you search for legislation, you also get links to annotations classified by issue, with links to cases and commentary – everything you need to understand your case and build a strategy in minutes.

Sources of annotations include: – Tremeear’s Annotated Criminal Code – Tremeear’s Related Criminal Statutes – Cournoyer & Ouimet’s Code criminel annoté – Crankshaw’s Criminal Code of Canada – Nadin-Davis Canadian Sentencing Digest

AUThORITATIvE CONTENTexclusive carswell’s criminal law digests derived from The Canadian Abridgment the renown taxonomy of Canadian law, our digest of criminal law by specialized topic. Search directly from the home page of CriminalSource. The 13 topics include:

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authored treatises by the foremost Criminal law experts provide an excellent starting point for your research and are linked to both case law and legislation:

– Gibson, Canadian Criminal Code Offences

– Gibson, Criminal Law Evidence, Practice and Procedure

– Segal, Disclosure and Production in Criminal Cases

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CURRENCY TOOLSnewsletters – Stay current on the most recent developments and consult with pre-eminent authorities in the field;

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– Segal’s Motor Vehicle & Impaired Driving Newsletter by Deputy Attorney General Murray Segal

– Cournoyer et Ouimet en bref by The Honourable Mr. Justice Guy Cournoyer of the Cour supérieure du Québec, and respected defence counsel Gilles Ouimet of Montreal

– NEW – Mack’s Criminal Law Bulletin, authored by Assistant Crown Attorney Dallas Mack, published bi-monthly

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estates&trustsSource®CASE LAwcomprehensive estates & trusts case law collection of unreported and reported decisions drawn from Carswell’s comprehensive case law database with the Estates and Trusts, Civil Practice, Tax and Family General headings. Includes expert selection of important cases and articles and annotations from Carswell’s Estates and Trusts Reports.

the only online research service that provides access to actual court documents from leading Canadian estate litigation actions including motions (orders and endorsements), pleadings, and facta. The Estates & Trusts court document collection is derived from the estates and trusts Reports (etR), and covers the most significant cases in the practice area from 1995 on.

estates and trust court of appeal cases Stay current with appellate decisions from your jurisdiction and you will be able to link from the case to determine whether an application for leave to appeal, or notice of appeal, to the SCC has been filed.

LEGISLATIONall legislation, including complete estates regulation coverage, for all common law provinces (i.e., all except Quebec)

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AUThOREd TREATISES, PRECEdENTS ANd PRACTICE GUIdESauthored treatises by Canada’s foremost Estates and Trusts law experts to ensure authoritative and reliable research is at your desktop – fully integrated with links to both case law and legislation.

• exclusive to Estates&TrustsSource: – Waters’ Law of Trusts in Canada,

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estate administration Manuals for Jurisdiction-specific guidance (practical step-by-step estate administration guidance; interactive checklists; fillable authored forms, documents and correspondence)

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exclusive to estates&trustsource Build a Will is a state-of-the-art application that allows you to create customized Wills for clients who have simple to more complex estate situations, utilizing the precedent clauses from Histrop, Estate Planning Precedents: A Solicitor’s Manual. Reduce the time spent drafting and researching alternate clauses by referencing this intuitive application and gain efficiencies in preparing high-quality, client ready wills.

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FamilySource®CASE LAwcomprehensive family case law collection for all jurisdictions, with the most significant family law cases as reported in the Reports of Family Law (RFL), selected by leading experts, with Editor-in-Chief Philip Epstein and Aaron Franks.

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exclusive QuantuM digests* Evaluate instantly what a claim is worth. Quantums zero in on the relevant information with results structured so you can confidently answer the critical question: How much is this support claim worth?

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annotated legislation provides insight and an understanding of the law. Only FamilySource provides you with authoritative commentary on selected statutes and regulations.

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CURRENCY TOOLSNewsletter exclusive Weekly newsletters – epstein and Madsen’s this Week in family law provides a review and discussion of the most recent developments in family law from the courts across Canada.

