CanLII vs JADE Professional
CanLII
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| Figure | CanLII | JADE Professional |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | C$8.33/mo | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 3 | 1 |
| Spec score · Legal Research Software | 9.1 (#2) | 7.1 (#25) |
| Audience | CanLII describes its resources as serving legal professionals and the general public. | JADE describes Professional as purpose-built for legal professionals and says it was created by legal professionals. |
| Legislation | CanLII provides consolidated statutes and regulations, as well as annual statutes, for all Canadian jurisdictions. | The Professional feature page says legislation citations are available at subsection level. |
| Purpose | CanLII is a nonprofit that provides open online access to judicial decisions and legislative documents. | JADE Professional is a legal research platform for searching, annotating and sharing Australian legal judgments and decisions. |
| Search | The search interface supports full-text and title or citation searches, note-up searches, filters, facets and sorting. | Advanced filters help users find legal material, and Professional features include advanced search of saved JADEmarks. |
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In their own words
CanLII
CanLII is a nonprofit service offering free online access to Canadian judicial decisions and legislative documents. Its collections include court judgments, decisions from many federal and provincial administrative tribunals, consolidated statutes and regulations, and annual statutes across Canadian jurisdictions. Search supports full text, title, citation and note-up queries, with filters, facets and sorting. RefLex links cited decisions and legislation available on CanLII. The Commentary collection includes secondary legal materials such as books, journals, articles and reports, while CanLII Connects hosts community case commentary and summaries. Registered myCanLII users can save and organize research in folders and set alerts. Search+ accepts natural-language research questions and returns results with contextual extracts and relevance indicators; it requires a free myCanLII account and has a daily usage limit. CanLII serves legal professionals and the general public. Its terms prohibit systematic downloading of published documents, including through crawlers, plug-ins, extensions and connectors. CanLII says personal information is kept in a secure computer environment with restricted access and that it strives to store it in Canada. Search+ queries and interactions are stored locally in the browser for history and are not retained in CanLII's systems.
JADE Professional
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