For the current a2aj.ca version, please see:
- Access methods for all Canadian Legal Data
- Hugging Face access to Canadian Case Law
- Hugging Face access to Canadian Laws
Sean Rehaag
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). NOTE: Users must also comply with upstream licensing for the FC data source, as well as requests on source urls not to allow indexing of the documents by search engines to protect privacy. As a result, users must not make the data available in formats or locations that can be indexed by search engines.
Dataset & Code to be cited as:
Sean Rehaag, "Federal Court Bulk Decisions Dataset" (2023), online: Refugee Law Laboratory <https://refugeelab.ca/bulk-data/fc/>.
To load data, see load_and_analyze_fc_cases.ipynb
Notes:
(1) Data Source: Federal Court.
(2) Unofficial Data: The data are unofficial reproductions of materials on the Federal Court website. Links to official versions are included in the dataset.
(3) Non-Affiliation / Endorsement: The data has been collected and reproduced without any affiliation or endorsement from the Federal Court.
(4) Non-Commerical Use: As indicated in the license, data may be used for non-commercial use (with attribution) only. For commercial use, see the Federal Court website's Terms of Use.
(5) Accuracy: Data was collected and processed programmatically for the purposes of academic research. While we make best efforts to ensure accuracy, data gathering of this kind inevitably involves errors. As such the data should be viewed as preliminary information aimed to prompt further research and discussion, rather than as definitive information.
(6) Limitation: Only includes cases with neutral citation, which began to be used in 2001
(7) Delay: Decisions may take many months to be translated (sometimes over a year). As a result, in the most recent years, decisions may only be available in one language.