Canada’s free case law and legislation database keeps getting better.
CanLII recently announced that it has added 12,000 pre-1980 decisions from the Dominion Law Reports (DLR). This is in addition to the 4,000 pre-1980 DLR decisions that CanLII added back in September bringing the total of pre-1980 DLR decisions on CanLII to 16,000.
These weren’t the only case law additions that CanLII made this year, CanLII also expanded its Quebec case law collection to include:
- Decisions published between 1983 and 1996 in the Recueils de droit judiciare;
- Decisions published between 1994 and 2004 in the Répertoire électronique de jurisprudence du Barreau; and
- Select decisions published between 1869 and 1969 in the Revue légale.
CanLII also made additions to its legislation collection adding Annual Statutes of Canada (2001 – present) and the Quebec Annual Statutes (1996 to present).
CanLII also improved its ‘Find in document’ feature allowing users to change the words in the document that they want highlighted.
You can read more about the new case law additions and technological improvements on the CanLII Blog.