About this beta

Canadian common-law study, built for JD students and 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. Independent and not affiliated with any university, the NCA, any court, CanLII, any law society, or any bar-admission body.

Phase 1 is deliberately a federal corpus. The library is built around the Supreme Court of Canada and the federal stream — Federal Court, Federal Court of Appeal, Tax Court of Canada — plus the federal tribunals (Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, the IRB refugee divisions, and the Social Security Tribunal). That's roughly 110,000 decisions.

Provincial appellate case law — the Ontario Court of Appeal, BC Court of Appeal, and their counterparts — is not yet ingested. It's the next coverage expansion on the roadmap. We'd rather say that plainly than imply a breadth the corpus doesn't have yet. The doctrine notes, topic hubs, court hierarchy and citation tooling already cover provincial law conceptually; the provincial decisions themselves are still to come.

Every case in here is sourced from open courts and open-access datasets:

• 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
• Refugee Law Lab open-access bulk dataset — licensed CC BY-NC 4.0 (a licence, not public domain); attribution on the sources page

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 — is on the roadmap; we're not promising a date until it's real.

Briefs are AI-generated study aids, clearly labelled as such on every page. They are anchored to the actual scraped judgment text, not to a model's recall — but they are not official summaries and have not been reviewed by a lawyer. The linked original judgment is always the authority. A small set of selected landmark cases is highlighted as the starting point; everything else is labelled unreviewed.

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

The practice papers, quizzes and flashcards here are original exam-style practice. Not an official university, NCA, law-society or bar-admission paper.

• Provincial appellate coverage (ONCA, BCCA, ABCA and the rest)
• More original practice papers across JD modules
• Reviewed briefs beyond the selected ten
• French / bilingual UI
• Deeper 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.