Search Canadian Case Law
Access judgements from federal courts. Search by legal concept, fact pattern, or keyword.
Why Choose Preceda
The essentials for faster legal research and better file organization.
Search in Natural Language
Describe the issue in plain English or French instead of hunting for exact keywords.
Semantic Understanding
Surface relevant decisions by meaning, not just wording.
Comprehensive Coverage
Search Canadian federal court decisions from one place.
Lightning Fast
Get to strong results quickly and keep your research moving.
Precise Results
Review the most relevant decisions first.
Bilingual Support
Search and work seamlessly in English or French.
A workflow designed for lawyers
Search from the facts, keep the best decisions in a project, organize the file, and generate summaries when you need a quicker read.
Start from the facts, not just keywords
Search in natural language and narrow results to selected courts when needed.
Get to analogous decisions faster when you are starting from a factual scenario or legal issue.
Save relevant decisions into a matter
Add useful decisions to a project instead of losing them across tabs.
Build a working file for a live matter with the authorities you actually want to keep and revisit.
Track files with projects, tags, and statuses
Organize research by client, issue, tags, and status.
Keep your dashboard structured by mandate, topic, or stage of work instead of managing research in scattered notes.
Generate structured case summaries
Generate AI summaries from saved decisions using the full text.
Prepare faster internal notes and first-pass analyses from the decisions already saved to the file.
Start your next research file with a clearer workflow
Use semantic search to find relevant decisions, keep the strongest authorities in one project, and move faster from research to internal analysis.