Law Links
Links to legal sites
Centre for Constitutional Studies – Univ. of Alberta
Constitutional Laws of Canada.
Constitutional Law of Canada. – Prof. Magnet
Constitutional Documents – U.S.
National Archives – U.S. Charters of Freedom Exhibit (Constitutional Documents)
Constitutions of Countries in North and South America – Georgetown Univ.
World Constitutions – the Constitute Project – view the constitution of any country.
The Supreme Court of Canada – U. of Montreal
The Federal Court of Canada
Alberta Law Courts
British Columbia Law Courts
Manitoba Courts of Justice
New Brunswick Law Courts
Law Courts of Newfoundland and Labrador
Northwest Territories Court Services
Nova Scotia Law Courts
Nunavut Court of Justice
Ontario Courts of Justice
Law Courts of Prince Edward Island
Saskatchewan Law Courts
Yukon Court Services
International Court of Justice – The Hague, Netherlands
U.S. Supreme Court Decisions – full text of Cases since 1990 (Cornell Univ.)
U.S. Federal Courts
Canadian Environmental Law Resources
- B.C. Ministry of Environment, Lands, Water and Air
- Saskatchewan Environment and Resource Management
- Canadian Environmental Law Association
- Climate Change (Natural Resources Canada)
- Energy Publications Virtual Library
- Environment and Climate Change Canada)
- Natural Resources Canada – Office of Energy Efficiency
- Commission for Environmental Co-operation
- Alberta Environmental Law Centre
U.S. Environmental Law Resources
- Commission for Environmental Co-operation – Submissions on Enforcement Matters
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency – Laws and Regulations
- Carnegie Mellon – Environmental Law
- Center for Climate and Energy Solutions – C2ES – see the C2ES Library
International Environmental Law Resources
- Environmental Law Alliance – Worldwide
- International Growth Centre
- Globelaw – International Environmental and Transnational Law
- Environmental Law in Asia – comprehensive listings of Environmental Law issues by country
- International Environmental Laws – 26 countries
Environmental News and Information
Canadian Society of Forensic Sciences
American Academy of Forensic Sciences
British Academy of Forensic Sciences
Forensic Entomology
International Association of Bloodstain Pattern Analysts
U.S. National Library of Medicine – MedLine
American College of Medical Toxicology
The Virtual Autopsy
Zeno’s forensic page – Virtually every forensic science site on the Web.
Canada
- Government of Canada – Homepage
- Department of Justice Canada
- Statutes of Canada – On-line – All federal statutes. Also Constitutional Laws of Canada.
- Hansard (House of Commons) – Official record of debates in the House of Commons, Ottawa
Saskatchewan
U.S.
- United States Department of Justice Home Page
- Federal Judicial Center – U.S.
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) – Justice Information Center
- U.S. Laws and Regulations (Government)
- The White House – U.S.
- GPO Access on the Web – Government Printing Office (GPO) has a wealth of U.S. congressional, judicial and executive information.
(Patents, Trademarks, Copyright)
Canadian Intellectual Property Office (Patent and Trade Marks)
European Patent Office
Japanese Patent Office – Information about Japanese Patents
U.S. Patent Office
U.S. Patent Search – Searchable Database of U.S. patents – (U.S. Patent Office)
Intellectual Property Resources on the Internet – U.S. Patent Office list of links to world’s Patent offices
World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO) Arbitration Center
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
RCMP Detachments – Saskatchewan
Saskatoon Police Service
Regina Police Service
Calgary Police Service
Winnipeg Police Service
Edmonton Police Service
Metro Toronto Police Service
Interpol – RCMP site
Central Intelligence Agency – CIA
Federal Bureau of Investigation – FBI
Legal Resources
Saskatchewan:
- Law Society of Saskatchewan – Saskatchewan cases and digests. Also Law Society Library holdings
- University of Saskatchewan – Indigenous Law Centre
- Saskatchewan Queen’s Printer – Sask. Statutes and Regulations
- Saskatoon Criminal Defence Lawyers Association
- Public Legal Education Association of Saskatchewan (PLEA)
Canada:
- Canadian Bar Association
- Criminal Lawyers Association – Ontario
- Alberta Centre for Public Legal Education
- Judith Bower’s Law List
U.S. and International:
- The Cornell Legal Information Institute – access to full text document – very comprehensive
- Legal.Net
- Uniform Law Commission (U.S.)
- National Technical Information Service (NTIS) – information on technical subjects and matters requiring expert opinion
Legal Research Tools
CANLII – Canadian Legal Information – Legislation and Case Law – all online and free
Law Central – Alberta
National Library and Archives – Canada
Lawblogs – Keep up-to-date on legal developments
SSRN – a central source for all kinds of research
SSRN – browse legal research papers
SSRN – Canadian Journals
Cornell University Library – U.S. online legal research resources
LawArXiv – Open access repository of U.S. legal research papers
FindLaw – U.S. legal research tool
Internet Legal Research Group – Public resources
Canada
Saskatchewan
National
U.S. and International
Statistics Canada
Canadian Justice Statistics – Statistics Canada
StatsCan Reference Services
U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics.
OECD Statistics – (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development)
Our Publications
Materials Published by Scott Phelps & Mason Lawyers
From time to time lawyers are asked to present papers at conferences or seminars or provide instruction to students or for Continuing Legal Education events.
Scott Phelps & Mason lawyers are no exception and have provided papers on many occasions. We have collected a few of these that you may find useful or just interesting.
Continuing Legal Education
Long recognized in the legal community as a leading innovator in the use of technology in the practice of law, Andrew Mason has promoted the use of electronic documents in civil actions. He developed a system for electronic appeals that has been adopted by the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal. He has made several presentations to lawyers on the use of computers and information technology. Here are two of his papers:
Legal Resources and the Internet – December 1999
Producing, Managing and Using Electronic Documents in a Law Firm – June 2001.
Criminal Law
Andrew Mason has been an active member of the Saskatoon Criminal Defence Lawyers Association for many years. He has organized and presented several seminars at Canadian Bar Association meetings on criminal law subjects since 1985. In 2002 he presented a paper on the subject of Preliminary Inquiries at a Saskatchewan Legal Education Society (SKLESI) conference on criminal law issues
Andrew acted as defence counsel on the first case in Saskatchewan in which DNA evidence was used. See his paper on DNA Evidence presented at a SKLESI televised seminar in 2009.
Expert Evidence
Andrew Mason’s undergraduate background in physics and mathematics has helped him handle expert evidence in many civil and criminal trials and appeals over the past 35+ years. He has had an ongoing interest in solving legal puzzles and identifying where cases have gone wrong. Mr. Mason has researched and written about certain aspects of the Assassination of John F. Kennedy. He has examined the evidence relating to the sequence of shots that struck President Kennedy and Governor John Connally on November 22, 1963. In his paper dealing with the “Magic Bullet” theory, he identifies significant discrepancies between the Warren Commission’s Single Bullet Theory and the evidence and explains why the theory cannot be correct. While many writers have attacked the single bullet theory in order to promote conspiracy theories, Mr. Mason is the first author to put forward an explanation that does not imply that the shots were fired from more than one gun. See: Witness Evidence in the JFK Assassination