CanLII

CanLII is ranked #5 of 30 in legal research software on The Geeks Club. It runs on Web. There is a free plan.

CanLII plans and pricing

CanLII Free Free access to Canadian legal information; CanLII Search+ requires a free myCanLII account and is subject to a daily usage limit canlii.org · 3 Oct 2026

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Free plan: Yes
Case law search: Yes
Statute & regulation search: Yes
Docket search: Yes
Legal commentary: Yes
Citation tools: Yes
Jurisdiction coverage: Canada: federal, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut
Research alerts: Yes

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CanLII

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

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canlii.org/info/about.html· checked 3 Oct 2026
canlii.org/info/search.html· checked 3 Oct 2026
canlii.org/info/reflex.html· checked 3 Oct 2026
canlii.org/info/terms.html· checked 3 Oct 2026
blog.canlii.org/2026/02/25/introducing-canlii-search/· checked 3 Oct 2026
canlii.org/info/privacy.html· checked 3 Oct 2026
canlii.org· checked 28 Sept 2026