Legal Resources

 Legal Resources

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Legal Information

The eQuality Project: Criminal Case Law
This data base lists most of the Criminal Code provisions applicable to technology-facilitated violence. It summarizes some of the case law relevant to each of the provisions.

BC Society of Transition Houses
The BSCTH created information sheets to assist frontline anti-violence workers to better understand the legal causes of action related to defamation, stalking and cyberstalking and the distribution of non-consensual images and the possible legal remedies for service recipients when they are addressing technology-facilitated violent incidents.

CanLII
CanLII is a website that provides access to court judgments from all Canadian courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada, federal courts, and the courts in all Canada’s provinces and territories. CanLII.org also contains decisions from many tribunals nationally. You can look up the laws and legal decisions about them, as well as read articles and commentary about the law on CanLII Connects.