Canadian common-law study · phase 1 — Supreme Court of Canada & federal courts, expanding to provincial appellate
110,515 Canadian decisions, 26 topic hubs, 22 doctrine notes and 8 long-form guides — with clearly-labelled AI-generated study aids on selected landmark cases, and original exam-style practice.
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Ten decisions every JD student knows cold.
Five original exam-style papers with model answers and rubrics.
Six curated routes through the library.
Provincial courts → Supreme Court of Canada.
Wagner, McLachlin, Dickson, Wilson and more.
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How every Charter limit is justified or struck down.
Arbitrariness, overbreadth, gross disproportionality.
Substantive equality, analogous grounds, the Andrews framework.
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No. CanLII is a phenomenal public-interest database of full judgments. caselaw·CA is a study layer on top of open-access Canadian decisions — clearly-labelled AI-generated study aids, topic hubs, doctrine notes, and original exam-style practice for JD students. We do not redistribute CanLII's content, and we are not affiliated with CanLII.
Open courts and open-access datasets — Supreme Court of Canada and federal-court registries, plus the Refugee Law Lab's open-access bulk dataset (CC BY-NC 4.0). Every case page links its original source. No CanLII bulk scraping.
Briefs are AI-generated study aids, clearly labelled as such on every page, and anchored to the scraped source text rather than a model's memory. They are not official summaries and have not been reviewed by a lawyer — the linked judgment is always the authority. Cases that fail citation validation are hidden.
From the founder
caselaw started in the UK because law students were paying hundreds of pounds a year for note-sharing services that delivered photocopied PDFs. The Canadian section exists for the same reason: JD students and NCA candidates deserve a clean, modern, honest interface to open-access case law and the doctrine that surrounds it.
We don't pretend that briefs replace reading judgments. They don't. But they make the doctrinal scaffolding visible — the Oakes test, the Vavilov categories, the Anns/Cooper framework — so the judgment-reading you do is sharper and faster.
Honesty over hype: the briefs here are AI-generated study aids, labelled as such on every page, anchored to the source text, and linked to the authoritative original. We started narrow — ten selected cases, five practice papers — precisely so that what you see is something we can stand behind.
— Aryan, founder
Independent and not affiliated with any university, the NCA, any court, CanLII, any law society, or any bar-admission body.
Royal Proclamation → GHG Reference.
Stinchcombe disclosure and Jordan ceilings.
Quebec civil law deserves its own dedicated treatment — French content, Code civil annotations, full Quebec Court of Appeal coverage. Phase 1 covers Canadian common law with a Supreme Court of Canada and federal-court focus; provincial appellate and deeper Quebec coverage are next on the roadmap. We're not promising a date until it's real.
Nothing during early access. The Canadian section is free while we build out coverage. If paid plans arrive later, early-access users hear first.
Briefs are study aids, not authority. For court or academic citations, use the official sources linked at the bottom of every case page. McGill 9e citation strings are ready to copy on each page.
A Canadian section in the iOS app is on the roadmap. The web preview ships first.