Canadian Case Law: 1M Bilingual Court and Tribunal Decisions

Access to Algorithmic Justice (A2AJ) provides 100,000 to 1,000,000 full-text Canadian court and tribunal decisions in this March 2026 update. Each record represents a single case and includes both English and French text versions when publicly available.

Use Cases

• Fine-tuning language models on Canadian legal English and French text
• Developing cross-lingual legal search engines using the bilingual decision fields
• Extracting legal precedents from full-text tribunal decisions

Strengths

• 100,000 to 1,000,000 records
• Bilingual English and French text
• MIT licensed for open access
• Parquet format for efficient processing

Limitations

• Specific court coverage and temporal range are not explicitly defined
• Bilingual availability is limited to cases where both languages were publicly released

Provenance

Source

Access to Algorithmic Justice (A2AJ) and Refugee Law Lab (RLL)

Collection Method

Aggregated from Canadian court and tribunal public records

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Canada