About this beta

Canadian JD students at Osgoode, McGill, U of T, UBC, Queen's, Western, Dalhousie, U of A, U of Calgary, Allard and the rest. Foreign-trained lawyers preparing for NCA challenge exams. Anyone who wants a clean, modern interface to Canadian case law without paying for Westlaw or Lexis.

Every case in here is sourced from a public registry that publishes its decisions in the public domain:

• Supreme Court of Canada — scc-csc.ca and scc-csc.lexum.com (the official SCC reporter)
• Federal Court / Federal Court of Appeal — decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca
• Provincial appellate courts — ontariocourts.ca, bccourts.ca, albertacourts.ca, citoyens.soquij.qc.ca and equivalents

We do not scrape CanLII. CanLII's terms forbid bulk redistribution and we want a relationship with them, not a lawsuit.

Quebec is a civil-law jurisdiction. The doctrine, the structure of the Code civil, and the methodology are different from common-law Canada. A serious bilingual + Quebec product needs full French content and dual legal-system coverage. We've started: a Quebec civil-law primer is in guides, and SCC decisions originating from Quebec are tagged. The deep version — French UI, Code civil annotations, full Quebec Court of Appeal coverage — ships Q3 2026.

For landmark cases, briefs are hand-written and reviewed before publication. Lower-volume decisions show the court's own headnote (which is authoritative — written by court reporters) instead of an AI summary. Where AI is used, it's anchored to the actual scraped judgment text, not to a model's recall.

Citations are validated against scraped metadata. Anything that fails validation is hidden from the library until a human approves it.

• NCA challenge-exam past papers + model answers
• Provincial bar admission past papers (Ontario, BC)
• Quizzes scoped to Canadian JD modules
• Spaced-repetition flashcards
• French / bilingual UI
• Deep Quebec civil-law coverage
• Indigenous law deep dive (treaty texts, UNDRIP, post-Tsilhqot'in)
• iOS app jurisdiction switcher

Briefs and notes here are a study aid. They are not legal advice. For legal advice, talk to a member of your provincial law society.