SecuritiesSource®LEGISLATIONsecurities regulatory materials from all provincial securities commissions and stock exchanges including:

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provincial and territorial securities acts & Regulations – SecuritiesSource contains the securities acts and related regulations and forms from all Canadian provincial and territorial jurisdictions. Other relevant legislation found on the service includes the Canada Business Corporations Act, Ontario Business Corporations Act, Investment Canada Act and related regulations.

concordances of legislation let you compare similar legislation in other jurisdictions as an aid to interpretation and understanding. This issue-based table concords the Ontario Securities Act with the securities acts of other Canadian jurisdictions.

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AUThORITATIvE CONTENTauthored treatises – Securities Law and Practice by the foremost Securities experts Borden Ladner Gervais LLP.

CURRENCY TOOLSOntario securities commission Bulletins and weekly insider report information in Chapter 7 of the OSC Bulletin, beginning with Issue 26/50, dated Friday December 12, 2003.

• Weekly newsletters – Stay current on the most recent developments weekly Securities Newsletter

iPSource®CASE LAwcomprehensive intellectual property case law collection. Plus, exclusive online access to the complete Canadian Patent Reports (cpR), including their respected headnotes, annotations and classification scheme.

exclusive actual court documents.* From leading Canadian civil litigation actions including motions (orders and endorsements), pleadings, and facta.

ip court documents are derived from cases reported in the Dimock Stratton’s Intellectual Property Law Newsletter (IPN) as being the most important judgments and orders in the area of IP.

LEGISLATIONannotated legislation provides insight and an understanding of the law. Includes:

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AUThORITATIvE CONTENTIPSource contains a comprehensive collection of intellectual property, civil practice, electronic commerce and information technology cases from all Canadian jurisdictions. The comprehensive collection includes exclusive online access to the complete canadian patent Reports (CPR), including their respected headnotes, annotations and classification scheme.

authored treatises by the foremost Intellectual Property experts providing an excellent starting research point for your research. Linked to both case law and legislation. Exclusively to IPSource:

• Fox on Canadian Law of Copyright and Industrial Designs by John McKeown

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by Borden Ladner Gervais LLP• Consolidated E-Commerce Statutes

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insolvencySource®CASE LAwcomprehensive case law collection, with the most significant bankruptcy and insolvency law cases as reported in Carswell Law Reports – Canadian Bankruptcy Reports and Personal Property Security Act Cases selected by leading experts.

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LEGISLATIONannotated legislation provides insight and an understanding of the law. Only InsolvencySource contains analysis from leading bankruptcy and insolvency law, restructuring and personal property security experts, including commentary from the following publications:

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• Faillite et insolvabilité : une perspective québécoise de la jurisprudence canadienne, by Bernard Boucher and Jean-Yves Fortin.

• Secured Transactions in Personal Property in Canada by Richard McLaren

concordance of all Personal Property Security Acts currently in force throughout Canada lets you compare similar legislation in other jurisdictions as an aid to interpretation and understanding.

• OsB policy documents – Policy Documents, Directives, Circulars, News Releases, Notices and Programs issued by the Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy

• precedents and forms from Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law of Canada, Third Edition for use under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act

AUThORITATIvE CONTENTauthored treatises by the foremost insolvency law and secured transactions law experts provide an excellent starting point for your research and are linked to both case law and legislation. Exclusive to InsolvencySource:

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• Faillite et insolvabilité : une perspective québécoise de la jurisprudence canadienne, by Bernard Boucher and Jean-Yves Fortin. An examination of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act with section-by-section annotations and commentary with a particular emphasis given to Quebec and French-language cases.

• McLaren, Secured Transactions in Personal Property in Canada – a detailed analysis of the Personal Property Security Acts (P.P.S.A.) in the common law provinces of Canada

• Articles and Annotations from the Canadian Bankruptcy Reports

• Bulletins from the Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy

• Articles, papers and conference proceedings from the Insolvency Institute of Canada

CURRENCY TOOLSNewsletterexclusive Weekly Houlden & Morawetz Insolvency Newsletter – monitors on a weekly basis developments from coast to coast in bankruptcy, insolvency, restructuring, and personal property security law.

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