Law: Legal Citator (LexisNexis)

The Legal citator will give you the Judgment as well as the Parallel Citations of the case.

Judgment Details

Will give you the case number, the judgment date, the number of judges (the majority aand whether there was a minority of judges), the parties that were involved, the jurisdiction and the division.

 

Subject Index

Indicates the subject matter the court dealt with. When you open up the heading you will be able to see what was discussed.

 

Judgment History

Allows you to see if a case has been taken on appeal and what the result was. It allows you to see if there was more than one appeal and so gives you the entire appellate history.

 

Judgment Treatment

Is a list of all the cases that were heard after a case and that have discussed the case in their judgments. Each of these cases will have a signal next to them, indicating what the treatment was of the current case - this is where you will see how other cases referenced the one that you opened.

 

Judgments Cited by Court

Provides a list of the cases which the court referenced.

Acts, Ordinance & By-Laws

Provides a list of the legislative instruments which the court referenced.

Rules

Provides a list of the rules which the court made reference to.

Regulations

Provides a list of the regulations which the court made reference to.