The Refugee Law Lab supports bulk open-access to legal data to facilitate research and advocacy. Bulk open-access also helps avoid asymmetrical access-to-justice and amplification of marginalization that results when commercial actors leverage proprietary legal datasets for profit.
Unless otherwise indicated, the data linked below is subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Users must also comply with upstream data licenses, including requests in source urls to prevent search engine indexation to protect privacy (see details in each dataset).
Full Dataset
Refugee Law Lab: Canadian Legal Data (~133,000 cases)
Court Decisions (Full Text)
Supreme Court of Canada Bulk Decisions Dataset (1877-2023, ~15,500 cases)
Federal Court of Appeal Bulk Decisions Dataset (2001-2023, ~14,000 cases)
Federal Court Bulk Decisions Dataset (2001-2023, ~60,000 cases)
Tax Court of Canada Bulk Decisions Dataset (2003-2023, ~15,000 cases)
Tribunal Decisions (Full Text)
Immigration & Refugee Board: Refugee Appeal Division (2013-2023) ~27,000 cases
Refugee Law Lab Reporter Bulk Decisions Dataset (2019-present, ~500 cases)