Online Access to Decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada

Decisions or judgments of the Supreme Court of Canada are available online, with varying degrees of coverage through the following web sites and fee-based services. As coverage included within fee databases may change from time to time, it is always best to check the source coverage of a database file when conducting research.

Westlaw:

CAN-ALLCASES (Canada All Cases) - coverage of all Supreme Court decisions from 1876 to the present time.
CANSCC-CS (Supreme Court of Canada and Privy Council) - coverage of all Supreme Court cases from 1876 to the present time, in addition to case law from the Privy Council from 1908-1959.
CANSCC-CS (Supreme Court of Canada and Privy Council)

Lexis:

SCRRCS ( All Supreme Court of Canada Decisions) - includes full text coverage , with headnotes, of all reported Supreme Court decisions from 1876 to the present time. For coverage of unreported full text decisions, with headnotes, from the Supreme Court of Canada since 1995, see CANSCC.
SCCDJ (Supreme Court of Canada Decisions and Judgments) - includes unedited full text of Judgments and headnotes of al the Supreme Court of Canada decisions rendered since January 1999.
SCCDJ (Supreme Court of Canada Decisions and Judgments)

Web Sources:

CANLII (Canadian Legal Information Institute): Contains decisions made publicly available since January 1, 1985. Coverage of decisions prior to that date made available on an irregular basis. Decisions are usually published on this web site within 24-48 hours of their being made available publicly.
LexUM's Supreme Court of Canada Judgment database: provides coverage of judgments dating back to 1985, with selected coverage of judgments back to 1983.