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 - **Leaderboard:** 
 - **Point of Contact:** 
 
-## Dataset Summary
+### Dataset Summary
 
+The Refugee Law Lab supports bulk open-access to Canada legal data to facilitate research and advocacy, focusing on
+federal law and law relating to refugees and other people on the move. Bulk open-access helps avoid asymmetrical 
+access-to-justice and amplification of marginalization that results when commercial actors leverage proprietary 
+legal datasets for profit -- a particular concern in the border control setting.
+
+This dataset includes the unofficial full text of thousdands of court and tribunal decisions at the federal level. 
+It can be used for legal analytics (e.g. identifying patterns in legal decision-making), to test ML and NLP tools 
+on a bilingual (French and English) dataset of Canadian legal materials, and to pretrain language models.
 
 ### Languages
 
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 ### Data Instances
 
-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 
+- 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)
+- FCA: Full text of all Federal Court of Appeal (Canada) decisions that have been given a neutral citation, based on 
 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 
+- FC: Full text of all Federal Court (Canada) decisions that have been given a neutral citation, based on 
 the Refugee Law Lab's Federal Court Bulk Decisions Dataset (2001-2023)
 
 ### Data Fields
 
-citation1 (string): Legal citation for the document (neutral citation where available)
+- citation1 (string): Legal citation for the document (neutral citation where available)
 
-citation2 (string): For some documents multiple citations are available (e.g. for some periods
+- citation2 (string): For some documents multiple citations are available (e.g. for some periods
 the Supreme Court of Canada provided both official reported citation and neutral citation)
 
-data_instance (string): Name of the data instance (e.g. "SCC", "FCA", "FC", etc)
+- data_instance (string): Name of the data instance (e.g. "SCC", "FCA", "FC", etc)
 
-year (int32): Year of the document date, which can be useful for filtering
+- year (int32): Year of the document date, which can be useful for filtering
 
-name (string): Name of the document, typically the style of cause of a case
+- name (string): Name of the document, typically the style of cause of a case
 
-language (string): Language of the document, "en" for English, "fr" for French
+- language (string): Language of the document, "en" for English, "fr" for French
 
-document_date (string): Date of the document, typically the date of a decision (yyyy-mm-dd)
+- document_date (string): Date of the document, typically the date of a decision (yyyy-mm-dd)
 
-source_url (string): URL where the document was scraped and where the official version can be found
+- source_url (string): URL where the document was scraped and where the official version can be found
 
-scraped_timestamp (string): Date the document was scraped (yyyy-mm-dd)
+- scraped_timestamp (string): Date the document was scraped (yyyy-mm-dd)
 
-unofficial_text (string): Full text of the document (unofficial version, for official version see source_url)
+- unofficial_text (string): Full text of the document (unofficial version, for official version see source_url)
 
-other (string): Field for additional metadata in JSON format, currently a blank string for most datasets
+- other (string): Field for additional metadata in JSON format, currently a blank string for most datasets
 
 
 ### Data Splits
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 some thought should be given to whether it is necessary to limit to one language or to ensure that both
 English and French versions of the same documents are put in the same split.
 
+
 ## Dataset Creation
 
 ### Curation Rationale