CanLII
Canadian Legal Information Institute providing free access to Canadian law
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Product Overview
CanLII (Canadian Legal Information Institute) is a non-profit organization established in 2001 by the Federation of Law Societies of Canada. It provides free public access to a comprehensive collection of Canadian legal information, including case law, statutes, regulations, and secondary materials. The platform is widely used by legal professionals, academics, students, and the general public for legal research.
Features
CanLII offers access to over 3.7 million legal documents, encompassing decisions, statutes, regulations, and doctrinal texts from all Canadian jurisdictions. The platform features a user-friendly search engine optimized for legal content, automatic data processing, metadata extraction, and a legal citator that automatically inserts links on legal citations. Additionally, CanLII provides Lexbox, a tool that allows users to create folders, add cases and legislation with personal annotations, save and rerun search queries, and set alerts for new results.
Company Details
- Headquarters
- 🇨🇦 Ottawa, Canada
- Founded
- 2001
- Type
- Legal Tech Vendor
- Funding Stage
- Bootstrapped