Supreme Court of Canada.
The final court of appeal for all Canadian courts, hearing civil, criminal and constitutional matters from every province and territory. It works in both English and French, and leave to appeal is required in most cases.
Case law · Canada
Canadian case law, answered and cited.
Plain-language questions in, checkable answers out. LexChat retrieves from Canada's reported cases and legislation — common law and civil law alike — and anchors each proposition to a citation you can open.
Why it holds up
Answers you can check, not trust.
Canada is bijural: common law governs federally and in most provinces, while Quebec's private law follows the civil-law tradition, and the country is officially bilingual, so authority appears in both English and French. Layer on the Supreme Court of Canada, the Federal Court of Appeal and the provincial appellate courts, and tracing where a proposition actually stands takes real effort.
LexChat retrieves from Canada's reported cases and legislation before it reasons, so answers reflect what the sources say rather than what a model assumes. Each statement is pinned to a citation you can open — a Supreme Court of Canada judgment, an appellate decision or the statute itself — making verification part of reading the answer, not a separate job.
The court system
Canada's courts, ready to query.
Federal Court of Appeal.
Hears appeals from the Federal Court and the Tax Court of Canada, covering areas such as intellectual property, tax, immigration and judicial review of federal decision-makers.
Provincial courts of appeal.
Each province and territory has its own appellate court, the senior court for most disputes arising there. Their decisions bind the lower courts of the province and are the usual gateway to the Supreme Court of Canada.
Superior courts.
The provincial superior courts are the trial courts of general jurisdiction for significant civil and criminal matters. In Quebec, private-law disputes are decided under the civil law, reflecting Canada's bijural character.
How it works
From question to authority in three steps.
Ask in plain language.
Describe the issue the way you would to a colleague — no query syntax, no database codes, no guessing at keywords.
Retrieval before reasoning.
LexChat searches Canadian sources first, and reasons only over what it actually found.
Citations you can open.
Answers arrive pinned to decisions and provisions. Open the source, confirm the holding, and cite it with confidence.
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