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  # Refugee Law Lab: Canadian Legal Data
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- ## Dataset Description
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- - **Homepage:**
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- - **Repository:**
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- - **Paper:**
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- - **Leaderboard:**
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- - **Point of Contact:**
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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 decisions at the federal level.
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- It can be used for legal analytics (e.g. identifying patterns in legal decision-making), to test ML and NLP tools
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- on a bilingual dataset of Canadian legal materials, and to pretrain language models.
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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 all Supreme Court of Canada decisions, based on the Refugee Law Lab's Supreme Court of Canada Bulk Decisions Dataset (1877 – 2023)
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- - FCA: Full text of all 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 (2001-2023)
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- - FC: Full text of all 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 (2001-2023)
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  ### Data Fields
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  - other (string): Field for additional metadata in JSON format, currently a blank string for most datasets
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  ### Data Splits
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  ### Non-Official Versions
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- Documents included in this dataset are not the offical versions. 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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  # Refugee Law Lab: Canadian Legal Data
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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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+ 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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  - other (string): Field for additional metadata in JSON format, currently a blank string for most datasets
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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