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# Refugee Law Lab: Canadian Legal Data
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## Dataset
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- **Homepage:**
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- **Repository:**
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- **Leaderboard:**
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### Dataset Summary
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The Refugee Law Lab supports bulk open-access to Canada legal data to facilitate research and advocacy.
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Bulk open-access helps avoid asymmetrical access-to-justice and amplification of marginalization that
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results when commercial actors leverage proprietary
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legal datasets for profit -- a particular concern in the border control setting.
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The Canadian Legal Data dataset includes the unofficial full text of thousdands of court and tribunal
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It can be used for legal analytics (e.g. identifying patterns in legal
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on a bilingual dataset of Canadian legal materials, and to
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### Languages
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Many documents are available in both English and French. Some are only available in one of the two languages.
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## Dataset Structure
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### Data Instances
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- SCC: Full text of
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- FCA: Full text of
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the Refugee Law Lab's Federal Court of Appeal Bulk Decisions Dataset (2001-2023)
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- FC: Full text of
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the Refugee Law Lab's Federal Court Bulk Decisions Dataset (2001-2023)
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### Data Fields
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### Data Splits
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### Non-Official Versions
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Documents included in this dataset are
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the Goverment of Canada, please see the source URLs.
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### Non-Affiliation / Endorsement
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## Dataset Summary
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The Refugee Law Lab supports bulk open-access to Canada legal data to facilitate research and advocacy.
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Bulk open-access helps avoid asymmetrical access-to-justice and amplification of marginalization that
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The Canadian Legal Data dataset includes the unofficial full text of thousdands of court and tribunal
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decisions at the federal level. It can be used for legal analytics (e.g. identifying patterns in legal
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decision-making), to test ML and NLP tools on a bilingual dataset of Canadian legal materials, and to
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pretrain language models.
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## Dataset Structure
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### Data Instances
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- SCC: Full text of Supreme Court of Canada decisions, based on the Refugee Law Lab's [Supreme Court of Canada Bulk Decisions Dataset](https://refugeelab.ca/bulk-data/scc/) (1877 – 2023)
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- FCA: Full text of Federal Court of Appeal (Canada) decisions that have been given a neutral citation, based on
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the Refugee Law Lab's [Federal Court of Appeal Bulk Decisions Dataset](https://refugeelab.ca/bulk-data/fca/) (2001-2023)
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- FC: Full text of Federal Court (Canada) decisions that have been given a neutral citation, based on
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the Refugee Law Lab's [Federal Court Bulk Decisions Dataset](https://refugeelab.ca/bulk-data/fc/) (2001-2023)
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### Data Fields
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### Data Languages
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Many documents are available in both English and French. Some are only available in one of the two languages.
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### Data Splits
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### Non-Official Versions
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Documents included in this dataset are unofficial copies. For official versions published by
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the Goverment of Canada, please see the source URLs.
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### Non-Affiliation / Endorsement
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