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).
(1) Supreme Court of Canada Bulk Decisions Dataset (1877-2022, ~15,500 cases) (CC BY-NC-4.0)
Bulk open-access dataset in JSON format with the full text of Supreme Court of Canada decisions.
(2) Federal Court of Appeal Bulk Decisions Dataset (2001-2022, ~14,000 cases) (CC BY-NC-4.0)
Bulk open-access dataset in JSON format with the full text of Federal Court of Appeal (Canada) decisions with neutral citation.
(3) Refugee Law Lab Reporter Bulk Decisions Dataset (2019-present, ~500 cases) (CC BY-NC-4.0)
Bulk open-access dataset in JSON format with the full text of all Immigration and Refugee Board (Refugee Protection Division) cases included in the Refugee Law Lab Reporter.