For over 100 years, Halsbury's has been recognized as the premier legal reference in the world of common law. Halsbury's Laws of Canada continues in the tradition, delivering an authoritative, reliable and elegant statement of Canadian law.

 

Halsbury's Laws of Canada is a comprehensive collection that will provide current and future generations of Canadian lawyers in your firm with a solid understanding of the full range of the law.

This powerful resource covers every proposition of the law. Each volume is divided into alphabetically arranged titles that make it convenient to use and allows for quick and easy research into any topic. Employing Halsbury's time-tested style and format, this Canadian legal classic includes:

 

• Comprehensive summary that offers an organized and authoritative reference, delivering the key elements of the law in each of more than 100 logically selected subject areas
• Advanced research tools with page layouts that present information in compact portions for easy navigation through the subject matter, yet detailed enough to show the larger context
• Black letter statement of the law that provides definitive legal information focusing on the law as it stands today without opinion or commentary, and without archival case law or out-dated statutory references that don’t illuminate or add real value
• Durable, portable and easy to handle volumes that are designed in a classic hardbound format

Halsbury's Laws of Canada builds on a century of tradition to combine definitive legal information with an enhanced design and clean, easy-to-follow page layouts for quick access to the answers you need.

 

• Superior tables of contents. Detailed and multi-layered sectional contents are strategically located throughout each title to provide for powerful navigation and a quick overall appreciation of the principles discussed in each section
• Extracting the key points while following the context is easy with a style that is structured to provide greater contextual flow
• Generous use of headings and subheadings lets the reader move easily through a title
• Bolded descriptors at the beginning of paragraphs allows the reader to quickly scan the contents and zero in on the information of interest
• National scope and jurisdiction-specific commentary provides a complete and integrated analysis
• References strategically consolidated at the end of each major paragraph grouping facilitates easy access to the supporting information

Streamlining your research

 

Consolidation of smaller topics under larger subject heads

Related subjects are brought together so that they can be conveniently accessed in one location, rather than splitting connected subjects over multiple titles and multiple volumes.

 

Convenient tools for finding topics

Each title includes a comprehensive table of cases and table of statutes, plus a complete index. 

 

Helpful cross-references within each title and between titles

Related provisions of interest and interconnected titles are noted to provide the necessary context and the full picture.

 

Useful Appendices

As dictated by the needs of each unique subject title, Halsbury’s provides a variety of useful appendices, from glossaries consolidating key statutory definitions to handy legislative concordances.

 

The Authoritative Voice

 

Bringing together the expertise of Canada's leading practitioners, jurists and academics.

 

A project with the scope and impact of Halsbury's Laws of Canada draws on the contributions of many talented and knowledgeable people. The quality of this unique project is in large part a reflection of the expertise of those who undertake to author each individual subject title within the larger main work. With that in mind, a select group of Canada's leading legal scholars, jurists and practitioners has been commissioned to craft an authoritative statement of the law in each subject area. 

 

The result? The definitive reference point for legal research in Canada - an unparalleled tool that can be relied on by lawyers to answer the full range of questions likely to arise in the course of their work, especially those that fall outside their own fields of expertise.

 

Halsbury's Laws of Canada - Access to Information and Privacy

Hasbury's Laws of Canada - Administrative Law

Halsbury's Laws of Canada - Agriculture/Alternative Dispute Resolution

Halsbury's Laws of Canada - Athletics/Aviation and Space

Halsbury's Laws of Canada - Business Corporations I & Business Corporations II

Halsbury's Laws of Canada - Cemeteries and Interment/ Charities, Associations and Not-For-Profit Organizations

Halsbury's Laws of Canada - Civil Procedure I & II

Halsbury's Laws of Canada - Communications

Halsbury's Laws of Canada - Conflict of Laws

Halsbury's Laws of Canada - Construction

Halsbury's Laws of Canada - Contracts

Halsbury's Laws of Canada - Criminal Offences and Defences

Halsbury's Laws of Canada - Criminal Procedure

Halsbury's Laws of Canada - Discrimination and Human Rights

Halsbury's Laws of Canada - Defamation

Halsbury's Laws of Canada - Employment

Halsbury's Laws of Canada - Environment

Halsbury's Laws of Canada - Firearms, Weapons and Explosives/Fires

Halsbury's Laws of Canada - Food/Gifts

Halsbury's Laws of Canada - Holidays/Hospitality/Hunting and Fishing

Halsbury's Laws of Canada - Immigration and Citizenship

Halsbury's Laws of Canada - Income Tax (Corporate)

Halsbury's Laws of Canada - Income Tax (General)

Halsbury's Laws of Canada - Infants and Children

Halsbury's Laws of Canada - Inquests, Coroners and Medical Examiners / Interim Preservation of Property Rights

Halsbury's Laws of Canada - Judges and Courts

Halsbury's Laws of Canada - Legal Profession

Halsbury's Laws of Canada - Media Postal Communications / Medicine and Health

Halsbury's Laws of Canada - Negligence

Halsbury's Laws of Canada - Oil and Gas / Partnerships

Halsbury's Laws of Canada - Patents, Trade Secrets and Industrial Designs

Halsbury's Laws of Canada - Penitentiaries, Jails and Prisoners

Halsbury's Laws of Canada - Personal Property and Secured Transactions

Halsbury's Laws of Canada - Planning and Zoning

Halsbury's Laws of Canada - Police, Security and Emergencies/Public Utilities

Halsbury's Laws of Canada – Religious Institutions / Roads, Highways and Bridges

Halsbury's Laws of Canada - Securities

Halsbury's Laws of Canada - Torts

Halsbury's Laws of Canada - Trade-Marks, Passing Off and Unfair Competition

Halsbury's Laws of Canada - Wills and Estates

 

Stay up to date on the latest developments in the law

 

As a subscriber you can stay abreast of important changes to each title through regular supplements that indicate whether the content of any given paragraph in a title has been affected by developments in the case law or a change in the legislation. Cumulative supplements will be published annually to provide a single source updated reference. Contact your account representative for further details.

 

 

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$135* per volume (ISBN: 9780433454946) OR purchase individual volumes at $270 each. For more information or to place an order please contact us

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