The Canadian companion to caselaw
Everything you need to ace Canadian law
28496 hand-written case briefs, 26 topic hubs, 14 doctrine notes and 8 long-form guides — for JD students at Osgoode, McGill, U of T, UBC, Allard, and the NCA candidates converting in.
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Featured
Landmark cases every JD student must know
R v Beaver
landmarkR v Brown
landmarkR v Sharma
landmarkR v Stairs
landmarkR v Khill
landmarkReferences re Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act
landmarkConseil scolaire francophone de la Colombie-Britannique v British Columbia
landmarkR v Friesen
landmarkStudy tools
Built like the UK side. Adapted for Canada.
Decisions every JD student knows cold.
Seven first-year-style questions with model answers.
Six curated routes through the library.
Provincial courts → Supreme Court of Canada.
Wagner, McLachlin, Dickson, Wilson and more.
Royal Proclamation → GHG Reference.
50 plain-language Canadian definitions.
Generate Canadian-style citations live.
Browse by area
26 topic hubs
How every Charter limit is justified or struck down.
Arbitrariness, overbreadth, gross disproportionality.
Substantive equality, analogous grounds, the Andrews framework.
Stinchcombe disclosure and Jordan ceilings.
Lifchus, W(D), and the burden of proof.
Hunter v Southam, investigative detention, exclusion of evidence.
Foreseeability, proximity, residual policy.
Bhasin and the organising principle.
Vavilov reasonableness, Baker fairness.
Now live
What's live, and what's shipping next
- •Supreme Court of Canada — landmark decisions
- •Federal Court / FCA — top admin & immigration
- •Provincial Courts of Appeal (ON, BC, AB, QC, etc.)
- •100 hand-written landmark briefs
- •14 doctrine notes & 8 long-form guides
- •26 topic hubs across all core areas
- •Sample exam questions with model answers
- •McGill 9e citation generator
- •Court hierarchy + judges + timeline + glossary
- •Postgres FTS keyword search
- •NCA exam past papers + model answers
- •Provincial bar past papers (Ontario, BC)
- •Quizzes scoped to JD modules
- •Spaced-repetition flashcards
- •French / bilingual UI
- •Deep Quebec civil-law coverage
- •Indigenous law deep dive (treaty texts + UNDRIP)
- •iOS app jurisdiction switcher
- •Semantic / vector search
FAQ
Frequently asked
Is this a CanLII competitor?+
No. CanLII is a phenomenal public-interest database of full judgments. caselaw·CA is a study layer on top of public-domain Canadian decisions — handwritten briefs, topic hubs, doctrine notes, and exam-prep tools for JD students. We do not redistribute CanLII's content.
Where do the cases come from?+
Public-domain registries only — Supreme Court of Canada (scc-csc.ca / scc-csc.lexum.com), Federal Court / Federal Court of Appeal (decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca), provincial appellate courts (ontariocourts.ca, bccourts.ca, etc.). No CanLII bulk scraping.
Who writes the briefs?+
Landmark briefs are hand-written and reviewed before publication. Citations are validated against scraped metadata. Failed validations are hidden until human review. For lower-volume cases that ship later, the official court headnote (authoritative) will be preferred over AI-generated summaries.
Why not Quebec civil law in full at launch?+
Quebec civil law deserves its own dedicated treatment — French content, Code civil annotations, full Quebec Court of Appeal coverage. Launch covers English-Canada plus a Quebec civil-law primer at /ca/areas/quebec-civil-law. Full bilingual UI + Code civil annotations ship Q3 2026.
What does it cost?+
Free briefs on every Canadian case forever. Pro at C$14.99/mo (C$119/yr) unlocks unlimited briefs, all NCA-aligned doctrine notes, McGill citation engine and the Canadian-aware AI tutor. Elite at C$24.99/mo (C$199/yr) adds the NCA past-paper bank with model answers. See /ca/pricing.
How do I cite caselaw·CA briefs?+
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.
Will there be an iOS app?+
A Canadian section in the iOS app is on the roadmap. The web preview ships first.
From the founder
Why we're building this
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 public-domain 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 Sparrow framework, the Vavilov categories — so the judgment-reading you do is sharper and faster.
Every brief here is hand-written and reviewed. Every doctrine note. Every guide. We chose handwriting over volume for the launch precisely because we want you to be able to trust what you see.
— Aryan, founder