Judgments
New in the judgments database
In cooperation with LexUM, the Supreme Court of Canada is pleased to announce that all the Supreme Court decisions which were published in the Supreme Court Reports dating back to 1948 are now available on the SCC Judgments website. All published judgments since 1876 from cases which were appealed to the SCC from the British Columbia Court of Appeal have been added to the database, courtesy of CanLII and the Law Foundation of BC. Appeals from the Ontario Court of Appeal, also dating back to 1876, were added to the SCC database last year.
The free availability of judgments dating back to 1948 on the web is one way the Supreme Court of Canada is celebrating the 60th anniversary of Canada's full judicial independence from the United Kingdom.
Following the adoption of the Statute of Westminster in 1931, which underscored the equality of the Dominion legislatures with that of the United Kingdom, Canada amended the Supreme Court Act in 1933, and again in 1949, first ending appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in criminal matters, and subsequently in civil matters.
