The Canadian Legal Research and Writing Guide offers an approach to the process of legal research and tips to conducting legal research, finding and using secondary sources, finding and analyzing court cases, lists of sources and resources for finding different kinds of legal information, and guidance on writing about and citing your legal research.
Legal Research Principles and CanLII Navigation for Self-Represented Litigants. Developed by the National Self-Represented Litigants Project, this "CanLII Primer" helps people who are representing themselves use CanLII as a free legal research resource. CanLII offers free access to case law (court decisions), as well as case law commentary.
pdf Reading and Understanding Case Reports: A Guide for Self-Represented Litigants(1.53 MB) . Developed by the National Self-Represented Litigants Project, the goal of the Reading and Understanding Case Reports Guide is to give self-represented litigants the tools they need to understand and make good use of reported court decisions (case law or "case reports") when doing legal research and preparing to present their own case in court.
Go to representingyourselfcanada.com for information about the National Self-Represented Litigants Project, including more resources for people who are representing themselves in court.
Basic Legal Research Fact Sheet , provided by the Dalhousie University's Sir James Dunn Law Library, is a clear, step-by-step flowchart for doing legal research. A great starting point.