Research & eAlerts

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Research and eAlerts

First Resort™ is Lancaster's comprehensive resource for research in labour, employment, and human rights law.

Textbooks and Other Resources

Lancaster’s First Resort, a one-stop hub for research databases and current awareness eAlerts, offers expert analysis of Canadian workplace law with plain language summaries and full text of decisions and legislation. Value-added analysis, designed for lawyers, human resource professionals, and union representatives, explains where each decision fits within the existing framework of jurisprudence and examines the implications for the future direction of case law.

First Resort Databases

Designed to assist you in quickly researching and keeping abreast of developments in all areas of labour, employment and human rights law across Canada, First Resort includes searchable databases containing all major decisions and legislation across Canada dealing with workplace law, including summaries, analysis, and links to the full text of 15,000 cases over 25 years in 23 different topic areas.

Current Awareness eAlerts

Lancaster delivers timely alerts covering the latest developments in workplace law across Canada, with priority notifications as late-breaking developments occur. You can decide which eAlerts you wish to receive directly by email.

First Resort also includes the following suite of essential resources:

These additional resources form part of First Resort’s full suite of essential services for labour relations professionals. They are indispensable tools used by major unions and employers in both the public and private sectors, covering all facets of employee, union and employer rights and obligations. They can be ordered as part of First Resort or separately. Call Customer Service at Lancaster House for a free trial and/or demo before making a decision. Pricing varies and discounts are available for multiple users, at one or more locations.

What does your subscription include?

First Resort Subscriptions

First Resort™ Full Access

Lancaster’s First Resort™: Full Access is a powerful comprehensive legal research tool that provides access to our indispensable text, Leading Cases on Labour Arbitration, and to all of our databases which contain fully searchable summaries and insightful analysis of the most important labour and employment law decisions from the last 20 years. You will also be notified immediately via Lancaster’s new eAlert system when any of our databases is updated with new summaries and commentary.

Our indispensable text on Labour Arbitration

Twenty-three Databases (for up to 5 users)

Also included

First Resort™ Select Access

First Resort™: Select Access allows you to subscribe to the databases most relevant to your work. You will be able to search archived case summaries (in those databases to which you subscribe) dating back to 1997, and you will be alerted to the newest additions to the databases to which you subscribe via Lancaster’s eAlert system.

Twenty-three Databases (for up to 3 users)

Online Publications

Canadian Labour & Employment Law Journal

Edited by Professor Bernard Adell, with the assistance of Brian Burkett and Jeffrey Sack, Q.C., the Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal provides in-depth analysis of key issues in labour and employment law. It also provides timely commentary on major legislative and case law developments. Designed for academics, adjudicators and practitioners, the Journal is in its sixteenth year of publication, appearing three times a year in softcover format (included in the subscription price).