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  This 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 (French and English) dataset of Canadian legal materials, and to pretrain language models.
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  ### Languages
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  ### Curation Rationale
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  ### Source Data
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  #### Initial Data Collection and Normalization
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- #### Who are the source language producers?
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- ### Annotations
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  ## Considerations for Using the Data
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  ### Dataset Curators
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  This dataset includes the unofficial full text of thousdands of court and tribunal decisions at the federal level.
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  ### Languages
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  ### Curation Rationale
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+ The dataset includes all the Bulk Legal Data made publicly available by the Refugee Law Lab. The Lab has
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+ focused on federal courts (e.g. Supreme Court of Canada, Federal Court of Appeal, Federal Court) as well as
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+ federal administrative tribunals (e.g. Immigration and Refugee Board) because immigration and refugee law,
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+ which is the main area of interest of the Lab, operates mostly at a federal level.
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  ### Source Data
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+ Details (including links to github repos with code) are available via links for the Bulk Legal Data page
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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  ### Personal and Sensitive Information
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+ Documents may include personal and sensitive information. All documents have been published or released
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+ publicly by the relevant court or tribunal.
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  ## Considerations for Using the Data
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  ### Dataset Curators
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+ Sean Rehaag, Osgoode Hall Law School Professor & Director of the Refugee Law Lab
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  ### Licensing Information
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+ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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+ NOTE: Users must also comply with upstream licensing for the SCC, FCA & FC data instances.
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  ### Citation Information
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+ Sean Rehaag, "Refugee Law Lab: Canadian Legal Data" (2023) online: Huggingface: <https://huggingface.co/datasets/refugee-law-lab/canadian-legal-data>.
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+ ### Acknowledgements
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+ This project draws on research supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Law Foundation of Ontario.
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+ The project was inspired in part by the excellent prior work by pile-of-law (Peter Henderson et al, "Pile of Law: Learning
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+ Responsible Data Filtering from the Law and a 256GB Open-Source Legal Dataset" (2022), online: arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.00220)