CanLII Adds 8000 Cases from the Canadian Criminal Cases Reports

CanLII, the freely accessible website of the Canadian Legal Information Institute, has added 8,000 cases from the caselaw reporter Canadian Criminal Cases.

The earliest case dates back to 1898.

"A word about our approach: to strategically build CanLII’s caselaw databases we reviewed our content to identify which reporters are most cited. First came the Supreme Court Reports (SCR), followed by the Dominion Law Reports (DLR), and then the Canadian Criminal Cases. We already added the cases from the SCRs, and we completed a similar project to add the cited cases from the DLRs in 2016."

"Similarly to the DLR project, we published the documents using our innovative PDF format, powered by Lexum technology. This allows for the documents to be uploaded at a low cost while maintaining virtually all the same functionalities as HTML (...)
"This is a big step towards making the law that matters to Canadian legal researchers available. It will better integrate key cases into the research process on CanLII with digital features such as linked citations and full text searching thanks to Lexum’s publishing technology."