National Committee on Accreditation (NCA)

National Committee on Accreditation (NCA)

• Foreign lawyers or Canadians with a foreign law degree who wish to become members of a Canadian Law Society must apply to the National Committee on Accreditation for an evaluation of their legal credentials and experience

Textbooks

• Irwin Law texts provide good overviews
• Most current texts are shelved in the Reference Room on Level 2 & do not circulate for non-UBC users
• Community Borrowers can borrow most books on Level 3

Supreme Court of Canada [SCC] Cases

• Accessible from Case Law link on Law Library homepage,
• Use free sources for SCC neutral citations [e.g. 2003 SCC 1] , i.e. CanLII and Canada – Supreme Court Judgments for SCC citations