Supreme Court of Canada Facta Publicly Available as of January 2009

As of January 2009, electronic facta filed in cases before the Supreme Court of Canada will be available on the Court's website. The facta should appear in the Cases Information section of the website.

More details will be forthcoming but here are some essentials:

• this will cover facta going forward in time; the project does not involve any retrospective publication of facta from older cases
• initially, the facta will be those of appellants and respondents; intervenor facta are not covered
• format will be PDF
• the onus will be on the parties submitting the facta to redact the contents to mask any sensitive personal data