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We have free access to law with canlii.org in Canada.
by maxboisvert 10y ago
We have free access to law with canlii.org in Canada.
- vqc 10y agoI'm not familiar at all with Canadian law. Does canlii.org provide statutes, regs, case law from every jurisdiction from the local level (cities/towns) up through the federal level? Is this a distinction that matters?
- citeright 10y agoYou can see CanLII's coverage here: https://www.canlii.org/en/databases.html https://www.canlii.org/en/databases.html.
- vqc 10y agoThat is magnificent. It seems to "end" at the province/territory level (*this is not a critique at all). How does lawmaking work at the city level?
- a3camero 10y agoCities pass "bylaws" that affect their municipality. In Canada municipalities are more limited in their lawmaking powers than cities in some other countries. Bylaws are hard to lookup and are city-specific.
- a3camero 10y agoIt is free-ish. It's free to use but there are restrictive licensing terms that prevent anyone from building anything with it: http://www.canlii.org/en/info/terms.html http://www.canlii.org/en/info/terms.html. My blog post on this topic: https://www.cameronhuff.com/blog/ontario-case-law-private/ https://www.cameronhuff.com/blog/ontario-case-law-private/ and https://www.cameronhuff.com/blog/canlii-licensing-terms/ https://www.cameronhuff.com/blog/canlii-licensing-terms/.
- a3camero 10y agoMy previous comment was a bit harsh on CanLII. They actually do have an API for building some limited types of applications: http://developer.canlii.org/docs http://developer.canlii.org/docs. But certainly not the sort of free and open access that a developer would want for building something like a search engine.