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CanLII is ranked #4 of 30 in legal research software on Inferse. It runs on Web. There is a free plan.

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Jurisdiction coverage: Canada: federal, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavutcanlii.org
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Facts

Purpose: CanLII is a nonprofit that provides open online access to judicial decisions and legislative documents.canlii.org · 3 Oct 2026
Case law: Its website provides judgments from Canadian courts and decisions from many federal and provincial administrative tribunals.canlii.org · 3 Oct 2026
Legislation: CanLII provides consolidated statutes and regulations, as well as annual statutes, for all Canadian jurisdictions.canlii.org · 3 Oct 2026
Commentary: Its Commentary collection includes secondary legal materials such as books, journals, articles and reports, while CanLII Connects hosts community case commentary and summaries.canlii.org · 3 Oct 2026
Search: The search interface supports full-text and title or citation searches, note-up searches, filters, facets and sorting.canlii.org · 3 Oct 2026
Citation tool: RefLex adds links to cited decisions and to Acts and regulations available on CanLII.canlii.org · 3 Oct 2026
myCanLII: A registered myCanLII account lets users save and organize research content, including folders and alerts.canlii.org · 3 Oct 2026
AI research: CanLII Search+ accepts natural-language research questions and returns results from CanLII collections with contextual extracts and relevance indicators.canlii.org · 3 Oct 2026
Search+ access: CanLII says Search+ is available to anyone with a free myCanLII account, subject to a daily usage limit.blog.canlii.org · 3 Oct 2026
Integration: CanLII's privacy policy lists a Clio integration among data stored for myCanLII accounts.canlii.org · 3 Oct 2026
Privacy and security: CanLII says personal information is kept in a secure computer environment with restricted access, and that it strives to store it in Canada.canlii.org · 3 Oct 2026
Search+ data: CanLII says Search+ queries and interactions are stored locally in the browser for history and are not retained in its systems.canlii.org · 3 Oct 2026
Usage restriction: The terms prohibit systematic downloading of published documents, including by crawlers, plug-ins, extensions and connectors.canlii.org · 3 Oct 2026
Audience: CanLII describes its resources as serving legal professionals and the general public.canlii.org · 3 Oct 2026