Digests:
- contain summaries of court cases
- usually provides an exhaustive list of cases for a particular jurisdiction or subject area
Call Number: Reference Room (level 2): KE 173
or via WestlawNext Canada 
• Canada’s most comprehensive case digest service
• Covers virtually every case reported in Canada since the earliest times (1803), and unreported cases since 1986, with the exception of Quebec civil law cases
• Canada’s most comprehensive case digest service
• Covers virtually every case reported in Canada since the earliest times (1803), and unreported cases since 1986, with the exception of Quebec civil law cases
- find relevant cases by subject with either the Key & Research Guide (provides a detailed table of contents for each subject area) or the General Index volume
- locate case digests by topic in the relevant bound volume
- update research using the soft cover supplement and monthly issues of Canadian Current Law for more recent case summaries
- to find the full text of a decision, use the case citations given at the end of the digest
Example: Rooney v Chan (1992), 76 BCLR (2d) 186 - legal citations include
- the name of the parties
- the year of the decision
- the volume number
- the abbreviation for the law reports set (check the Abbreviations table published in the front of the bound volumes of the Abridgment to determine the full name
- a series statement (if any)
- first page of the decision
- Search the title in the UBC Library catalogue to find the exact location
- To research the history of a case & its subsequent treatment in later court decisions, use the Canadian Case Citations volumes
- multi-volume red set at LAW LIBRARY reference room (level 2): K173 .C3662
- to determine if cases are still considered 'good' law
- To 'note up' a particular federal or provincial statute or statute section, to see if it has been 'judicially considered' in a court case, use the Canadian Statutes Citations volumes
- multi-volume grey set at LAW LIBRARY reference room (level 2): KE173 .C3685.