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Clicklaw website is BC’s primary resource for legal information. It links to a large collection of legal information resources for the public. See the handout Clicklaw: 5 ways to search, and Using the Clicklaw HelpMap. Clicklaw also includes Clicklaw Wikibooks, which are a series of 20 legal guides that are fully searchable, and can be downloaded in print or ePub formats.

*Multilingual Legal Glossary  Lists 5000 Canadian legal and court-related terms in English plain language, and their equivalents in eight other languages (Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Farsi, Korean, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese.  

*BC Supreme Court Terms - provides brief definitions of commonly used legal terms to assist self-represented litigants with civil, non-family claims in the Supreme Court of BC.   

*JP Boyd on Family law - Terminology – offers JP Boyd’s plain-language definitions of common legal words and phrases in family law.

*BC Laws Glossary  - found in the Statutes and Regulations on bclaws.ca, this glossary offers further explanation of terms used in the legislation.

*Irwin Law’s Canadian Online Legal Dictionary - a dictionary of terms defined in the glossaries of Canadian law books published by Irwin Law.  

*Black's Law Dictionary Free Online Legal Dictionary 2nd Ed - an American resource, but it can be helpful for universal legal terms.